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Interesting idea. $6 from iTunes. . .< 12:00:13 PM  >Mac mini Makes Switching Attractive, Affordable Walt Mossberg writes in the Wall Street Journal, “I’ve been testing the Mac mini … for several days, and it does indeed work, quite well. I connected a mini to a Dell flat-panel screen and a Hewlett-Packard keyboard and mouse, all about three years old. The little Mac fired up and worked perfectly at every task I threw at it… I plugged it into my cable modem, and within minutes I was on the Web and sending and receiving e-mail… Overall, the Mac mini is a good choice for Windows users on a budget who are tempted to switch.” [Jan 20, 2005] [Via Apple Hot News] . .< 11:46:51 AM >How to redirect an RSS feed "Here's the scenario. You've just moved your weblog or news site, and the RSS feed has moved too. You want people who are subscribed to your RSS feed to automatically start reading the feed at its new location. This document explains how to do that." (Via del.icio.us/tag/radiouserland.) [Via Donovan Watts: Radio: The Missing Manual] . .< 11:36:55 AM >The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 3, Pt. 1. Photoshop Elements 3 has quickly become a popular program with it's user base. Today, you'll learn about the art of turning color to black-and-white and turning black-and-white to color again. By Sybex. 1220 [Via WebReference News] . .< 11:32:51 AM >Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction? Mass death 250 million years ago may have been caused not by an asteroid, but by warmer temperatures and lower oxygen levels. [Via CNET News.com] . .< 10:54:38 AM >Wiki + Travel Guide From Murky comes, indirectly, a link to World66, a site that does for travel information what the Wikipedia does for reference information. World66 has a weblog too. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] . .< 10:53:13 AM >Make Blogs of Blogs using Technorati On the surface, you might think this means Google is "better" because it returns more information. And certainly in those 300,000+ links are hundreds of hotel discounters, hotel website, travel websites, travel guides. But how about a personal opinion written by someone who has stayed in a hotel in Ljubljana? That's where Technorati can be a useful supplementary search tool. [snip] Where Technorati gets really interesting is that you can turn any Technorati search into a sort of "custom weblog" by creating something called a "Watchlist." [snip]Once you're a member, every time you search Technorati you'll see a "Make this a Watchlist" link. Click on the link, and Technorati gives you a URL that you can then feed to your favourite RSS newsreader; the feed contains a constantly-updated set of posts that watch your search. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina]OK. Yup. Get. Great stuff. Much more in the full post. . .< 10:37:05 AM >A look at the Indian community Nice piece on Montreal's Indian community, based in Park Extension, notes that despite the mix here of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh, the troubles of the old country don't seem to be reproduced here. [Via montreal city weblog] . .< 10:20:09 AM >Maritime blizzard cancels schools, knocks out power Maritime blizzard cancels schools, knocks out power [Via CBC | Canadian News] . .< 10:16:30 AM >In Stench, Amid Ghosts, Seeking the Tsunami Dead Huge numbers of bodies are still being found in Aceh, Indonesia, a month after the tsunami hit, a reminder that normalcy is nowhere near. [Via New York Times: International] . .< 10:11:57 AM >Confusion Surrounds Sri Lanka Tsunami Death Toll COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war. [Via Reuters: World] . .< 10:09:43 AM >On Television, Torture Takes a Holiday With the torture story all but vanished from television, Americans can look the other way rather than confront the evil committed in our name. [Via New York Times: Arts] |
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