Having used Microsoft Word for awhile now, I found this exercise fairly simple, although the letter merging did take quite awhile for me to grasp it exactly, I found this task fairly boring to be honest and would of preferred to be watching Jenna Haze.
Getting some exciting idea's for my feature scripts that I will be completing before I finish uni. Im thinking one Comedy, a Horror and Maybe an Action/Adventure/Comedy... These three idea's are still being mulled over in my sub-concious, but I am excited as new idea's keep pooping into my head each and every day, as I send off some of my stories to try and get published, I also have my novella 'Solar Storm' to complete, so I have a lot of creative energy and idea's flowing through me at present, now I must harness this energy and focus on my goals at hand; Once I get over this fucking Sinus infection that has plagued me for the better part of 10 days and just will not relent and go away, might need to get some meds for it on thiursday.
Semester One is close to the end, I have enjoyed myself thus far, I am really looking forward to Sem 2, where I can take a Creative Writing subject and Politics too, oh yeah!!
Exam for New Comm Tech on Friday, and I am still studying up, I still have a bit of study to do, but I am not panicking or anything. ( i might start to when I see the paper on Friday morning.)
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
MSN and ActiveWorlds etc. What's the difference?
Indeed besides the bleeding obvious that one is 3D and one isn't. I dont think that there is all that much difference in what is actually taken out of each experience. I mean on MSN, you use it primarily to chat and you can add colours to your font, use emoticons ( cute little grapghics that express certain types of feelings). Have group chats create profiles etc.
Now I realise that on things such as Activeworlds, You can create yourself physically inot an image and environment, that is of a 3D nature, thus creating a virtuasl space for you to temporarily, live and breathe whilst meeting and talking to people. But I believe that the experience is no more rewarding or no less fulfilling than if compared directrly to a basic IM service such as MSN or ICQ etc.
These online virtual communities are somewhat of a phenomonen, and in turn have proved very popular, with people even paying money for virtual furniture, for their virtual house, for their virtual existence. Some people clearly, enjoy this type of activity, I just think it is too extreme, considering, IM started out to serve a single purpose, which was the ability to message, frinds, family and colleagues in real time, enabling a real conversation. But like most technologies this has been taken to another level and embraced somewhat by a core group of the internet community.
Now I realise that on things such as Activeworlds, You can create yourself physically inot an image and environment, that is of a 3D nature, thus creating a virtuasl space for you to temporarily, live and breathe whilst meeting and talking to people. But I believe that the experience is no more rewarding or no less fulfilling than if compared directrly to a basic IM service such as MSN or ICQ etc.
These online virtual communities are somewhat of a phenomonen, and in turn have proved very popular, with people even paying money for virtual furniture, for their virtual house, for their virtual existence. Some people clearly, enjoy this type of activity, I just think it is too extreme, considering, IM started out to serve a single purpose, which was the ability to message, frinds, family and colleagues in real time, enabling a real conversation. But like most technologies this has been taken to another level and embraced somewhat by a core group of the internet community.
Some Pictures...
This is my mate Tails and I drinking up and having fun before a night out in Sydney.. A few nights before the TOOL concert.
I chose this as my High Tech photo, because to me computers are still high tech, I mean I can use them, but how they really work, with all the chips and shit is beyond me.
This is two whaling protesters, clearly trying to change the minds of the Japanese as they look to abolish whaling laws- Freaks! (The Japanese, not the two whales)
I chose this picture of an old school hall because even though Griffith is all modern and new age, when I think of Uni, I still think of old school Uni's like Cambridge and stuff, with their old colonial style buildings and history.
Summer in Canada. Something I would love to experience after having snowboarded and partyed my way through their winter!
Only the first picture was taken with a personal camera, the rest I have taken from the web, simply because at this present time I do not have access to a Digital Camera.
