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Top 10 Last.fm Mashups - ReadWriteWeb
via del.icio.us hotlist by nutted on February 17, 2008
bookmark this on del.icio.us - first posted by nutted tomusiclast.fmmashupweb2.0mashups - more about this bookmark...
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MIT prof's notorious talk on How to Talk
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 18, 2008
MIT prof Patrick Winston gives an infamous annual talk called "How to Talk," a lecture on how to give good lectures. It's open to students and, apparently the public. This 1999 version of the talk (pre-Powerpoint!) is filled with damned good advice on persuasive public speaking, delivered in the form of "heuristics" that you can use to guide your own presentations.Link
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ToPlay Earphones - open ear headphones protects your ears but maintain audio quality
via The Red Ferret Journal by Nigel on February 27, 2008
TOPlay Earphones. Suspended by a magnetic clip just outside your ear canal, this innovative headphone set promises to safeguard your hearing while still delivering the kind of audio that your brain longs for. They weigh a mere 8g too, which means that the comfort ratio should be right up there with [...]170 words | email this | permalink | no comments | digg thisrelated entriesKleer Headsets -...
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How Do You Control Your Cravings? [Ask The Readers]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on March 17, 2008
Reader's Digest rounds up 10 tips to control your cravings and stay on point with your diet, including a simple and excellent craving killer: a handful of nuts and water. Go nuts. Drink two glasses of water and eat an ounce of nuts (6 walnuts, 12 almonds or 20 peanuts). Within 20 minutes, this can extinguish your craving and dampen your appetite by changing your body chemistry, says RD's...
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The Big Screen Display Productivity Paradox [Dual Monitors]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on March 19, 2008
Techie Jeff Atwood says that while having lots of screen real estate to display more information is great, the downside to multiple or widescreen monitors is that they make you work a little harder to manage windows:One of the advantages of small monitors, ironically, is that because they're small, they nudge users into a simpler, windowless method of working. Instead of wasting time sizing,...
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Transgender man is pregnant
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 23, 2008
Thomas Beattie lives in Oregon and is married to a woman named Nancy. He's pregnant.To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we...
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New South Park site debuts, with full episode streaming
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on March 24, 2008
Ah, I remember the good old days -- whenever a new South Park episode aired, we used to walk uphill in the snow, barefoot, to download it off BitTorrent networks or websites like AllSP. And we were grateful!But no more. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have just debuted a new version of the South Park Studios website with Comedy Central, where - with Darth Viacom's blessing -...
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Home DNA paternity test
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on March 24, 2008
New spit-based home medical tests for the likes of breast cancer may be on the horizon, but DNA paternity testing kits are already on drugstore shelves. Over at Boing Boing Gadgets, Joel has the details on Identigene's $30 kit. Science helps answer the eternal question of "Who's your daddy!?" Link
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Building Stonehenge by hand, with gravity and sticks
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 30, 2008
Retired construction worker Wally Wallington of Flint, Michigan is moving one-ton concrete blocks over a ton each by himself without using pulleys or any mechanical equipment. He's reconstructing Stonehenge singlehandedly.Link(Thanks, Marilyn!)
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Plastic bag animal sculptures for subway gratings
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 30, 2008
An unknown artist fashions animals out of plastic bags and fastens them to subway gratings, and the hot air inflates them and makes them puff up and wiggle.The story we heard at dinner tonight is that there's an artist who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He (or she) ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway rushes...
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