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In this issue:
Web site recommendations: IT/current affairs/fun
Less IT related material and more fun links in this issue, but also some outrageous current affairs.
I posted about this over a year ago, but many have subscribed since and others may have missed it as well. When you are planning trips, do not miss the opportunity to get some great hotel rates. I explain the details on this page: http://www.eszter.com/hotels.html
A post-doc is available immediately on a project looking at children’s development and technology use at Northwestern’s School of Communication with Prof Justine Cassell (currently MIT Media Lab), more info here:
http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000354.html
New Google Toolbar in testing phase (as earlier one, only for Win OS & IE)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43955-2003Jun28.html?nav=hptoc_tn
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its causing some controversy
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2228651
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you can get it from here (I haven’t tried it yet, I can’t comment)
http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php
Yahoo Spam Filter Thwarts FTC
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59427,00.html
American Library Association Denounces Supreme Court Ruling on Children’s Internet Protection Act
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=36357
Recently I posted an entry about how multi-region DVD players do exist
http://www.canadacomputes.com/story.asp?id=9937&sb=122
A friend of mine replied to note that you don’t have to pay extra $$ to
get such a machine. These sites offer more info. (If you’re about to buy a DVD player, you may want to check these out before you decide on a brand.)
http://www.dvdregionhacks.com/
http://www.regionfreedvd.net/faq.html
A free simple little poll builder for Web sites (does have limitations)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/polls/
“Presumably by accident, somebody left a live prototype of President Bush’s 2004 campaign site on the Web for a few hours”
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084803/
“An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his nationality.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/29/noxf29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/06/29/ixportal.html
or click here if that address is too long: http://tinyurl.com/fjbr
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See original letter from Oxford prof here:
http://allisonkaplansommer.blogmosis.com/history/012787.html#012787
Suddenly, America Has a Brash Neighbor Up North
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p02s01-woam.html
Teen Sues Over ‘Lesbian Barbie’ Shirt Ban
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20030620/od_nm/life_barbie_dc
US Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3022026.stm
A matrilinear state in India - and changing times
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3015838.stm
A Nation of Victims - how Bush uses “emotional language–especially negatively charged emotional language–as a political tool”
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030630&s=brooks
Resumes for a New Millennium
http://www.seattlewritergrrls.org/archive/2003i1_resume.html
Free trip to Israel - deadline: July 5th!
http://www.israel4free.com
Eligibitility requirements: http://www.israel4free.com/eligibility.asp
Play twenty questions - great artificial intelligence program
http://y.20q.net:8095/btest
Irregular verbs in English grouped by type (helpful for those not fully fluent in English.. and for some who think they are:)
http://www.eslfocus.com/grammarfolder/irregverbgroups.html
You can always tell a two-way mirror by…
http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-7311128-8-7319952-1.html
This is pretty cool.. create sketches online and pass them on with full animation
http://www.imaginationatwork.com/Imagine?_nolivecache
Photo scavenger hunt, starts this week!
http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/
Can you guess which photo is fake (computer-generated) and which is real?
http://www.fakeorfoto.com/quiz.html
Today’s quote:
“We’re all born naked, the rest is drag.” - RuPaul