Category: Miscellaneous
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Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness
From David Pogue, learn about Internet Memes and finally get the jokes. In the olden days, it was simple to keep up with pop culture. There were only three channels on TV, and everybody saw the same shows at the same time. These days, of course, not so much. There are 500 channels on TV,…
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Parallax Scrolling Sites
Web Designer Wall has this list of Mind Blowing Parallax Scrolling Sites. Check them out on your phone and your tablet. Are you taking Web Design, Animation, or Game Programming? Mind bending! Video games and animation often use parallax scrolling technique to create an illusion of depth by moving multiple layers of images at different…
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The Dwindling Power of a College Degree
J.R. Eyerman/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images A drafter at work, 1952. By ADAM DAVIDSON, Published: November 23, 2011, NYTimes The 2012 presidential election can be seen as offering a choice between two visions of how to return us to this country’s golden age — from roughly 1945 to around 1973 — when working life was most…
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Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees
From the NYTimes this morning: Daily Report: Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees | One of the most talked-about articles Tuesday is the revelation that there are not six degrees degrees of separation between any two people, but 4.74 degrees. John Markoff and Somini Sengupta, reporters for The New York Times, write that the original “six degrees” finding, published…
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Picture Your World from a Post
Forrest Mims, one of the 50 best brains in science, according to Discover magazine, writes in his article Record Your World From a Picture Post in this Month’s Make Magazine how to use the details of PicturePost: http://picturepost.unh.edu/ to build a post and take consecutive pictures to record changes every day at the same location,…
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