Thursday, 10 May 2007
How Personal Interests and Big Business Has Affected the Media
Since it’s inception, whether it be Print, Radio or Television, the Media has become a playground of personal agenda’s, profiteering, irresponsibility and a total lack of respect for the medium, that was initially seen as a way to inform, enlighten and create debate amongst society freely. This has since been replaced by Corporations intent on controlling content and the way it is portrayed to the public, all in the name of profits. Ensuing below is an argument that shoes – 1) How dramatically the industry has changed. 2) How public opinion is being manipulated by corporate interests, reporter bias’, loyalties, irrespective of the truth. 3) How Governments have allowed this to happen and are involved.
When Radio first appeared it was heralded as a huge advance in technology and communication. This new medium was to be used as a way to communicate, educate, and of less importance, was to have the radio entertain its listener’s. Alas, this was not to last, as the owner’s of these radio stations were already looking to ‘attract’ more listeners during the day. When the NBC was first launched in 1926 only a few programs were used to reveal sponsors and advertisements, by 1931, only six years later it had completely flipped over and now only a few were not. This was achieved in two ways, the first was that the radio drama was developed and the second was to use advertising and product placement within radio drama, to sell products and their airspace. By the late 60’s in America alone there were only three major companies with controlling interests in the industry, this was also to rollover into the Television industry. These three companies are still around today in slightly modified forms they are NBC, CBS and ABC. As with any business venture profits are of prime importance. Since big business had infiltrated and overtaken these two relatively new mediums, as soon as they had hit the public domain, they were being geared towards profit control and story control.
The ABC was not able to compete initially with its two major rivals during the early years, primarily of note the early sixties. Walter Cronkite over at CBS had established almost cult like status with his reports on Vietnam, whilst over at NBC their team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were very popular in their own right. For years it could be said that that the ABC felt inferior and had itself a complex. The ABC was mainly concerned with keeping costs to a minimum in regards to the news, and would rely on old Hearst Telefilm newsreel services to provide film for their news broadcasts. This did however fit in with the conservative political leanings of the owners. (Soap Opera Paradigm, ch 1, pg 18, James H. Wittebols)
There was an article during the lead up to the last Australian Federal election published by one Gerald McManus on August 31, 2004 in the Herald Sun titled, ‘Greens Support Illegal Drugs’. This article was straight out of Propaganda 101. It made a string of claims against the Greens and their ‘Policies’ that would prove to be almost entirely false factually, but this article was still published, at a crucial time into the public domain, when it was clear and obvious what effect such an article would have just before millions of citizens decided on the fate of the current government.
This article was published in a Rupert Murdoch owned Newspaper, the Herald Sun is Australia’s largest newspaper with a daily circulation averaging over 500,000 copies. Mr Murdoch owns around 60% of Australia’s newsprint media. So it was of no coincidence that this article would either appear in full or in excerpts throughout his media empire around the country. Senator and leader of the Greens Mr Bob Brown made a complaint to the APC (Australian Press Council), this was upheld by the APC with the body referring to the article as ‘irresponsible journalism’ full of ‘false claims’. (Loosened Cross-media ownership means more media bias- a tale from the 2004 election, by Myriad Mint) It is hard to believe that such a blatant piece of propaganda can still be reported, published and barley questioned. Since this unethical article first appeared neither Gerald McManus nor the Herald Sun have apologised despite the findings of the APC. Could this have something to do with the Herald Sun and all Murdoch newspapers endorsing Mr John Howard on Election Day? With what seems to be a blatant alliance and partnership between Mr Howard and Mr Murdoch, which must be based on their embracement of unethical and immoral conduct for their own personal gain. This wouldn’t of hurt Mr Murdoch’s chances of the Prime Minister looking at relaxing the cross media ownership laws now would it?
It would appear that Mr Howard is looking at relaxing the media laws in this country for the state of regulation and better services for the community. When we now know that with these ‘reforms’ that Mr Murdoch would benefit immensely. He would be free to own television and other media, alongside his newspaper outlets, in every major city. Going back to Mr McManus’ piece in the Herald Sun, what if that had been also run on Murdoch owned Television stations throughout the nation. The article was damaging enough to the Greens who looked highly likely to win the majority in the senate at this election. With Mr Howard saying that some of the Greens policies and ideas were ‘Kooky’, the factually void article in question magically appears in a Murdoch owned paper the very next morning. It may not surprise you to know that the Greens lost a lot of voter confidence and any chance they had of grabbing the majority of the upper house, which of course ended up as a liberal majority.
