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It’s stupid but cute. In the extended alphabet sets of, there is a vast selection of letters. Among these are those that can be used to model normal english characters upside-down. This site has a script for converting text and a key of each [...]
Ever wonder what’s going on in a particular place? I’m home for a few weeks over Christmas but thought it’d be interesting to see what’s going on back on St. Olaf campus in Northfield, MN. This mashup from UUorld.com shows real-time tweets from any location in the world via live ajax requests.
Word on the Tweet [...]
This comes from Techflock. There are a bunch of tricks available in gmail for finding certain types of messages such as unread, those from a specific user, date, label, or those accompanied by attachments.
Enjoy!
There are a few keywords that you can use in the search box at the top of the page
from:
to:
subject:
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The age of Web 2.0 has been dominating more clearly with every successfully integrated web app out there. Facebook apps dominate hours of time in the lives of people from all walks of life. The iPhone’s webapp integration is familiar to way more people than it should be, and high-speed internet has steadily [...]
In an effort to create a model of evolutionary processes researchers at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland have turned to robots. The robots were placed in an “environment” with a “food” and a “poison” station. Robots were given two minutes to find the food resource while successfully avoiding the poison. [...]
Well I’m a bit slow on this one, but I finally noticed that mozilla labs has been working on the project previously known as Webrunner. For those who don’t know, Webrunner was a ‘browser’ of sorts that allows a web application (gmail, google reader, meebo, etc.) to be run as if it were a [...]
Lifehacker features a pretty interesting list of ways to find information about anyone online. Anything from employment info, to social network connections, to press mentions, to phone numbers and addresses for an individual could be turned up with a quick search of these sites.
I see this as a good chance to check out my [...]
Say you’re working along in firefox on a research project, or christmas shopping, or just a bunch of blogs and emails in various tabs. Chances are, you’ve mistakenly closed a tab without meaning to and regetted it.
Quick Firefox tip: The key combingation “Control-Shift-T” will restore the most recently closed tab.
Here are a few rules that would go a long way to clean things up:
Ask yourself: If I ran across this post without knowing the author, would I care?
Is this adding value to the wealth of information or the organization of the web?
No personal, isolated stories included simply for the sake of telling
Did some thought [...]
There are a few classes of web pages on the web:
Those from which I can glean some value from, as an anonymous visitor, and
Those about which I couldn’t really care less, essentially consisting of a glorified journal entry by someone, somewhere, who [...]
