Lecture – Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams

September 30th, 2007 by brad

My dad sent this link to me. It’s a great lecture from a Carnegie Mellon professor who is dying from cancer. It’s over an hour long, but worth watching even if in bits and pieces.

Source: Google Video

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How and Why to Power Nap

September 14th, 2007 by brad

Lifehacker had a post about napping – how and why to power nap.  While the main link is to Ririan Project on 10 benefits to power napping, there are several other links of interest.

Source: Lifehacker

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Need some research and don’t want to use Wikipedia?

September 14th, 2007 by brad

Check out this list of 20 online references to allow you to ween yourself from Wikipedia.  Of course, who would want to do that? Scholastici.us has a nice list including Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford English Dictionary.

Source: Lifehacker 

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Is Tokyo crowded?

September 14th, 2007 by brad

I saw this on YouTube, you have to see it for yourself. It’s video from a Tokyo wave pool – you can’t even see the water!

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Hack your wireless signal

September 10th, 2007 by brad

Lifehacker had a post from freeantennas.com on how to boost your wireless signal using household products.  Some reported gains of 100%, but others found gains of only 5%.  But of more interest is a link to another post that shows you how to change your router from a $60 to a $600 one by hacking the firmware.  Might be worth a try (at your own risk).

Source: Lifehacker 

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