Cuil, the search engine launched at the beginning of the week with brassy fanfare and progressive decrescendo on Monday, still looks about the same on Friday. It’s faster, at least, without 50 million—seriously—queries hitting its categorized servers. The images are still a bit out of whack, the categories still odd, the results certainly alternative.
U.N. Behind “Hunger Bytes” YouTube Contest
The competition has a slightly goofy name – “Hunger Bytes” – and a strange logo – a globe with two pointy teeth. But this YouTube-centric contest is for a good cause, and it’s backed by the United Nations World Food Program.
Cuban Man Hunger Strikes For Internet Access
There’ll be no puns here for the subject of this article-no “hunger for this” or “dying for that”-puns, a lower form of humor they say, would denigrate the tribulation of a journalist and his newborn raison d’etre-like calling a spoof a sincere flattery. Simply, a Cuban man has embarked on a hunger strike in an effort to win unrestricted access to the World Wide Web.
Amazon Joins the Fight Against Hunger
Amazon has joined forces with Share Our Strength, one of the nation’s leading antihunger organizations, for a special holiday program called “Baking from the Heart” to help raise funds for the fight against hunger.