My Faves for Friday, May 02, 2008

ITunes To Get Movies on the Same Day as DVD Releases | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Quoted: UPDATE: It's official. Apple has issued a press release detailing the deal: Downloads will be available the same day as DVDs, priced at $15 (catalog titles remain at $10). The

[tags: apple, movies]

Exclusive Video: Babbage's Mechanical Calculator Comes to Life | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Quoted: Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, thanks to the efforts of dedicated, historically-minded engineers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, plus a generous donation of cash from Microsoft gazillionaire genius Nathan Myhrvold, Babbage's Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley.

[tags: video, history, computing, Babbage]

Mozy Mac Out of Beta; 50 Free Accounts Available

Quoted: Online backup site Mozy is giving away 50 free year-long accounts to commemorate the official release of their Mac backup client. To get ...

[tags: backup]

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up and what's now.

Quoted: Addictomatic is a place to inhale the web.

[tags: search, rss]

Le Chasse-clou » Blog Archive » Rue Sigalon sous la lune

Quoted: La rue Sigalon est maintenant piétonne au sens moderne du terme : pavés polis, goulotte centrale, suppression des fils téléphoniques disgracieux dans le ciel, rénovation des façades des maisons, signalétique léchée des plaques portant ce joli nom et des numéros d’habitations (sauf dans le haut de la voie).

[tags: blogs, sigalon]

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My Faves for Thursday, May 01, 2008

-ATUNN-All That U Need Now

Atunn is a very sleek search engine that allows you to select from a variety of different major search engines or to narrow down your search by pre-selecting a category.

Quoted: Atunn, all that you need now.

[tags: search]

Alphonse Mucha - Posters and designs

[tags: Art Nouveau, art]

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My Faves for Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Zigtag - an intelligent, semantic, social tagging and bookmarking service

Zigtag is a revolutionary new semantic, social tagging service that allows you to...

save your favorite websites
see what your friends find interesting
join groups to share the best sites
find the sites you're really looking for!

[tags: tagging, bookmarking, sharing]

Newstin - Global Social News Platform

Quoted: Newstin aspires to connect people through news and create global communities of interest. Newstin is a Global Social News Platform, where topics and ideas are identified within the news, acquiring a social aspect by initiating communication between people, no matter their nation or language.

[tags: news, Newstin]

Streamzy.com - streaming music search engine - search.stream.save.

[tags: music, streaming, search]

Bean: An OS X Word Processor

Quoted: Bean is a free word processor for OS X, programmed in Cocoa. It is open source.

[tags: Mac, Bean, word processor, software]

Cell-based Therapy Shows Promise In Patients With Parkinson's Disease

Quoted: A novel cell therapy using retinal pigment epithelial cells attached to tiny gelatin bead microcarriers implanted in the brain can improve the symptoms of patients with moderate to advanced Parkinson's disease.

[tags: pd]

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My Faves for Monday, April 28, 2008

Parkinson transplants survive at least 16 years

Quoted: These are the main findings of a study on grafting of new neurons to the brain in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The study, headed by a team of researchers from Lund University in collaboration with London scientists, has been published in a recent is

[tags: pd]

Today's Blog Music / The Hype Machine - discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs

Quoted: The Hype Machine is a MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!

[tags: music, blogs]

Food Blog Search

In a word, be specific. "Apple tart" will give you much more useful results (if you are looking for apple tart recipes) than "apple recipes". The larger, more established blogs will tend to show up highest in the search results because that's just how Google's search function works. So be ready to page through the results to find results from newer blogs.

[tags: search, blogs, recipes]

ManagedQ: The Search Application

ManagedQ capitalizes on this fact to transform Search as we know it from a command-line driven database query to an elegantly-designed Application that can be continuously improved and optimized. The end result is an entirely novel and compelling Search Experience.

[tags: search]

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My Faves for Sunday, April 27, 2008

escaloop. ☆ Dead-simple lifestream badges.

Quoted: escaloop allows you to build a list of up to 20 RSS feeds -- feeds like your latest del.icio.us bookmarks, your recent Twitter activity, your new blog posts, your newly uploaded Flickr images, just to name a few -- which it will then sort, clean up and tastefully arrange in a concise, neat and pretty list on your own site.

[tags: rss, combine feeds]

Dipity

Quoted: Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.

[tags: Timeline, interactive]

Sullr

Quoted: Reverse phone lookups with a free people finder. People search and cell phone numbers lookup. Find a person and public records, background checks or a reverse cell phone number lookup. Reverse telephone directory search and background public record searches.

[tags: phone, search]

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My Faves for Saturday, April 26, 2008

Reading product reviews made fast and simple - ::Review Gist::

ReviewGist gathers review information for different products from almost all trusted online review sites. Our patent pending deep semantic analysis engine then takes over and extracts out the subjective opinion from these collected reviews. Essentially, we figure out the specific opinions expressed by the reviewer about the product in question.

[tags: reviews]

Naoto Hattori

Quoted: Naoto Hattori's Twisted Surreal Art

[tags: art]

YouTube - Duffy - Mercy

Contracted to A&M Records during 2007, on 23 November 2007, Duffy performed on the BBC2 television show Later with Jools Holland,[13] which resulted in a second appearance on the related New Year's Eve show Hootenanny, on which, among other things, she performed with soul legend Eddie Floyd. On 22 February 2008, she appeared on Later with Jools Holland for a third time and performed "Rockferry", "Mercy" and "Stepping Stone". She also appeared on the BBC2 television programme "The Culture Show" on 23 February 2008 and performed "Mercy".

Quoted: Great song! Beautiful singer!!

[tags: video]

YouTube

Quoted: Share your videos with friends and family

[tags: humor, Florence Foresti, france, video]

Google Earth Blog: Pilot World-wide Weather in Google Earth

The National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Research Applications Program (RAP) (a US Government program) has released a prototype for showing weather data used by pilots for use in Google Earth.

Quoted: Amazing things about Google Earth - news, features, tips, technology, and applications

[tags: google, applications, aviation, weather]

The Birth of a Brain Cell: Scientists Witness Neurogenesis: Scientific American

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to view stem cells in the brains of living animals, including humans—a finding that allows scientists to follow the process neurogenesis (the birth of neurons). The discovery comes just months after scientists confirmed that such cells are generated in adult as well as developing brains.

Quoted: New method allows researchers to pinpoint young nerve cells in the living human brain

[tags: stem cells, research, pd]

Rare Diseases and Rare Medicines: prostate cancer doctor is a prostate cancer patient read the real fact

Dr. Paul Lange was a world-famous doctor, chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Washington, and renowned for his skill as a surgeon and his research on urological cancers, including prostate cancer.Then he got prostate cancer.

[tags: health, cancer]

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