Lifehacker Confessions: The Tips and Tricks I'm Not Using 
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker: Top on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Reading Lifehacker can inspire you to reboot your computer habits, your workflow, your workspace, and even your home life. Believe me, I should know. About a year ago, I was a messy-desked, easily-distracted reporter
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The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
To some, a president Obama is simply unimaginable. From a McCain supporter in Wisconsin yesterday:
"We're all wondering why Obama is where he's at. How he got here. Everybody in this room is stunned we're in this position." There was always going to
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Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Cell Tower
Craig Rubens via GigaOM on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
Telecommunications provider Ericsson is putting some wind power into its network with a new radio communications tower unveiled today. The Swedish telecom partnered with turbine maker Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University to incorporate a vertical-axis wind turbi
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GPass Boosts Browsing Privacy, Circumvents Censorship and Filters [Featured Windows Download]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Windows only: Free application GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers. After you install GPass, launching an application using the proxy is as si
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● Megamovies, TV shows as days-long movies
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
In a 1999 essay about The Sopranos written after its first season, Vincent Canby suggested that the show was an example of a relatively new form of television, the megamovie.
"Berlin Alexanderplatz," "The Singing Detective" and "The Sopranos" are something more
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Touchless Adds Multi-Touch to Your PC with Your Webcam [Featured Windows Download]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Windows only: Microsoft Office Labs has released an open source multi-touch application framework called Touchless that uses your webcam as the input. Right now the Touchless Demo lets you play with four proof-of-concept
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Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It's an easy-to-install
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The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web
(unknown author) via Mashable! on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Shared by Sean
An article worth 8,000 words... good work, Adam.
With the stock market continuing to plunge, one thing remains constant: financial news sites like to tell part of the story with images of distressed Wall Street traders and executives that are experi
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Embed a Part of a YouTube Video
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video]
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Hulu figures out how to bring TV online
Matt via Signal vs. Noise on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Man, has Hulu nailed online TV viewing or what? First off, they have a huge library of content that people actually want (e.g. SNL, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert, Kitchen Nightmares, etc.). And then they really execute on having a usable, effective UI.
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9 Little Known Traits of Successful Bloggers
(unknown author) via Copyblogger on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Shared by Jack
It's like this post was written using posts and interview sound bites from my life. /pat-patting
We all know the “rules” of blogging. Produce consistently high-quality content, position yourself a
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Seeing political links in color
Marc Hedlund via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Andy Baio and Joshua Schachter teamed up to create a totally interesting project for the political season: a way to immediately visualize the links from political blogs on Memeorandum based on how they tend to link -- to more c
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JPEGCrops Makes Bulk Cropping Images a Breeze [Featured Windows Download]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Windows only: If you need to crop a lot of JPEG images in a hurry, JPEGCrops is an invaluable freeware tool. Almost every image program offers the ability to crop images, resize them, and oftentimes do both in
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IM: Not coming soon
(unknown author) via Twitter Status on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because this interface, which millions of people were already familiar with, seemed a perfect fit for Twitter’s real-time nature.
In December of 2006, we extended that support to AIM, enabling
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In the world of ideas, to name something
(unknown author) via Signal vs. Noise on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Shared by Harry Brignull
Oh god, somebody please throw a wet blanket over all the pretentious consultants out there struggling to coin themselves a new term for next year's conference circuit...
In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue.
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Startups, it’s Time to Stop Calling Yourselves That
Stan Schroeder via Mashable! on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
A startup, by (loose) definition, is a young company heading into uncharted territory. And, by that very definition, it needs funds to operate; these usually come in the form of investments from venture capital companies or angel investors willing to accept sig
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● Death by kisses, an unusual tombstone
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
After posting about the Metropolitan Life Tower the other day, I was looking through some recent email and discovered one from a week ago that by chance contained a very unusual story about the building. Filmmaker Pes was researching for a film in Woodlawn Cemetery when
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Ning Adds OpenSocial Support
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Social networking platform Ning announced support for the OpenSocial standard today. Thanks to this, developers can now easily create applications for the Ning platform. At this time, Ning already features 30 application
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The math gap: it's cultural (so stop mocking nerds)
jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John via Ars Technica on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
A new study examines individuals capable of exceptional achievements in math and reveals that gender and ethnic differences appear to be largely the result of cultural expectations and practices. In other words, stop making fun of nerds!Read More...
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