Even Google is not secure from the downturns on the economy. This week it announced the discontinuation of its virtual world service called Lively. Lively was launched with a lot of fanfare earlier this month, but quickly lost traction with the crowd. I personally only checked it out once. Google does give a reason for why it is shutting down the service on its own blog here. Here’s the gist of this reason:
I have been away a lot and so the posts have been few lately. Here are a few quick links which I find to be very interesting:
For years, I have had one complaint with Microsoft Windows. And that is the fact that the progress bars in Windows never show the right status. The amount of progress shown on the bar is never an indicator of the amount of time remaining versus amount of time taken so far. Ideally, equal amounts of length on the progress bar should represent equal amounts of time.
Google, it seems, can’t crack this either.
I took this picture when I went to visit one of the families that I did get to meet. I rang the doorbell, and Christopher came out with his kitten to greet me. I was taken by how much Christopher and the kitten appeared to be the same person.
- Mary Ellen Mark, on an assignment covering poverty in America.
One of the tricks was for his dogs to beg with cigarettes in their jaws.
- Mary Ellen Mark, from one of her many visits to India
Every once in a while you come across something on the Internet which cause you to laugh your ears off. Well, today was one such day. This image found on Laughing Ninja is hilarious (click to see larger version):
This reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes - when Calvin used to create those snowmen.
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