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Awesome critique of "gamification."
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Video containers, codecs, and conversion.
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Includes standards, editing, and software.
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Nice overview of things like frame rate and aspect ratio. Not file formats, though.
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Nice post by Matt Jones on data mining.
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Syllabus and related resources (videos, readings) for an InfoViz class at Rutgers.
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Brilliant visualizations of data from the largest online dating site.
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Fascinating. I have mixed feelings about this, though. I wonder if people realize how much their online behavior can reveal about them...
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Somewhat more interesting visualizations of library use.
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Art or information? For my IL 2010 talk.
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Chris Jordan's work, inspiring second graders
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For discussion in class.
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For discussion in class.
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For discussion in class.
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Great travel tips!
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Trying to decide if I have time this week to create a WordPress dossier for my promotion materials. This is the theme that Kathleen Fitzpatrick used for hers, and it turned out beautifully.
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Fabulous essay on writing essays. Need to start assigning this to my students in the freshman intro to interactive media class.
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Interesting tool for archiving websites that you cite. I use Zotero snapshots to preserve local copies of webpages that I'm citing, but I'm intrigued by the idea of a public preservation site. FAQ says that "in 2008 they plan to offer premium membership accounts" for institutions and copyright owners. but that dosn't seem to have happened.
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An oldie-but-goodie. Everyone should be required to read it.
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Interesting tool for embedded fonts.
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Got great reviews in TripAdvisor; 50€/night.
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This looks like a really good limoncello recipe. Will probably start making it over the weekend, so that it's ready to give as gifts for the holidays.
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Nice overview of IA by Dan Klyn
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Beautifully crafted slides and argument regarding the perils of poorly conceptualized "gamification".
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Copyright rant.
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Looks like a good replacement for AdBlock. Works in Chrome, too.
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# Male = 88.5%, Female = 11.5% # White = 83.3%, Black = 2.0%, Hispanic/Latino = 2.5%, Asian = 7.5%, Other = 4.7%
# Heterosexual = 92%, Lesbian/Gay = 2.7%, Bisexual = 2.7% -
"According to the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a trade group based in New Jersey, some 80 percent of the designers are White, 4 percent are Hispanic, and 3 percent are Black."
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I wonder if this would work for class chats, instead of the terrible chat interface that our courseware offers. The key thing is that I need to be able to link chat participants to their RIT IDs, even if I allow them to be pseudonymous "publicly".
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Possible funding for RGHS collaboration
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"To my mind, the top down perfect linked data solution and the bottom up re-use of data to build things greater than the sum of their parts will happily co-exist, in the same way that a service like Flickr uses industry standard EXIF data and human-supplied 'folksonomy' metadata and geodata to compile meaningful data about a photo. One is a standard, and the other is subject to uncontrolled synonyms, abbreviations, colloquialisms and misspellings. But together they work."
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(1) this is a very cool development team/process, and (2) I wish we were teaching this stuff to our students. :/
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Great assessment of why this press was shut down--it had nothing to do with the effectiveness of its truly innovative approach to publishing, and everything to do with bad university administration. Quelle surprise...
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Ha! One of my best friends from kindergarten through high school. Looking forward to seeing him in person at our 30th (ack! 30th??) reunion in Buffalo next month.
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Useful examples for 4080-309 next quarter.
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this looks awesome!
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This is an awesome set of guidelines for students, which I intend to make required reading in my freshman survey class this fall.
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Detailed information on Stanford's requirements and recommendations for homeschooled applicants.
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Scoble's interview with LIthium founder on game mechanics used in enterprise community software.
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Could be a way to take what we're doing in "Intro to Interactive Media" and create a toolkit of social technologies for use in similar survey courses.
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Need to think about which LSC projects might be appropriate for funding here.
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Has a new category for "Smart Health and Well-Being", which would be perfect for the project I'm exploring with some doctors in Rochester...
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This sounds amazingly delicious!
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Good basic breakdown of research sources for use in undergraduate classes.
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Interesting collaborative note-taking approach used in a large freshman lecture class. Might be possible to adapt this for use in 295.
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This looks delicious!
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My 3G phone is glacially slow with iOS 4. After I get my new phone I'll do a full reset on the 3G...then if it hasn't sped back up I'll downgrade the OS before I pass it down to Alex.
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Wishing I didn't have to bookmark this. Ah, the joys of teenage children. :/
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Very cool diy alternative to a lava lamp, using inexpensive and recycled materials.
