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Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany.

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety

As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.

How to pick up girls in the library. Indeed, it’s Picking Up Girls Made Easy.

Thanks to Mike Giarlo‘s unAPI Server for WordPress. Now if only there were a library catalog built on WordPress, I could probably just drop it in.

Yep. Leopard comes with new stuff. Lazeez says it works fine, but commenters here are having trouble.

Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion.

Read: A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket and Part II.

Test/simulate: Opera Mini, Lynx, a variety of mobile phones, Internet Explorer (because even with Parallels, who really wants to infect their machine with windows?), and iPhone.

MeeboMe + Pidgin (formerly GAIM) = a match made in heaven. (Via.)

Etre‘s Colour Check.

Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts.

Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. The list of compatible phones (BPE & m2n) offers some leads for those trying to make the connection.

Finally, Simon Winter offers some tips on interacting with SMS via AppleScript.

Calliope Gazetas works for The FontShop and freelances under the name 99 Monsters. One of her projects includes skinning the Burning Man environmental blog.

Jason Brightman’s work includes XXLmag.

When you can’t say it in English, say it in German.

I’m going to violate my rule against linking to NYT (because) and give a shout out to this article. Not just because it quotes my friend Jessamyn, but for what it says: libraries are full of smart, hip people.

[tags]library 2.0, Jessamyn West, New York Times, libraries, hip, smart[/tags]

Does your Apple Store have iPhones?

MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed.

Google Gears: create web apps that work offline

DeSoto report leaked.

The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report.

Echos abound.

The built-in tools don’t support secure POP3, but Gmail requires SSL POP3. The fix? Postie.

50MPH wheelchair ride in Michigan

iblee points out that students want libraries.

“Prosecuting a woman for ‘staring’ at a police dog is absurd,” said her lawyer. “People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It’s constitutional expression,” said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson. More: What’s up with police?

What Liberal Media author Eric Alterman arrested, mocked at GOP debates.