Review
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Quilling is Paper Filigree
I just found out about quilling. Pretty intricate stuff. Quilling is the art of creating decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper. Using simple tools, long strips of paper are tightly wound and released to form complex shapes. Also called paper filigree, it is believed the art has been practiced since ancient Egyptian and/or…
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Baghdad ER Dialogue
Excellent show. Dialogue snippet: Doctor: He shot you right there?Wounded soldier: Yeah, and there was a kid two feet away from me.Doctor (tending to wounds): You didn’t shoot him back?Wounded soldier (wincing): No. I was busy. I was laying on the ground, crying like a bitch.
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PBWIki
While weblogs have enjoyed a meteoric rise in use and pop culture attention, another powerful and easy-to-use class of software hasn’t gotten the same mojo. I speak here of wikis. The wikipedia pops into consciousness every once in a while, but when it comes to broad acceptance and use, wikis aren’t there yet. I think…
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Microsoft Windows Live Review
So I’m certainly not the world’s biggest Microsoft fan. Lots of their software is bloated and dumb (see FrontPage and Project). But let’s admit it– they sell software that (nearly) anyone who has a computer on their desk at work uses every day to pretty good effect (see Word and Outlook). They’ve lately been put…
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Yahoo! Widgets Advertising: Cup-A-Lerter
The other day I was upgrading to Konfabulator 3.0 , otherwise known as Yahoo! Widgets. A “widget” is basically a little piece of software that does a simple task, usually by querying a database on the internet or some other source via web services. There are widgets for stocks, the time of day, sports schedules,…