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Photoshop Express: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing [Photoshop]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on March 26, 2008
More than a year after web-based photo editors began swarming the scene, Adobe this morning unveiled its free, long-anticipated Photoshop Express web app. It doesn't have nearly a quarter of the options, tools, and tricks of its desktop-based namesake, but it seems like a good platform for anyone who likes to spend a little time refining, and then sharing, their digital photos. The...
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Evolving an eye
via Bad Astronomy Blog by The Bad Astronomer on May 06, 2008
The folks at the NSCE and Expelled Exposed have done it again: made a great instructional video about evolution. This one is how an eye can evolve, and is so easy to understand that it should be shown to every single school student in the country, and indeed the world.
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New Habits Expand Our Minds—Literally [Mind Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
Developing new habits can jumpstart our creativity and even help us grow new brain cells, reports the New York Times. Research by authors Dawna Markova and M. J. Ryan suggests that stretching—but not stressing—yourself can develop your mind and creative skills."Getting into the stretch zone is good for you," Ms. Ryan says [...] "It helps keep your brain healthy. It turns out that unless we...
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A Real Millionaire Next Door
via Get Rich Slowly by J.D. on May 12, 2008
Kris and I love our neighborhood. People are friendly and helpful, yet mostly mind their own business. It’s a perfect combination. One of our favorite neighbors is the old guy next door. Let’s call him John. John is a 71-year-old retired shop teacher who lives in a modest ranch house on half an acre, the same house he’s had for over forty years. He has an old barn filled with salvaged...
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Fix a Stripped Screw Hole with a Golf Tee [Clever Uses]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 24, 2008
Got a screw that's stripped the wood around it and won't stay put, but a longer or larger screw won't solve the problem? How-to blog DIY Life says a wooden golf tee and some wood glue is all you need to make that hole as good as new. Just slather the tee with glue and tap it into the offending hole until it's secure, let it dry, then cut off what's sticking out. If the...
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Stephen Colbert Takes On MLB's Attempt To Bully Little Leaguers With Trademarks
via Techdirt by Michael Masnick on May 29, 2008
For years, we've covered Major League Baseball's ridiculous attempts to falsely claim that it has ownership of different aspects of the sport. It's been on the losing side of court battles, repeatedly, but it just keeps pushing its luck. Earlier this year, we noted that MLB was bullying the Cape Cod League, which is considered the preeminent league where the best amateur kids get to...
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Hacker May Get To Keep Insider Trading Windfall -- Because He Obtained Info Illegally
via Techdirt by Michael Masnick on February 18, 2008
The NY Times is covering a bizarre anomaly associated with "insider trading laws" in the US that may allowed a guy to keep the nearly $300k he scammed by hacking into computers to learn of earnings info before it was actually released. Apparently, the way US securities laws work, if you legally obtain the insider info, you can't trade on it. However, if you illegally obtain the info, you...
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Life Without the Moon
via Damn Interesting by Jason Bellows on February 18, 2008
Life is a tenuous thing. Earth is just within Sol's habitable zone, and constantly pelted with solar radiation and cosmic rays. Rocky scraps of cosmic afterbirth constantly cross Earth’s orbit, threatening to eradicate all terrestrial life. In point of fact, it is almost certain that countless Extinction-Level Events would have sterilized the surface of our plucky planet had it not been...
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Best of the Sidebar: Those Unstable Databases & An Interesting Database Field
via The Daily WTF by Alex Papadimoulis on February 19, 2008
First, we've got Those Unstable Databases, originally posted by "tbcpp" I used to work at a radio station, and part of my tasks included keeping the rather old automation system up and running. Now granted, this system was a 98 machine running on a beige box 500mhz and 128mb of ram, but the software was also a little at fault for the crashing it constantly was experiencing. The college I...
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Know Nukes How to Survive an Atomic Blast
via Wired Top Stories by How-To Wiki on May 06, 2008
There's more to it than "duck and cover." Stay alive to fight in World War III by following our advice in Wired's How-To Wiki.
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