Category: miscellaneous
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Everyone who will ever use Powerpoint should have to click through this before it starts
.!. Personally I have been trying to avoid using Powerpoint, instead looking to Mind Maps, or just plane old notes. But despite my efforts, PPT seems to be the predominant attachment to every email that comes into my inbox. Maybe I should just give up on email? No there’s an idea! Well, until I do…
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A little late for Halloween
But still this is funny…the creativity out there continues to amaze me. Brainz…. YouTube – The Zombeatles – A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead Under Siege 2: Dark Territory hd
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Wish I had some more time to geek out coming up
I have been looking at a few of the different low cost alternative PCs including the OLPC and the Asus Eee. Now it seems you can run OS X Leopard on the Eee. I really wish I had a week off soon to try this out…and get my MythTV box working again…and get Tversity working…
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Social networks in you inbox
An interesting idea coming from the big online email vendors: let’s turn people’s inbox into a social network. Don’t get me wrong: I love gmail. But email in general has such a bad name these days (info overload, spam, viruses…) I doubt they will be able to convince “social network true believers” (that view email…
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It’s the end of ads as we know it
and I feel fine. IBM Press room – 2007-11-08 IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It – United States
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Facebook has haters
With the announcement this week of Open Social by Google, the microscope is really going to be on Facebook and how its application platform is evolving. The post below from the Open Innovators blog is pretty critical of the openness of the Facebook platform. I can’t disagree with anything that is said, but honestly I…
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Big Pig Face
This past weekend I did something I haven’t done since college…now that your minds have wandered, let me plant you back in reality: I had a pig roast. We’ve had an annual fall party at our place since we moved there a few years ago. It grows a little bit every year and this year…
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Chronology
Maybe those folks at the creation museum are right after all. Nah. IFTF’s Future Now: Chronology
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Social production…of your liver?
Now I will be the first to admit that the ideas of getting users involved in the creation of the manufactured products they use every day may sound far out to some. It of course, seems like its happening every day to me. However the extension of social production concepts to bio-tech is not something…