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Mockingbird: Build Web Site Mockups Fast

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:37 GMT

When you’re trying to pull together all of the elements for a website, having a tool that can help you to build a mockup or wireframe in a matter of minutes can make a world of difference. Mockingbird is such a tool: You can drag and drop user interface elements onto a page, rearranging and resizing as you go. You can even link together the various pages within your mockup so that anyone you...

NASA confirms the presence of water on the moon

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:07:35 GMT

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It's official, folks: Brita can start selling lunar water filters. NASA confirmed the presence of lunar agua today with a cheeky: "The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water." Oh, NASA!

One month ago NASA's LCROSS spacecraft crashed onto the lunar surface, sending up a plume of moon dust to be analyzed. It's that plume that has yielded the amazing discovery. "We...

Reporting with Mobile Phones: The Experience of Voices of Africa

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:10:03 GMT

MediaShift Idea Lab

This story was written by Anne-Ryan Heatwole of MobileActive.org.

Mobile phones are the tool of choice for a new group of young reporters in Africa. Voices of Africa Media Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit, trains young journalists in Africa to create news videos for the web using mobiles.

The foundation currently has programs in Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South A...

Apple topples Nokia, has Nintendo shaking in its boots

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:08:47 GMT

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With the continued success of the iPhone worldwide, Apple has surpassed Nokia to become the number one handset vendor in the world, according to a report by the researchers at Strategy Analytics.

What's more, Apple is seeing its handset profits increase, raking in $1.6 billion for the third quarter of this year. Nokia, in comparison, saw its profits fall to $1.1 billion for the quarter. It's no ...

Camera hidden in a tissue box is pretty unsettling

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:56 GMT

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It's official: you can never be sure someone isn't watching you at all times. I mean, just take a look at this tissue box. It looks benign enough. But inside is a camera that takes color footage in the daytime and black and white footage at night, all at a resolution of 720x480 with a framerate of 30fps. It uses SD cards to store footage, and can be programmed to activate automatically at a...

More evidence of smaller iPhone on Verizon?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:06:09 GMT

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The rumor mill's cranking up once again about that smaller iPhone, and this time the story goes that it will have a 2.8-inch screen instead of the current 3.5" display. Apple Insider reports the unconfirmed report from an industry analyst that Verizon Wireless will be rolling out this new iPhone in the third quarter of 2010.

The upcoming handset will allegedly use a dual-system chip from...

In Defense of a Good Night's Sleep | Psychology Today

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:24:16 GMT

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Disrupt your sleep, disrupt your body and brain. By Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D....

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) | Popular Science

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:07:32 GMT

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via www.popsci.com

"With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched" (Thanks, Leah)

This high-tech glowing ball lets you wage urban war

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:28 GMT

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Urban Defender has gangs of players putting down the guns and knives and instead reaching for what looks like a glowing dodgeball. The objective here isn't to go after other people, though. You're aiming for buildings.

The game apparently isn't quite finished yet so the multilayer backend I'm about to describe isn't in place yet. Ideally, you should be able to take your ball around the city and ...

this is one of the Divine Guardian’s bowel movements (via...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:02:26 GMT

FUCK YEAH CILANTRO

this is one of the Divine Guardian’s bowel movements

(via yoursomethingexciting)

Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:41 GMT

WebWorkerDaily

I think project management books should be on every web worker’s reading list because — like it or not — even if your job title isn’t “project manager,” you still have to manage your own portion of the projects you participate in. Even some informal grounding in project management can be helpful for those “rare” times you are pulled into help bring a failing project back to life.

“97 Things...

Francine Prose, MTA conductor

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:30:34 GMT

nymag.com: Look Book

“I’m 52, and I’m the best dancer ever. I can dance hip-hop, salsa, ballroom-dancing—you name it, I do it.”

Will Innovation Still be Made in America?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:04:58 GMT

Technology and society

In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, MIT President Susan Hockfield argues that the United States must rapidly reform immigration policies that drive away talented young scholars who would otherwise decide to live, work and innovate here.

To read the op-ed, please click on http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/speeches/2009-wsj.html.

Sesame Street “I Am Somebody” Segment with Jesse Jackson

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:55 GMT

Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

By Guest Contributor gwen, originally published at Sociological Images

In the early 1980s the Reagan Administration engaged in an active campaign to demonize welfare and welfare recipients. Those who received public assistance were depicted as lazy free-loaders who burdened good, hard-working taxpayers. Race and gender played major parts in this framing of public assistance: the image of the...

