November 2009
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Dear God, please confirm what I already believe →
“People may use religious agents as a moral compass, forming impressions and making decisions based on what they presume God as the ultimate moral authority would believe or want,” the team write. “The central feature of a compass, however, is that it points north no matter what direction a person is facing. This research suggests that, unlike an actual compass, inferences about...
del.icio.us: Upload Pie →
The Simple Image Sharing Tool
Impressive Back to the Future DeLorean mod for Crysis
del.icio.us: Freesound Project →
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries…
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Who’s to say we can’t go one more round? By the last tally, only twenty five...
– James T. Kirk (from The Star Trek 2009 Scene Written For William Shatner)
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del.icio.us: WordPress plugin: Custom Class... →
The Custom Class Selector plugin allows users to style their post content using custom classes made available by the active theme. Theme developers can make custom style classes available within the…
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del.icio.us: The History of the Internet in a... →
Considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start?
del.icio.us: noticings - the game of noticing... →
Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about. For example: perplexing pavement markings, a discarded photo, and a ceramic space invader are all noticings. Players are…
del.icio.us: The Typography of Code →
In most cases your editor of choice will use syntax highlighting, changing the colors of various pieces of code, making it easier, for example, to visaully separate your strings from your function…
del.icio.us: The Local, WordPress theme →
A hyperlocal news site for WordPress. This add-on for Elemental includes custom widgets for Google Adsense, Maps, YouTube, local Twitter updates, weather and more.
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The Best Steampunk Gadgets & Devices Ever
Steampunk Watches & Clocks The wrist-watch above is more like a futuristic steampunk if you allow me to say that. It’s called Horological Machine No. 2 and it shows “instantaneous jump hour, concentric retrograde minutes, retrograde date and bi-hemisphere moon phase.” The HM2 also includes 18K gold and titanium casing, however, this could be a problem as the watch costs a “mere”...
del.icio.us: PlayDeb.net →
Games in .DEB packages, for easy installation on Ubuntu / Linux
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del.icio.us: EyeWriter →
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software…
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Trains 'too costly' for rail firm
Network Rail is transporting 200 staff by coach from Reading to Coventry for a conference because of the high cost of train tickets, it has emerged. (BBC News)
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Notes from the Cross Party Digital Group...
These are my notes from the first meeting of the Cross Party Digital Group. Check out my earlier post for what this was all about, and you can also check the Twitter hashtag #digitalwales for some other backchannel chatter. Turnout was rather good, filling the medium-sized conference room with suits. Rory Cellan Jones kept everything on target, with only a few sidelines into the news of Rupert...
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A news feed for your block - Enter an address and see nearby crimes, restaurant inspections, media coverage and more.