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Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
I stumbled across this site when trying to figure out how to make a stand-up desk. Good for the do it yer-selfer. It’s like flickr + ehow. My only beef? Loose some of the ajax stuff. It’s not obvious at first how to navigate around. But not a bad idea. I “get it” so much…
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Tolkien’s password manager
So I’ve been using this Middle Earth password manager to create new passwords for all my websites. While not the easiest thing in the world to set up, it is far stronger than my previous strategy (5 passwords rotating between sites). Now I only have to remember one password, and the program generates a different…
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Software Management Reading List
I enjoyed looking over the titles in Joel Spolksy’s Management Training Reading List. Several books that have influenced me heavily are in there, including “Peopleware,” “The Mythical Man Month” and “the Ten Minute Manager”. What I was more pleased with was that several books I am about to read or are high on my to…
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Extreme Christmas!
I’ve been really busy with some exciting work-stuff this December. I know, what a let down. I’m sure you were expecting an article about a fat bearded man in a big red suit bungee jumping off of Hell’s canyon while drinking Mountain Dew. Sorry, but I’m trying out Extreme Programming for a work project. They…
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Music Map
Hey, try this out: www.music-map.com. Just type in the name of a band and it will show you bands that are similar in a floaty dynamic graphical way.
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Crime Website
Here is a very well done, intuitive, albeit spooky, website of crime information for Chicago. I don’t really care about crime in Chicago, but I found my self fascinated by the information, clicking around for a few minutes.