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There are several people I know who will be getting married over the next few months. A good site to visit for planning help is http://www.theknot.com/ (as in “tying the knot”). There are checklists, budgets, and many other types of planners.
I first read about this in my ComputerWorld feed. Google is now offering RSS and ATOM feeds for their news page. Feeds are available for the different categories Google News offers (World, Business, Health, Sci/Tech, Entertainment) plus feeds are also available for customized searches as well.
From VNUnet: Scientists in Australia have used internet links to successfully perform microsurgery on cells located thousands of miles away in a southern California laboratory. The surgeons used a newly developed internet-based laser scissor-and-tweezers technology called RoboLase, demonstrating the potential of using the technology for real-time research activities between laboratories and to perform medical procedures …
I had posted previously about a service that lets you upload a file to the web. You can then send a link to someone where they can download that file. Well, another similar services is from Putfile.com: Putfile is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service. Here you can upload videos and images to the …
From Time: What does 13-year-old Taylor Hern ♥? Lots of things: the actor Ewan McGregor, the color pink, the band My Chemical Romance, her boyfriend Alex. You would know all that if you visited her Xanga, a blog–home-page hybrid that is the modern teen’s public and interactive equivalent of a diary. You could even leave …
From CNN: Sgt. William Hamrick II witnessed the birth of his daughter Monday. That may seem unremarkable — except that Hamrick was 6,000 miles away in Iraq. When doctors induced labor Monday morning at Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in Parkersburg, Hamrick was virtually at his wife’s side via live Internet video and satellite audio link. The …
From TechRepublic: When eBay’s clocks failed to jump forward an hour in 2001 to reflect daylight-saving time, the timing on auctions ran into snags, prompting some head-scratching from sellers and bidders. At the time, eBay blamed the glitch on a bug in Microsoft’s Visual C++ code. Microsoft had released a fix. On Monday, President Bush …
Are addicted to a certain web site or to certain software? Then maybe you need help… I’m in front of my computer constantly and a program I’ve been wanting for a long time is one that would allow me to block certain programs from myself for a set amount of time. A way for the …
From Reuters (via Yahoo! News): Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday. In an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Wales, who launched Wikipedia with partner Larry …
From CNet News: Your legs may not seem all that smart, but they’re pretty good at letting you walk without having to think about what you’re doing. That hasn’t been the case with artificial limbs, which have long required wearers to put a lot of thought and effort into a simple stride. Now, though, a …