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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

FROM MSN HEALTH comes "18 Tricks to teach your body", a blog post that attracted more than 100 views within 12 hours of its initial posting. 1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear. When you stimulate the nerves in your ear, it cr...

TBL FOAF Semantic Web

TIM BERNERS-LEE (TBL) suggests a way to get started with the Semantic Web: create your own FOAF. You place data about yourself in a Friend-of-a-Friend file. FOAF files are formatted in standardised ways. You can publish information about...

One Year of Happy Hands-Free Recording h/t @documentally #edchatie

AFTER 12 MONTHS of using the Sennheiser Memory Mic to create hands-free classroom recordings, I'm very happy to report I have never lost an audio segment with the Memory Mic producing high quality audio or high definition video. I'm no...

But Hey It's Intel

INTEL PR has ramped up several press releases on the way Intel plans to extend wifi coverage. They could have asked some of the commentators here for the press fodder because little in the Intel item is new to anyone in the realm of comm...

Guinness Wins Top Spot

AMAZON UNSPUN, half-baked and newly-launched, is a community-based ranking system for lists. Guinness is ranked as the best beer in the world. Other winners: Dumbest Celebrity is Paris Hilton. Best Pickup Line is yours to see. Irel...

We can't talk because of copyright

MORE THAN 3000 posts sit on this Typepad blog. Only one has received threats from the copyright police. It seems that one of the 2500 comments left on this blog cited the name of an electronic book that purports to help people get back o...

Viceversa knives

NO KITCHEN is complete without a knife set with attitude. Start yours with the Italian Viceversa collection. Get a knife set with attitude. I'd buy this one by Raffaele Iannello but I cannot see a way to buy from viceversa online i...

Social Network People Aggregator

MARC CANTER POINTS to the first social network created with the People Aggregator. It's myCreative Community, a professional film-making network that has just started-. Subscribers can create their own free mini–websites that can hold sc...

First Photos

I WISH MY PARENTS had shot photos of my arrival in the hospital, along with the attending staff, the fixtures in the maternity ward, and the family car on the way home. I'm thinking about these things now as the photostream of Milan Scob...

Obama's 100 Billion Green Plan

OBAMA SAYS HIS TOP PRIORITY will be creating a new energy economy. He could do that if he follows the short list set down by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the think tank run by Obama's transition chief, John Podesta. Writing "I...