Here are some more funny stories from around the world:
Aussie straps in beer, not child : A car driver in Australia has been fined for strapping down his beer rather than his young child. Police said they were “shocked and appalled” when they pulled over the car south of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. They [...]
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PC Pro are reporting important experimental data has been recovered from a hard drive found amid the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
The recently discovered 400MB Seagate drive survived the explosion that destroyed the Shuttle on re-entry, and was sent to data recovery firm, Ontrack. The firm managed to recover results of an experiment into [...]
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I’ve managed to get my back up system sorted for my hard drive. If there’s one thing that nags most computer users in the “I-know-I-should-but-I-don’t” way, it’s hard drive back ups. We’ve all been there: as long as your hard drive keeps on spinning, it’s easy to ignore the whole back up thing - until [...]
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David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and inspiration for a lot of ‘lifehack’ thoughts around the world, is giving away a free four-page PDF at his website that covers his basic principals for keeping email organized. Getting specific without going too in-depth, touches upon:
the “two minute rule”
why action-able emails should be kept separate from others
why you [...]
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A couple of people have flagged up this article from The Guardian on children and their television watching:
A generation of “multitasking” children are living their daily lives - including eating and falling asleep - to the accompaniment of television, according to a survey of youngsters’ media habits.
The flickering of the screen accompanies most of them [...]
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Saw this on LifeHacker, looks a cool gadget - the Keyboard Organiser - a proper keyboard which flips up for storage of stuff like pens, CDs etc.
The Keyboard Organizer will set you back about 50 bucks (£24.99). Keyboard Organizer Makes You Envy of Computer Lab.
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Check out Craig’s blog. Whilst trying to keep track of key words and phrases for his sermons he realised he could use tag clouds. Using tagcrowd.com he has ended up with some fascinating results (the book of Romans and the 10 Commandments):
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Textonyms Give Mobile Phone Addicts a New Language: a new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets. Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text — changing “cool” into “book”, “awake” into “cycle”, “beer” [...]
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After spending about half an hour a day on Facebook, Bill Gates closed his Facebook account when his incoming number of friend requests (over 8,000!) overwhelmed him. (Via Lifehacker).
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Over at lifehack they have recently compiled a list of the best tools, websites, and advice they know of to help make students. And best of all, it’s all free! Some of this stuff is worth recommending to young people, but a lot of it is worth looking at yourself.
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