You can now follow along with Jenny’s ’statements’ on twitter.
“jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans. ” — http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer | Jenny on Wikipedia

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Twistori pulls in 6 x “I ___”’s from the twitter-verse in stream across your screen. Visit and watch for a bit.

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Excellent and entertaining presentation from Clay Shirky (thanks Johan !).

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Due to posting to multiple accounts (personal and being part of our work account) in Twitter; it’s extremely handy to know the available Twitter shortcuts…

ON: turns phone notifications on
OFF: turns phone notifications off
FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
LEAVE username: turns off notifications for a specific individual
D username: sends a private message to [...]

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Shaved my face for the first time in 3 years
I’m a shavin’ hater — every photo of me for the past 3-4 years - I have some stubble.
This was just for fun — I’ll go back to being a ‘dirtball’ soon enough.

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Somehow I had completely missed this in the WP 2.5 Upgrade;
You can now have custom CSS colors for each users WP-Admin panel.
I was wondering if anyone will come out with some color schemes; and I found Matt had asked the same question. Keep an eye on that thread to see what starts coming out.

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Second Update: The latest MBP firmware seems to have solved my problems completely. Ars Technica ‘officially’ details the problem — too bad Apple won’t give more details on what this latest update fixes. Let me know if this update solves your issues also.

Update: The work around below did not work. Further reading and investigation leads [...]

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After 8 months of using TIVO to replace our antiquated air-time based TV watching; I’l never go back to TV - I would prefer to stop watching all together. This sound has changed our media habits.
Great article from the WSJ this AM; It sums up, simply, a lot of what TIVO has become to us; [...]

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Finally! First things first;
Gotta email myself the plot of LOST back to September 2005.
Google Custom Time

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Very cool applet that graphs out the structure of an HTML page on a site. Stevey.com (homepage) is above.
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevey.com

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Finally Safari 3.1 (released on 08/03/18) is offering some built in web developer tools that are accessible through a checkbox in the advanced prefs.
I’m not a huge active developer like I used to be, but I still know my way around HTML/CSS and some JS and this will [...]

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Click the photo above and look deep into it for a secret message.
(hint: it’s an autostereogram)

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Reading this Lifehacker Post about traveling with a laptop; ran into this very smart system/hack to prevent hotel guests from leaving the lights on and wasting energy…
“The one electricity issue that surprised me was this: At two of the three moderate to high-priced hotels I stayed at (between $26 and $80/night), the power was only [...]

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Made me laugh — If you get what’s going on here; 2 HTML nerd strikes against ya!
“Plus a few missing ones; c-o-l-o-r.net/C0FFEE, c-o-l-o-r.net/DECAFF, c-o-l-o-r.net/CABB1E”

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I’m a huge fan of “shifting”, which can be hard to explain to some people who aren’t as tech savy as some of us. This little video from some Canadian University students does a great job!!
All the more reason to support movements that seek proper legislation in updating our copyright laws — that isn’t being [...]

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