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The Free Nature Sounds site not only provides a several nature based sounds, but allows you to mix them and make a sound file to download to your PC.
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10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account. I particularly like reason #6. Reason #5 is also very good.
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Google celebrates Pi Day (3.14).
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Weather Underground is providing a new full screen weather map new fullscreen map application.
Click on fullscreenweather.com and enter your area code. If you use Firefox or a similarly behaving browser, press F11 for an even bigger map. (Press again to restore your normal screen.)
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The Electronic Freedom Foundation is researching individual browser configurations to see how unique they are at Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking. I wasn’t surprised to find out that my configuration is unique since I run Google Chrome on a Linux system. What did surprise me was learning that websites know what plugins I am running. They also provide a Primer on Information Theory and Privacy.
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Make a monster is a fun flash application which allows you to assemble body parts into a monster.
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Do you ever wonder how many Google services you use. Google Dashboard will tell you after you enter your Google account password.
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Tired of missing Google Doodles? Doodlewatch has a chronological log of the graphics displayed on the Google site. I’ve linked to the filter for the logos seen in the United States, but there are other filters for other countries.
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Our conclusion? These new “privacy” changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.
via Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I’ve deactivated my Facebook account, pending changes to Facebook’s Privacy Policies.
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One of my few regrets about our trip to Australia in 1999 is that we only had one day in Sydney. Here, at least, is an Aerial Virtual tour of Sydney, Australia, though figuring out the navigation is a bit tricky.
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If you are bored with you computer desktop wall-paper, choose one of these from Japanese Art on Flickr.
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I only spend five minutes making random clicks before using Google. (flowchart is courtesy of xkcd.)
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Is It Going To Rain Tomorrow? Simple answers for simple questions.
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Morning MDT is a good time to visit the Amberg, Germany webcam.
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I’ve started using a plug-in which will allow commenters to subscribe to comments for any particular blog post, because I like that feature on other Wordpress web logs. You should see a check-box underneath the text field for the comment.
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Since we live in a rural neighborhood, our choice of options to connect to the Internet are rather limited. For the past four or five years, we have used wireless broadband to connect to a tower that is line of sight to the east of us. It is a system that works quite well, except when it doesn’t. At 6:30 am this morning, it stopped working. Unfortunately, one of the peculiarities of the small company that provides our service is that one can only contact them via a web form. Usually, I call Jack and ask him to submit the trouble report from work, but this doesn’t work on a weekend.
On the bright side, I had to leave the house anyway and decided to see how the wireless access at the Monument Library works with my laptop. It works quite well, fortunately. All that is required is a library card and a PIN.
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The Library of Congress Blog announces that the Library of Congress is putting some of its vast collection of audio-visual materials on You Tube, including a short clip of boxing cats from an archive of Edison clips.
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Use the the Alphabetizer to sort a list without starting a spreadsheet or word processing program.
