7 interesting things

An experiment in search trends visualization. I get the most trending search terms from google, then pipe them through Flickr, Wikipedia, Google News, and other sources to see what they're all about.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

College football scores




College Football Scoreboard is a program on ESPN and ESPN2 that provies up to the minute scores and highlights during the college football season. The official name is College Football Scoreboard presented by Acura. The name of the show was College Gameday Scoreboard up until 2006. It airs four times a day at 3 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. ET on ESPN and at 3 p.m. ET and at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2. The 3 p.m. ET programs on both networks are thirty minutes long and the 7 p.m. ET programs on both networks lead up to College Football Primetime. (more from wikipedia).


College Football Scores Week 1: Top Plays, Moments from Saturday's Early ...


Minutes into the first Saturday of the 2012 college football season, tears began flowing from eyes like they were bursting out of an open fire hydrant?the power and the glory of football is back! So when Ohio State's Devin Smith went up and made this ...
 (more from bleacherreport.com).

Scores:total: 0.07, wp: 0.40, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.47

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Khan academy



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The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Bengali-American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,300 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science. (more from wikipedia).


For popular Khan Academy, a critical voice amid the adulation


His Silicon Valley-based Khan Academy posts free videos -- most of which star Khan himself -- and offers accompanying questions on everything from addition to calculus to art history. As of this month, Khan Academy had tallied more than 177.2 million ...
 (more from www.mercurynews.com).

Scores:total: 0.08, wp: 0.37, news: 0.02, image: 0.06, trends: 0.47

Monday, September 3, 2012

Espn college football




ESPN College Football Primetime is a live game presentation of Division 1-A college football on ESPN. In the past, the presenting sponsor was Cooper Tires, but since the 2006 season, the current presenting sponsor is Applebee's. The game telecast airs every Thursday night at 7:45pm ET during the college football regular season. The game is preceded by a short 5–10 minute segment with TBA, Lou Holtz and Mark May, all of whom also appear on the halftime report. This game telecast is also presented in high definition on ESPNHD. (more from wikipedia).


'The Daily Show' thickest with Super Democrats; ESPN college football densest ...


Surprised that ESPN college football and Stewart's faux-news program top the Super-GOP and Super-Dem categories, respectively? Didn't think so. But also scrutinized for their TV viewing habits were three important swing-voter segments during this ...
 (more from www.washingtonpost.com).

Scores:total: 0.08, wp: 0.51, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.47

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Blue moon august 2012




Blue Moon Belgian White, a Belgian-style witbier brewed by Blue Moon Brewing Co. in Golden, Colorado, was launched in 1995. Blue Moon Brewing Co. is a part of Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of Chicago-based MillerCoors. In Canada, Blue Moon Belgian White is marketed as the beer Rickard's White and is brewed in Montreal, Quebec. Originally called Bellyslide Belgian White, it was created by Keith Villa, a brewer at Coors Field's Sandlot Brewery. The beer is orange-amber in color with a cloudy appearance because it is unfiltered. Blue Moon has a more pronounced orange flavor than many other beers of the style, and also has a slightly sweet flavor. The grain bill for Blue Moon includes malted barley, white wheat, and oats. (more from wikipedia).


Blue Moon August 2012: Time Coincides With Neil Armstrong's Memorial Service


The Blue Moon taking place Friday August 31, 2012 is coinciding with the day a private service is being held for Neil Armstrong - the first man to walk on the moon. lunar eclipse 2011. (Photo: Reuters/NASA/Handout). This undated NASA handout image of ...
 (more from www.christianpost.com).

Scores:total: 0.08, wp: 0.37, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.47

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Maria montessori



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Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Roman Catholic best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. (more from wikipedia).


Maria Montessori: Is the Montessori method any good?


At the beginning of the 20th century, Italy's first female physician, Maria Montessori, sought to turn education on its head. Using methods developed through her work with developmentally disabled children, Montessori created a 'child-centered ...
 (more from www.csmonitor.com).

Scores:total: 0.07, wp: 0.35, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.54

Friday, August 31, 2012

Hurricane isaac 2012



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Hurricane Isaac affected northern Gulf Coast of the United States, including the western Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, as a tropical depression. The ninth tropical cyclone and ninth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Isaac developed from a tropical wave located east of the Lesser Antilles on August 21, strengthening into a tropical storm later that day. Isaac passed over Hispaniola and Cuba as a strong tropical storm, killing at least 29 people, and entered the Gulf of Mexico. (more from wikipedia).


Hurricane Isaac 2012: Couple found dead in home


The storm caused anywhere from $700 million to $2 billion in insured onshore losses, disaster modeler AIR Worldwide said. That would still leave Isaac, which came onshore as a Category 1 hurricane, well outside the 10 most costly U.S. hurricanes.
 (more from www.dailymail.co.uk).

Scores:total: 0.07, wp: 0.52, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.46

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Guild wars 2



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Guild Wars 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by ArenaNet. Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting the Elder Dragons, a Lovecraftian species that has seized control of Tyria in the time since the original Guild Wars. The game takes place in a persistent world with a story that progresses in instanced environments. (more from wikipedia).


Guild Wars 2 Isn't Just About PvP or World Versus World, Says Producer


Continuing my conversation with Guild Wars 2 executive producer and ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O'Brien, we cover the game's action-focused, tactics-minded combat, touch on PvP and World vs. World and the game's dynamic leveling system.
 (more from techland.time.com).

Scores:total: 0.08, wp: 0.51, news: 0.02, image: 0.05, trends: 0.45