Friday, August 5, 2005

Audie Starkey's Pumpkin 'Mary' the pumpkin is 600 pounds and growing. MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas - Halloween is weeks away, but an East Texas farmer has just the pumpkin for the spooky celebration. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 7:03:31 PM

From John Battelle's Searchblog ZDNet: Interview with New Yahoo Search Guru. Dan Farber has a good post about Prabhakar Raghavan, who now runs Yahoo's research. From it: Raghavan, who spent 14 years doing search and data mining-related research at IBM and was lured from his stint as CTO of enterprise search vendor Verity, told me that he intends "to go after the best in world and to get them." ...Regarding search, Raghavan said, "We have two views of better search. Most people are not interested in search—they want to get things done. The future has to be more friendly to people getting tasks done. You don’t want to spend two weeks of evenings sitting at a keyboard and piecing together a vacation plan. You want a system to go out and find the answers, based on future technology that goes beyond crawling and indexing page."... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 8:08:01 AM

Via Arizona Republic Pressure is on for Iraq exit plan. WASHINGTON - The deadly recent attacks on American troops in Iraq are increasing the pressure on President Bush to develop an exit strategy. The U.S. death toll from the war is now over 1,800, and a new AP-Ipsos poll indicates the lowest approval yet for Bush's handling of Iraq, just 38 percent. [azcentral.com | Arizona Republic Front Page] 8:05:06 AM

Yuma, AZ and SEECOT Solar Energy Solar Energy at Yuma Power Plant. KJZZ's Steve Goldstein talks with Robert Paladino of Jasper Energy about the company's plans to build a power plant in Yuma...and its efforts to use Arizona's prime natural resource, the sun. [KJZZ 91.5 FM - News] 7:58:56 AM