Maybe Big Brother Really is Watching

If you've had a bit too much inaugural coverage (I have) and the coming of the new age (looks like the old age to me), then I apologize for adding one more "you have got to see this" moment. But really, you have got to see this. Go ahead and zoom in on someone waaaay out in the Mall and the implications slowly dawn that his technology, cool as it is (and it really is) is kind of scary too. BTW, what do you think Clarence Thomas is thinking?

Happy Monday

This was taken outside the Troy Library this morning.

One, you have to love digital cameras.

Two, there was no pot of gold found in the parking lot of the Troy Marriott!

photo taken by Juliet Moy

Compfight - A Great Flickr Search Engine

I love using Flickr, the photo posting and sharing site that is owned by Yahoo!, but I've always felt its search feature was lackluster at best. Today, I've found a great search tool that surpasses the one provided by flickr and is free and easy to use. The name of this search engine is called Compfight and it searches flickr for both commercial and Creative Commons approved images in an easy to use interface.

Some of the other great features of the site are:

• The ability to search by tag or by all text
• The ability to search for images that only have their original sizes
• Compfight also provides a "Safe Images" only filtering tool that is helpful for searching for safe for work images only.

Compfight is free to use and a great way to find that perfect picture to match your blog post or research paper.

Tech Gadgets for the Holiday Season

Here's an interesting event from our friends at the Novi (MI) Public Library:

Rick Broida, regular contributor to CNET, Popular Science, and Wired, and author of How to Do Everything with Your Zune, will be at the Novi Public Library, on November 3, from 7-8 pm, offering advice on digital cameras, camcorders, phones, MP3 players, GPS systems and, of course, PCs and notebooks. He will also field questions, provide tips and tricks and raffle a few goodies. For more information phone 248.349.0720 or visit http://novi.lib.mi.us/ The Library is located at 45245 W. 10 Mile Road in Novi.