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SourceForge.net: Remote Calendars
Again, trying to get my RTM lists covered. (”After installing this plugin, every Outlook user should be able to subscribe, reload and delete a generic remote iCalendar (RFC 2445) from Outlook 2003/2007. “)
Tags: icalendar microsoft office outlook tools

Your Remember the Milk To-Do List on the Desktop | Third Error
might has well have my lists in front of me …
Tags: productivity tips rtm organization desktop

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To be free, information has to be smart (comments on Chris Anderson’s “Free!”) – O’Reilly Radar
Anderson’s taxonomy of “free” contains six models that justify giving the information away. The idea of “free as in freedom” (that is, open source information in the GPL or CCs style) doesn’t enter at all into his article. I think it’s a crucial omission.
Tags: business web2.0 information intelligent

Office 2.0 Database – My Office 2.0 Setup

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Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student | Edutopia
“They like everything being electronic — it’s speaking their language.”
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Fawnt – Top free fonts | Font – Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign
10.000 + fonts to look at… Maybe you don’t need to buy fonts. [via BBJ]
Tags: design graphics free fonts

Greg Laden’s Blog : Oral traditions effectively warn people about tsunamis and reduce mortality
The stories contained information about how to recognize when a tsunami was about to come, such as falling sea levels, and told how people should take action. That’s the reason why casualties [in 1930] were so low.
Tags: orality literacy tsunami narrative

The science of religion | Where angels no longer fear to tread | Economist.com
“Explaining Religion” is the largest-ever scientific study of the subject. It began last September, will run for three years, and involves scholars from 14 universities and a range of disciplines from psychology to economics.
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3quarksdaily
Much has been made about the waggle dance, a fox trot of sorts that foraging honeybees do to tell their hive mates when they have found a good food source. There is only one problem: Many bees seem to ignore the information.
Tags: nature information bees waggle_dance

Interactions: I’m O.K., My P.C.’s O.K. – New York Times
Individuals interact with communications technologies in fundamentally social and natural ways. We know intellectually that the screen before them is not flesh and blood, but our ability to distinguish person and language-using machine remains faulty
Tags: brains interaction computer social manners

Special issue: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 – FM – Volume 13, Number 3
Web 2.0 embodies a set of unintended consequences: the increased flow of personal information across networks, the diffusion of identity across fractured spaces, powerful tools for peer surveillance, the exploitation of free labor …
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