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Englebart’s Demo & Death By Audio links for 2008-12-10

Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos 1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it inspires a generation of technologists. It will become known as “the mother of all demos.” (tags: technology history Computers Wired mouse) self-titled – no. 2 [36 – […]

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Friendbo & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-27

Friendbo: Social Sharing in a Spectrum friendbo is a University of Washington research deployment to help people socially share the semi-private parts of their lives on the Internet. Rather than manage whitelists, blacklists, accounts and passwords, our users guard content with secret questions that only subgroups of their friends can answer. This is more intuitive, […]

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Privacy & Google, Web 2.0 StoryTelling & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-06

Consumer Watchdog: Fighting Corporateering: Fighting Corporateering – Action 4: Ask Google To Protect Your Privacy ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY (tags: google privacy chrome) Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, […]

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TED Talks, surface area & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-09-12

Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas | Video on TED.com With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can. (tags: kay education teaching tedtalks) Jimmy Wales […]

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Evaluation, Information Architecture, Cholesterol, Internet History & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-08-23

How To Evaluate A Web Site Trustworthiness and Credibility – Robin Good’s Latest News Wondering how to evaluate a newly found website for trustworthiness and credibility? Is there a pragmatic and reliable way to do it? (tags: trustworthiness evaluation web) WebSite Content Organizaton And Planning: How To Apply Basic Information Architecture Principles To Your Blog […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers & Glossary links for 2008-07-30

Exclaim! Canada’s Music Authority They’re everywhere, from mainstream acts like Coldplay and Interpol, to indie favourites Deerhunter and No Age, to leftfield experimenters A Sunny Day in Glasgow and A Place To Bury Strangers, (tags: aptbs shoegaze) What Is(n’t) Shoegaze? | Listening Post from Wired.com But shoegaze has since outlived its derogatory origins, in the […]

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LOC & Glossaries links

General Collections Overview (Library of Congress Researchers) These materials are accessible through the Library of Congress Online Catalog and are served to researchers in the following reading rooms of the Library (tags: libray collection) Glossaries Over 2,500 Glossary Links (tags: glossary reference)

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A Place to Bury Strangers & JavaScript Events links for 2008-07-23

Adrian Clement – Blog One of my favorite new bands on Important Records, A Place to Bury Strangers, have received a third pressing on vinyl for their debut self-titled release, which has become increasingly popular. (tags: aptbs) Javascript – Introduction to Events Events are the beating heart of any JavaScript application. On this page I […]

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Collection of links added to del.icio.us

Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions (tags: glossary dictionary reference technology) WhatIs.com definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets (tags: glossary) Getting Started on the Internet This guide is intended to help people who are just getting started on the Internet learn their way around. Think of us as […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers (Killerpimp) 2007 :: noisenoisenoise In fact have you ever wondered what the Jesus and Mary Chain would sound like with synths or with a Cure (think Faith) fixation? Wonder no more. I give you A Place to Bury Strangers. (tags: aptbs review) 100 Useful […]

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