Archive for April, 2007

How to Dial a Human

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Save this link, so you can dial a human. It gives the skinny on how to cut through pesky menu trees that go on, and on.

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Amy Winehouse: Etta James + Judy Garland + Aretha Franklin

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

A friend writes: “I swear, this woman is driving me crazy. Watch this video of the most talented, most unbelievably incredible singer on the planet right now, Amy Winehouse. [June 1, 2007: Unfortunately YouTube took down the video becaus eof "Terms of use violation."]

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Free Books Online, Medical Encyclopedia, and Pneumonia

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The Medical Encyclopedia is one of thousands of free electronic books online. And therein lies a tale.

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Mike Elgan on Search Bots

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Mike Elgan writes about three search bots. I find Google Alerts to be very useful.

Noel Welsh: Frameworks are the New Languages

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Noel Welsh writes “Frameworks are the new languages.”

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RedBox Kiosk-based DVD Rentals $1 Night

Monday, April 16th, 2007

RedBox is a Kiosk-based DVD rental outfit. McDonalds Corporation, a RedBox investor, is rolling out DVD kiosks to hundreds of locations.

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Rustic, Elegant Bird Houses from Texas

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Round Rock, Texas is where Dell headquarters is located. It’s also where you’ll find magnificenet rustic but elegant bird houses by “Mimi.’ [via Shaved Wood]

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Looking for Coupons? CouponLooker!

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

CouponLooker sounds promising. From the Judys Book team. [via Google Reader]

Watch Parakey

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Stealth start-up ParaKey bears watching. They’re developing (I suspect) a web platform that leverages Python.

Adobe’s Apollo: Poor Man’s OpenLaszlo?

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Andrew Wooldridge suggests that Adobe’s Apollo platform is a poor man’s OpenLaszlo. Interesting.

Jim Murphy’s List of Twitter Applications

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Jim Murphy writes about Twitter applications.

Tim Bray on Twitter Scaling and Ruby on Rails

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Tim Bray writesabout the challenges Twitter developers face due to rapid growth of traffic.