Posted by luca
on Friday, February 02
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GTD Cheatsheet: The Workflow
This is the first part in a refresher series on the basics of Getting Things Done, an organization concept by David Allen.
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Google "Loses" Gmail in Europe
"Daniel Giersch, a German-born 32-year old entrepreneur, has just announced that his company received a positive ruling last week from the Harmonization Office supporting his claim that "Gmail" and his own "G-mail"." via [slashdot]
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Make Google Go Crazy
Here's what you need to do to make Google go crazy (this supposedly works for other websites too, though I only got it to work with Google).
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Drink-toppers targeted at programmers
Ray from Popgadget discovered these "drink-tops" (foil seals that go over bubble tea and other drinks) advertising Java and Oracle. via [boing boing]
Posted by luca
on Wednesday, January 31
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Space Invaders - worldwide art project
"Along with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, we've been obsessed by Space Invader's work for years. This week, Invader updated his website, and for the first time, posted a Q&A which gives some background and explains what his project is all about." via [makezine]
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Glasses that vibrate you into alertness
Vision Optic Co.'s new MydDo Bururu are eyeglasses outfitted with a tilt sensor and vibrating earpiece. If you start to nod off, the vibration is supposed to wake you up. via [boing boing]
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Funny rant about Cheerios graph
Carl Pappenheim has a good time complaining about this graph on a box of Cheerios, which compares the effects that a bowl of Cheerios, a glucose drink, and a skipped breakfast have on you "power of concentration" over time. via [boing boing]
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IP to Icon
Don Park came up with the neat idea of Identicons, little automated graphics representing a user���s IP address via [google blogoscoped]
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GTD Cheat Sheet: Introduction
Yup, it���s about that time of the year where I realize that my life isn���t as organized as it could be, thanks to my falling off of the GTD wagon as of late.
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Eikanji
28-year-old Tomomi Kunishige has created a new form of Japanese calligraphy, dubbed Eikanji (literally 'english kanji'), which uses the Roman alphabet to represent Japanese characters. via [metafilter]
Posted by luca
on Tuesday, January 30
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Microsoft Windows Vista official released
After five years home-end consumers can now buy another Microsoft OS major release: Windows Vista.
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iPod shuffle -- now with color
Well hello new iPod shuffles. Breaking free from their bleak battleship-grey origins, the $79 iPod shuffle now hits in your choice of pink, green, blue, and even a new tasty orange flavor. via [engadget]
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New sunrise layer on Google Earth
Now there's a Google Earth layer that brings the sun's ascent right to your computer screen, and Google Earth aficionados can also see video vignettes drawn from Discovery HD Theater's "Sunrise Earth" program.
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CSS: The Definitive Guide
Web developers relying upon these books soon find themselves hitting those limits, and becoming frustrated when trying to debug Web pages. CSS: The Definitive Guide, authored by CSS expert Eric A. Meyer, aims to fill that gap."
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How to - Make an etched minty Valentines candy box
This is a decent project that should cost you little or no money, depending on what you have laying around the house. The idea is to use electricity and salt water to etch an image into the top of an altoids tin.
Posted by luca
on Monday, January 29
Posted by luca
on Thursday, January 25
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Guido Daniele - Body paint art
Artist Guido Daniele has an incredible gallery of body paint art - the animal series is great! via [makezine]
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Futiro intros new line of Skype phones
While we failed to spot 'em among the swarms of other Skype phones that descended upon CES. via [engadget]
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Use jazz to boost creativity
The jazz of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and John Cage can lift the listener into theta consciousness. Theta waves, considered the most highly creative brain waves. via [lifedev]
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Chasing a guilt-free, consumption-rich lifestyle can be exhausting. Managing your ecological footprint, however, isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. It starts with incremental change(s) - or, as this book suggests, it first necessitates a certain awareness of your environment, the objects in it, and the origins, travels and projected lifespan of said objects.
Posted by luca
on Wednesday, January 24
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How To - Photograph smoke
"Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new -- or re-invent old -- versions of photography techniques." via [makezine]
- Set up your 2007 personal finance calendar
Morningstar has a sample personal finance calendar that breaks down monolithic money tasks into bite-sized chunks that go on your to-do list each month. via [lifehacker]
- A Chindogu Clock for Procrastinators
Setting one���s clock ahead by 15 minutes is a useful trick for procrastinators. I do this myself with my alarm clock, not that it ever does me any good, in the hopes of being a little bit earlier out of bed.
- The iPod International Currency Index
"The BBC is reporting that an Australian bank has adopted the price of Apple's iPod as a means of tracking international currency values. Similar to The Economist's Big Mac index, this 'iPod index' tracks the price of a 2-GB iPod Nano around the globe and uses purchasing power parity to determine relative currency value.
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Greasemonkey GMail Macros update
There have been some reports that my Gmail Macros Greasemonkey script no longer works. I started to look into fixing this.
Posted by luca
on Tuesday, January 23
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on Monday, January 22
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on Thursday, January 18
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on Wednesday, January 17
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on Tuesday, January 16
- iPhone Trails
What if I could make shapes or trails on the iPhone screen to visit a web site, sms someone, or speed dial? Here's the idea
- Have a nice Che
Customized funny tees
- Task Order Up
The main idea of the Task Order Up is maintaining context and continuity for a single task.
- Homemade Tetris tote bag
A bag inspired to the famous videogame.
via [makezine]
- Stock market data... as music! - The NASDAQ vocal index
Artist Ola Pehrson turns data from the stock market into sheets of music for a choir to sing...
via [makezine]
- Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia
The researchers determined that the mean age of onset of dementia symptoms in the monolingual group was 71.4 years, while the bilingual group was 75.5 years. This difference remained even after considering the possible effect of cultural differences, immigration, formal education, employment and even gender as influencers in the results. via [slashdot]
Posted by luca
on Monday, January 15
