Poetry

I've always been afraid of poetry.  But guys like Shel Silverstein and Pablo Neruda and Billy Collins (just learned of him today) make it more approachable for me and even enjoyable. 

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.” (Billy Collins)

Check out Billy Collins' TED Talk.

Journal Project

What a great idea!  I wish I'd thought of it.

P.S.  I was just reading through the comments.  She has a world-wide blogger audience (e.g., New Zealand, Slovakia, South Africa, Bolivia, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Poland, Austria, many states in the U.S.) and many of them are sending their addresses to be part of her journal project.  

The "Up" House

I wanna build one!  This marketing stunt is just way too clever!

Google Image Search

This is sooooo incredibly cool and amazing.  I just noticed that Google has a new image search where you can actually drag a photo into the search box to find similar images.  They've posted four images to demo it.  I thought that was too easy and dragged in one of my own photos, the one of the quilted rocket ship I just made.  Look what it found in 44 seconds.  I am all astonishment!

 

To learn more click here.

Here's an example of what it does if it can't find the exact image, in this case a close up of a seagull in San Francisco.  Kinda funny.  It seems to match color patches.