Day: October 31, 2008

Pixolu – Image Search

Friday afternoon. Time to read a couple of journal articles. Nah, time for some online exploration.

LifeHacker describes an interesting image search tool – Pixolu. It works like this.

1) You enter a term and locate images related to that search term.

2) Based on the image collection returned, you then select a prototype image you like and Pixolu searches for images that are more similar to the prototype.

3) You then move to the location of images that suit your need/interest.

Cool!

I started with “Uluru”

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This Just In – Valley Middle School Election Results

Today, Grand Forks’ Valley Middle School participated in the Mock election.

Students were given individual logins, connected to the polling site, cast votes for national and local contests, completed a survey on important issues, selected priorities issues to be addressed if funds are tight, and selected a miracle president for the next 4 years by selecting among presidents of the past.

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The iPhone – A Computer for the Rest of Us

The Wall Street Journal presents some data on recent iPhone sales that is quite intriguing.

Ownership of the iPhone rose 48% from June 1 to the end of August among households earning between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, compared to 21% overall …

Some speculated that Apple would be differentially harmed by an economic downturn because of the focus on more expensive products. Perhaps more expensive is better if one product can substitute for many.

I must add my usual complaint. North Dakota is part of the U.S. – it would be nice if we could buy iPhones too.

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