I believe in a freedom of speech, thought and idea’s. I find it hard to believe that all of these rights have been compromised by big business and agenda’s set by fat cats in suits who care for nothing more than their profit margins and fancy yacht. Long ago these ideals were let go, and the public seems to have their head in the sand or choose to ignore or not believe they have been and still are being duped every single day, by what they see, hear and read. People have forgotten to question, ask why. Ask how. Think for yourself, as these questions, don’t believe everything you see hear or read, because chances are it is false, and being said by someone with their own personal agenda. Above all question authority, because that is where it starts.
By Ryan Musgrave.
Bibliography.
- Books
• Soap Opera Paradigm – Television Programming and Corporate Priorities. James H. Wittebols.
• Malice in Media Land. David Flint.
• Politics and Propaganda. Adam Hibbert.
• Propaganda in War and Peace. Simon Adams.
- Articles
• Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices. By Jim Rutenberg. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E5DD1E38F931A35751CA9649C8B63&sec=spon=&pagewanted=print
• News Drifting Left? By Timothy Karr. http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2006/01/fox-news-drifting-left.html
• Speaking with one voice: Does media cross-ownership stifle diversity? Special to Freedom Forum Online.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3183
• How Media Has Changed Since the Day that ‘Changed Everything’. By Danny Schecter. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views03/0911-05.htm
• Loosened cross-media ownership means more media bias – a tale from the 2004 election. Blog – Myriad Mint. http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/1041
• Australian Greens. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Greens
- Films
• Weapons of Mass Deception. By Danny Schecter. http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php
• Loose Change, Version 2.0. By Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas. http://www.loosechange911.com/
When Radio first appeared it was heralded as a huge advance in technology and communication. This new medium was to be used as a way to communicate, educate, and of less importance, was to have the radio entertain its listener’s. Alas, this was not to last, as the owner’s of these radio stations were already looking to ‘attract’ more listeners during the day. When the NBC was first launched in 1926 only a few programs were used to reveal sponsors and advertisements, by 1931, only six years later it had completely flipped over and now only a few were not. This was achieved in two ways, the first was that the radio drama was developed and the second was to use advertising and product placement within radio drama, to sell products and their airspace. By the late 60’s in America alone there were only three major companies with controlling interests in the industry, this was also to rollover into the Television industry. These three companies are still around today in slightly modified forms they are NBC, CBS and ABC. As with any business venture profits are of prime importance. Since big business had infiltrated and overtaken these two relatively new mediums, as soon as they had hit the public domain, they were being geared towards profit control and story control.
The ABC was not able to compete initially with its two major rivals during the early years, primarily of note the early sixties. Walter Cronkite over at CBS had established almost cult like status with his reports on Vietnam, whilst over at NBC their team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were very popular in their own right. For years it could be said that that the ABC felt inferior and had itself a complex. The ABC was mainly concerned with keeping costs to a minimum in regards to the news, and would rely on old Hearst Telefilm newsreel services to provide film for their news broadcasts. This did however fit in with the conservative political leanings of the owners. (Soap Opera Paradigm, ch 1, pg 18, James H. Wittebols)
There was an article during the lead up to the last Australian Federal election published by one Gerald McManus on August 31, 2004 in the Herald Sun titled, ‘Greens Support Illegal Drugs’. This article was straight out of Propaganda 101. It made a string of claims against the Greens and their ‘Policies’ that would prove to be almost entirely false factually, but this article was still published, at a crucial time into the public domain, when it was clear and obvious what effect such an article would have just before millions of citizens decided on the fate of the current government.
