November 2009
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Twitter: #Inspiration →
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32 Bizarre and Fascinating Facts about... →
Whenever November hits, you can be sure that a lot of people will be talking turkey. Thanksgiving is one of the country’s most beloved holidays, a four-day weekend of football, food, friends, and family. The annual celebration of the feast between the pilgrims at Plymouth and the Wampanoag tribesmen is eagerly anticipated by kids and adults alike.
Over the course of its history, this cherished...
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Roku Launches Channel Store →
Roku owners will now be able to get content on their big screen TV from:
blip.tv: web shows Facebook photos: see yours and your friend’s pics on your TV, or use… Flickr: for photos, if you prefer FrameChannel: lets you view photos and updates from your social networks MediaFly: web shows and podcasts MobileTribe: another service to connect you to multiple social media sites Motionbox: for...
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Power-ups for your Firefox browser →
Greasemonkey is a plugin for the Firefox web browser. It allows you to change how your favorite pages behave and look. There are many scripts that have already been written, and if you know javascript you can easily create your own! Userscripts is a repository to download and install Greasemonkey scripts.
Some of my favorites:
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Twitter Remove Non-Followers
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WatchTaking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose
In this talk from FOWA London (bit.ly/fowa-london-09) Kevin shares the secrets to digg.com and wefollow.com explosive user growth. He covers nine unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates. You’ll learn: 1. How to encourage users to tweet about your app 2. The concept of “The Circle of Life” in...
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Farkle on Facebook →
I’ve been spending some time on the facebook application “Farkle”. It’s a ridiculously simple dice game, but I’ve found it to be excellent to play while you’re doing something else that demands less than your full attention - watching videos, listening to podcasts, etcetera. It’s also nice to post the highest score among your friends each week, although...
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10 Things About Google You May Not Have Known →
The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for ‘Googol.’ Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the...
Inspirational videos to supercharge your day →
Need to jumpstart your day? Mashable’s rounded up seven inspirational videos. As a taste, here are two of them.
Jason McElwain: the Autistic Basketball player
How a blind teenager sees with sound
Click over to see all seven.
Here’s a firehose of inspiration.
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48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without... →
Daniel Suelo wasn’t poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So he gave up consumer culture altogether, and for the last 9 years, he’s survived by living in a cave in Utah, and dumpster diving, foraging, fishing, and occasionally hunting for food. He spends his time in the great outdoors—and in...
“I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)