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Most, but not all, of these sites were created with Tumblr, a dead-simple two-year-old blogging tool that has swung open the publishing industry for anyone with a gift for snark and lots of extra hours to kill. Tumblr includes several stylish themes that obviate the need for designing anything yourself, and it comes prepackaged with templates for different kinds of posts—it makes your photos look different from your videos, which in turn look different from quotes you pull from other sites, etc. In other words, Tumblr lets you create a great-looking blog in two minutes flat.
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Very cool Slate article on single-topic blogs (This is why you’re fat, Look at this fucking hipster, etc.)
I’ve always dug community-driven curated blogs like this (probably starting with Cute Overload back when the internet was invented). We’ll be launching some new community blogging tools this week that I’m really excited about.
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Steam price comparison script
The tiers:
Tier 1
Albania; Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Ireland; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Netherlands; Sweden; Switzerland.
Tier 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Malta; Monaco; Montenegro; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; San Marino; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Vatican City.
Tier 3
Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania.
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
“Entitled mediocrity”. Brilliant.Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers.
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I have the occasional hobby of hollowing books, filling them with things and giving them to people; it’s a nice, relaxing AFK activity for when I want to listen to podcasts and keep my hands occupied. One time I took pictures of the process to share some pitfalls and techniques I’ve picked up or developed, in case you would like to try it sometime. Here they are!
The Head of Kindle DRM - Not That Ugly. Maybe.
So Here Is The Bottom Line – (I think…)
According to the last customer representative spoke to…
You are able to redownload your books an unlimited number of times to any specific device.
Any one time the books can be on a finite number of devices. In most cases that means you can have the same book on six different devices.
Unfortunately the publishers decide how many licenses, that is devices, a book can be on at any one time. While most of the time that will be five or six different devices there will be times when it’s only one device.
At the present time there is no way to know how many devices can be licensed prior to buying the book.
Meanwhile, I’m left with this conclusion: if you’re not encrypting your data, you should be. And if you are encrypting your data, you need to figure this stuff out, before you get hit by a bus and doom your digital life to crypto oblivion.
— Tales From the Encrypt (via heilemann) (via inky)
working at 37signals
A great article from one of the newest members at 37signals, Jason Zimdars describes how much he’s enjoyed his new job and the changes that he had to make.
So it has been great to join a company that knows how to work with a widely distributed team. As you might assume, communication is the key to making the team effective and productive.Why does 37signals do such good work? One main reason is clear in this article: they eat their own dogfood. The tools they build are the tools they use. How better to understand what your customers want/need then to use the tools you offer them to run your own business?
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So, you want to be a Gmail ninja?
We know time is valuable, so we asked lots of Googlers for their tips and tricks on how they make the most of Gmail, and we combined the best of these into a guide at www.gmail.com/tips, cheekily entitled “Become a Gmail Ninja.” The tips are categorized into ninja belts (white, green, black and master ) based on how much mail you get each day.This one is great for sorting purposes when registering on shady sites:
Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.
You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, or forward to another email account.
If you ever find yourself stressing out over learning a foreign language, just be glad you don’t have to learn English as a second language.
— Ten Reasons Why English is a Hard Language (via inky)
Thanks for rubbing it in, Inky. Danish and Japanese is worse, though.
NASA criticised for sticking to imperial units
inky:
NASA’s decision to engineer its replacement for the space shuttle using imperial measurement units rather than metric could derail efforts to develop a globalised civilian space industry…
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brit:
Sweet, testing it now.
