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Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 15, 2008
Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. And as the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a...
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Mistake-Proofing
via Cool Tools by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Mistakes are NOT inevitable, but the logical consequences of remediable design. As such, it's so much easier to avoid them than to correct them, especially if each one becomes a link in a chain of events that go off the rails as a result. If I'd continued in academia, perhaps eventually chairing a department, I'd buy as many copies of this book as there were members of my department...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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How to Cram All Your Travel Gear in One Bag
via Lifehacker: Top, not Windows, not Linux, not Firefox by Adam Pash on May 14, 2008
Now that most of the major airlines have begun charging an extra fee for checking a second bag, National Public Radio's All Things Considered tackles the art of one-bag packing, interviewing Doug Dyment, owner of previously mentioned OneBag.com. In the piece, Dyment suggests that the key to a one-bag trip is making a list of your must-haves and sticking to it. In all the story offers some...
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Solving the climate change attitude mystery
via Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by kevindwhite College educated Republicans are dramatically less likely to accept global climate change and humans was the primary source. While the opposite is true of Democrats. Interestingly the difference between college and non college amongst independents was slight.Brandon Keim writes,Over the last year and a half, the number of Americans who believe the Earth is warming has...
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where truces and cease fires grow on trees…
via Subtopia by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
... landmines, booby traps and soldier patrols, it was also, much like the Korean DMZ, a kind of sanctuary for considerable wildlife. When the Berlin Wall fell German environmentalists fought to protect the long line of no-man’s-land as a Green Belt, connecting it with Europe’s larger green belt that has followed the path of the Iron Curtain from the north of Finland south to the Adriatic Sea...
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Scanning wallet cards into the iPhone
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mike Schramm on May 14, 2008
Filed under: Software, Hacks, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhoneThis is pretty much genius. Like Albert, I have a bunch of "membership cards" in my wallet -- they're those cards with a barcode or number on them that you get from places like the local grocery store, or some other retailer. They're useful to have around, but they tend to pile up after a while, and pretty soon, your...
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A more formal rant
via Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
I've written up my rant more seriously here. Here's the new abstract:Bayesian inference is one of the more controversial approaches to statistics. The fundamental objections to Bayesian methods are twofold: on one hand, Bayesian methods are presented as an automatic inference engine, and this raises suspicion in anyone with applied experience. The second objection to Bayes comes from...
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Silverback brings advanced usability testing to the Mac
via Download Squad by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Rusty Mitchell Mike, this could be really handy for us.Filed under: Design, Developer, Utilities, Video, BetaSilverback, a new OS X application from the renowned UK-based design team Clearleft, was a mystery for quite a while. The app had a site with some neat visual tricks and a gorilla with a clipboard, and it said the application was for designers, but what did it do? The suspense...
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The Post-American World
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 12, 2008
... system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.That is from Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, a book remarkably full of common sense. It's #7 on Amazon and a good overall guide to globalization and why it matters that America no longer dominates the world, either economically or culturally.
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