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Pipes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just caught an article on O’Reilly Rader titled “Pipes and Filters for the Internet“. Yahoo has announced a nifty new service called Pipes. According to their site: “Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.” AND “Pipes is a hosted service…
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… From the Ash Rose a Great Bird.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI found a (probably well known) Firefox hidden ‘feature’ from: The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser Typing about:Mozilla in the address bar results in the following quote: “And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird…
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The Google Master Plan: Comedy, Conspiracy, or Correct?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago, I first came across this tongue-in-cheek site that supposedly listed Google’s Master Plan online for the world to see. This is pretty funny stuff. http://undergoogle.com/tools/GoogleMasterPlanEN.html – Clone Army? – GoogOIL? – Index All Sheep in the Universe? – Crop Circles? Today, I found MasterPlanTheMovie.com. Ozan Halici and Jürgen Mayer have created…
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Morphing Faces of Beauty

Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in October, I read an article from Seed Magazine titled Beauty is in the Processing Time of the Beholder. The article discussed how studies have indicated that people find prototypical faces (those with average features) to be the most attractive. A paper published in Psychological Science proposes that these prototypical faces are found attractive…
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