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TypeRacer
via RB | Recent | min 5 by (author unknown) on April 23, 2008
(author unknown) via BuzzFeed Latest shared by 5 peopleA social typing game that lets you match your speed against strangers or friends.Typing nerds of the world, unite (and compete). Mr. D, our high school typing teacher, would approve of healthy competition amongst typists. You can play the game here, or attach it to your Orkut, Hi5 or MySpace profile.Best 6 Links:TypeRacerTypeRacer, Savior...
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TiVo's Blue Moon special: TiVo HD, lifetime service for $698
via Engadget HD by Darren Murph on April 25, 2008
Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Set-top boxes, OthersYeah, TiVo's Blue Moon special has been alive for a few weeks now, but for those unaware, we figured it prudent to pass along the deal in case you're interested in grabbing hold. From now until June 16th, interested consumers can snatch up a TiVo HD DVR, TiVo Wireless Adapter, a lifetime of service on the unit and an incredibly amazing...
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Low-cost laptop overload arranged in digestible list
via Engadget by Darren Murph on April 25, 2008
Filed under: LaptopsIn case you've been camped out under a nearby boulder for the past six months or so, you'd realize that low-costlaptops have swarmed the market. Granted, only a handful are actually available for purchase today, but just in case you're trying to arrange your options in order to make the best purchasing decision in the future, Liliputing has assembled a stunningly...
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Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on April 25, 2008
Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb shared by 8 peopleA few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop,which focused on the stressful nature of blogging. Using our friend Marc Orchant's death and Om Malik's heart attack as examples, Matt Richel built a case for web journalism as the cause of certain health woes because...
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Dean Kamen’s Slingshot water purifier and Stirling generator tech - low cost water and power for the developing world
via The Red Ferret Journal by Nigel on March 29, 2008
Dean Kamen has unveiled the latest iteration of his power and water package for the third world. The two components are a water purifier called Slingshot that uses a fraction of the power of alternatives and a Stirling engine based power generator that works on cow dung. The $1500 water purifier [...]173 words | email this | permalink | no comments | digg thisrelated entriesPure water. On...
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ScanR to textify pics snapped from BlackBerry
via BlackBerry Cool by Simon Sage on March 27, 2008
This is pretty awesome right here. Take a picture of any text (document, business card, whiteboard, etc.) and so long as it’s in focus, ScanR will convert the image into a PDF, DOC, or vCard, depending on what you’re sending. All you have to do is send the image to one of three e-mail addresses, and you’ll get an automated reply with the processed file. You can always access the original...
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Insight into YouTube videos
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 27, 2008
Posted by Tracy Chan, Product Manager, YouTubeI remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from?Today we're taking our first step towards answering these questions with YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account -- users,...
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OLPC security chief resigns, cites ethical concerns as final straw
via Engadget by Darren Murph on March 21, 2008
Filed under: LaptopsNary a fortnight after Nicholas Negroponte affirmed that his role wouldn't be changing all that much once a new CEO was strapped in, along comes word that the nonprofit's highly regarded Director of Security Architecture, Ivan Krstić, has moved on to greener pastures as of three weeks ago. According to a soul-bearing post on his own blog, the ex-chief outrightly noted...
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The Surprising Mr Obama
via Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media by Matthew Hurst on March 21, 2008
Have a look at the graph below, which shows attention around Obama or Clinton, just Clinton and just Obama.It seems that Clinton's solo trend is relatively even compared with Obama's.We can see some clear peaks in Obama's trend that don't correlate strongly with Clinton's. These are illustrated below.In other words, Obama's results on Super Tuesday, his wife's comments...
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