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