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This is my Wordle of the most common words I used on this blog in May 2008…

Pledge For Firefox 3.0 Download Day – June 17, 2008

Firefox 3.0, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, is attempting to set a world record for software downloads in a single day. On Tuesday

Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic

This is how I sometimes feel…My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel

Friday Fun Link – Read at Work (and an unrelated story of why Shea is a computer genius) (June 6, 2008)

Read at Work is a site from the New Zealand Book Council that allows you to read classic books, poetry, samples from selected New Zealand authors and more,

Friday Fun Link – Flickr Tag Galaxy (May 30, 2008)

Continuing last week's theme of Jason finding extremely exciting, anything that presents typical linear information in a cool, revolving circular format, I present to you: Tag Galaxy (via

Google X: A Tribute to OS X

Here's some love for you Mac people out there… What if Google modeled its interface on the OS-X one?  I like it and am thinking of changing my

Myers-Briggs and Facebook: Match Made In Heaven?

Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school

Kiva.org

Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world.   (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea

Friday Fun Link – Spectra Visual Newsreader (and Some Thoughts on Some Other, More World-Changing Future Technologies) (May 23, 2008)

Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC.  I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle

YouTomb: A Directory of Videos Taken Down From YouTube

“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (via Reddit)

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