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News at a Glance
chris writes: "If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul. Paradoxically, this site is showing all the pictures found in news and reviews over the Internet. Nothing to read there, just thumbnail galleries sorted by theme (with, of course, links to the original articles). This format is showing some interesting side-effects. First, you can see what's hot lately because the same picture is repeated over your screen. It is also very effective when looking for reviews of tech toys or computer gizmos... spotting a CPU or a japanese robot among other items is almost instantaneous. Another thing to notice is that pictures of human faces seem to keep the lead over pie charts and battlefields... they are a good clue to figure what an article is about."
CBC News
Ydco co
So Google didn't miss it out, they just didn't stick the links up at the top so people with the attention span of a gnat wouldn't miss them...
"Increase of sexual/erotic imagery. Indication of imminent war." It's in the book.
Batlock...
It's worth noting that Alan Moore is anti-science. He also has poor dress sense. Check out this from the James Randi:
l an mooreinterview.html
http://www.unc.edu/~faint/jamesrandirespondstoa
Look at the picture of Alan Moore and then try to help me answer the question - just who does Alan Moore think he is?
You may want to slashdot this one too. It's even less different from Google News, it just looks better, and it even has a TV mode...
My next comment will be ready soon, but moderators can beat the rush and mod it up early.
Textz.com News may be of interest as well. It even lets you open the news images in an external window, turning them into a TV program, sort of. Btw, the site doesn't even use the Google API (there is a link to the source code at the bottom of the main page), it's all old-style HTML parsing...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=7 02
All photos, click to read.
So, here are the first half-dozen things I tried:
1) A picture of a donut in the Science/Technology section. Links to a story about the record breaking sales of the Finding Nemo DVD??!? So, wrong image *and* wrong category.
2) In the Business section, a photo of some diamonds with a link to a story about Ukrainian diamonds! Hooray! Unfortunately, the next four (unrelated) photo's in the business section point to the exact same article.
3) Even when I selected the "US" edition, the top three entries in "Top Stories" were links to articles in German.
4) The next photo in the Science/Technology section linked to an advert for some video game or other. Not what I'd describe as news.
5) Local News (remember I have 'US' selected). The first three items are in Spanish. If these were stories about the US or maybe Mexico - for Mexicans - maybe I could understand that - but these appeared to be about Spain and were obviously 'Local' stories only if you happen to live in Spain!
6) Clicked on the first photo in the Health section - got a broken link.
Deeply unimpressive.
www.sjbaker.org
I've been watching this site for a while:
Yahoo most popular pictures
It's a collection of the most emailed news pictures. Usually pretty interesting stuff. from cutsey animals, to the Victoria Secret model show.
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