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25 October 2007

My Dots for Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Discover your world family through DNA, connect with others to share and preserve family memories.

[tags: genealogy, DNA, search]

The Sorenson Database is the foremost collection of genetic genealogy data in the world. Search by DNA results or surname and find your place in the worldwide genetic family tree.

[tags: genealogy, DNA, search]

Bountii.com is a search engine that finds the best prices for electronics.

[tags: search, electronics, price]

Your personal information is being collected, bought, and sold by thousands of businesses every day. Without your consent.
ProQuo helps you to remove your name and personal information from thousands of marketing lists, data brokers and other organizations that send you unsolicited mail.

[tags: mail, spam, junk]

Quoted: Welcome to scitopia.org, the free federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies. Enter a term to find targeted, authoritative, ...

[tags: search, science]

GigaPan allows users to upload, share, and explore brilliant gigapixel+ panoramas from around the globe.

[tags: photography, zoom, sharing, upload]

Train Travel - France

[tags: TGV, train, travel, france]

Quoted: Toinou, Marseille, France: Find photos, descriptions, maps, and expert advice on things to do in Marseille, France on Yahoo! Travel.

[tags: restaura, recipes, seafood, Toinou, Francents]

This restaurant is really special. For 15 euros you are served a huge platter of assorted coquillages straight from the market stalls outside: oysters, mussels, crevettes, crab, langoustes and clams are all affordable for those on even the tightest budget.

[tags: restaura, recipes, seafood, Toinou, Francents]

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24 October 2007

23 October 2007

My Dots for Monday, October 22, 2007

By throwing its staff to the wolves at the first accusation of misconduct, the UN is baldly pandering to US government and media pressure.

[tags: UN]

The next generation Mozille Web browser will appear differently depending on which operating system is being used, as developers try to blend in multiple components seamlessly with Windows, Mac OS X, and even Linux.

Quoted: TG Daily, Firefox 3 to build on heavy visual integration

[tags: Firefox, windows, os x]

Ontario (CA) – A new lithium-ion battery pack for the Toyota Prius may not lower gas prices, but it promises to make trips to the gas station less frequent – a lot less frequent. Made by Hymotion and A123 Systems - the same folks that brought you the batteries in the Killacycle – this aftermarket kit converts the car into a plug-in hybrid and allows it to run on electric power for the first forty miles of a trip. As you can expect, total gas mileage goes through the roof and company executives claim drivers can easily exceed 150 miles-per-gallon in the city and 100 MPG on the highways.

Quoted: TG Daily, TG Video: Aftermarket lithium-ion battery pack squeezes 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius

[tags: batteries, automotive, prius, video]

Quoted: As Apple gains PC market share, Jobs talks of a decade of upgrades

[tags: vista, iphone, ipod, apple, imac]

Quoted: The first commercial flight by the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has drawn a mixed bunch of passengers. - The Sydney Morning Herald

[tags: airbus, travel]

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21 October 2007

My Dots for Saturday, October 20, 2007

Here is our list of the Top 100 Classic Web Sites in 2007. You'll see a lot of familiar URLs on this list, and we hope there are also quite a few that you haven't heard of before. These sites are established and generally best-of-breed in their respective categories.

[tags: Websites]

Quoted: Radar Networks, the not-so-secret stealth startup, is finally unveiling its site, dubbed Twine. Twine is targeted straight at groupware and knowledge-management apps that ...

[tags: Twine, organizing, data, knowledge management]

Quoted: Flock 1.0 beta has been released for public download and is available here (at the time of writing it's not shown on the ...

[tags: flock, browser]

Quoted: Joost CEO Mike Volpi just suggested on stage at Web 2.0 that Joost is working on a browser-based version of its peer-to-peer Internet ...

[tags: joost, tv, video]

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18 October 2007

My Dots for Wednesday, October 17, 2007

[tags: apple, os x, leopard]

Quoted: TG Daily

[tags: it, technology, news]

Quoted: DIGITIMES English version providing daily news about Asia's IT industry

[tags: it, technology, news]

AMD announced two new add-in cards and a new external combo tuner in its TV Wonder series, which promise to equip a PC with the capability of a high-definition digital video recorder.

Quoted: TG Daily, AMD expands TV tuner offering for PC

[tags: tv, video, PC TV tuner]

Quoted: TG Daily, Electricity generating bacteria could provide power in developing areas

[tags: EnergyTechnologies]

Quoted: TG Daily, Alternative power sources: An engine that runs on air

[tags: automotive, MDI]

Quoted: Create your own microblog and connect with your friends. Post from the Web, by SMS, or from desktop clients. Add comments, use icons, link Webfeeds. Take it with you on your phone.

[tags: google, jaiku]

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17 October 2007

My Dots for Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Polyphasic sleep involves taking multiple short sleep periods throughout the day instead of getting all your sleep in one long chunk.

[tags: health, sleep]

As widely rumoured and expected, OSX 10.5(.0) will be released just in time to meet the end of the month deadline. Price apart, it's cutting it pretty fine - the final version was only decided last weekend

[tags: apple]

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