Well, that's just way too cool.

When I was researching something for that ad I was writing earlier today, google threw me right into google local!

I think that's what I find so interesting-- not even that there IS a google local, but that google itself is intuitive enough to know when I WANT google local, or froogle, or google news, or whether I want to know the equivalent of half a cup in teaspoons so I can make my square root of pi.

I wonder how much longer it'll be 'til they work a deal with one of the online dictionaries. I think it's just a matter of time, strategy and designed obsolescence.

Strike that (don't bother, I just did)-- google cleverly avoids the problem of having to acquire a third-party database by using the web itself.

Smart. Very very smart!

Other nifty tricks, (like finding an airport's FAA status by entering its three-letter code and the word "airport," or picking up a phone number by listing a name and a city), can be found by navigating around googleguide.


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In completely unrelated news, GIMP 2.0 is out. If you want to know more about GIMP, go here. I haven't tried it yet, but they're officially supporting their windows version now (which is still technically in development, and available here).

I'm feeling all kinds of: Damn, this song is good loud.
What I hear: Thomas Dolby - Quantum Mechanic