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O’Reilly Radar > Distributed Proofreaders Completes 10,000th Book

Today Distributed Proofreaders (DP) posted a package of texts that takes us over 10,000 completed titles. I’m very proud of our community of volunteers who have accomplished this beautiful number. The 10K package (listed below) showcases the wide range of our volunteers’ interests and talents. For those of […]

File this under “weird dudes”!
From ABC News, we hear of the man who is out to restore ski masks to their pristine crime-free glory!

Kevin Lambert, 31, got the idea in 2005 after he walked out of a local package store and slipped on a ski mask for an impromptu photograph. A passer-by, fearing the store […]

Some of the people who were researchers for the defunct Google Answers service have now banded together to offer the world UClue.

Like Google Answers, Uclue is a paid service - you pay an amount and you get the answer. Only folks who were researchers for Google Answers can be UClue researchers - which is quite […]

Isn’t that hotness itself? I can’t wait for these bamboo-ed notebooks to be available - to hold one, feel one - wow! I am tired of the plastic and metal beast I use. The ecobooks are made partly of bamboo. There is an led indicator that goes from green to red if you are running […]

Take a look at this March 2007 Calendar to see what I mean. Pretty neat idea for those with writer’s block - a pithy sentence or phrase that will get your creative juices flowing. I stumbled across this during my evening walk.

Enjoy.

Ever wondered what a page would look like without that image/block of text/header? When designing pages, and when in doubt regarding whether or not to have something on your blog/webpage, it might be useful to be able to check what your page would look like without the item in question.

Javascript comes to the rescue. To […]

Now I see the truth behind my father’s saying that all I need to stop smoking is a strategically placed smack to the head!

Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting that an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit, effectively erasing the most stubborn […]

Profitable Marketing: McDonalds, Starbucks and Now is Time for Chipotles Growth Strategy is a look at how Chipotle focuses on word-of-mouth marketing to popularize itself.
Chipotle’s website is minimalist and a lot of fun, too. Their food is better. There is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing, that I crave more than their burrito-in-a-bowl. I […]

Brian Fitzgerald write about his 25 years with Greenpeace
Maybe all they had to give was a few bucks. But a few bucks would buy a spark plug. And a spark plug would fire an engine. And an engine would drive an inflatable boat into the path of a harpoon. And those two bucks would be […]

Made With Molecules sells jewelery shaped like molecules. Wonderful gift idea for that science graduate student in your life, or, as in my case, for my significant other who is science-friendly.

A selection of items on sale:
serotonin necklace
dopamine necklace
focus necklace
neurotransmitter earrings
estrogen jewelry
caffeine jewelry

Set up an Invisible Book Shelf for yourself. Of course, the
key to it is that you butcher a book that you don’t want anymore, but all in all, it is a pretty cool effect.

If someone is copying your content and putting it on their website without your express permission, you have every right to complain to Google. You complaint has to follow the prescribed form. In searching for how to report a violation, where someone was copying and reproducing stuff from another blog of mine on their “re-blog” […]

Everybodys talking, but no one says a word - John Lennon
In offices and schools all around the developed world, people talk more online and less offline, and so John Lennon turns out to be a visionary ahead of this time.

I read the quote at this article that describes one editor’s effort to stop using […]

The blur effect you see in the ad is for real - the billboard uses GE Lexan EXL Semi-transparent Resin to blur whats behind the billboard, regardless of weather, season and lighting. See Ian Hart’s page for details. Ian was the guy who designed the ads. The ads take the cake for creative use of […]

Pizza Party is a command line tool for linux for, hold your breath, ordering pizza from the command line!

Pizza Party has many features to make ordering pizza easy:
* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch […]

Otto Frank—who survived the Holocaust by living out Auschwitz—was trying to save his wife Edith, his mother-in-law Rosa Hollander and his daughters Margot and Anne. The 80 letters how his effort to get out of Holland, and how he failed in doing that. These letters were just released and became common knowledge.

Had he got out, […]

The girls of engineering calendar was produced with current and past engineering students from the University of Illinois posing in ridiculous poses - none of which are really nude, but all of which are supposed to be sexy.

You can buy the calendar for only $12.95 - I am wondering who’d want to. You can also […]

We’ll explode in year 2 as we revolutionize the way America reads.
Joe Wikert interviews George Burke, who owns, or works for BookSwim. I had written about Bookswim (Bookswim: Netflix for Books) earlier. This interview puts some things straight - like how they plan to fix the problem of super heavy books and their postage. The […]

As I was driving home yesterday, I heard something on NPR about how America’s national debt is blossoming — it was just a sentence or a phrase in a newscast, but it got me thinking.
Today, I looked up the statistics for the External Debt of Nations. My hypothesis, made while driving the car, was […]

Go to Yahoo.co.uk and search for “Buy Viagra”.
So Yahoo! UK thinks Google sells viagra. Another possible explanation is that Google is the secret hand behind all the Viagra spam we get everyday - all part of a secret conspiracy to set up a new operation where Google provides you with the drugs, regardless of geographical […]