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Free Office Templates [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 15, 2008
Windows with Office 2007 or Mac with Office 2008: Spruce up your presentations, spreadsheets, invoices, letterhead and business cards with a set of free office templates from Microsoft. Everyone knows the default template choice in Office can be limiting, so this selection widens your range. These templates aren't the most hip designs in the world, but they'll at least separate your...
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Dude, William Shatner Totally Loves TechCrunch
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
Autograph sports and celebrity memorabilia is a $1 billion/year business in the U.S. alone. The problem is, up to 90% of it is counterfeit.Enter Los Angeles based LiveAutographs, a site that sells celebrity autographs that are guaranteed to be authentic - because they take a video of the celebrity writing the autograph and message and post it on their website. I am a huge William Shatner fan (who...
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Sophisticated Taggers, and a Tree Grows (In Front of Our Apartment) In Brooklyn
via RockitBomb.com by Chandler on May 16, 2008
Brooklyn, New York: home of the most sophisticated graffiti artists anywhere in the world. Here’s proof:This example isn’t as sophisticated as some of the subway poster alteration art that goes on around the city, but the industrious tagger did spell “bourgeois” correctly. Gold star for them!And in other news, as part of New York’s MillionTreesNYC project which promises to plant one...
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California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage
via NYT > NYTimes.com Home by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
The ruling paves the way for California to become the second state where gay men and lesbians can marry.
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Science of orgasm
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 15, 2008
This month's Scientific American Mind unpacks the neurology of orgasm. It summarizes some very intriguing and also controversial research. For example, brain scans seem to show that orgasms aren't just about heightened arousal but also the silencing of the brain's "center of vigilance" to lose all inhibitions. From Scientific American Mind:To find out whether orgasm looks similar in...
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Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character?
via Neatorama by Miss Cellania on May 15, 2008
In today’s Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you are given a nonense word (or at least that’s what they seem to be), and you decide whether it’s a character from Dungeons and Dragons or a skin disease. Although I didn’t know the answers, I used the Force and got this score:Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character? Score: 94% (15 out of 16)I knew you wouldn’t believe me unless I...
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Cruise: Video Shows Missing Passenger Alone When She Fell
via Gothamist by Jen Chung on May 15, 2008
Trying to quell speculation about a missing passenger's disappearance, the Norwegian Cruise Line says there is surveillance video showing 46-year-old Mindy Jordan falling from the ship. Jordan fell overboard the Norwegian Dawn two hours after it left NYC, on its way to Bermuda.Further, NCL says its surveillance video shows that Jordan, a NJ resident and registered nurse, was alone in her...
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Union Hall Wins Over the Board at Borough Hall
via Gothamist by Jen Carlson on May 15, 2008
Photo by Bryan Bruchman.At last night's full Community Board Six Meeting in Borough Hall, passionate outcries were heard once again arguing over the motion to recommend against the renewal of Union Hall's liquor license. However, this time the loud voices were not coming from angry neighbors, but rather Board members themselves, speaking one after the next in favor of the Union...
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CSS Menu Writer released for Dreamweaver
via Macworld by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
CSS Menu Writer is a new extension for Dreamweaver that helps you build customized CSS-based menus for your Web site.
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Zoho now accepts Google and Yahoo logins
via CNET News.com by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
The online productivity suite has synched up with two of the biggest names in Web 2.0 user accounts--even though Google operates rival Google Docs.
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