Did you know Google processes more than 100 billion search requests worldwide each month, including queries on PCs? And that was a news tidbit from the Associated Press news bureau May 2015, so I don't know what it might be by now.
Another newsy item, from the Daily Mail, reports on a survey of technology consumption in 30 nations. The average viewer, it is reported, spends six hours and 50 minutes a day in front of various devices like smartphones, tablets, TVs and PC monitors. The ten countries with the most consumption are Indonesia, at 9 hours viewing per day, followed by the Philippines, China, Brazil, Vietnam, United States (sixth place at 7.4 hours), Nigeria, Colombia, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.
Personally, I love the surprises I find when I take a few idle moments to search out unusual web sites I hear or read about. Here are some for-instances I thought might also intrigue you readers that I've checked out lately:
Feetz, the first company to offer customized, fully 3-D printed shoes for everyday wear, is set to start selling early next year. According to innovator Lucy Beard the company app will translate photos of customers' feet into virtual 3-D fits. Users then select color and style from among five offerings. Cost? Between $200 and $300 per pair.
These I won't explain. I'll just let you look them up for yourself: 1) Heartless Bitches International (at heartlessbitches.com), 2) The Institute of Official Cheer (at lileks.com/institutel) and The Official Ninja Webpage: Real Ultimate Power (at realultimatepower.net).
Want to organize a village of your own? The Village to Village Network offers guidance at vtvnetwork.org).
If you fear "jumping" tarantulas or "venomous" daddy longlegs spiders, put those myths behind you and upgrade your knowledge by visiting Washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyths/index.html.
If a site dedicated to artistic photography of drops, splashes and other liquid action interests you look up http:/www. liquid sculpture.com/index.htm. It even includes a segment titled "Pournography".
The Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com) each year includes staff-selected IgNobel Prizes for those scientists who seem to have plumbed innocuous, or worse, projects.
Which brings us to some of the sites that may be even more useless, like 1) www.manhole.cu/index.php (the history and pictures of manhole covers of the world), 2) Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html) and the strangest site of all at yil.com/strange.
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