Check out Santa’s holiday search tip rap, fresh off the little snowflake in the bottom right of Google’s helpful “New Gadgets” page. Did you get a new gadget – Android phone, tablet, or computer – over the holidays? Then this is for you: Download Google Chrome, get the Google+ app to face time, er, face-to-face with up to 9 people, hit up the Android App Store, and more. Happy Holidays!
Alex Chousmith Senior Web Developer
Alex has been building with Ninthlink since '06, and a San Diegan since the turn of the century. A background of Mathematics – Computer Science / Interdisciplinary Computing & Arts from UCSD, plus HTML / CSS / jQuery / PHP / WordPress / Drupal / bass guitar skills, powers him to get the job done, no matter what it is.
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50 Best Album Covers of 2011
It’s that time of year again – that magical time of year – when all the “Best of…” lists are circulating as free as the eggnog and tree-shaped cookies. There are lots of “Best of” Music lists out there – Reddit has a nice collection of albums as voted by Reddit votes – but I particularly like Paste Magazine’s 50 Best Album Covers of 2011 list, featuring The Cool Kids, Tom Waits, the Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Rome, and much much more. What’s your favorite?
Its that time of the year again – Elf Yourself
Boy, having pre-cropped headshots of all the Ninthlink team members sure makes it easy to turn people in to elves, whether they want to or not. READ MORE
I Am Not A Hipster
Big ups to Rosey at sd:dialedin for pointing out what looks to be a rad film coming up at Sundance 2012 : I Am Not A Hipster. Directed by local San Diegan Destin Cretton, a couple of scenes were even shot at the Casbah, just down the hill from here. The soundtrack was courtesy of the most-excellent Joel P West, and I think you can check it out on its own at http://songs.caninesmusic.com/album/canines . I know I’ll be lookin forward to it.
The Evolution of Search in Six Minutes
Our goal is actually to make improvements to search, that just answer the user’s information need, get them to their answer faster & faster; so that there’s almost a seemless connection between their thoughts & their information needs, and the search results that they find.
Props of course to Mashable for the thorough writeup. Happy #cybermonday , yall
For All the Veterans Out There
… from our US Dept of Veterans Affairs, via their official YouTube channel. In honor of those that have served us in the past and are serving us now, we take a moment to remember them, in particular at 11:11 on 11/11/11. And of course, there is the Google Doodle for today as well. Nothing animated as has happened with past doodles, but classy nonetheless. READ MORE
Help Mr. Clean’s Movember Mustache Grow
“Even the 70′s couldn’t make [Mr. Clean] grow a moustache.” But in honor of Movember, it is official – the more LIKES Mr.Clean gets, the more Mustache he shall have. What’s not to like about that? Get more story from the Mashable article, check out Mr. Clean’s very own Movember user page, and go LIKE that FB page to make that mustache grow grow grow!
Drupal & WordPress on the same couch?
Ninthlink buddy Matt Young was talking about a photo that Drupal-founder Dries showed him, of Dries and WordPress-founder Matt Mullenweg sharing the same couch. After some quick googling, it looks like that stemmed from a rad event (SchipulCon 2011) that both spoke at. I really dug reading that write-up of their talk – especially when asked how each benefits from the other’s existence. READ MORE
What Siri Does On Her Friday Afternoons
Fresh from Mashable: after the word came out on how to get Siri to tweet for you, a couple people at Redpepper took it to that next level. What is that next level, you ask? Why, of course, it is hooking a radio-controlled truck up to a WiFi device which checks Twitter for specific tweets, and then takes a can of beer on a crash course in to a conveniently-waiting cup. We approve, and we think Rube Goldberg would, too.
“Text Tweet Beeri could you pour me a beer please”
The Luckiest Town in the US
We know we are all lucky for getting to live in San Diego. But did you know that San Diego itself is lucky, too? According to Today, Men’s Health magazine did a survey of cities across the United States, and found SD to be the Luckiest Town in the US.
The magazine analyzed data about cities with the most lottery and sweepstake winners, the most hole-in-ones on the golf course, the fewest lighting strikes, the least deaths from falling objects, and the lowest debt due to playing the lottery and race betting.
