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A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
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Phone cord sheep sculptures
via MAKE Magazine by Becky Stern on May 07, 2008
Look at this heard of phone sheep sculptures! They're made from phones, cords, and handsets, and I wonder if those wires running from the wall means that they ring. Next challange: making a ringer that goes "baaaah." (Thanks, Frank!)[Read this article] [Comment on this article]
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Find Your Lost Cell Phone with PhoneMyPhone [Cell Phones]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 07, 2008
Misplaced your cell phone around the house and don't have another phone on hand to call it up to locate it? Give your number to web site PhoneMyPhone and they'll instantly ring you up. Aside from instant calling to locate your phone, PhoneMyPhone will also schedule phone calls at specific times, similar to previously mentioned Popularity Dialer, to get you out of that boring meeting or...
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Band "shoots" video by sending Freedom of Information requests to CCTVs that
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Shared by SharonG crappy song, but cool concept!
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Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 10, 2008
Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, a competing product. Yesterday, in a...
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Gallery of "young me / now me" photos
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on April 17, 2008
Charliekkendo says: "You have to see some of these images. Users duplicate a picture of themselves from when they were younger - same pose, the current "me" by the child "me." The results are fascinating." Link
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Kai-Fu Lee on Cloud Computing
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on April 23, 2008
John Breslin highlights some interesting ideas from Kai-Fu Lee's keynote about cloud competing presented at the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (Kai-Fu Lee is the president of Google China from July 2005). He mentions six properties of cloud computing from Google's perspective:1. User centric. "If data is all stored in the Cloud - images, messages, whatever - once you're...
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How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
via www.useit.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Ionut The conclusion is that people don't actually read, they just scan the text.I was able to fit very nice formulas to describe users' reading behavior for pages containing between 30 and 1,250 words. For longer pages, reading became quite erratic. Pages with a huge word count are probably not "real" pages anyway � they're more likely to be either academic papers or...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Vista SP1 Now on Windows Update [Windows]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 06, 2008
Windows only: We know it's kind of pathetic to get all excited about something as mundane as a service pack—yet here we are, hearts all a-patter because XP SP3 and Vista SP1 have been unleashed on Windows Update and at the Microsoft Download Center. Get thee to patching your PC! Why should you? Our complete field guide to XP Service Pack 3 holds all the answers.[via Gizmodo]
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Family Guy Enters The Matrix [Clips]
via Gizmodo by Mark Wilson on May 06, 2008
If someone had asked me right when I woke up this morning if I expected to see an superb Family Guy/Matrix trailer mashup—I'd probably have searched YouTube for it later—but I'd have done so quite incredulously. [via newlaunches]
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