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Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Official iPhone Tool: This looks somehow familiar.
Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician: Interview with Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from “The Wonder Years”) about her new book: Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math and not Break a Nail
Sandbox Designs Competition » The Designs: Gallery of entries for the Sandbox Designs Competition. All entries are the same XHTML styled with CSS.
Fisher-Price recalls 1M toys: If you have any Dora or Sesame Street toys in your home you want to be aware of this. We do. A lot of them. Oddly the online recall only lets you return six items. Not sure exactly what they expect us to do with the rest.
AjaxRain – Ajax/Javascript/Dhtml examples and demos to download: Interesting site. Lacks search. I recommend using the “Tag Cloud” to navigate, but be sure to scroll down after clicking a tag because it looks like nothing happened.
A Series of Unfortunate Events ::: NOW IN PAPERBACK!: Are you made fainthearted by the work of Lemony Snicket? Does the thought of strange new siblings unnerve you? Your answers likely reveal the following brief video to be ill-suited for your personal use.

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

LOLTrek: Star Trek + LOLcats. You has want laugh? This be super funny.
How To Write The Great American Novel: Informative instructional film (no, not really, but it’s funny).
uncluttr: Derek Gaw’s wonderful search front end to Amazon.com (currently in alpha).
New Books, late June 2007: Locus Online’s listing of new SF/F/H books for late June 2007
Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars: This may be the best page on all of Wikipedia.
Open standards for social networking: Interesting commentary Marc Canter. from I know I wish all these things out there talked to each other better and/or supported OpenID.
jQuery 1.1.3: 800%+ Faster, still 20KB: The newest version of jQuery is available with 80+ bugfixes, increased performance, expanded selectors, and more.

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Sunday, April 29th, 2007

The Dragon Page » Contest: Crystal Rain Giveaway: In honor of the May 2007 paperback release of Crystal Rain, author Tobias Buckell has graciously consigned us 3 signed hardcover copies to give away to Dragon Page listeners
Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary: Finally a dictionary where you don’t have to know how to spell the word before looking up how to spell the word. Pulls from Wiktionary and Princeton WordNet. I especially like that you can lookup multiple words at once (use commas to separate). Oh and
MythShow 07: Interview with Mur Lafferty
Transcription of the Panel at Lunacon 2007: A transcription of the ‘Ask The Editors’ panel at the 2007 Lunacon, recorded by John Joseph Adams, and featuring Douglas Cohen, Marvin Kaye, Hildy Silverman, and Wendy S. Delmater. Contains link to mp3.
User-Generated Content Is Top Threat to Media and Entertainment Industry, Accenture Survey Finds: Media and entertainment executives see the growing ability and eagerness of individuals to create their own content as one of the biggest threats to their business, according to results of a survey released today by Accenture.
First look: Downey forges a bond with ‘Iron Man’ role – USATODAY.com: Look like this could be good (please let it be good).