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Recently added bookmarks; December 20, 2005

20Q.net This is the classic game of Twenty Questions. An experiment in Artificial Intelligence, the program is very simple but its behavior is complex. All questions and objects were entered by other people playing the game. ACM Queue – Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise – Social bookmarking tools are taking off on the Web. Do […]

Recently added bookmarks; November 29, 2005

Baking supplies from the San Francisco Baking Institute – Baking and Pastry Arts School for Professionals and Enthusiasts San Francisco Baking Institute – Baking and Pastry Arts School for Professionals and Enthusiasts   Computer Science Style Guide Suggestions ACM, APA, and IEEE bibliographic styles from Dalhousie University Libraries   Looks Too Good To Be True Looks Too Good to Be […]

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Recently Added Bookmarks; November 19, 2005

Bookmarks added this past week: ‘Tagging’ gives Web a human meaning | CNET News.com ‘Tagging’ gives Web a human meaning | A growing number of Web sites are implementing tagging systems as a way to bring order and organization to information. | November 15, 2005, 11:18 PM PT 43 places “43 Places helps you make […]

Recently Added Bookmarks 11/11/2005

AgeLine Database Database maintained by AARP on issues of interest Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks Web Design to support a usable information architecture. An exerpt from Peter Morville’s book Ambient Findability Edge: TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson Einstein Light: a brief illumination of relativity Geek’s guide to working out@Everything2.com Medical Dictionary, Hospitals, Pharmaceutical Company and Medical Associations Searches Medical […]

Maybe We Should Let That Kudzu (that’s theatening to overtake the house) Grow

In this week’s issue of the Scout Report: The Scout Report — Volume 11, Number 20, In The News: Kudzu May Help Curb Excessive Drinking “Study: Herb Helps Curb Binge Drinking http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-binge-drinking-chinese-herb,0,179837.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines ….. For more than 100 years, kudzu has been seen by many as a curse on the landscape of the American South, growing […]

Stephen’s Web

I came across Stephen’s Web, http://www.downes.ca/ today. It’s, as you probably already know, Stephen Downes’ blog. Lots of interesting posts and links about online learning and network communities. He’s also the author of OLDaily, a daily journal about online learning. Visit when you get the chance.

Compare your height for fun

TallorNot is a fun application available at Ringphone.com. You enter your height and then select names of (other) famous people from a list. A graphic showing comparing your height to theirs is displayed. This is the place to go if you’d like an idea of what it would look like to have you standing next […]

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about the impact of RSS, Blogs

A few links with some thoughtful remarks about the impact of RSS and Blogs. InfoWorld: The network is the blog: December 10, 2004: By Jon Udell : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : BUSINESS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : WEB_SERVICES The self-organizing blogosphere offers a unique way to manage the information deluge SimonWaldman.net » RSS: a shift, from what…to […]

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A very nice “Single-serving”

single-serving.com phrase, trail, and travel guides What a nice site! it contains links to printable booklets of language basics for tourists in French, German, Italian, Hungarian (that’s ho I came across this site, but that’s another story), Russian, Albanian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Croatian, Slovene, Danish, Afrikaans, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian, and partial booklets for […]

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tools for CPSC 104

Thinking about putting together a collection of tools for students in CPSC 104 Firefox browser with extensions to check spelling edit HTML – cuneAforn google toolbar blog this Spybot

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