myGoogle

Last night, I set up my own iGoogle page after secretly sweating my co-worker Richie's iGoogle page for at least four months. What clinched was that I had wanted to see a movie earlier this week,a dn I had found a page on Yahoo! that showed all of the movies playing in my zip code, at all of their respective theaters. Except that it was on Yahoo, and I never even use my Yahoo! account. So I was certain that whatever Yahoo! had, Google had even better. And I was right. Which led me to creating my own iGoogle page. Where you can pick banners designed by all sorts of arts and fashion luminaries and even some regular people like illustrators from Brooklyn or something. I picked the banners by Nigo for myGoogle — for those of you who aren't familiar with him, he is the guy who created A Bathing Ape, and therefore the gorilla camouflage pattern for which it is so known for. So now on my iGoogle page, I have the list of movie listing that I so wanted, a place for all of my RSS feeds (which I don't have added yet), the weather in Brooklyn, Spanish words of the day (today words are: estallar — to blow up, las lentejas — lentils, and inestable — unstable), and the top NY Times stories.