Sharpening & Workflow — how-to guide for sharpening digital images in Photoshop (with and without plugins). Noah - read this when you have some time.

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From Steve Jurvetson via Om Malik:

The J Curve: Nanotech is the Nexus of the Sciences

There’s also this story from bOING bOING which discusses a more commercial application for nanotech.

I also like Harold Lovy’s blog for nanotech news and commentary.

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From kottke, a neat technique using multiple images taken quickly to compose a single “time panorama.” I must try this some time to catch the kids in action…

Flickr: Making Time Panorama Technique

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I like the idea — let’s see how it works.

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS | PVRblog

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I had installed, tried, and uninstalled Blinkx version 1.0 (see here). So, when 2.0 came out, I was skeptical (especially since I had GDS working). But, after reading the list of new functionality, I’m giving it a try. We’ll see if the issue of indexing vs. performance is still an issue, but it sure looks cool.

InsideGoogle: Blinkx 2.0 Brings Powerful New Features

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Actually, I was able to read this no problem…

“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!”

However, it seems NOT to be legit — see this page for details (a LOT more details).

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I downloaded. I tried. I’m thinking about making the switch. I’ll most likely install FF on Emily’s computer when I rebuild it. I need to make sure that the little tweaks I have in IE (like my Pluck, like my MT-It!, like Password Manager XP) work in Firefox. But so far so good…

Firefox 1.0 is here! | Acts of Volition

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Does it work? Does it make sense? Does it matter? Regardless, it’s fun to look at…

SAT to IQ conversion chart

P.S. I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours…

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W00t! Finally, part 3 of the story. I blogged about Parts 1 and 2 before.

Warning: only for hardcore geeks!

SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis

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I’m playing around with two Google hacks, one for support for additional filetypes to Google Desktop Search (Trivex.net - Google Desktop Search Plus), and one for using Gmail as an on-line file system (Gmail Drive shell extension).

I’m having some firewall problems with GmailFS, and some indexing problems with GDS+. Hmmm….

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