While showing Firefox features to Parker, I noticed that the Mycroft home page had a lot more content. The Mycroft project 'provides a rich collection of search engines for Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox.' If you use Firefox there's a convenient search bar in the upper right hand corner of the window. The search bar defaults to Google, but there are ton of other options you can choose from. Firefox 1.0 comes with a few extras like Amazon and Dictionary.com, but you can visit the Mycroft home page and install a bunch more for basically anything you'd ever want to search. Some of my favorites are Wikipedia, IMDb, and the All Music Guide. So if you use Firefox, go add the search engines you use most. You can basically get rid of the useless page load you go through to hit these search boxes anyway. How often do you go to IMDb's front page, just to type something in the search box?
A cool site I ran into while browsing the list of music search plugins was Songmeanings.net. It's a site where user contributed opinions and analysis on songs are collected for everyone to browse. While user contributions aren't authoritative, something close to the true meaning (if there is one) is likely to appear in the sum of a large number of opinions. Parker and I learned that 4 am by Our Lady Peace is probably about the lead singer's father, and that AM are his father's initial. For AM. Also, Dan and I were puzzling over the meaning of a song by Era which seemed like it was in Latin or Italian. There were definitely some Latin words, but not all of them were. One of the users posted that the song was actually written in 'psuedolatin' or part French, part Latin and that there was no easy way to interpret the meaning. I've only looked up two songs, and learned something interesting both times. It's a cool site.
And now I continue my procrastination...
Posted by ramk at December 1, 2004 09:59 PMsongmeanings.net is a really good idea, but there's a lot of crap out there. i looked up glycerine by bush, and i know that's a popular song that no one understands, but there were so many people out there saying different things, claiming they had seen interviews, all contradicting each other. then there are the people telling those people to stop analyzing the music and enjoy it. guess those people don't understand the point of the site.
look up filter take a picture and it's about the same, but much more amusing.
ok, if you wade through a bunch of shit there's some good stuff in there. for anyone's who has wondered what the freshman by the verve pipe is about, read the last post on that link, line by line analysis by the writer...