Neatorama: “Neighboroo uses Google maps to give you statistics about your hometown. You can look up housing prices, cost of living, income, racial breakdown, commute times, crime rates, and political affiliation. For example, the median price of a home in Brooklyn is $493,000 (twice the national average) and the average household has 2.8 people with an income of $64,000. Link -via J-Walk Blog “
Boing Boing: “Cory Doctorow: Penguin Books has launched an in-game publishing venture in the online world Second Life, leading with Neal Stephenson’s seminal Snow Crash — naturally, since Snow Crash’s Metaverse inspired Second Life!
‘It was the obvious entry point,’ says Penguin’s Ettinghausen (avatar name Jeremy Neumann) as he shows me around the virtual sampler of Snow Crash. ‘We are always looking for new ways to connect with online communities and Second Life is undergoing a huge amount of growth. However, it is still a small community when compared with MySpace or iTunes and we wouldn’t want to bring authors in who didn’t have a connection with that world yet.’
Penguin worked with the London-based virtual world design agency Rivers Run Red to create an in-world version of the book - this offers readers excerpts of the text, an audio clip and a link which clicks through to a dedicated Second Life page on the Penguin website, complete with the opportunity to buy the book at a discount. They are now developing a virtual bookshelf of other Penguin titles for the Second Life resident.”
It’s like magic….
Lifehacker: “The Slacker Manager weblog has posted a handy Firefox 2.0 keyboard shortcut for undoing closed tabs: Ctrl-Shift-T (Windows).
I’m already a big fan of the built-in session manager in the new Firefox, and integrating an easy-to-remember keyboard shortcut (you just add Shift to the normal New Tab shortcut) only makes me that much more of a fan. Keep it up, Firefox! — Adam Pash
Bring killed tabs back from the dead (Firefox 2.0) [Slacker Manager] “
Boing Boing: “Dilbert creator Scott Adams lost the ability to speak 18 months ago. He has something called Spasmodic Dysphonia. His doctor told him that nobody with this condition has ever regained the ability to speak.
But yesterday, Adams reported that he hacked his brain and can speak again!
The day before yesterday, while helping on a homework assignment, I noticed I could speak perfectly in rhyme. Rhyme was a context I hadn’t considered. A poem isn’t singing and it isn’t regular talking. But for some reason the context is just different enough from normal speech that my brain handled it fine.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.
Jack jumped over the candlestick.I repeated it dozens of times, partly because I could. It was effortless, even though it was similar to regular speech. I enjoyed repeating it, hearing the sound of my own voice working almost flawlessly. I longed for that sound, and the memory of normal speech. Perhaps the rhyme took me back to my own childhood too. Or maybe it’s just plain catchy. I enjoyed repeating it more than I should have. Then something happened.
My brain remapped.
My speech returned.
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Firefox Tip: Drag and drop pictures: “Reader Jess offers this excellent tip for Firefox users:
If you drag and drop a picture from a web page (or even from Windows) onto a tab in Firefox, it will open in the tab. If you drag it between tabs, it’ll do the same but in a new tab. This is useful for when you want to print a picture on its own (such as a map from a route planner without all the navigation/zoom buttons, etc.) without having to go through all the highlight, ‘Print,’ ‘Selection’ nonsense.
I’m happy to report this works in Firefox 2.0 as well. Thanks, Jess! — Rick Broida”
Digital Photo School: “Does your camera have the ability to use filters? If so - one of the most useful filters to consider purchasing is a polarizing filter. Believe me - the ‘wow factor’ that it brings to many of the shots you’ll take has to be seen to be believed….”
Digg: “The Barenaked Ladies are offering their latest album, “Barenaked Ladies Are Me,” as a paid download from their website without digital rights management [DRM].”
Lifehacker: “Google has just rolled out a new feature on their still young Google Co-op service that allows users to create custom search engines that limit results to specific, user-defined sites.
Of course Google isn’t the first to travel this road, the first of which I can remember being Rollyo, but this is Google, so it automatically carries some clout. I put together a quick custom search engine for Lifehacker this morning, and the interesting thing was that my search results, while similar, were not identical to the search results I would get from a site-specific search (e.g., site:lifehacker.com search terms); in fact, they were better. Feel free to give my Lifehacker search engine a try, and let us know how the custom search engine works for you in the comments. — Adam Pash
Google Co-op Custom Search Engine [Google Co-op via TechCrunch]
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Digg: “Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.”
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