Five Acres with a View

Google celebrates Pi Day (3.14).

Weather Underground is providing a new full screen weather map new fullscreen map application.

Click on fullscreenweather.com and enter your area code.  If you use Firefox or a similarly behaving browser, press F11 for an even bigger map.  (Press again to restore your normal screen.)

The Electronic Freedom Foundation is researching individual browser configurations to see how unique they are at Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking.  I wasn’t surprised to find out that my configuration is unique since I run Google Chrome on a Linux system.  What did surprise me was learning that websites know what plugins I am running.  They also provide a Primer on Information Theory and Privacy.

Full Size 558×448

Make a monster is a fun flash application which allows you to assemble body parts into a monster.

Do you ever wonder how many Google services you use.  Google Dashboard will tell you after you enter your Google account password.

Tired of missing Google Doodles?  Doodlewatch has a chronological log of  the graphics displayed on the Google site. I’ve linked to the filter for the logos seen in the United States, but there are other filters for other countries.

Our conclusion? These new “privacy” changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.

via Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account, pending changes to Facebook’s Privacy Policies.

One of my few regrets about our trip to Australia in 1999 is that we only had one day in Sydney.  Here, at least, is an Aerial Virtual tour of Sydney, Australia, though figuring out the navigation is a bit tricky.

If you are bored with you computer desktop wall-paper, choose one of these from Japanese Art on Flickr.

Full Size 732×823

I only spend five minutes making random clicks before using Google. (flowchart is courtesy of xkcd.)