bing

there is no reason for me to blog about bing.

or so i thought. except that as a child i loved encyclopedias. the reason i loved them was that they told me about places and people and things through words and pictures that i wouldn't find out about otherwise. i would jump at every opportunity to pull out one of those gigantic books, toss away any vestiges of sense-of-time, and hop and skip from topic to topic, ending up spending hours on the J-K World book. how much that contributed towards improving my general knowledge is debatable, but it was definitely fun.

after a long time, i had that same feeling while visiting www.bing.com. everyday, they have a new gorgeous image there. an image of a real place, with all these tooltips telling you what it is, where it is, and why it's special. and you can go through all the ones that came before the one they have today.

pretty cool! i wonder who thought of this and how!