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This is awesome. Trying to figure out if it would work better than bookshelves in the boys' rooms.
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Greg's awesome project for better schedule building.
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Great resource for students. OWL has a huge amount of useful research paper writing and formatting information available.
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I knew my next-door neighbor when I was a kid was a brilliant guy, but I didn't realize he'd essentially invented digital halftoning. Damn.
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Another tutorial on saving PHP session data to a database. Code snippets, but no downloadable code.
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An explanation (with accompanying code) of how to save PHP session data in a database.
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A beautiful set of demos showcasing HTML5 functionality.
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Applications, games, tools and tutorials for the HTML5 canvas element.
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A set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games, using Javascript and HTML 5 only.
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Aha! This is what I was looking for!
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Just what I was looking for! I don't know why this isn't with the plugin itself...
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Good overview
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Overview of SSRN and how it works.
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Gorgeous typefaces evoking old-style movable type. Free for use. I'm in love!
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book-in-progress, in WordPress/CommentPress form.
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Description of the MediaCommons site, "a network in which scholars, students, and other interested members of the public can help to shift the focus of scholarship back to the circulation of discourse."
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good explanation that helped us troubleshoot the problem after replacing the screen on my 3g
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explains the difference between the front glass and the digitizer.
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Hoping this will work with iPads, as well, since we'll have a few in the lab.
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for use in 309 in-class exercise
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MIcah
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Great style tips for those of us who can benefit from slimming tips :)
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This is awesome. Definitely want to use it as part of the healthy shopping/cooking/eating game I'm thinking about.
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An awesomely cool web utility by Greg Koberger. "I made Please Call My Phone because I kept losing my phone in my room, and needed an easy way to find it. The site also has a "schedule" feature, so you could use it as an excuse to get out of a bad date or boring meeting."
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"The ordinary teaching load for the Department is three courses per semester. "
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"Normal teaching load is 2/2."
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Position descriptions indicate that teaching load in most departments is two four-credit courses per semester.
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"Faculty generally teach a mixture of undergraduate and graduate subjects, and occasional recitations. Instructors mostly teach recitations in their first year here, and a mix of recitations and undergraduate subjects thereafter. In teaching load calculations, a recitation counts as 1.5 hours, a regular subject as 3 hours, and leading a large lecture subject counts as 4.5 hours."
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Unbelievable. Homeschooling FTW.
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Fabulous article from Wired UK on the history of and current fascination with the game Werewolf.
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Great presentation from the Meetup team about how they do usability testing.
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Great tool for checking how your web page will look at various screen resolutions. Perfect for use in class.
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The teaching load at Middlebury is specified as "3-1-2" by the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC), with appropriate application by individual departments and the Provost. Colleagues on regular appointment at all ranks are expected to share equally in teaching and advising, including independent and senior work, and to share in the day-to-day tasks necessary for the administration of our academic programs. Middlebury Faculty who are not scheduled to teach during Winter Term are expected to remain available on campus during the month of January.
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"The current load, mandated by the University’s Partnership Agreement with the Governor, is 4.8 “primary courses” per regular faculty. The recent audit carried out by the Bureau of State Audits (BSA), shows that we are in fact carrying a load of 4.9, but it was also discovered that 28% of all UC courses have fewer than six students and 13%, fewer than three; some of the latter group are indistinguishable from independent study. "
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"research-active faculty in departments with graduate programs will teach two courses (six hours), with the remainder of their assignments in research and service. In undergraduate departments, the instructional norm is nine hours of instruction, with the remaining hours designated to research and service."
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IEEE 2010 conference on social computing
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Super-cool class taught by Dan O'Sullivan at NYU's ITP.
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A list of local farms offering organic (free-range, grass-fed) beef and chicken.
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Offers boxes of various grass-fed beef cuts at great prices; ideal if you have a freezer (which we do).
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I think this is an important trend. Will be starting to gather more articles and research on this.
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Government fact sheet on wood and pellet-burning appliances.
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Jon Udell's detailed post on pellet stoves. Very helpful.
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Yum! Kugels galore!
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A lovely little meditation on procrastination. Ze is so awesome. I miss The Show.
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This is only one way that your friends list on Facebook--which is now public information--can be used to find out things about you that you might not want the world to know.
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"Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy."
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Nice overview of the changes. Finally, selective sharing of items!! Yay!
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Brava, Quinn! This is how we're trying to raise our boys, as well. Does everything go perfectly? Of course not. But I think we're making good choices, and helping them learn how to do the same.
