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Amazing graphs of the most popular search terms in Google's 20 years 📈 Classic story: Guy gets scammed. Guy writes program to flood call centre with fake calls. Hilarity ensues.

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Oct 9, 2018
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🔍 20 YEARS OF GOOGLE SEARCH, MODERN PHOBIAS, 3 MINDED TETRIS PLAYERS

Heya,

This week in Bizarro Devs:
20 years of Google search in glorious graphs.
Is red the preferred nomenclature?
Make generative art. Now.
Delicious furniture packaging.
Finally balancing the Mind-Mind-Mind connection.

Enjoy!


🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

Amazing graphs of the most popular search terms in Google's 20 years 📈

The fact that pizza is at #3 in the food category makes it clear that Google is not tracking my search history.
A bittersweet victory.

withgoogle.com  


Classic story: Guy gets scammed. Guy writes program to flood call centre with fake calls. Hilarity ensues.

It reminded me of the Reply All episode about the scam call center. Podcast gold.

vergep.com  


This is how to promote a new font. 🔤

All the ingredients are here:

  • Nice font.

  • Slick animation.

  • Clever 'Alien' reference.

instagram.com  


Play some word association games with an AI 'schooled' by billions of internet conversations.

google.com  


Nomenclature of Colors is now a website.

You got a real purty site.
The classic book of color samples has been digitized into a classic site of color samples.

c82.net  


Illustrations of uniquely modern phobias.

topic.com  


⚒️ Tools and Resources

LipSurf allows you to control Chrome with your voice. 🗣️

A great tool for protecting your finger-tips and keyboard from overuse.

lipsurf.com  


Sans Forgetica is a scientifically designed font which will help you remember your study notes. 🤦

sansforgetica.rmit  


How to make generative art. 🥋

An awesome introduction to generative art with great examples like Impressionists Blobs.
If you fancy getting your JS palette and making some of these bad boys, then this article has you covered.

freecodecamp.org  


Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing.

Get on board now Basecamp's new open-source editor. It's also going to be part of the Action Text framework in Rails 6: 2019. I know a few people who are very excited about it.

trix-editor.org  


Pure CSS ghost bustin' game. 👻🕹

codepen.io  


🥇 World of WordPress

A fresh batch of tech comics about product management, screenshots, and another card for the tarot deck.

codeinwp.com  


5 common WordPress myths dispelled. With Proof! 😲

Proof that Matt Mullenweg is not a plesiosaur from the Cretaceous period.
I'd estimate that 99%, conservative, of WordPress myths really grind my gears, so these posts always make for a terrific Tuesday.

themeisle.com  


13 essential tips to help you build a trustworthy website with WordPress.

themeisle.com  


🧠 Tech Minded

Startup that turns mushrooms into walls getting into lab-grown meat.

There is no dualistic materiality; it's either food or IKEA packaging. Not both.

businessinsider.com  


Scientists have connected the brains of 3 people, enabling them to share thoughts.

Imagine playing Tetris with two other people.
Inside your head.
Telling you what to do.

sciencealert.com  


Outro

So, in three minds about how this should go.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, following on Twitter.
That's from James Naismith.

I think it was Descartes who said: "It is not enough to have a good newsletter; the main thing is to forward it often." He was very clever.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and signing up here.
A little motivation from Special Agent Dana Scully.

Stay outta trouble,

Chris

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