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Coffee Aroma A Wake Up Call?
via Brewed Coffee by java queen on June 16, 2008
How many times have you woken up to the smell of good coffee? How did that make you feel? According to some Japanese researchers, the mere aroma of coffee may be enough to give you the jolt that you need to wake up. Fancy that – you don’t even have to drink coffee, just smell it and you’re awake!They conducted the research on 30 rats, which they kept awake for 24 hours. After that, the...
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Blogs make meetings feel dull
via Daniel Lemire's blog by Daniel Lemire on June 16, 2008
I have always hated meetings. I prefer to work alone at my desk, with the occasional email. I realized recently that blogging makes meetings feel even worse. There are many types of information you will not get through traditional channels. Peter Turney’s latest post is one such example. He basically says that simplicity is just one type of bias: the simpler solution is not necessary better....
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Garfield Minus Garfield
via Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
If you're not reading Garfield minus Garfield then you're seriously missing out. Someone is photoshopping Garfield comics to remove the cat. What you're left with is "an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life".
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Building Academic Library 2.0
via roger的鲜果推荐 by Meredith Farkas on June 13, 2008
I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled Building Academic Library 2.0. Like Puerto Rico, it ended up being a terrific experience. Everyone was so friendly and I was fortunate to have a really sharp audience who asked thought-provoking questions that challenged me too....
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SharedCopy - 再也不怕網頁消失！保存、標記註解或分享網頁快照！
via roger的鲜果推荐 by Pseric on June 15, 2008
... 進入 SharedCopy 首頁，點選右上角 Sign-up an account, 並填入相關資料進行註冊。2. 到Email信箱收取認證信，點選信中的連結完成註冊程序。3. 接著回到剛才註冊後的頁面，應該可以看到 Nothing to download or insta...
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Mojonote - 線上備忘 + 清單 + 筆記本，讓你記得所有必須記得的事情！
via roger的鲜果推荐 by Pseric on June 13, 2008
... Mojonote 前，必須先註冊會員（免費）。1. 首頁點選 Sign Up 進入註冊頁面。2. 註冊頁面資料填寫詳細，記得選擇時區喔！3. 帳號建立完成，現在就趕緊登入吧！新增一個排程，提醒自...
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Machines versus humans at Google
via Geeking with Greg by Greg Linden on May 29, 2008
A curious revelation from Googler Peter Norvig appears in a recent post by Anand Rajaraman:[To execute a web search] a subset of documents is identified based on the presence of the user's keywords. Then, these documents are ranked by a very fast algorithm that combines ... 200 [pre-computed] signals in-memory using a proprietary formula.[This] appears to be made-to-order for machine learning...
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Find the Font from a Logo
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 27, 2008
WhatTheFont is a site that lets you upload a logo or any other image that contains text and shows you a list of fonts that are likely to be used in that image. WhatTheFont supports some common image formats like GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, but you can't upload images bigger than 360 x 275 pixels.After uploading an image, you may need to enter the corresponding letters from the text, since the...
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PDF and eBook Search Engine
via MakeUseOf.com by Aibek on June 04, 2008
PDF Search Engine is a simple and staright forward search tool for finding ebooks. You can either search from the websites or use the provided search extension and add it to your Firefox search bar. The search engine works quite well. I tried couple of searches and in both cases found what I was looking for. Sometimes it gives a direct PDF link, in other cases you might need to dowload the...
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Yahoo builds two petabyte PostgreSQL database
via Geeking with Greg by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
Shared by mndoci Whoa!!!James Hamilton writes about Yahoo's "over 2 petabyte repository of user click stream and context data with an update rate for 24 billion events per day".It apparently is built on top of a modified version of PostgreSQL. In his post, James speculates on the details of the internals. Very interesting.Please see also Eric Lai's article in ComputerWorld, "Size...
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