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Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists Friday March 12, 2010 |

/img_bAD5QlpMvt0UhDoSxzTp_0.jpgCalifornia, USA (LA Times): This week we wrote about Google's Translate application and how it could eventually change the way people communicate, overcoming the language barriers that have long separated human populations. Franz...

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org Friday March 12, 2010 |

This has to be one of the many reasons Microsoft has been chastised for the games it plays.... Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011 - Yahoo! News Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011 ...

Blogs Relationships | Friday March 12, 2010 |

The other night a few colleagues of mine were kicking the tires on a somewhat controversial, and widely misconstrued, article that I wrote a while back. The ensuing conversation brought us all to the rather stark realization that we had consistently...

Robin Good's Latest News Online Marketing | Friday March 12, 2010 |

Do top US corporations use social media? Is the business world leveraging new media technologies to engage customers? The answer is definitely positive according to a new research study on 2009 Fortune 500 companies and their use of social media tools, like...

doug - off the record Computers | Friday March 12, 2010 |

It’s been a long week and as I sit and unwind, I come across the Textorizer .  I know that I get overly interested when I play with something over and over.  This was the case here.  The online version is at the link referred to previously and there’s a...

Blogs Self-Help | Friday March 12, 2010 |

Psyngle, a friend of Living Single and frequent poster of insightful comments, recently described an instance of singlism she encountered, and asked me how I'd respond. What I'd like to do first is ask readers what they think. Then I'll weigh in later. (Yes,...

World of Psychology Aging | Friday March 12, 2010 |

You can’t stop it — the natural aging process that ages not only our bodies, but our brains too. Normal aging doesn’t significantly impact our thinking, however. Most people do not suffer from significant memory problems, deficits in...

3quarksdaily Friday March 12, 2010 |

From Seed: In mathematician Steven Strogatz’s recent book, friendship and integrals collide, yielding a math story of unusual poignancy. Long after Steven Strogatz had become a professor at MIT and Cornell, he was still writing letters to his...

The Global Small Business Blog techtip2u | Friday March 12, 2010 |

This week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco , Sony (worth a look!) unveiled a motion controller for the PlayStation 3 (pictured), offering gamers its answer to the Nintendo Wii. It's called the Move and is a rectangular device curved...

Pinyin news Ang Lee | Friday March 12, 2010 |

Er, someone has created Hanyu Pinyin subtitles for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Wòhǔcánglóng / 臥虎藏龍 / 卧虎藏龙 ). They’re in UTF-8 (Unicode) and come in two varieties: one with tone marks (link above), the other without . The latter would...

The English Blog Video | Friday March 12, 2010 |

Their motto used to be ' Don't be evil ', but has Google now become an evil empire?

Langwitches Blog del.icio.us | Friday March 12, 2010 |

SimpleK12 » Blog Archive » I blog, you blog, let’s ALL blog! – Reasons YOU should have a classroom blog! "I see a huge value in incorporating them in your classrooms. I would bet that if you mentioned the idea of a blog in your classroom to your...

BlogHighEd.org Friday March 12, 2010 |

Building the Information Squeezeway Don't Go for the Fool's Gold in Mobile. There is Real Gold for you The Incidental Publisher

3quarksdaily Friday March 12, 2010 |

From Science: Thalidomide ranks as one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in modern history. Prescribed as an antinausea drug for pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it caused severe birth defects in as many as 10,000 children...

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day Friday March 12, 2010 |

WARNING: This one's pure fun! This site lets you write upside down ... ¡uʍop ǝpısdn noʎ oʇ ƃuıʞlɐʇ 'ǝuɐɾ sı sıɥʇ 'ollǝɥ Just type in your text and flip it.  Copy and paste to wherever! Available for English, French, German and Spanish FlipText.net

McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0 Personal Effectiveness | Friday March 12, 2010 |

This brilliant Nike advert which was used in Canada just before the Winter Olympics. Force Fate just says it all

NYC Educator Friday March 12, 2010 |

I know very few jokes in Spanish. But I learned this one yesterday, seriously expanding my repertoire. It's not a pun like the others--so I'll give it to you in English: How can you tell a good lawyer? Well, there are tests.  First, throw a...

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Web Development | Friday March 12, 2010 |

A few weeks ago Todd Hoff over on the High Scalability blog penned a blog post titled MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? where he wrote If you look at the early days of this blog, when web scalability was still in its heady bloom of youth, many of...

3quarksdaily Friday March 12, 2010 |

Smriti Rao in 80 Beats : An international team of researchers has discovered how to extract DNA from fossilized bird eggs–including the eggshell of the enormous elephant bird that went extinct four centuries ago. In a research breakthrough,...

chrisbrogan.com Article | Friday March 12, 2010 |

For this, our next in the Kitchen Table Talks series, I’m going to emphasize a point I was trying to make about business cards: namely, we shouldn’t just hand them out willy nilly. We do it because we’re not sure what else to do. But we...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog Friday March 12, 2010 |

YouTube - Social Networking: Horizon Project Excellent social networking video from the archives of FlatClassroom projects. Demoing this at MACUL. tags : education , digitalcitizenship , bestpractices Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will...

Science of the Invisible Tagging | Friday March 12, 2010 |

The Digital Researcher: Managing your networks and building your profile A.J. Cann, Science of the Invisible

3quarksdaily Friday March 12, 2010 |

Andrew Romano in Newsweek : Late last week, President Barack Obama announced that he would be appointing a gentleman named Edward Tufte to the independent panel that advises the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (i.e., the team of...

Occasional rants Friday March 12, 2010 |

A couple of years ago, in this posting , I discussed an example of what David Jonassen calls "technology as intellectual partner". What this means is: ...when students work with computer technologies, instead of being controlled by them, they enhance the...