05.11.08
Interesting Non-Results in YouTube, Flickr, and MetaCafe
As the results of my recent projects I’m building interesting maps of holes. Voids if you will, in the Internet.
I was importing Webster’s Unabridged dictionary and seeing interesting words I didn’t know existed and thinking I wonder what that looks like.
Well I have my own Video/Picture/Dictionary now at Digerat.com so here are some visuals that I thought warrant a video, but don’t return any.
Zamang (n.) An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.
Palinurus (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass
Debuscope (n.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; — used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.
These were just a few that caught my eye. Quick rush off and make videos of these and you can be the top hit for them… I have 1000’s of others, and an interesting list of things which return results in one service but not another. The Metacafe terms that are not in YouTube is one of the more fascinating.