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Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Yet another ludicrous fad in corporate America.... Landing a Job Can Be Puzzling. Microsoft is legendary for running job applicants through grueling interviews full of brain teasers and bizarre questions. Now, other companies are following suit. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News] 6:30:32 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Amen. Wish I could manage it... qotd june 24. Thomas Jefferson: "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 5:19:53 AM  comment []  Trackback []     I've got to try this: "an experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS." http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php  5:03:22 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Technology Turns Walk in the Woods Into Treasure Hunt. A hobby called "geocaching" is the equivalent of a high-tech game of hide-and-seek. By Christine Digrazia. [New York Times: Technology] 4:17:41 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Hidden Yard Sales - Revolutionizing the way people search for yard sales on the Internet. Hidden Yard Sales LLC utilizes the latest technology (IBM and Domino) to allow web visitors to search and advertise yard sales within the United States. Remember what you consider second-hand junk, to others is a golden nugget waiting to be discovered.http://www.hiddenyardsales.com [PRWEB Jun 23, 2003] [PR Web] 4:17:31 AM  comment []  Trackback []     BlogComp. BlogComp (via Emergic): If you are thinking about starting a blog...or switching to a different blog service, this resource will help...allows you to compare up 5 different blog tools (from a list of 27) side by side. [elearnspace blog] 4:12:59 AM  comment []  Trackback []     The World as Hard Drive. I don't know what it is in the UK that's given their current SF writers such mad, wonderful visions: [More Like This WebLog] 4:11:56 AM  comment []  Trackback []     A refreshing antidote to our current civilization's way of thinking.... The Long Run. "The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996** to... become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. It has been nearly 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age and the beginnings of civilization. Progress lately is often measured on a 'faster/cheaper' scale. The Long Now Foundation seeks to promote 'slower/better' thinking and to foster creativity in the framework of the next 10,000 years..." "** The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years." [kuro5hin.org] 4:10:29 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Cool... WhichBooks Are Good to Read?. Whichbook "a neat little flash app that permits you to select on a sliding scale up to four different features of a novel and then recommends a list of prospective reading to you. (Plain-text available here). (via sixdifferentways)." [MetaFilter] ...continued... [The Shifted Librarian] 4:02:42 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Yes, I collect these free energy articles. No, I don't believe this is possible... Aerospace / Defense Research, Antigravity/Free Energy Possible. A 7 year research study by a senior staff aerospace defense engineer, George J. Bugh, concludes some "free energy" devices work and some have antigravity effects. See www.vasantcorporation.com [PRWEB Jun 24, 2003] [PR Web] Update 7/2003: Had a nice conversation with Bugh (via email) - may not be so fringe after all... 3:59:33 AM  comment []  Trackback []     A lengthy collection of links and commentary on Internet censorship in libraries. The Shifted Librarian blog has a collection of related articles as well. If this doesn't make your hair stand on end, nothing will. The systematic supression of free thought begins with this kind of official "filtering"... Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access. ...continued... [The Shifted Librarian] 3:54:10 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Real Life Implementation of Weblogs in the Classroom. A Place to Be Heard "Anne Davis remembers how she reacted the first time she saw a weblog being used in the classroom. 'I thought, 'This is all about possibilities,' she recalls. 'It's about listening, talking, collaborating, having a dialog. And it can work for any subject....' ...continued... Near the end of the project, Davis decided to share her thoughts about the successful experiment on her personal weblog (www.schoolblogs.com/newsquest/*)." [An Innovation Odyssey, via weblogged News] [The Shifted Librarian] 3:51:28 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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