Google Chrome is Coming (13)
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There have been persistent - and reasonably credible - rumors that Google was going to release its own browser. Now, thanks to Google Blogoscoped, we have some additional evidence: a 38-page comic book sent out by Google to announce the Google Chrome project. The comic runs through a bunch of interesting features: process-isolated tabs, a new Javascript engine tuned for large, complex applications (like, oh, GMail), UI innovations, an “Omnibox” that resembles Firefox’s “Awesome bar”, ...
Tracking Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth (4)
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As menacing Hurricane Gustav approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast, we've added a "Hurricane Gustav" folder under the "Weather" folder in Google Earth.Expand the folder to find the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, a forecast track (also from the NHC), and a set of webcams in and around Louisiana, provided to us by Weather Bonk. We may be adding more information into the folder as the situation unfolds.Please keep in mind when tracking the ...
Online maps are 'wiping out history' of Britain (4)
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Spoonflower (11)
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I am an architect and have been working with programs like Photoshop for years, but Spoonflower really opened up a new world for me: fabric design. It's a service that let's you upload an image to a web site and the company prints the design as a pattern on 100% cotton fabric. Their customer service is great, and I think the fabric is reasonably-priced: it costs $18/yard, not counting shipping, and an individual 8x8-inch swatch ...
Telus upgrade could hurt rural B.C. cell customers (2)
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Residents in rural areas of British Columbia say they could be left without phone service when Telus Mobility phases out its analog cellphone service as part of its continuing upgrade to a digital-only network.
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (17)
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KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant regardless of ambient conditions (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by powerful electric fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling experiments from the 1980s that found periodic variations over many years in the decay rates of silicon-32 and radium-226. Now a new analysis of the raw data says that changes in the decay rate are ...
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? (42)
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I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of twitter's minimalism) and am followed by thousands, on Goodreads, I follow and am followed by a small circle of friends and people whose taste in books I trust. As someone who loves books, ...
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Eric said:
I miss AllConsuming.
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Amen.
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Eric said:
I like the people behind the LibraryThing company and subscribe to their business blog, but I don't use their service. Shelfari is a rip off of LibraryThing, but now has the weight of Amazon behind so it becomes more interesting to me. I buy most of my books from Chapters Indigo and I've poked around the community portion of their website, but wasn't impressed. What I do use is the Visual Bookshelf application in Facebook and I wish Chapters and others would stop trying to re-invent social components and plug-in to the Facebook platform.
MEAT PRODUCTS PRODUCED AT ESTABLISHMENT 97B MAY CONTAIN LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES (2)
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Maple Leaf Consumer Foods are warning the public not to serve or consume the ready-to-eat deli meat products described below because these products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
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Eric said:
Detailed list of affected products.
Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers (12)
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Albanach writes "Scotland's Sunday Herald newspaper has an exclusive report that the Best Western hotel chain has lost the personal details of each and every guest who has stayed at any of its 1300 hotels in the past 12 months. This amounts to details on 8 million customers and includes information such as name, address, credit card details and employment details. The data even includes future booking details, causing speculation that homes could be targeted ...
Yelp comes North to Canada (3)
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San Francisco based Yelp has quietly penetrated the 49th Parallel this month with their successful hyperlocal recommendation site and are now delivering Canadian city content at Yelp.ca. Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in your world. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting ...
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Boris Mann said:
Yelp is now in Canada ... which will help educate businesses perhaps, but it means the window for building directory style sites is closing ... unless you get big fast and want to get bought by Yelp
B.C. contractors, unions agree to new rules for drug testing (1)
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All unionized construction workers in B.C. who have had workplace accidents or near misses will now face mandatory drug and alcohol testing under a groundbreaking industry-wide policy.
Last 2 stolen art pieces by Bill Reid recovered (1)
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RCMP have found the remaining two of a dozen pieces of Haida artist Bill Reid's work that were stolen about three months ago from the anthropology museum at UBC.
The State of Telecommuting (11)
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When we looked at last year’s Telework Report from CDW, the federal government stood out as a leader in encouraging telecommuting. This year’s report, which should be available on the CDW site shortly, paints a different picture. Thanks to strong growth in support from corporate IT departments, as well as price pressure at the gas pump, private sector telework has surged. The simplest bottom-line numbers: 17% of Federal employees telework on a regular basis, as ...
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Haltse said:
herding in one place only makes sense when the cost of doing so is minimal. Welcome to the new world. People came together for shelter and protection , eg overcoming their natural tendencies to cooperate. Maybe we're going back to small while being big , yes the thoughts I am having today are way too tired
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pushed to July 2009! (2)
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This is definitely an interesting bit of news. Warner Brothers has delayed the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from Thanksgiving this year until July 17th next summer! The November 21st release date this year seemed like the perfect spot and there's no reason that it should've been moved. This might have something to do with the recent overflow of films at Warners. Or this might have to do with Warners' lack of ...
Canadians Battling Proposed Canadian DMCA (5)
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An anonymous reader writes "CTV reports on how Canadians are fighting back against the Canadian DMCA. Led by Michael Geist, the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group is nearing 90,000 members. There are local chapters, a YouTube contest, wikis, and people writing letters and organizing rallies against the copyright bill. Geist said, 'When you get tens of thousands of Canadians speaking out like this, there's big political risk for any political party who chooses to ...
Star Wars: The Clone Wars / *1/2 (PG) (1)
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"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (PG-13, 98 minutes). A deadening film that cuts corners on its animation and slumbers through a plot that (a) makes us feel like we've seen it all before, and (b) makes us wish we hadn't. The characters have hair that looks molded from playdough, bodies that seem arthritic, and moving lips on half-frozen faces--all signs that short cuts were taken in the animation work. Rating: One and a half stars.
Google Blogger Adds Feedback Vote Buttons (17)
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Google’s blogging service Blogger, acquired in 2003 and chronically slow with new features but lately catching up more quickly, rolled out a new feature called “reactions.” This is a quick user poll widget, available if you’re using Blogger’s experimental version, which lets you define a set of attributes like “funny”, “interesting”, “cool”, or anything else. Then, your readers can upvote each of these attributes for each of your posts using a button (without any undo ...
Using Photographs To Enhance Videos (11)
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Using Photographs To Enhance Videos -- article related to Graphics, Media, and Technology.
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Major Tal said:
A very technically-cool demo video (even though I don't see the real world application yet).
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Brian said:
This is amazing. What's further staggering is I'm sure this is the tip of the ice-berg.
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L'oracolo said:
Maggia maggia...
YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 (29)
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The YUI team is pleased to announce the public availability of YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1, an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of the YUI Library. Documentation for YUI 3.0 is on the YUI website; the download is available on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion forum. Keep in mind that this is an early preview, ...
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Talent said:
jQuery的易用性
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Joe Erickson said:
Starting to use this on more and more sites. Nice to see a huge improvement coming in 3.0. At least Yahoo!'s still doing something right.
YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 (2)
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The YUI team is pleased to announce the public availability of YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1, an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of the YUI Library. Documentation for YUI 3.0 is on the YUI website; the download is available on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion forum. Keep in mind that this is an early preview, ...
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