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Death to Word
I know only one person who loves working in Word: my 4-year-old. It's valuable to him to be able to put the names of subway lines in their correct colors, or to spell out "autumn" with each letter a different falling-leaf hue, or to jump from Times New Roman to Comic Sans to Chalkboard in midstory. He also loves to write things on my old manual Smith-Corona. A tool that's lost its purpose makes a great toy.Wed Apr 11 09:10:19 2012 - permalink -- http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/04/microsoft_word_is_cumbersome_inefficient_and_obsolete_it_s_time_for_it_to_die_.single.html
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From the Desk of WriteShop — In Our Write Minds
Tue Apr 10 21:20:15 2012 - permalink -- http://www.writeshop.com/blog/
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Harrison Bergeron
Tue Apr 10 09:20:11 2012 - permalink -- http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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How to Whistle With Your Fingers | The Art of Manliness
So I finally made it a goal to once and for all figure out how to whistle with my fingers, so that I could create an AoM tutorial on the subject. After just forty minutes of annoying my wife with intense practice, I finally mastered the skill that had eluded me since I was eight years old. Achievement unlocked!Mon Apr 9 00:01:38 2012 - permalink -- http://artofmanliness.com/2012/04/08/how-to-whistle-with-your-fingers/
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Fantastic Maps | The fantasy maps of Jonathan Roberts
Sat Apr 7 08:53:59 2012 - permalink -- http://fantasticmaps.wordpress.com/
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Alice’s New Classic Macaroons «
Fri Apr 6 16:47:44 2012 - permalink -- http://saltandserenity.com/2012/04/04/alices-new-classic-macaroons/
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Threat Description: Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I
Thu Apr 5 14:06:09 2012 - permalink -- http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml
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How to make an ePub book from Microsoft Word | Jeremy Reimer's Blog
Wed Apr 4 09:25:59 2012 - permalink -- http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/395
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SomePostMan comments on xkcd: Umwelt [Non-Permalink]
Mon Apr 2 18:50:41 2012 - permalink -- http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/rnpym/xkcd_umwelt_nonpermalink/c479h3s
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Wine and kids: Is it OK to let them try it? - Slate Magazine
Recently, though, I’ve started to wonder if that’s really true. Does early exposure promote responsible drinking, or is it better to treat alcohol as forbidden fruit?Wed Mar 21 08:45:32 2012 - permalink -- http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/2012/03/wine_and_kids_is_it_ok_to_let_them_try_it_.single.html
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Cool Tools: Lamy Safari Fountain Pen
Mon Mar 19 14:49:46 2012 - permalink -- http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/006022.php
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Why Top Talent Leaves: Top 10 Reasons Boiled Down to 1 - Forbes
Top talent leave an organization when they’re badly managed and the organization is confusing and uninspiring.Mon Mar 19 12:29:22 2012 - permalink -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/01/18/why-top-talent-leaves-top-10-reasons-boiled-down-to-1/
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Retro 51 Luck ‘o the Irish St. Patrick’s Day Contest | The Retro 51 Blog
I won!Mon Mar 19 11:32:32 2012 - permalink -- http://retro51blog.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/retro-51-luck-o-the-irish-st-patricks-day-contest/
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Steve Jobs and the new iPad: The greatest stories ever written about the early computer industry. - Slate Magazine
As the early adopters among us massage their new iPads this weekend, they might want to hearken back to when a computer was a room, and the only thing you touched was a punch-card. Here are our favorite stories from the computer’s early days:Mon Mar 19 08:26:59 2012 - permalink -- http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/longform/2012/03/steve_jobs_and_the_new_ipad_the_greatest_stories_ever_written_about_the_early_computer_industry_.single.html
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Frazz Comic Strip, March 17, 2009 on GoComics.com
Fri Mar 16 14:15:30 2012 - permalink -- http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2009/03/17
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The Hacker Shelf | Community-curated collection of free books for the intellectually curious.
free programming booksThu Mar 15 14:49:34 2012 - permalink -- http://hackershelf.com/about.html
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Surrogate-mom housecat gives birth to endangered kitten | Grist
This kitten, born in 2011, is an endangered black-footed cat, one of the first black-footed kittens born to a surrogate mother, using frozen embryos and in vitro fertilization. Now he and his littermate have a sister, Crystal, with the same genetic parents, but a different surrogate mom — a plain old housecat.Wed Mar 14 22:05:32 2012 - permalink -- http://grist.org/list/surrogate-mom-housecat-gives-birth-to-endangered-kitten/