“iDRINK is designed to allow partygoers to have more variety in their mixed drinks. You enter all the ingredients that you have around the house (or at the party), then our database of 5300 alcoholic recipes is compared against your selections and a list of all the recipes you can make is provided.”
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A daily report on popular culture by Clark Humphrey.
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“On the track of an ancient road in the desert west of the Nile, where soldiers, couriers and traders once traveled from Thebes to Abydos, Egyptologists have found limestone inscriptions that they say are the earliest known examples of alphabetic writing. Their discovery is expected to help fix the time and place for the origin of the alphabet, one of the foremost innovations of civilization.”
“Napster ensures the availability of every song online by connecting you live with millions of songs found in other MP3 listeners’ music collections. With Napster, you’ll never come up empty handed when searching for your favorite music again.”
Speaking of music, CDNOW wants you to BUY!BUY!BUY! and they’ve come up with a pile of ‘Millenneum’ Top 10 lists to get you feeling all consumerish.
Compare words through the AltaVista search engine. “Type a few words that you will test against each other. You can group words with ” ” just like in other search engines. The query is passed unedited to Digital’s AltaVista search engine and then the number of hits-figures are converted to a bar chart. Compare e.g. the web-publicity index of trademarks, football teams, names or whatever.”
Science news and live webcasts of the Leonids meteor shower from NASA. Remember, the show’s supposed to peak today.
