We need to Kollaborate

Do you remember the ridiculous dancer from that Kollaboration video that circled the internet a few years ago? Turns out he was hired to make a VW Golf ad for the UK a few months ago. Pretty cool shit, even if it is only 60 secs.

I also realized a lot of people don't know about a lot of the cool shit you can do right now on google, stuff they don't promote much. Here are some listed in order of most known to least known:

• news.google.com - News from around the web updated every 15-25 mins.
• froogle.google.com - A Mysimon.com inspired shopping search.
• gmail.google.com - Google mail, I hope you know about this by now. If you need an invite, email me.
• maps.google.com - Maps that kick the piss out of maps.yahoo.com and take a dump on mapquest.
• answers.google.com - A cool way to do research, also it shows you how people who are much better than you at searching google can make money.
• catalogs.google.com - An infrequently updated library of all sorts of mail-order catalogs. Looks like this was what they were using to develop the text-recognition technology for google print.
• print.google.com - An online library of scanned novels started last year. Ironically this is the idea that the google guys originally had, which spawned google in the first place. They were two Stanford grad students who wanted library books to be available and searchable online.
• scholar.google.com - Search academic papers and view most of them for free. It used to be that you had to pay journals like IEEE $5-10 to get out-of-print articles. Now you can find the free copies that the authors of the papers host on their personal websites.
• video.google.com - Cataloged clips and closed captioned text of all major network shows.

Plus there's a bunch of cool shit you can type right in google and it will interpret like calculations, "12 inches in centimeters" and UPS tracking numbers. Also you can just type the symbol of a stock and you get the stocks performance. The best part is this information comes directly from yahoo finance. Man, that must really piss off yahoo.

And while we're at it, check out the wayback machine on some of your favorite websites to see what they looked like when they were cached over the past few years.