a.k.a. Shawn Honnick specializing in wonderful since 1968
*also Chipotle pictures, NYC adventures, and little known safety tactics like fake hand washing.
**If you're a disgruntled employee, do something about it (no, it's not a pyramid... THIS is the PYRAMID) or just sit around and grumble like everyone over at the disgruntled employee forums.
Posts tagged: google
WTF Google?!
#1 for the best things in life, right here.
friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society
http://www.google.com/search?sa=t&rct=j&q=friendship-is-the-highest-degree-of-perfection-in-society
how to hack tumblr fan mail
(not that you’d really need to or anything)
Being #1 on Google for something Myspace related?
NOT COOL!
Does anyone know how a site gets a “rating” like this on Google? If you do, please go rate my site, vanityplat.es if you would! I’m really curious how this is done. I’ve searched Google and can’t find anything on the rating or the review that was apparently done.
Is the the 1+ thing on Google+ or something else?
A lot of people seem kind of excited that iOS 5 now gives alternate Routes on Google maps in iPhone. It’s great to have alternate routes drawn out, but I really wish they would allow me to rename routes 1-2-3 to A-B-C because in my area, as you can see in the screen capture from my trusty “old” iPhone 4, an actual “Route 1” exists (which is actually THE Route 1, spanning every city and town on the east coast from Maine to Miami). Alternate route “1” and Route “1” are all over the map!
There are also a very heavily traveled “Route 2” and a “Route 3” nearby, so these route alternative flags may become confusing in some situations. This Route X factor must exist in many areas, so a simple toggle or some easy method of setting the preference for route option display from Apple / Google would be helpful.
Oh, and why is there no “Maps” in settings on iPhone? Everything else has settings. Maybe this would be a good place (route) to start, Apple!
unparalleled level of geek excitement
(being #1 on Google for something Tumblr related)
US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook
After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites”—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to “de-index” the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
The case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)
Via Hillary Hartley on G+, where she adds, “Why wait for SOPA?” newsweek:journo-geekery:
google geekery awesomeness and Hendrix merge at Shawn Blog
* I just discovered Shawn Blog is #1 from some of the best lyrics ever by Jimi. He played a soprano recorder on this track. I have breathed the magic of this sound through my eyes from small and large speakers more than twice, but that’s another story.
another geekgasm… Shawn Blog is higher in Google search results for a recent news story than Digg!?
