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Top 10 Ajax Applications at A Venture Forth.

Manhattan User’s Guide caught my attention when I followed a link to their Hump Day list of funnies.

I was browsing the NPR archives the other day and found this report on the International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, N.M.. Of course I want to go there.

A Flash animation about why libraries matter.

Interesting: Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor, a Java-based app that makes reading raw XML easy. Much easier than in a regular text editor, even with syntax highlighting.

In case you’re looking: Metaphyzx’s Mac OS Wireless Adapter Compatibility List.

• Pepper Computer
• Buying a Pepper Pad at Amazon
• Pepper Hacks
• Victor Rehorst has been blogging about his Pepper since he got it (a few days ago)
• Pepper Pad stories at TeleRead
• Other Pepper Pad stories here at MaisonBisson

From AlterNet: Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream. Tagline:

Many public school teachers today must work two jobs to survive, and can’t afford to buy homes or raise families. Why do we treat our teachers so poorly?

Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. Via The Map Room.

The following pages from the WordPress Codex were surprisingly helpful recently:

• Creating a Static Front Page « WordPress Codex
• Creating Tables with Plugins « WordPress Codex
• Alphabetizing Posts « WordPress Codex

They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs.

It looks like bstat has been localized for Japan! With that in mind, I’d love to hear from international users about what I can do to make localization easier. There will be some big changes in the transition to bsuite, and it might be a good time to make sure I’m properly supporting WP‘s translation tables and localization features.

I was never a very good graphic designer, but the part of me that thought I was still pays attention when I see software like Linotype’s free FontExplorer, described somewhere as “the iTunes for fonts.”

It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following:

• How To Create – Making Internet Explorer use position: fixed;
• doxdesk.com: software: fixed.js
• Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer

The DoxDesk solution looks promising and simple, but I think bugs elsewhere in my layout are preventing it from working. It’s time to start again from scratch.

37signals takes on Google and suggests some improvements.

Via Jay Bhatt at LISNews: UCLA Libraries‘ discussion of Google Scholar, Search Engines, Databases, and the Research Process.

Is there a sneaky surprise hidden in your hotel room? See if you can recognize anything in these photos (tip: mouse-over them).

Kate says: “Life is good. And I’ve got a sleeping bag from the future.” Tim explains, a bit.

None of that matters nearly as much as the video Kate is quoting from, and that matters now because back to school time means play dates and sleepovers. Tim guarantees it will kill a few braincells, but nothing ridicules us the way we once were (and often still are) better than Saturday Night Live.

coconutBattery:

coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original.

Via O’Grady’s PowerPage{#14850}

I stumbled across the sometimes funny How To Live Your Life and got curious about the theme. Turns out it’s by Sebastian Schmieg, who keeps things real at kingcosmonaut. The theme is Blix, but the kingcosmonaut site is much cooler.

A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. It’s one of the few early web development resources that’s still with us, and there’s a reason.

Via Jon Gordon‘s Future Tense: Re-shelving George Orwell.

Smart people everywhere are taking it upon themselves to re-shelve George Orwell’s 1984 from fiction to more appropriate sections in non-fiction, like “Current Events”, “Politics”, “History”, “True Crime”, or “New Non-Fiction.”

Instructions and photos on Flickr.

With all the talk about Google scanning or not scanning copyrighted books, I was happy to see Laura Quilter talking about Google as a library.

The Internet Archive is certainly a library. […] Libraries may be private, semi-private, public; for- or not-for-profit; paper or digital. Why is Google not a library?

More interestingly, she casts a critical eye on the Texaco decision that everybody points to as the guiding law on fair use. This, and the rest of her blog are good reading.

Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features.

Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new .