Archive for the 'Del.icio.us Links' Category
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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Newsweek covers Twitter, but says does little more than introduce the service; most interesting sentence: “One doesn’t respond to a twitter, a big advantage over more intrusive forms of communication like instant messaging.”
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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“Live Cheddar Cheese direct from the Westcountry” in the “what will they think of next” category [
thanks]
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“How We Really Use the Web” – from years ago, but still applicable
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nice summary of what an airport (O’Hare in particular) feels (sounds) like during delays (or almost any time) [< href="http://bracken.wordpress.com">thanks]
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some of these are very funny
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helpful
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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not the first such image I see, but I’m still amused; this one can be stopped and you can also rewind, which are nice additions
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helpful if you have lots of time and very little money
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compare the sizes of different things
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just in case you need some stripes (?)
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this has an unfortunate addictive quality to it
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A bit of Star Wars reenacted with hands; you have to know Star Wars pretty well to appreciate this; if you do then it’s amusing
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this is really unfortunate soon after a product launches
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
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“Politicopia gives people a solid handle on the Utah Legislature. Users create summaries of bills, pro and con arguments, comments, links, and more.”
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food blog, yum
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“online language exchange and resources for language learning”
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“What do you want to change in the world?”
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a helpful description of what is at stake regarding Net Neutrality legislation
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
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really short URLs (relevant for texting)
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using Twitter from Windows desktop (get and send updates)
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“European Research on Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children’s Safe Use of the Internet and New Media”
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Andy Carvin declares this coming Friday (March 30, 2007) “Stop Cyberbullying Day”
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simple, but does the job (and hopefully no annoying side effects)
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shortcuts, tips from a pretty random list of professions
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text messaging community
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
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requires large budget
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including stem
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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nifty little tool
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Greasemonkey script for seeing whether a photo is in the top 1000 for the day (info shows up under Additional Information, just below the “see different sizes” link or just above the number of times it’s been favorited and viewed)
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“Researchers track the layers of ad sales between legitimate sites and questionable aggregators.”; example: a large proportion of blogspot.com addresses are splog (spam blogs)
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Chicago Tribune article about Twitter and Tumblr (I’m quoted at the end)
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
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“Law Students Feel Lasting Effects of Anonymous Attacks”
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a bit of background on how Ben & Jerry’s ice creams get named after famous personalities
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why an airline flies empty planes several times a week
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man imprisoned in China for maintaining mailing list, Yahoo gives up his identity to authorities
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Evolutionary biologists think female orgasms may pick the best sperm.
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If you’re gay in Kansas or Missouri (or many other states, it seems) “you can legally be denied service in restaurant. Landlords can refuse to rent you a place to live.”
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sad story
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
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this is fun, even if you don’t read the results; it’s just fun to see for yourself which of the images you pick in the various categories
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neat game; I won’t tell you how it works, you can figure it out in an attempt or two; once I did, I made it to “max attempts: 30” and only had two tiles of one color to rescue when I failed that level (meaning, I almost made it); enjoy! (don’t click if you don’t have time to play. UPDATE: I managed to get to level 26 (going down from 35)
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“to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.”
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
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a game that made no sense at first, but then it grew on me; use the arrow keys to move the yellow ball up to the green one; at the next stage, your movements are mirrored to you to block you; I got to 17
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“List of Windows Proccesses and Descriptions” – Wondering whether that exe should be on your task manager list? Check here.
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a great blog
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a 107 year old blogger
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
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this is a really fun free tool, I tried it and it works really well
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a Greasemonkey script for a more sophisticated AllSizes+ button in Flickr
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allows for batch-editing upload date (the new version doesn’t)
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Greasemonkey script for Flickr to display the buddy icon of people to whom you are replying in comments. Sweet.
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yup, as random as it sounds; amusing, worth a look
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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