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Google is testing it's new look, but you can't see it directly. Here's a JavaScript tweak that gets anyone into Google's new look test.

Copy the code, paste it into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return, If things work out and reload Google, you should find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype test. a new look to Google’s Search Options feature with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results.

The search options appear in the left-hand column. The former “All results” area that allowed you to switch between different types of searches (images, news, maps and so on) has been replaced with new tabs for these services. How do you like this? go Leave a comment on Blogoscoped.

If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year.

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If you're looking for a simple way of having your iPhone/iPod stand in front of you without spending any money. Here is an old Mini DV tape case, this hack is just pure genius. Sometimes the greatest ideas are just lying right in front of you. (photo by @danlane)

BTW, Posterous's new RT button was great. (if you've got a twitter account) you can retweet this post without ever leaving here.

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Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. Google promote it as: … simple … fast … safe … fun … open source

Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. In our experiments with Go to date, typical builds feel instantaneous; even large binaries compile in just a few seconds. And the compiled code runs close to the speed of C. Go is designed to let you move fast.

We’re hoping Go turns out to be a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing and a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, with some cool features like true closures and reflection.

Here is an example code:

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
  fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n")
}

For more details check out Golang.org

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Design firm JRuiter Studio has designed this super minimalist “City Bike”. It was aim to live / worke in an inner city environment with minimal space.

Designers ended up rethinking what a “frame” meant, getting rid of basic key components, and creating a new type of bicycling that is more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.

   

Click here to download:

Inner_City_Bike.zip (70 KB)

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This interesting video animation from Google UK captures some of the important milestones in Google’s 14 year old history. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome. Hopefully it'll grow continuously.

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by London Photographer Iain Crawford

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Customized Version of Google by Infinise Design.

Simple and nice! I think Google should consider it!

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How Should We Define “Design”? by Gardi Amit

1. Is there truly a “new design” phenomenon?
2. Is any idea, whether it’s an initiative for social progress or a clever way to market movies, enough to be declared a work of design?
3. Can a construct such as a “process,” “business plan” or a “system” be work of design?
4. Lastly, are these metaphysical constructs always design or is there a threshold of beauty, a rigorous process, or another quality standard that must be met for something to be considered a design? In other words, is a ‘business plan’ always a form of “new design” or does it have to involve some level of good, “old fashioned” design to be considered more than an ordinary business plan? And, if the latter, what are the requisite elements that would distinguish one from the other?

Design makes something more functional precisely because of its beautification. That also distinguishes design from say, engineering, where something is made better in ways that have nothing to do with its beauty.

To me, design is best defined with actions as opposed to words. I hope I never find the answer, and doubt I ever will.

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This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of September 11, 2001.

Our prayers and thoughts go out to all the people there, and everywhere else.

said Station Commander Frank Culbertson of Expedition 3, after the terrorists’ attacks.

Image credit: NASA

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Everybody know, we can upload video clips to the Facebook site. But, Facebook doesn’t (officially) provide an embed code for their videos. When you found a very interesting video on Facebook but how you do share it with your blog readers since there’s no code to embed that video into your site. The other problem is you can watch video clips on Facebook only if you are logged into your Facebook account. But how do you share these video clips with people who aren’t members of Facebook?

Here’s a way that will let you embed any Facebook video into your web pages, a simple trick.

Every video uploaded on Facebook has a unique ID that you can find in the browser’s address bar (look for the value of parameter "v").

Copy that number(ID) and replace it with "xxx" in the code below.

<object width="400" height="224" >
  <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
  <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
  <param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" />
  <embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224">
  </embed>
</object>

Now you can put that code on any web pages and the video will play just fine, and watch it here itself without having to become a Facebook member.

Thanks, Amit!

Update: OK, since December 5, 2008 Facebook has placed "Embed this Video" links on video pages of videos, with the same code, I'm really out.

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