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My Diigo is FIXED!

Oh Happy Day! (If you don’t know what Diigo is, it’s a bookmarking application that has transcended the genre and become one of the most powerful research tools on the web today – highlighting and full text search of all your bookmarks are just two of its invaluable features).

Mac Shortcut of the Day!

Select an item and press the spacebar; it’ll give you a preview of a document/summary of a folder.

Can’t we just have a conversation without all the vitriol?

Nick Bilton asks on the New York Times’ Bits blog, “how do we drive people to understand that… online conversations are not just a place to vent and that humanity is still in play in a digital world?”

It IS called a thumb drive after all…

Check out these funky thumb drives, for the geek in all of us.

Sea Horses

(from the Telegraph) Female sea horses prefer the man with the biggest pot belly. Of course, male sea horses are actually the child-bearing sex, so this female is really shopping for the best-sized nursery.

One writer attempts to vanish in a digital age

We see it all the time in the movies: someone decides to abandon their old life, run away to some far-away city, and restart a new life with an entirely new identity.  When you think of how much of our lives is documented in today’s digital age, you wonder, is that really possible? Heck, you [...]

Immutable laws of the universe vs. your local politicians

Remember when the Indiana legislature tried to redefine the value of Pi? Good times.

Someday all the art on my walls will be of the stars

Rather pretty, I think

You know what word sounds NOTHING like what it means?

Pulchritude. If any word sounds less like “physical beauty,” I’d like to know it.