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A cash machine, particularly for those who live within hearing of the sound of Bow Bells.

Monday Blues Cure

Here is the wonderful Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain:

Heres a longer video, with lots more goodies:

Plus a classic:

Obtained by using the band name on Google, source mostly Google video rather than youtube.

Beehives and Mainframes

Here. They were developing an "ultra high speed information retrieval system". Wonderful!

(h/t: David Thompson)

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Happy Mondays step on:

And a version with just the music:

Only thing of theirs I ever really liked. This is a satire of the the Madchester period.

Kosher Restaurant Finder

Here's an interesting application of GI search technologies - Kosher Restaurant finder, available on the iphone:

Shows how various technologies from GI, IR and databases, can be integrated into quite a nifty application! (h/t: Candice Krieger).

Patents Anyone?

Microsoft might have to stop sell word. Its a patent issue. Wonder if they'll change their mind on patents?

Eye Tracking on Search

Here's a very short example:

Show quite a complex interaction using web, navigating to image search from the results list and inspecting results from that media.

Blind Search Tool

Here's a neat idea! You type in a query, and search engine results are presented to you blind e.g. you don't which which set of results comes from what search engined. More. Results. Related (Microhoo).

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Madeleine Peyroux - Don't cry baby:

Several live versions, this has the best sound quality.

Library Science and Music

Erm, here. Whats the connection? Answers on a postcard pls.

(h/t: Lyn).

More Microhoo

More evidence, if needed, that Microsoft got a good deal, and Yahoo got a really bad one.

Cartoons for geeks.

Here.

The increasing need for Music IR

Why? Media consumption is moving from an acquisition model to an access model. Here's some data to support that view.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's Madeline Peyroux - 'Dance me to end of love':

It's by Leonard Cohen:

Robots playing baseball.

Robots that can play baseball:

More. (h/t: David Thompson). Wonder if they can play cricket as well?

Haptic Interfaces

This is an interesting idea, providing touch screen interfaces but with physical buttons, which provide more tactile interface abilities than normal touch screen interfaces:

More. (h/t: David Thompson).