Google Zeitgeist 2010

By , on 12 December, 2010

One of the upsides of being the world’s most popular search engine is that you get a good idea of what the world is paying attention to. Which brings us to the Google Zeitgeist 2010. An aggregation of the billions of searches done at Google over the past year which you can browse to see . . . → Read More: Google Zeitgeist 2010

2 comments   Neato   , , ,  

In which I am annoyed at being told how to pronounce the year.

By , on 8 January, 2010

I came across the following site during my wanderings today: It’s Twenty-ten, not Two-thousand and ten. It makes the following argument about how we should say the year 2010:

Say the year “1810″ out loud. Now say the year “1999″ out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this . . . → Read More: In which I am annoyed at being told how to pronounce the year.

14 comments   Rants   , ,