Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Neatorama Update: We’ve Just Moved (Server, That Is)

  Published: October 3, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  two dedicated servers. The blog gobbled up a lot of bandwidth, and we had to outsource image and static content delivery to Cachefly. We’ve just put the blog on a multiple-server environment that promises easier expansion capability as the blog grows (I hope!). This move has gone pretty smoothly, though it’s not without its minor

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• Google in the Year 1407

  Published: October 3, 2007, 5:44 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Funny, Pictures, Google

  Those were the days of Google Earth Flat. Link - via Google Blogoscoped

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• Berkeley Put Class Lectures on YouTube

  Published: October 7, 2007, 3:55 am

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Science

  My alma mater, UC Berkeley, had just put over 300 hours of videos on YouTube covering lectures on biology, physics, chemistry, and so on. It says that it’s the first university to offer full courses available on YouTube. Link Here’s a good one: Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s lecture on search engines - via Ars Technica

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• Internet Connection Density Map

  Published: October 7, 2007, 3:52 am

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  map of the world’s Internet Map, a connection density that visually depicts the structure of the web (by router configuration): The first rendering displays the relative densities of Internet connectivity across the globe. The stronger the contrast, the more connectivity there is. It is immediately obvious, for example, that North

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• Qtoro: Addictive Trivia Website

  Published: October 10, 2007, 9:04 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  If you like trivia, you’d want to check out Qtoro. The website challenges you to a game of trivia, where you get points for answering correctly within an alloted time. There’s a lot of trivia sites on the Net, but Qtoro is pretty awesome: the Flash interface is slick and the questions are pretty fun. But it’s maddening to see how

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• Five free iTunes downloads!

  Published: October 12, 2007, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Music

  Here’s how to get five free iTunes downloads costing between $0.99 and $1.29*: * Login to Facebook (if you don’t have an account already, create one) * Go to the group Ticketmaster Live by clicking here or searching in Facebook for “Ticketmaster Live.” * Join the group. * Upon joining, you’ll be

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• PC Magazine’s 100 Favorite Blogs

  Published: October 15, 2007, 8:22 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  Woot! Neatorama made it to the PC Magazine’s 100 Favorite Blogs roundup. Quite a few "usual suspects" made the list as well, but I’ve spotted some soon-to-be new blogs to visit every day! Here’s the list (in alphabetical order): Link - Thanks Brian Heater!

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• Social Networking Websites in a Nutshell

  Published: October 21, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  From Wired’s Geekipedia entry for Social Networking.

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• Super Stars of the Internet

  Published: October 23, 2007, 2:45 am

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Video Clips

  The guys over at Cakke sent us this: a video that pays homage to the super stars of Internet, many of whom have been on this very blog! See if you recognize all of them. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Pound! Previously on Neatorama: Internet People (the animated version)

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• Roodie Doodie’s Webcomics

  Published: October 25, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Cartoon Amp 038 Comic

  I’ve been enjoying Roodie Doodie’s fun and cute webcomics about ninjas, Jason vs. Freddy and super heroes. They’re worth a chuckle .. check ‘em out here: Link (Don’t miss this one: Death by Emo) - Thanks Roodie Doodie!

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• Fake Excuses for Sale

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Medicine

  John Liddell got an idea: some people are going to pretend they’re sick and play hooky from work, so why not profit from their malingering? So John created Excused Absence Network, a website that sells excuse notes that are basically fake doctor’s note, fake jury sumons or even funeral-service programs: For about $25, students and

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• Larry and Sergey’s Halloween Costume Caricature: ‘Ghoul’gle

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:24 am

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Cartoon Amp 038 Comic

  Get Elastic Blog commissioned a caricature of what Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin should dress as this Halloween: a ‘Ghoul’gle! Larger pic (and caption contest) here: Link - Thanks Linda Bustos!

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• Halloween Logos

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet

  logos spotted all over the internet, and asking you to submit more. Bonus: there's also a rundown of the last seven years of Google Halloween logos.

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• The Louie Report

  Published: November 2, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Blog Amp Amp Internet, Music

  LOUIE LOUIE. LLAMAS has a blog about the song Louie Louie. There's a lot more material than you may think! Link -via

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• The Sheep Market: 10,000 Drawings of Sheep Using Amazon Mechanical Turk

  Published: November 3, 2007, 4:03 am

  Tags: Art, Blog Amp Amp Internet, Computer Amp Amp Technology

  Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace that basically lets you buy labor for tasks particularly suited for humans (i.e. easy for man, but hard for computers). The Sheep Market is a neat, albeit a little whimsical, application of this concept. For a 2006 art project, Aaron Koblin, then of the Department of Design Media at UCLA,

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