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Specify two tags and Flickr Time displays the current time using a mosaic of thumbnail photos.
More mac vs. PC ads. “Please be a C++ GUI programming guide,” lol.
New Approaches to Instrument Design. Douglas Martin shuns traditional design in search of ideal sound quality.
Young Composer Jay Greenberg
Tuesday, November 28th • Comments (0)
Sunday night, 60 minutes profiled the young American composer Jay “Blue Jay” Greenberg for the second time. The 14 year old musician has composed 5 symphonies. Recently, his 5th symphony was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at legendary Abbey Road Studios. He says that he thinks of music a hobby, and would like to pursue physics, psychology or computer science.
Anshe Chung is the world’s first virtual millionaire. Her property and assets within Second Life could be legally converted into 1,000,000 U.S. dollars.
How to use furoshiki. Furoshiki is the traditional, multipurpose Japanese wrapping cloth.
Link alert is a Firefox extension that displays a small icon next to the cursor, indicating the target of a link as you hover over it.
Graph Theory is a web application that lets users choose among 61 pre-recorded measure-length loops to create their own musical adventure. Graph Theory was developed by Georgia Tech professor Jason Freeman.
GM script: Quick view of flickr photo comments. This Greasemonkey script displays a photo’s comments in a lightbox instead of opening the photo’s permalink page.
The Wizard of Oz vs. The Dark Side of the Moon is probably the original mash up. Someone sync’ed it and put it on google video.
A member of the open source programming community installed Linux on his new Dell instead of using the pre-packaged Windows software, and then received a refund from Dell for the unused MS software. If this were to become common practice, how long would Dell absorb the refund costs?
“‘Tis not proper tea ’til the kettle hits high C.” Cody Kroll
Thursday, November 16th • Comments (0)
I would like to thank everyone at GSU who generously gave their time and money on Tuesday to the Oxfam donation. Extra thanks to those who fasted or skipped a meal this week.
Skip a meal for Oxfam
On November 16, 2006, the Thursday before Thanksgiving, skip a meal to honor those in need. Then, contribute the money saved to Oxfam. Or, choose another day to skip a meal for Oxfam.
Send your fast donation to: Oxfam America
Attn: Fast Team
226 Causeway St., 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
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