Extra Future

Day: June 6, 2009

  • Bing Refuses Search Term “Sex” In India

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Searching for “sex” returns the phrase “the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.”][link] Meanwhile, [according to Google Trends, nobody searches for “sex” more than India][google]. [link]: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/06/2338233/Microsofts-Bing-Refuses-Search-Term-Sex-In-India?from=rss “Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Microsofts Bing Refuses Search Term “Sex” In India” [google]: http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex “Google Trends: Sex”

  • Renaming an XCode Project from Command Line

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A handy little shell script to handle the (tedius) task of renaming XCode project files][link]. [link]: http://mohrt.blogspot.com/2009/01/renaming-xcode-project-from-command.html “Fifty Outs: Renaming an XCode Project from Command Line”

  • “Vampire”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Traditional Chadian meal using animal blood][link] which is making a comeback in these trying economic times. [link]: http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/vampire/ “Vampire – Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com”

  • LuckyImage

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    Phil Nelson
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    [LuckyImage is a Mac OS X service that replaces any given text with the first result on a Google Image Search][link], inline. It works in pretty much any rich text area. Works great for iChat sillyness. [link]: http://pozdena.net/luckyimage/ “LuckyImage”