Living things glow with visible light – Boing Boing

July 25, 2009

Japanese scientist have shown how the human body glows with visible light.

via boingboing.net
Spooky!
Full article here

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Tron 2.0: Legacy Teaser Trailer

July 25, 2009

via ve3d.ign.com
This has been rushing around the internets like mad, and rightly so. Geeks of a certain age have been waiting for this for a long time.
Remember when Tron special effects graphics (and pseudo graphics) were the absolute cutting edge? Moores law seems in full [...]

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Simon’s Cat ‘Fly Guy’

July 25, 2009

via youtube.com
I love these Simon’s Cat videos
Check out the older ones here, here and here

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Television Tropes & Idioms

July 24, 2009

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means “stereotyped and trite”. In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to [...]

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Beloit College Mindset List (via @SCATJ)

July 23, 2009

This month, almost 2 million first-year students will head off to college campuses around the country. Most of them will be about 18 years old, born in 1990 when headlines sounded oddly familiar to those of today: Rising fuel costs were causing airlines to cut staff and flight schedules; Big [...]

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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

July 23, 2009

The scream of a modem connecting.
The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
Using jumpers to set IRQs.
DOS.
Terminals accessing the mainframe.
Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for [...]

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Brand new toy

July 20, 2009

My birthday present came early

I decided to go with the 24″ iMac as I’m on a productivity kick. The big screen will help me far more than a beefier laptop on a daily basis, at least that’s the theory …
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Chris Garrett on linkbait by Erno Hannink

July 20, 2009

via viddler.com
Someone just asked me what I meant by the phrase “Link Bait” so I found this interview out that Erno and I did a the Social Media Congres in the Netherlands.
Please excuse my bright red nose, blood shot eyes and flu-drug filled head I think the information is sound [...]

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Creating “Micro Continuity” Sites with WordPress

July 20, 2009

Cool videos on using WishList Member to create membership sites with WordPress
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This Social Media Webinar looks like it will be fun (and Free)

July 20, 2009

This looks like it will be a fun and informative webinar on social media, I just got this from an email newsletter I am subscribed to:
Perry Belcher will be LIVE! on a FREE invitation only webinar this Wednesday night at 9:00 PM CST.
This is a brand new training from Perry on making money from [...]

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