Apparently I'm Not Cuil Enough

I just read on Wired that an ex-googler started her own search engine called Cuil (pronounced "Cool").

I kind of view search engines the way I view irc clients or text editors... do we really need another one?

Perhaps. The founder, Anna Patterson, reckons the search engine space still needs competitors since the way we search for things on Google hasn't really changed in the last 10 years and she doesn't suppose Google will change it. Perhaps she has a point. I was intrigued by other search engine efforts, such as Eurekster, which allowed you to create your own topical search engine - something more personalized. However, Google Personalized Search is somewhat doing this already - it's just not as overt and Google is also building quite a profile on your account in doing so.

Regardless, if Cuil wants to be a competitor, I'd reckon it first needs to find me. A search for "jason whaley" revealed no hits, despite Cuil's boasting that it is indexing more sites than Google. A search for "jason whaley" on google reveals pages about me in 4 of the top 10 hits.

TF2 Hitboxes

Turns out there's a cl_lagcompensation variable in TF that actually makes shots to the rendered model (and not the separated hitbox) connect. Check it out in this video.

Wish I knew about this while i was still playing.