TenDollarDigitalCamera - ElephantStaircase
Another great article on hacking a cheap disposable digital camera. I’m going to get one of these soon to make a waterproof camera for kayaking.
Turn a “disposable” 10 dollar digital camera from RitzCamera, CVS, or Walgreens into one you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.
Most digital cameras are expensive so you don’t want to take them places they might get wet, muddy, lost or broken. With this cheap digital camera you can get decent pictures and take it with you wherever you go without having to worry about losing it or breaking it.
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Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information†in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not simply match keywords.
Web 3.0 will be the demise of Google! Web 2.0 isn’t even a complete reality yet and the trolls are predicting the demise of Google. On the other hand there are plenty of arguments to support Google’s continued dominion over the web:
Five reasons no one will replace Google
“I’ve received 33,000+ hits and counting to this post,” says the blogger who wrote “Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?” on Monday. His piece got blogged all over, promoted to the Digg front page, and fueled the starry-eyed bloggers searching for doom to herald for Google. (It was also just a troll.) Kudos to him, but he — and everyone who believed him — was wrong.
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New Scientist Breaking News - Air-con and lack of sleep promote obesity
Obesity is just as likely to be caused by lack of sleep and too much air-conditioning as it is by a sedentary lifestyle and aggressive marketing by the food industry, according to a research article that challenges the conventional wisdom.
Hrm. Turn off the AC and sleep more to lose weight?
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Potter’s “Phoenix” Rising Next Summer - Yahoo! News
One year to go. Will this coincide with the release of the next book as well?
Muggles are going to have to crane their necks to catch this Phoenix.
Warner Bros. announced Wednesday plans to unspool
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the highly anticipated fifth film from
J.K. Rowling’s epic fantasy saga, simultaneously in theaters and on Imax screens nationwide July 13, 2007.
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Rowling to kill two in final Potter book - Yahoo! News
Any guesses as to which two characters? My guess is one of the Weasleys and at least one professor.
Children’s author
J.K. Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh and final installment of her bestselling
Harry Potter series, but was careful not to say who.
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New York Times Crossword Creator Will Shortz Gets Rich Off Sudoku — New York Magazine
Interesting article.
The crossword editor for the New York Times is giving me an advance peek at the Sunday puzzle he will publish a week later. “See, now this grid is jam-packed with fresh uses of language,†Shortz says, sitting in his home office amid stacks of reference books like Brands and Companies 1995 and The Encyclopedia of American Cars. “MRPEANUT, great answer. GIJOE, great! Only five letters, yet it has a J in the middle—very pretty.†Shortz has only one complaint about the puzzle: It uses the abbreviation nle for “NL East,†which he thinks is too obscure. It only took him a few minutes to deftly scribble in a new tangle of words. AAMES, of “Willie Aames,†turns into AIMAT; AMMO becomes OLIO; and NLE becomes ULA—a “diminutive suffix,†such as at the end of “spatula.â€
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Duct Tape Fashions, buy Duct Tape, Duct tape wallets, hats, purses, books and more duct tape!
Interesting DIY ideas but I don’t think I’ll pass on paying $12 for a hat.
Welcome to Duct Tape Fashion.com
Hand crafted duct tape items. All products 100% duct tape!
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ongoing · On the Goodness of Unicode
Quite a few software professionals have learned that they need to worry about internationalizing software, and some of those have learned how to go about doing it. For those getting started, herewith a brief introduction to Unicode, the one technology that you have to get comfortable with if you’re going to do a good job as a software citizen of the world.
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