White (Wo)Man’s Burden: Madonna, Malawi, & Celebrity Activism [Original Cut]

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:08 GMT

Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

by Latoya Peterson, published at Jezebel.com

On Monday, Madonna broke ground on a new school project in Malawi; today, she takes to the Huffington Post to ask for donations. Her megawatt star power helped engage media attention – but are high profile celebrities actually hurting progress?

In the new issue of Arise, reporter Hannah Pool examines the idea that “all Africa ha[s] to offer the world w...

Would You Drink Bottled Water If It Came in a Recyclable Paper Container?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:31:00 GMT

TreeHugger

Image via: One Drink at a TimeThere are many reasons that the hair on the back of your neck might stand up when someone says the words bottled water - all that wasted plastic, the people harmed in the making of said plastic, the communities 'losing' their water when it is bottled. But, sometimes you need portable water containers. (Okay, we admit that there are alternatives, but what if?) If...

5 Reasons New Yorkers Are the Most Eco-Friendly People in the US - Without Even Trying

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:00 GMT

TreeHugger

photo: Eric E Yang via flickr. TreeHugger's been saying for a while that urban living is one of the greenest ways to live. Well, over at Yale Environment 360, David Owen (who's a staff writer for The New Yorker, by the way...) lays out some stats as to why New York City should probably get renamed the Big Green Apple:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Power Socket SWITCH Would Cut 11% Off Electric Bills

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:38:00 GMT

TreeHugger

Images via Yanko DesignWe all know about phantom load--the electricity that continues to run through your electronics and appliances when they're turned off but still plugged in. Also called vampire power, it accounts for as much as a whopping 11% of our electricity usage. And while there have been products designed to fight the phantom loads, we haven't yet seen a truly viable large scale...

The ideal startup career path

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:45:34 GMT

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The startup world is extremely small. If you’re smart, work really hard, and act with integrity, people will notice. Contrary to popular wisdom, you will actually have more job stability than working at a big company.

via www.cdixon.org

I'm officially on the Chris Dixon bandwagon. Good blogger!

Bike Fashion Show in NYC: Chic Urban Cycling Style (Video)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:03 GMT

TreeHugger

Chic cycling, street style at 'Bike Style' fashion show in NYC. Credit: Emma Grady Hudson Urban Bicycles (HUB) in the West Village, New York City, hosted Bike Style Saturday night, a fashion show premiering chic urban cycling looks. Friends of HUB donned tailored bicycle wear--blazers, cropped pants, and caps--from designers Lela Rose, Read the full story on TreeHugger

Universal Phone Charger Approved, Could Save 13.6 Million Tons of CO2

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:47:00 GMT

TreeHugger

Photo via RusselljSmithEarlier this year we caught word that the EU might force universal cell phone chargers onto manufacturers. "Force" is a little rough...more like "require them to be environmentally responsible and simply logical and quit manufacturing planned obsolescence and exclusivity into piles of plastic and wires." Last week, a universal charger was approved by the International...

Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Calendar

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:00:51 GMT

WebWorkerDaily

There’s more to Google Calendar (GCal) than meets the eye. At first glance, it seems no different from the printed desktop calendars that used to dominate employee desks. You input your tasks, appointments, and other commitments on their designated dates and refer to the calendar every day. The difference is that with Google Calendar, even the smallest tweak can change it from a simple list of...

Yin/Yang balance « Main-Main Masak-Masak

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:12:20 GMT

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my new fave blog!

Trend Watch: Pot Growing In Abandoned McMansions

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:12:19 GMT

TreeHugger

The lastest in American architectural innovation. Image credit, Photobucket, darkrose05rx8The bad guys bought abandoned or repossessed homes, ripped out interior walls, illegally tapped into power and water, and grew pot commercially. What starts in California goes viral a couple years later. So, don't be surprised if DEA operatives begin cruising upscale developments in Florida or...

energyjoule

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:22:35 GMT

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I want this!

Modern lessons in an ancient tongue

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:20:26 GMT

Google Alerts - mixteco mixteca

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Adopted Chinese daughters seek their roots

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:37 GMT

Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

by Guest Contributor Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey

Patti Waldmeir with her daughter

This article comes via Financial Times (which in itself is interesting to me – a story about adoptees returning to their country of birth in a publication about the world of finance?).

I have several thoughts about this piece, some of the language and themes I really struggle...

Human Transportation - Chart Porn

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:06:13 GMT

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Chopstick Knitting

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:32:34 GMT

My Mom is a Fob

I went home this weekend and my mom proudly told me about how, when she found out knitting needles weren’t allowed on a plane, she decided to modify chopsticks instead. Not going to let rules against sharp objects get in the way of her in-flight activities.

