Fun with the Internet

I was in my room when I heard my son say distinctly, "Three. Doors. Down."  As far as I knew he was in his room alone so I was confused by this statement.

I asked him what he was doing.

He tells me that Google has speech enabled searching.

It does??

Yep, sure enough, if you go to Google and look in the search area, there is a little microphone icon.

Of course we had to say all kinds of random stuff to see what Google would recognize and what it wouldn't.  We started with our names.  It wasn't even close.  Then places around us and my friends' job titles. Again, a no go. Finally I asked, "Google, why can't you spell correctly?"  That came up perfectly, triggering laughter from everyone.

Another fun thing to do on the internet? Cleverbot.  It's really not that clever, but my kids get a kick out of it, its clean fun, and I enjoy watching them giggle.

My personal favorite nonsensical thing to do on the internet? Mr. Doob.

Whoever he is, he has brought us the fun gross-out known as Sphere:

Seriously...play with this one. Just drop any picture on the screen
and watch Sphere turn it inside out.

And the ever entertaining Google Gravity:

It's Friday...go play a little.