Dozens of videos really, really worth watching: TED Talks
(0)Monthly Archive for April, 2007
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An academic newsletter about a wide range of topics, the Social Science Japan Newsletter. The current issue is about hope.
(0)This is a sobering number: only 5% of all prisoners are female. Only 4100 of the 76600 prisoners in Germany are women, not just because women tend to be more law abiding, but also because their criminal offenses are lighter than those of men. Furthermore, women are less prone to repeat their mistakes after they leave prison.
Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 for $3 or Ubuntu for free. Microsoft is trying really hard, but they’ll loose the fight in the end.
(0)Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox – extremely practical, install the web developer bar for Firefox and have a go at it.
(0)Web Browser Standards Support Summary – what your browser can and can’t do
MSN reposts a PC World article stating that the #1 internet threat of 2007 is Internet Explorer.
(0)Make Internet TV is the best place so far to learn how to shoot and publish videos.
Two clients, similar purpose: Democracy and Zudeo/Vuze, open source internet TV and high definition videos.
(0)Skype is evolving day by day – now there’s a feature to create a hotline for anything people might want to talk and ask about and pay for it. The service takes 30% of everything though, so it’s not completely altruistic… I played around with it and created a hotline to see how it works:
complex Skype code
update: I had to take out the original code since it’s invalid code and wasn’t displayed correctly, here’s an simple url instead: If you have a question regarding TOEFL ibt (I’m allowed to answer), especially if you’re running a test center yourself, call me.
Taking passwords to the grave – what happens with your online accounts after you die
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