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Geography Tetris
via Channel 10 by Sarah Perez on June 05, 2008
Here's a much more fun way to learn geography than just staring at a map - a game called Statetris lets you learn geography by playing an online game, similar to Tetris, where states or countries are the blocks which you must move or rotate to fit them into the correct locations. The Tetris board will be a shape of a map and the "pieces" drop down from the top. Using the arrow keys, you move...
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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
I seldom pause to answer criticism of my blog. If I did, I'd have time for little else in the course of the day, and no time for constructive work. But occasionally I'll encounter a particularly well written critique that gives me pause, such as Alastair Rankine's Blogging Horror. Since I feel that Alastair wrote it out of genuine good will, and that his criticisms are sincerely set...
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Cache Or Session State - Similar But Different
via DonXml's All Things Techie by donxml on June 06, 2008
This week at TechEd Microsoft announce the Velocity project, a distributed in-memory object caching system, which got folks like Dare and ScottW talking about using a distributed caching solution for boosting the performance of web sites. That got me thinking more about the differences between Cache and Session State. Although they seem to be the same, and often caching solutions are used for...
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Have some HASHes with your Shell – HashTab, the File Hash Explorer Shell Extension (a new “Much Have” Shell Extension?)
via Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day by Greg on June 07, 2008
Beeblebrox.org - HashTab Windows Shell Extension“HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files. Many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download link. The HashTab makes it...
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Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Beta
via MSDN Blogs by JoeStagner on June 07, 2008
The IIS team has released the Beta 1 (Go Live) release of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool! The tool provides deployment and migration support for IIS 6.0 and 7.0. It incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and migrate sites, including configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of content associated with a Web server. This tool can be used...
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Firefox 3 - The Screencast
via Mark Finkle's Weblog by Mark Finkle on June 06, 2008
Our Mike Beltzner created a sweet little screencast covering some of the cool new parts of Firefox 3. Mike’s been giving this “demo” for a while now and he does a great job showing how Firefox 3 can make your browsing experience better. Check it out.
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The customer doesn't care who's fault it is
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on June 04, 2008
A lot of companies point fingers when something goes wrong. So it’s impressive when a company asks, “Even though it’s not our fault, what can we do to make this situation better?”“Believe It or Not, Someone’s Listening” discusses Travelocity’s devotion to the entirety of the customer experience and gives this example:After discovering a pattern of dropped reservations at certain...
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FUR JUST $1 A DAY
via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? by ichctcf on June 06, 2008
Record your own or Listen to other Audio Clips!FUR JUST $1 A DAY YOU CANZ MAK SHUR THIS KITTEH HAZ CHEEZBURGERZdis kitteh got his cheezburger.picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: DMC » Recaption This
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Clinton backs Obama and bows out
via BBC News | In Depth | Vote USA 2008 | UK Edition by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Hillary Clinton tells supporters she is suspending her campaign to win the US presidency and is backing Barack Obama.
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Why Clinton lost
via BBC NEWS | Justin Webb's America by Justin Webb (BBC News) on June 07, 2008
Ten reasons. 1. She was a woman. I don't buy the idea that this was the determining factor but it still counts for something - when it started to go wrong there was an extra edge to the nastiness directed...
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