"40 Best April Fool Pranks of 2008 Being April Fool’s day, everyone around decided to have some fun, right from a ‘New Airplane’ in Google Docs to ProBlogger launching ‘PayPerTweet’! Check this list out and do add links to your own pranks using the comment box! 1. Virgle - Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars."
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"Bring up the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at a Washington cocktail party and you’re sure to impress. Tick off the name of a Taliban leader or two and make a reference to North Waziristan, and you might be on your way to a lucrative lecture tour. The problem, of course, is that no one knows if you’ll be speaking the truth or not. A map of the border region is crammed with the names of agencies, provinces, frontier regions, and districts, which are sometimes flip-flopped and misused. With only an unselfish interest in making you more-impressive cocktail party material (and thus, getting you booked with a lecture agent during these economic hard times), I want to straighten some things out."
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"Web Design Trends For 2009 January 14th, 2009 in Design Showcase | 203 Comments Advertisement We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. As a result, new design approaches come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them, new trends emerge."
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This is a scanned copy of the 69-page dossier of material stemming from the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26-29, 2008 that was handed over by India to Pakistan on January 5, 2009.
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100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent | Technology | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
"100 top sites for the year ahead Two years after we last picked the web's cream of the crop, our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent"
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"Dapperstache: an edland disaster ribbon reading "Winner Best Site forever 2008" 2. Eye Ballin 2. Pic o´ the day 3. textamundo 1. Fiction 2. Humor 2. technomancing 2. Clickworthy 2. Design 2. Deals 1. Straggler 2. Thought o´ the Day 2. Something O The Sometime 1. P.T.O.A. Periodic Table of Awesoments In the 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of "win." That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesoments" that compose all good things. The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It's designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.
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This was a quick turn around...also I'm sure my US visa might never happen now...but had to share this one folks...pardon the blasphemy!
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"The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind."
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"Ideas Before They Were Ventures: Early Sketches of Twitter 5 comments July 22, 2008 We’re all for inspiring ideas - even when they’re just scribbles on the back of napkins or messy drawings on a legal pad. Campfire points us to a simple yet telling sketch of what was to become the social microblogging giant known as Twitter - as it was first mapped out by its creators. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shares one of the original drawings of the idea behind Twitter on his flickr and includes an interesting explanation of how the concept came about. Upon further investigation, we found some more photos of inspiring early sketches of ideas that have since become successful ventures, including Flickr Places and Vimeo. Check them out at Deeplinking. [via Campfire]"
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"The Ultimate Rejection Letter Herbert A. Millington Chair - Search Committee 412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University College Hill, MA 34109 Dear Professor Millington, Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department. This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then. Best of luck in rejecting future applicants. Sincerely, Chris L. Jensen"
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"Using Technology Against Terror: Any Ideas? By Nikhil Pahwa ⋅ December 5, 2008 Post a Comment ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Much has been written about how the terrorists used technology during their attack on Mumbai and citizens used twitter to share information and seek help on the net. Following up on a suggestion by one of our readers, we’re opening up this post as a platform for inputs on how we can use digital technology to help prepare us better in the future, protect us from future attacks and perhaps speed up response systems as well. Any ideas?"
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"Unlocking The Mysteries Of Memory ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2008) — Stop and think for a moment. What do you remember about your breakfast this morning? One part of your brain will recall the smell of coffee brewing, while another will remember your partner's smile while walking out the door. How does the brain weave together these fragments, and how does it bring them back to conscious life?"
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