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He was one of the world’s greatest, and I love reading about him.  Here is a quote from Wired.com:

“The tiny brick library in Leonardo Da Vinci’s hometown is putting 3,000 pages of the genius’ work online in a high-resolution, searchable archive.

The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus — two collections of scientific and technical drawings — available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.

The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages, creating the most extensive public online archive of Leonardo’s Codes.”

Source: Wired

Are you always a bit tired?  Need a quick rejuivination?  You should consider taking a meditation nap.  Life Learning Today had a good post on this very subject.  They provide an exercise to take a short mental break and give youself a little pep in the middle of the day.

Source: Lifehacker

Now you will be able to access your RSS feeds (and their content) while offline using Google Gears.  Lifehacker posted a synopsis of the new capability from Google: “an application that lets web sites store their data on your local computer using only your web browser. Google Reader is already supported – read your feeds on the plane! – and word on the street is that Gmail and Google Docs is to come.”

Source: Lifehacker