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Julio Franco retires from baseball
via Headlines from the Associated Press by (author unknown) on May 03, 2008
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Julio Franco finally called it quits....
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Wilford Brimley and the five cats who resemble him
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 02, 2008
I don't often post about cats, but I'm impressed that Gato Island managed to find five (not one, but five) cats that bear a striking resemblance to Wilford Brimley.Link(via Digg)
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Earthbound gets rated by the ESRB
via Nintendo Wii Fanboy by David Hinkle on May 02, 2008
Filed under: News, Virtual Console We hope you have a fresh pair of underwear on, because you're about to suffer a heart attack: Earthbound has been rated by the ESRB for Wii. That pain in your chest? That's your heart exploding. Welcome the sensation. It's a sign of victory!Now that the game has been rated by the ESRB, it's likely to show up on the Virtual Console sometime in...
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People You May Know
via Facebook Blog by Florin Ratiu on May 02, 2008
Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed an additional home page box that features "People You May Know". We built this feature with the intention of helping you connect to more of your friends, especially ones you might not have known were on Facebook. People You May Know looks at, among other things, your current friend list and their friends, your education info and your work info. If you...
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AppMenuBoy Adds an Applications Menu to Your Dock [Featured Mac Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on April 30, 2008
Mac OS X only: Back in the non-Stacks days of Tiger, you could add a folder to the Dock and expand it into a hierarchical menu. Now with Stacks you can't easily navigate subfolders from a folder on the Dock, but small utility AppMenuBoy aims to change that—for your Applications folder, that is. Start up AppMenuBoy and expand your Applications folder into a Tiger-style hierarchical menu, as...
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FLVto Converts YouTube Videos to MP3s, No Upload Required [YouTube]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on April 30, 2008
FLVto is a web app with three buttons, one input box, and one simple-but-great function of converting YouTube and other Flash-based videos to MP3 audio files. We've shared a reader-submitted download-and-convert method, but FLVto makes the process pretty foolproof. Paste a YouTube or other video link (or upload an FLV file), hit "OK," then wait for your download prompt. The sound quality is...
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The Man Who Fell Sideways
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 30, 2008
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Shoes are bad for your feet? Vindicating the barefoot set
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 24, 2008
Adam Sternbergh's long investigative New York Magazine piece, "You Walk Wrong," makes a compelling case for shoes as inherently damaging to your feet and spine. I have very flat feet, which has always meant problems with my hips, knees and back, and I've work custom orthotic inserts since I was a teenage. Last year, I picked up a pair of Vibram Fivefingers "barefoot shoes" that do a...
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NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 30, 2008
... code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.But really the browser-to-browser consistency that you see (and I have to admit, it’s far from perfect) is the result of a vigilant collaboration between many different groups — the visual designers and tec...
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Artist Themes for iGoogle
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on April 30, 2008
Google in the US is currently promoting a new “artist themes” section for iGoogle via a special logo and text below the search box. IGoogle is the name of Google’s personalized homepage, and as it allows skinning with special background graphics and so on, this directory offers works by artists like Jeff Koons, Coldplay, Robert Mankoff, Dolce & Gabbana, Akira Isogawa, Anne Geddes and more...
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