This article was published in a Rupert Murdoch owned Newspaper, the Herald Sun is Australia’s largest newspaper with a daily circulation averaging over 500,000 copies. Mr Murdoch owns around 60% of Australia’s newsprint media. So it was of no coincidence that this article would either appear in full or in excerpts throughout his media empire around the country. Senator and leader of the Greens Mr Bob Brown made a complaint to the APC (Australian Press Council), this was upheld by the APC with the body referring to the article as ‘irresponsible journalism’ full of ‘false claims’. (Loosened Cross-media ownership means more media bias- a tale from the 2004 election, by Myriad Mint) It is hard to believe that such a blatant piece of propaganda can still be reported, published and barley questioned. Since this unethical article first appeared neither Gerald McManus nor the Herald Sun have apologised despite the findings of the APC. Could this have something to do with the Herald Sun and all Murdoch newspapers endorsing Mr John Howard on Election Day? With what seems to be a blatant alliance and partnership between Mr Howard and Mr Murdoch, which must be based on their embracement of unethical and immoral conduct for their own personal gain. This wouldn’t of hurt Mr Murdoch’s chances of the Prime Minister looking at relaxing the cross media ownership laws now would it?
It would appear that Mr Howard is looking at relaxing the media laws in this country for the state of regulation and better services for the community. When we now know that with these ‘reforms’ that Mr Murdoch would benefit immensely. He would be free to own television and other media, alongside his newspaper outlets, in every major city. Going back to Mr McManus’ piece in the Herald Sun, what if that had been also run on Murdoch owned Television stations throughout the nation. The article was damaging enough to the Greens who looked highly likely to win the majority in the senate at this election. With Mr Howard saying that some of the Greens policies and ideas were ‘Kooky’, the factually void article in question magically appears in a Murdoch owned paper the very next morning. It may not surprise you to know that the Greens lost a lot of voter confidence and any chance they had of grabbing the majority of the upper house, which of course ended up as a liberal majority.
I believe in a freedom of speech, thought and idea’s. I find it hard to believe that all of these rights have been compromised by big business and agenda’s set by fat cats in suits who care for nothing more than their profit margins and fancy yacht. Long ago these ideals were let go, and the public seems to have their head in the sand or choose to ignore or not believe they have been and still are being duped every single day, by what they see, hear and read. People have forgotten to question, ask why. Ask how. Think for yourself, as these questions, don’t believe everything you see hear or read, because chances are it is false, and being said by someone with their own personal agenda. Above all question authority, because that is where it starts.
By Ryan Musgrave.
Bibliography.
- Books
• Soap Opera Paradigm – Television Programming and Corporate Priorities. James H. Wittebols.
• Malice in Media Land. David Flint.
• Politics and Propaganda. Adam Hibbert.
• Propaganda in War and Peace. Simon Adams.
- Articles
• Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices. By Jim Rutenberg. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E5DD1E38F931A35751CA9649C8B63&sec=spon=&pagewanted=print
• News Drifting Left? By Timothy Karr. http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2006/01/fox-news-drifting-left.html
• Speaking with one voice: Does media cross-ownership stifle diversity? Special to Freedom Forum Online.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3183
• How Media Has Changed Since the Day that ‘Changed Everything’. By Danny Schecter. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views03/0911-05.htm
• Loosened cross-media ownership means more media bias – a tale from the 2004 election. Blog – Myriad Mint. http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/1041
• Australian Greens. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Greens
- Films
• Weapons of Mass Deception. By Danny Schecter. http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php
• Loose Change, Version 2.0. By Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas. http://www.loosechange911.com/
Thursday, 12 April 2007
Hmmm...
So here we are, approaching mid- semester and what have I learnt so far from this particular subject??
A little bit I have to say! There is heaps of shit out there on the interenet that I had no idea could be found. I tend to stick with my usual sites and that's it (no they're not all porn sites either).
Making my way through the texbook. Taking it all in, the best I can, I grasp most of the concepts but wouldn't say I "know it" as such yet. I really found chapter 10 interesting, finiding out about some of the old school boys doing their earlier work, and discoveries, that helped push forward the communication technologies that we have today. It then went on to talk about the creation of IBM and how the first processor was created, how these old scool machines used numbers in sequence and how getting these 'computers' to process higher numbers and more effeciently, another invention was needed.
