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In my house, somewhat to the consternation of various relatives, we have decided that we are not doing anything for Christmas or on Christmas day. This means no presents, no family get together, no shopping at the mall (except for basic foodstuffs). We are just going to stay home and
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Some nifty advice on how to work out if your son (not daughter though) is a hacker, Leo Laporte and Martin Sargent of TechTV discuss an article from Adequacy.org (it's an oldie but a goodie). via Aide-mémoire
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Thanks to Chris Brogan for this link. This is interesting - as mentioned I don't get pownce; but use jaiku and twitter. My preferences seem to match the stats: twitter, jakiu, pownce. The stats on number of people show a clear preference for twitter: twitter.com 469,914 jaiku.
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This is the funniest thing - a lolcat translation of the bible It includes such gems as 1 Corinthians 13: "(1) iff i talkd wif teh tungz of manz n angylz, n duzzn haz luff, i are becom liek teh human, knockin down all teh potz n panz frm teh
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This is great commentary on some of the anti-One Laptop discussion recently. Harris makes some good points. I've seen on of these PCs and they are beautifully designed and engineered. Some people just don't get it. OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world by
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Here is another critique of Twitter - this time as the enemy of corporate confidentiality. Does Krigsman not realise that the problem already exists with mobile phones & PDAs? I can already send a text message to the 200 people in my mobile phone's address book. Although Twitter does
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pirate Pete, originally uploaded by kate.carruthers. Here is pirate Pete the accountant showing off his booty (obtained from Harry's Cafe). This is his
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This is one of those stories that friends email you with the request to email it to 10 friends for a 'miracle'. For some reason I decided to check if it was true and discovered that it is alleged to be true. In any case I like it.
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moar funny pictures via Aide-mémoire
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Here is a great story from ISN on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:27 -0600 (CST) - now the bad guys can extract personal info using flirting robots. Talk about paranoia for online dating! "http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html By Ina Fried, December 7,
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Over at Techdirt it has been noted that "David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that 'unfettered' citizen journalism is 'too risky' and that it needs to be regulated (via Romenesko) by 'official' media companies, handing out 'certificates'
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This via Michael Krigsman is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time - it's an error on the huge billboard in Times Sqaure in New York. "The big screen in New York’s Times Square runs Windows and Adobe Flash. I guess you could