Last week, our good friend and very talented musician, Paul...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:03:51 GMT

ZADI DIAZ

Last week, our good friend and very talented musician, Paul Dateh, along with the awesome Ken Belcher, released a music video for his new song The Good Life. It was shot by our other good friends, The Bui Brothers for 99dollarmusicvideo! Definitely give it a listen and head over to Paul’s site to see some sweet behind-the-scenes videoblogs. :)

HELP

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:21:36 GMT

Fuck You, Penguin

People, a penguin has kidnapped me. I was on a hot air balloon trip and I crashed in Antarctica and he captured me and forced me to give him my password. DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING HE SAYS! Please, call the police and tell them to immediately fly down to the south pole and look for a white door cut out of the ground. It's made out of ice, you can't miss it. I'm right in there!!! Hurry... Oh...

Branding the boroughs 2

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:30:24 GMT

Kosmograd

In Felix Barber and Ralph Hyde's superb book London as it might have been, we can read of a Victorian plan to change the structure of the London boroughs, part of a plan to prevent overcharging by cab drivers.

"In the middle of the 19th Century a slightly fanatical Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries published a scheme for an hexagonal London".

".. John Leighton suggested that the old borough...

Fucking penguins, right fellow humans?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:28:21 GMT

Fuck You, Penguin

Hey, everyone! I'm back from vacation where I was doing all the thing that humans like to do! I went to the aquarium, ate lots of chicken, and totally walked one foot in front of the other. It was the best! But I'm back now, and it's time to start back in on those damn penguins. Look at this guy, right? I mean, what a little fucking show-off. HEY PENGUIN, NOT EVERYONE CAN BE SO AWESOME, KIND...

Tupac in Kazakhstan! Irina Slutsky, who is originally from...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:19:00 GMT

ZADI DIAZ

Tupac in Kazakhstan!

Irina Slutsky, who is originally from Kazakhstan, is staying over my place and pulled open her laptop to show me this: A cross-cultural sing-along during a 3,000 mile road trip through Kazakhstan into Mongolia.

Stuff like this always makes me cry. (…not because it’s sad, but just because it somehow threads us together, and also because there’s a lot of underlying...

Jhumpa Lahiri, Big in Bulgaria

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:27:00 GMT

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She has an uncanny ability to talk about uncertainty in a way that yields revelation—or, rather, to accept uncertainty as a condition of revelation. Describing her path to becoming a writer (she began writing stories around the age of five, quit around fourteen, and didn’t pick it up again until well into her twenties, while acquiring three M.A.s and a Ph.D., in Renaissance Studies)

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Artificial Virginity

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:38:20 GMT

Tanya's distractions

There's controversy surrounding companies such as Gigimo selling "artificial virginity" since technology like this emphasizes and reinforces cultural norms and double standards regarding virginity.The product description below is humorous at first, but actually really sad. It's upsetting that a market exists -- it's an example of technology that has a veneer of "technological advancement," but is

The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:34:13 GMT

Serious Eats

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"These are the type of soft boiled eggs that'll get you laid."

Note: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (of Good Eater) brought his analytical cooking expertise to us last week in his first installment of The Burger Lab. This week he starts another bi-weekly column, The Food Lab, dedicated to unraveling the science of cooking. Today, learn about what happens under the shell when boiling eggs...

Get Rid of Underarm Stains and Keep Them Away - Household - Lifehacker

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:50:39 GMT

lifehacker.com

When we showed you how to banish stains with homemade stain removers, many of you begged for methods to rid yourself of those unsightly, yellow, I-don't-know-how-this-happened-I-swear-I-used-antiperspirant underarm stains on your clothes. Turns out that it can be done in stages.

The Meme Party is back for Halloween!RSVP on Facebook or...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:15:12 GMT

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The Meme Party is back for Halloween!

RSVP on Facebook or Going

For costume ideas, head to Know Your Meme’s HallowMEME Costume Builder

via: knowyourmeme: memeparty

Originally posted by (author unknown) from Final Boss Form

BudgetSketch Creates a Workable Budget Before You Spend Your Money [Budgeting]

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Lifehacker

Web application BudgetSketch is a free personal finance budgeting application focused on collaboratively planning out your spending for future months rather than simply tracking the money you've spent in the past.

We've seen a lot of impressive personal finance tools designed primarily to help you track where your money has gone (perhaps most notably Mint), but BudgetSketch focuses less on...