our global world

non-obvious places to find lots of Brazilians:

* Newark, NJ, USA
* Framingham, MA, USA
* Gort, County Galway, Ireland

Any more?

There should be lists of communities like this, at least for the purposes of linguistic or sociological research.

image search

There's a semi-famous picture of six nude women sitting side-by-side in a swimming pool with their backs to the viewer. They all have very fine body painting.

To see the image, click here.

I've seen this image before, and I'd like to find out its title. Can Google help me? Shouldn't I be able to input this picture URL and get pages featuring the same picture (even if in different sizes)?

Hit Song Science

Hit Song Science applies machine learning to predict whether a given song will be a hit. Rudi is not impressed. My take: evaluation, evaluation, evaluation!