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Google is your calculator

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Did you know you can do math and conversions in the google search bar? I needed to convert 82 7/16 inches to mm, so I can program my cycle computer for the new wheel size (changed by about 2%, so I didn’t really ride 104 miles in last Sunday’s century, more like 101.5). [...]

IgniteBoston this week

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Thanks to Kellan, I’ve clued in about this weeks IgniteBoston at Harvard Sqaure on Thursday night.  Who can resist topics like:

Telepresence robots on a budget
Interface design tenants for beautiful design
Stage magic in virtual worlds
and …
The environmental impact of a website

Plus Microsoft is sponsoring and offering a free beer (free as in beer) — I can [...]

Here comes Clay

Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody is making the rounds, and is must reading for those interested in how the internet is transforming our society. It’s the latest in a great series of books on the impact of the internet, starting with David Weinberger’s Cluetrain Manifesto.
I had the chance lately to study this material [...]