Google finally added the ability to restrict image searches to only images that are tagged with a Creative Commons license. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share,…
July, 2009
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Via the Long Now blog, I ran across this article describing researchers’ efforts to create a data storage system to last a thousand years or more. Rather than rely on optical or magnetic media, both of which can be corrupted fairly easily over decades — much less hundreds of years — of storage, Japanese researchers…
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Jakob Nielsen makes the case against password masking — the convention of displaying asterisks or some other symbol instead of the actual characters typed in password entry boxes. Nielsen notes that password masking was originally implemented as a security measure, but questions just how much security it adds under the conditions most of us use…
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This knitted Shark Attack Hat is awesome. I could use a whole line of these (snake attack, etc.)
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Series is a plugin for WordPress that uses the built-in taxonomy system to easily link and display posts that are serial in nature (i.e., part one, part two, etc.) Tags: WordPress, Plugins
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The Ada Evening News has a nice story on a Trinity College survey of religious attitudes in the United States that has found the same rise of secularism as similar studies, Trinity College conducted the American Religious Identification Survey, which analyzed religious trends occurring in the U.S. during the last 18 years. The results were…
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The developers of the open source photo gallery software Gallery have released the second beta version of the forthcoming Gallery 3. Among other things it looks like they’ve taken a cue from WordPress and baked in a one-click auto-upgrader. Can’t wait for the release version of this to finally hit.
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TwitterBar is a Firefox addon that lets the user post an update to Twitter from the address bar by simply appending –-post to and pressing return or hitting a Twitter icon the addon embeds. Nice.
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Drafts Dropdown is a plugin for WordPress that adds a dropdown menu to every page in the admin section which when clicked lists links to all draft posts and pages. A much better way to manage draft posts than having to constantly go to Posts/Pages and clicking on Edit or going back to the Dashboard.
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The BBC reports on a new fiber created at MIT that can “detect the wavelength and direction of light falling on it.” The real point of the research was to coordinate the activities of different nano-scale devices. In this case, they were able to reconstruct a crude image sent by a small patch of these…