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recent bookstack

1. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Second Life (finally makes sense because of book number 2 below)2. Second Life: the official guide (Amazing, I highly recommend it.)3. Annette Vallon, Emile Legouis (Pretty good historical fiction which takes place during the time of the French revolution, about the alleged relationship between the famous English poet William Wordsworth [...]

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xkcd does it again!

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It’s my blogiversary!

Happy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to meHappy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to me My blog is one year old today, and my how we’ve grown. The name went from Wishful Blogging (because, I figured, talking about blogging is so much easier than actually blogging) to The Glowing Edge, a move which [...]

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newest toy

These little critters have lots of yummy goodies — the ability to quickly upload to YouTube, simple editing capability, very impressive quality before compression, and the standard video greeting card capabilities. The two changes I would most like to see are a better onboard mic for playback (when I show videos to my friends in [...]

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digital milestone!

After our earlier digital false alarm, this milestone showed up the day before Christmas: The First finally had not one, but TWO posts which made it onto lolcats. Here are his two contributions. Go vote, people!

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elf them (and they will scrooge you)

Ok, all your friends have done it, when are you just going to jump on the elfwagon (or scroogewagon) and be done with it? A few minutes to create it, a lifetime to live it down!

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False Hippo Intelligence

The Maker: So what do hippos eat? The Husband: Hippos are herbivores. That means they eat grass and river weeds and stuff. Me: And fish, they eat fish. The Husband: They do not eat fish, they’re herbivores. Me: They DO eat fish! Remember the poem? “See the handsome hippopotamus / Wading on the river-bottomus / [...]

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why I love xkcd

I spent a good part of the last two days reconfiguring my hardware set-up, and trying to add some software as well. There were moments in which I felt like I was wobbling along the event horizon of a black hole. Then there was xkcd (which, dear reader, I have added to my must-clicks for [...]

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toys for you!

If you haven’t played with zefrank’s tech toys, you should. The 3d snowflake maker is a mesmerizing way to avoid Christmas shopping or any other onerous task. And instead of updating your files or cleaning your office, click over to C. Lowe’s paper plane animation and go frame by frame (use the arrow keys) in [...]

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digital false alarm

Last week I heard the First, age 12, discussing his YouTube video upload of “Runescape Ownage” (as in “Dude, I totally owned that level!”). I got really excited, thinking that one of the coming-of-age-in-the-new-millennium milestones had just been reached, and that he had finally learned not JUST how to record online gaming action with a [...]

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