Category — Cool Stuff

The Power of YouTube:
The family has been watching Emily’s YouTube videos “Code Monkey” and “Don’t Make Me Dance” over and over; she’s terrific, and we’re rooting for her to land a professional gig. We want to see more.

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AKMA shares these wonderfully joyous exhibitions of creativity.

Home | Tutorials Garden | Photoshop, PHP, Flash, CSS, XHTML, Javascript Tutorials:
Tutorials Garden is an ultimate place for tutorials on world’s most using tools and software. Users can find free tutorials and articles and authors can get targeted visitors for their website by submitting tutorials on Tutorials Garden.

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yep…

AICN-JOHN-RAMBO2.mov (video/quicktime Object):

“when you’re pushed…. killin is as easy as breathin”

Snacksby is a really neat recipe site. For serious! | Snacksby:
Tired of having a pantry full of food but no clue what to cook? We can help.

Snacksby is a different, easier kind of recipe site. You tell us what you’ve got in your fridge or in your pantry and wham!, we let you know what your options are.

Recipes and ingredients are categorized with snacksonomies, which are tags like lowfat or vegetarian that help you find what you might like better and faster. Are you missing something? Snacksby can tell you what to do if you don’t have buttermilk or if you’d like a vegan substitute for eggs.

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wk from #joiito provides us this site this morning.

Memory of the World:
UNESCO’s Memory of the World program aims at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide.
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great idea…

Can culture dictate the way we see? – being-human – 04 May 2007 – Print – New Scientist:
Culture can shape your view of the world, the saying goes. And it might be more than just a saying: a new study suggests that culture may shape the way our brains process visual information.

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yes… nice of them to note this… not that phenomenology and semiology haven’t said this 4000 times before and been right…. just that… now they are still right.

Freedom of Expression — Press Freedom:
World Press Freedom Day 2007

May 2, 2007

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a free press is central to peace and democracy.

Cool Ads, issue 5 (cont.):
Cool Ads, issue 5 (cont.)
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some funny adverts…..

TV Turnoff Week:

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Radical Vixen points us to TV Turnoff Week, which if we were allowed to post things on walls and door outside of certain areas… would be posted on my door at work.

GreenCards:
How it works (video):

RCCosmos….. run by a friend of mine on Joi Ito’s Kula… has launched Greencard. It is a business card that germinates a seedling if dropped in water or moistened significantly. This is brilliant. It sprouts alfalpha, which as we know is a primary nitrogen capturing plant. in other words, it replenishes the soil. so get soem cards and throw them away….. heh…..