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written in 2006, so probably far too out of date for use with drupal 6
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Really nice presentations on the topic; useful for next year's 295 class
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Long blog post by one of our Picture the Impossible players about her experience playing the game.
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Why did I not know about this already? Totally awesome! "On dotSUB you can view, upload, transcribe, and translate any video into and from any language."
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I always wondered about this...
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Nice discussion of how to create good photosynths. A little out of date, since the player is cross-platform now, but the questions about collaboration are still quite relevant.
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A simple but useful exercise for encouraging people to think figuratively about concepts.
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Nice overview of how to create a storyboard for a multimedia project. Targeted at journalists, but useful in many contexts.
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Information on how to use TrueCrypt encrypted drives (which our university now requires for portable backup drives) work with Time Machine on the Mac.
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"There is, of course, nothing socialist in any of Mr. Obama’s policies, as anyone with a passing knowledge of socialism and its evil history knows. But in this country, unlike actual socialist countries, nobody can be compelled to listen to the president. What is most disturbing about all this is what it says about the parents — and the fact that they have such little regard for their children’s intelligence and ability to think."
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A nice piece on how it feels to have anonymous hate mail every time you write you publicly. "All of it is, inevitably, anonymous - people will say stuff in letters and as anonymous commenters that they never would say in person, much less on a telephone....I write this not to complain, nor to Broder-ish case for "comity" and "bipartisanship," but to simply point out that I think there is some truth to the idea that the political discourse in this country has gotten toxically coarse to the point where we're not having any kind of discussion about substance at all."
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We're working on developing a Facebook app for the picturetheimpossible.com game, so you can post information about your progress in the game to your account.
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Wonderful lighthearted (not meanspirited) parody of the OLPC project.
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A four-minute animated video intended to explain Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Azure. Still assumes a bit of technical knowledge, but a good starting point for creating user-friendly explanations of cloud computing (which I need to provide in a workshop on Monday).
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could be interesting to use social media to improve outreach to women
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Very nice site that runs your search through bing, Google, and Yahoo, and gives you the results in three unidentified columns. After you "vote" for the best set of results, you're shown which search engine generated each column.
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Possible costume for one of the game characters to wear during events.
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Instructions for downloading and configuring calendar tools for Drupal 6. I think I'm going to try to set lawley.net up as a Drupal site for the extended family.
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Video reporting on the SCVNGR platform that we'll be using as a part of our game. I'm hugely impressed with their platform.
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Great article by Howard on how to evaluate the reliability of online information, including links to some really useful resources.
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"The cocktail is a lovely simple thing: a mixture of spirits and flavorings that whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the mind." Hear, hear!
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"[Ebay] bought Skype from entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis for $US2.6 billion in 2005, but this did not include a core piece of peer-to-peer communications technology that powers the software." It's hard to fathom how Ebay could have been so stupendously stupid. But the greediness of the original developers is pretty astonishing as well.
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Fascinating case study. Need to take a look at this and see if they're using structured data at all (the way ravelry does).
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"Microsoft is the buy sign, not the sell sign. The people at Microsoft are brilliant and not to be underestimated–history has shown this to be true." I don't often link to Jason, but he's spot-on in this post.
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Wow. Everybody's trying to steal Microsoft's evil these days.
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The discussion of constraints is interesting. Increasingly I feel as though that's the killer feature in social apps.
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Nice resource for web developers; lots of interesting color combinations, in both patterns and palettes.
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Seems to be one of the best overall sites with travel info on Amsterdam. Some nice 1, 2, and 3-day sightseeing itineraries, good practical info on transportation, etc. Wish I'd found it before I left, since it has a nice section of printable resources.
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Excellent guide to how train tickets work in Amsterdam. Better than what the Eyewitness guide offered. (I really wish Offbeat Guides would let me add PDFs to my printed guide, so I could grab pages like this to include.)
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This worked like a charm. (I also disabled a Microsoft .NET related addon that I doubt I need.) Firefox 3.51 on my Asus went from slower than mud to downright zippy.
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Side-by-side search for information about the sleeping pill Ambien. The bing results are considerably better, because the sidebar offered me a direct link to information on side effects, and the top result was an informative Mayo Clinic article.
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Took me forever to figure out how to find my "web services password" so I could have delicious post links directly to my blog. This site finally told me the secret: you have to click on your user name in the MT dashboard, and then "reveal" your webservices password on that screen. Not intuitive, and not well documented at all on the MT site. >.<
