July 11, 2008

Sumopaint - online image editing software

Sumopaint - Image editing in your browser

Pretty neat, good for simple editing. I am fascinated by the symmetry tool!

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June 05, 2008

Bored at work but can't procrastinate w/o getting busted?

Try Read At Work - the way to read at work without getting caught.
*grin*

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May 20, 2008

an interview with bill gates from 1986

CD ROM is totally different. We hope with CD ROM you’ll be able to look at a map of the United States, point somewhere, click, zoom in and say, “Hey, what hotels are around here?” And the program will tell you.



Sounds like Google Maps to me..... Bill Gates 1986 - Programmers at Work

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April 08, 2008

Bringing the right hemisphere of the brain center stage

An article that looks into the emerging popular interest in the right side of the brain; and in the differences between the left and right hemispheres.

The left side, home of the human language center, is the outspoken logical, linear half of the equation. The right side, home to spatial perception and nonverbal concepts, is the nonlinear, high-concept source of the imagination and of pleasure.


Let Computers Compute. It's the Age of the Right Braint

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February 15, 2008

Panorama of San Fransisco after earthquake

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January 21, 2008

Shakespeare was messing with your brain

So I got bitten by the Shakespeare bug during high school, thanks to a rather brilliant english teacher. I never had enough scholarly insight to pursue this interest to any serious degree, but I was continually fascinated by some of my own reactions to the complexities of his writing that have fascinated untold numbers... A while ago I stumbled on this article - Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on your brain - and a whole host of new levels of fascination entered my consciousness. Did Shakespeare have any idea that he was using a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb? I doubt it. But, perhaps he found that doing so tended to captivate or engage his audience, and so stuck with it. We can certainly conclude that he wasn't close to realizing that This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say., nor that this heightened brain activity may be one of the reasons why Shakespeare’s plays have such a dramatic impact on their readers..

Regardless really of how he came by this technique, it's pretty cool!

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