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Playing to Type

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

A revolution in typeface design has led to everything from more-legible newspapers and cell-phone displays to extra-tacky wedding invitations. Tagged by mabisa under article, TheAtlantic, typography, fonts, design,

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator. Tagged by mabisa under rss, syndication, feeds, webapp, webservice,

Flickr: The sleeveface Pool

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under sleeveface, sleeves, records, flickrpool, photos, heh,

Big Think - We Are What You Think

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

"youtube for thinkers." experts on their expertise. meh? Tagged by mabisa under video, community, politics, science, videos, media, culture,

http://whitewhine.tumblr.com/

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

white people bitching. hilar. Tagged by mabisa under heh, blog, whitepeople, rants, complaints, race,

NYPL Digital Gallery | Home

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photogr Tagged by mabisa under images, library, photography, art, photos, PublicDomain, photographs,

igThemer v0.1a

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

igThemer is a tool to automagically make iGoogle themes using the new API Tagged by mabisa under google, igoogle, generator, themes, design,

"To cut a long story short" (The Guardian)

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

in a world of short attention spans - in a time when the entire movie industry is hopelessly commercially compromised anyway - only one part of a trip to the cinema remains a guaranteed pleasure. Tagged by mabisa under TheGuardian, article, trailers, film, movies, advertising, cinema,

Fashionsnap.com | Street Fashion Photo

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under fashion, streetstyle, japan, blog,

Damn Interesting » The Unburdened Mind

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Differences in culture, gender, personality, and social status all create empathy gaps that can seem almost unfathomable, but none of these is as fundamental a divide as the one that exists between an individual with a conscience and one without. The psyc Tagged by mabisa under psychology, psychopathy, psychopaths, personality, behavior, mentalhealth,

The Forgiveness Project

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

The Forgiveness Project works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict and violence by healing the wounds of the past. By collecting and sharing people’s stories, and delivering outreach programmes, The Forgiv Tagged by mabisa under forgiveness, peace, community, activism, conflict, healing,

Robot World News � Ms. Pac-Man Plays Herself

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under AI, reinforcementlearning, videogames, pacman,

80 Million Tiny Images

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under visualization, language, english, semantics, infovis,

The Amateur Gourmet

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under food, blog, foodblog, cooking, recipes, cuisine,

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) - Home Page

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

The Institute’s mission is to provide the conceptual framework, strategies and information to aid the creation of ecologically sound and economically equitable communities. Tagged by mabisa under community, sustainability, local, economics, environment, politics, localism, green, conservation, socialjustice, activism, advocacy,

Antidepressants Under Scrutiny Over Efficacy - WSJ.com

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

The effectiveness of a dozen popular antidepressants has been exaggerated by selective publication of favorable results, according to a review of unpublished data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. Tagged by mabisa under depression, medication, WSJ, article, psychiatry, psychology,

Michael Geist - My Fair Copyright for Canada Principles

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

"Principles for Fair Copyright for Canadians" contains seven simple, commonsense statements about what a good Canadian (or any nation's) copyright law should look like. Tagged by mabisa under copyright, canada, law, politics, freeculture, article,

The Walrus >> Media >> Apocalypse Soon >> E-book publishing

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Book publishing is a dinosaur industry, and there’s a big scary meteor on the way. Tagged by mabisa under ebooks, publishing, newmedia, article, books,

toonlet: web-comic blogging in minutes

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under webcomics, webapp, cartoons,

PLoS Medicine - Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

“What physicians and the public are reading about mental illness is by no means a neutral reflection of all the information that is available”. The incongruence between the scientific literature and the claims made in FDA-regulated SSRI advertisements Tagged by mabisa under depression, neuroscience, psychology, serotonin, advertising, paper, medication, ssri,