It. Is. Done.

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Things I learned today:

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Friday Fun!

Google Is Officially A Verb

http://techdirt.com/articles/20060705/232200.shtml

"From the standpoint of Google, however, this could take them a step closer to losing the trademark on their own name, as it starts to fall into more common usage. Can Google sue the Oxford English Dictionary? "

Tourist Remover

http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/howto.html

An interesting service which lets you remove extraneous tourists from your holiday snaps. (I wonder if it works with photos of your ex?)

Your genes are shaped in part by your ancestors' life experiences -- no pressure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml

"What people do no longer just affects themselves, but can determine the health of their children and grandchildren in decades to come. "

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... surreal experience:

Fifty-plus children and caregivers sitting in a room for storytime, reciting "Goodnight Moon" without having to look at the pages being flipped.

"In the great green room, there was a telephone ...."

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Well then. That wasn't very smart.

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Random bullets

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The only time is now

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Pre-Party Panic

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Tech Notes: Yahoo Photos vs Flickr - more info

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It's going to be a very quiet day

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The Compact: 3.5 months in

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I've been rooked.

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Rain, rain ...

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Update: One Red Paperclip

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Water safety tip

I was recently reminded that a toddler, if drowning and panicked, has the strength to submerge and drown an adult who is trying to save them.

Here was the advice offered to me:

• if possible, use a life-saving hook to fish them out of the pool / water
  
• if you have to get into the water, offer a life-buoy, flutter board or life-jacket for them to grab hold of
• if you have have to get into the water and have no objects to offer, approach the victim on your back, with your feet closest to the victim. Be prepared to offer a firm kick to the victim's chest in the event they grab at you and try and push you down in an effort to get their own head above water.

Hopefully, none of us will ever have to act on this information.

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It's a small world

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Predicting the future -- search engines as "(the) database of intentions."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/business/05leonhardt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.google.com/trends

For those serious about environmentalism -- build your own grass chair.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/get_ready_for_s.php

Question: How do you pave a 2.66 mile long track with a 33 degree bank in the turns?

Answer: Very carefully, with steamrollers and 40-ton pavers on 3-point winches and cranes. And to get the bulldozers (used as counterweights) at the top of the turn, you have to disassemble the entire crash netting. They've been at it for 2 months, and they're only half done.

http://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/news/photo_galleries/

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Paralysis

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What do you do with a drunken sailor?

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Shakespeare's Sixtieth Sonnet

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