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Wordle could possibly be the most fun (and dare I say potentially useful) internet tool I have found in recent days. It "turns any block of text into a word cloud -- like a tag cloud but prettier" (via TED). I thought the best way to test things out would be to take some random Dwight facts from Dunderpedia and let the wordle machine do its mojo...below is the fruit of my experiment.
See it here at the wordle gallery and then go play for yourself
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"Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections.
And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake."
Last Thursday, my hard drive died. Not crashed. Died. Forever. Dead. Gone.
I had backups in several places but hadn't backed up my Entourage user data in a long time. And, the backup I made of my Entourage user data in November-- for whatever reason refuses to work. So, unless someone can help me resurrect this backup I have from November, I have lost every email I wrote and received since July. If that makes you shudder, imagine how it makes me feel...
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IMPORTANT:
If you're waiting on email responses from me, please resend your email. And, if you emailed me for the first time in the past few weeks (on any account) and haven't heard a response from me, please resend your email.
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Consider this a friendly reminder to back up everything you have right this minute.
And, because I need the laugh, I thought I would conclude by sharing Michael Scott's terrifying experience with technology...I've actually never felt more like him than I do right now.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE:
As I threw my keyboard in the trash this afternoon, I thought I should pull it out and give it one more try. I'm typing on it right now. And, the fifteen minutes of testing I have subjected it to have been flawless. Hilarious! I'll let you know if it goes on the fritz again...but I think Jason jinxed me by suggesting this was God's way of providing a new bluetooth keyboard.
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I've had a few people tell me that they were waiting on the results of my keyboard bath before they made the plunge for themselves. So, here you go...
The keyboard looks FANTASTIC! More white even than I expected.
The keys feel nice and tactile — not brand new, but much more responsive than they did before I washed it.
I let it dry for a full seven days.
There's only one problem...
MY KEYBOARD NO LONGER WORKS!
That's not entirely fair or correct. The washed keyboard works. It works like an eight year old kid running on zero sleep, without their medications, and hopped up on sugar and red bull...which is to say, not so well. The command key now does any number of things without any discernible pattern. Some keys don't work at all, others work sporadically, and others work perfectly.
Lots of others have tried this successfully, so don't let my failure discourage you. You never live until you try, but in the future I'll stick to my geeky alcohol swabs and bottled air. And I'll be heading to my box of old computer junk to dig out an old keyboard!
via: geekculture
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I got mine this morning...for the rest of you, there's iPhone Countdown
Apple is Giving 30-day Free Trial of Aperture 1.5
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Drew Goodmanson and Monk Development have recently introduced Sermon Cloud. Here is a brief description:
For the Community: Sermon Cloud is a website for a community to interact with sermons. What are the powerful sermons people are listening to? Who are the up-and-coming preachers of the day? Where are the messages about themes that you need to hear? How can you find a great preacher in your home town? Sermon Cloud was designed to help you with all of these questions.
For Churches and Preachers: Sermon Cloud offers churches FREE Advanced Sermon Syndication & mp3 services. Are you interested in podcasting, syndicating and using all the other 'Web 2.0' buzzwords for your church? Sermon Cloud Features include Resampling mp3’s to be optimized for the internet, Syndicating content (Integrating directly into iTunes store, syndicating through RSS feeds.), Displaying recent sermons on your church website, Podcasting mp3, Sermon Streaming capability in our Jukebox player, Tagging System, Commenting on sermons, Community recommending sermons, Searching for sermons and more...
I think this is an excellent idea and look forward to seeing churches implement technologies of this kind. Click here to create an account and get started.
Be sure to check out Ekklesia 360, the power behind Sermon Cloud, if you haven't already. Ekklesia 360 is "designed from the ground up around best-of-class technologies, which allow churches to leverage the online medium for their community and communicate their vision to the world." if you haven't already.
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Jimmy Wales @ TED. Jimmy is the founder of wikipedia (here is his wikipedia entry coincidentally). He explains the goal of the wikimedia foundation, how wikipedia functions, how much it costs to run, and why it has been successful.
"Wikipedia begins with a very radical idea..."
Wales then addresses the issue-- if you begin with such a radical idea, how do you end up with an encyclopedia that's not total rubbish?
Download the audio | Download the video
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Is Jesus the Next Killer App? Greg Sandoval (CNET)
LAS VEGAS--Tech companies are getting religion.
Companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Avid and Hitachi are helping churches spread the gospel as part of an effort to cash in on an exploding market known as "house of worship technology."
In recent years, members of the clergy have begun competing with MTV, video games and the Internet by jazzing up sermons with image magnification systems and large-screen video displays, a la Apple Computer's Steve Jobs at a product launch. The trend has evolved, and churches now are Webcasting to distant parishioners with sophisticated multicamera operations and pumping up the volume inside worship areas with state-of-the-art sound systems.
(full article)
Vatican Radio Employeed Present Pope With Specially Loaded iPod Nano
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a brand new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music.
To honor the pope's first visit to the radio's broadcasting headquarters, the radio's technical staff decided the pencil-thin, state-of-the-art audio player would make the perfect gift.
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