Soon enough this was transformed into a computer that was 'affordable' mainly to rich geeks who had an interest. Two of these rich geeks were Steve Jobs and Billy 'boy' Gates. The rest for them history. My most enjoyed chapter of reading yet.
Now to these pictures... well that I am still working on! Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have it all sorted. But hey- at least I have my essay topic now drum roll... 'Propaganda in the Media' Oh yeah! Something I am very interested in, and something I feel is quite relevant to the course.
Going to Peppers on Friday night, it is going to rock!
A little bit I have to say! There is heaps of shit out there on the interenet that I had no idea could be found. I tend to stick with my usual sites and that's it (no they're not all porn sites either).
Making my way through the texbook. Taking it all in, the best I can, I grasp most of the concepts but wouldn't say I "know it" as such yet. I really found chapter 10 interesting, finiding out about some of the old school boys doing their earlier work, and discoveries, that helped push forward the communication technologies that we have today. It then went on to talk about the creation of IBM and how the first processor was created, how these old scool machines used numbers in sequence and how getting these 'computers' to process higher numbers and more effeciently, another invention was needed.
Soon enough this was transformed into a computer that was 'affordable' mainly to rich geeks who had an interest. Two of these rich geeks were Steve Jobs and Billy 'boy' Gates. The rest for them history. My most enjoyed chapter of reading yet.
Now to these pictures... well that I am still working on! Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have it all sorted. But hey- at least I have my essay topic now drum roll... 'Propaganda in the Media' Oh yeah! Something I am very interested in, and something I feel is quite relevant to the course.
Going to Peppers on Friday night, it is going to rock!
Hmmm...
So here we are, approaching mid- semester and what have I learnt so far from this particukar subject??
A little bit I have to say! There is heaps of shit out there on the interenet that I had no idea could be found. I tend to stick with my usual sites and that's it (no they're not all porn sites either).
Making my way through the texbook. Taking it all in, the best I can, I grasp most of the concepts but wouldn't say I "know it" as such yet. I really found chapter 10 interesting, finiding out about some of the old school boys doing their earlier work, and discoveries, that helped push forward the communication technologies that we have today. It then went on to talk about the creation of IBM and how the first processor was created, how these old scool machines used numbers in sequence and how getting these 'computers' to process higher numbers and more effeciently, another invention was needed.
Soon enough this was transformed into a computer that was 'affordable' mainly to rich geeks who had an interest. Two of these rich geeks were Steve Jobs and Billy 'boy' Gates. The rest for them history. My most enjoyed chapter of reading yet.
Now to these pictures... well that I am still working on! Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have it all sorted. But hey- at least I have my essay topic now drum roll... 'Propaganda in the Media' Oh yeah! Something I am very interested in, and something I feel is quite relevant to the course.
Going to Peppers on Friday night, it is going to rock!
A little bit I have to say! There is heaps of shit out there on the interenet that I had no idea could be found. I tend to stick with my usual sites and that's it (no they're not all porn sites either).
Making my way through the texbook. Taking it all in, the best I can, I grasp most of the concepts but wouldn't say I "know it" as such yet. I really found chapter 10 interesting, finiding out about some of the old school boys doing their earlier work, and discoveries, that helped push forward the communication technologies that we have today. It then went on to talk about the creation of IBM and how the first processor was created, how these old scool machines used numbers in sequence and how getting these 'computers' to process higher numbers and more effeciently, another invention was needed.
Soon enough this was transformed into a computer that was 'affordable' mainly to rich geeks who had an interest. Two of these rich geeks were Steve Jobs and Billy 'boy' Gates. The rest for them history. My most enjoyed chapter of reading yet.
Now to these pictures... well that I am still working on! Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have it all sorted. But hey- at least I have my essay topic now drum roll... 'Propaganda in the Media' Oh yeah! Something I am very interested in, and something I feel is quite relevant to the course.
Going to Peppers on Friday night, it is going to rock!
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Week 4
http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/desktop_it/pdf/it_newsletter_january2007.pdf
http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/desktop_it/pdf/it_update_october2005.pdf
http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/desktop_it/pdf/it_newsletter_august2006.pdf
Steve Jobs and his mates (and enemies)taking over the world! One household at a time.
Computer Mediated Communication. From the unitversity of Iowa. Mailing List.
New Communication and Media Studies. Mailing list Oxford internet Institute.
Scavenger Hunt.
1. 1337 pounds. http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljan96.htm
2. Go to his house. My brain.com or If you want to contact Grant, please write to the Miami Swimming Club, their address is:Miami Swimming ClubPO BOX 2461 BURLEIGH QLD 4220 http://granthackettonline.free.fr/?page_id=107
3. It can be as long as 22 inches. http://www.bellsouthmspioneers.org/ZooGiraffes.htm
4. Ontology is the most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It has one basic question, what actually exists? wikipedia.com
5. stereo. (1969) Yahoo
6. January 8th 1986 Askjeeves.com
7. It began 30 years ago when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc. Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen. Generic and satirical advertisements and commercials often used 555 numbers. In the early days of exchange names the prefix KLondike-5 was used as this exchange did not exist.
http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html
8. By ferry. www.athensguide.com/ferry.html
9. Do The Clam by Elvis. askjeeves.com
10. Black assasins. http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2005/content/standard.asp?name=StockwellS
A search engine is a tool, that makes life navigating the internet very easy. It strings together all the infomation from all websites on the internet. It focuses on the keywords we put in. Pulls them out of the websites that have those very same keywords and lists them in order of popularity. I.E number of hits = popularity.
Google is my fav engine. It's the bomb. It gets you all the results quickest and and 90% of the time what comes up is very useful in what you are searching for and very quick with no hassles.
Here is a link to an amusing story of one microsoft employee telling them to "Stick it. Im going to Google."
http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html
And another Google story in the news. this time it's over internet porn.
http://news.com.com/Feds+take+porn+fight+to+Google/2100-1030_3-6028701.html
http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/desktop_it/pdf/it_update_october2005.pdf
http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/desktop_it/pdf/it_newsletter_august2006.pdf
Steve Jobs and his mates (and enemies)taking over the world! One household at a time.
Computer Mediated Communication. From the unitversity of Iowa. Mailing List.
New Communication and Media Studies. Mailing list Oxford internet Institute.
Scavenger Hunt.
1. 1337 pounds. http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljan96.htm
2. Go to his house. My brain.com or If you want to contact Grant, please write to the Miami Swimming Club, their address is:Miami Swimming ClubPO BOX 2461 BURLEIGH QLD 4220 http://granthackettonline.free.fr/?page_id=107
3. It can be as long as 22 inches. http://www.bellsouthmspioneers.org/ZooGiraffes.htm
4. Ontology is the most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It has one basic question, what actually exists? wikipedia.com
5. stereo. (1969) Yahoo
6. January 8th 1986 Askjeeves.com
7. It began 30 years ago when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc. Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen. Generic and satirical advertisements and commercials often used 555 numbers. In the early days of exchange names the prefix KLondike-5 was used as this exchange did not exist.
http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html
8. By ferry. www.athensguide.com/ferry.html
9. Do The Clam by Elvis. askjeeves.com
10. Black assasins. http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/2005/content/standard.asp?name=StockwellS
A search engine is a tool, that makes life navigating the internet very easy. It strings together all the infomation from all websites on the internet. It focuses on the keywords we put in. Pulls them out of the websites that have those very same keywords and lists them in order of popularity. I.E number of hits = popularity.
Google is my fav engine. It's the bomb. It gets you all the results quickest and and 90% of the time what comes up is very useful in what you are searching for and very quick with no hassles.
Here is a link to an amusing story of one microsoft employee telling them to "Stick it. Im going to Google."
http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html
And another Google story in the news. this time it's over internet porn.
http://news.com.com/Feds+take+porn+fight+to+Google/2100-1030_3-6028701.html
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