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Link Round-Up: November 4, 2009

4 Nov 2009  Links

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7 Surprising Kick-Ass Things You Can Do with Google Sketchup – Sketchup is a free 3D modelling tool developed based on the philosophy that by giving people a small set of powerful, intuitive tools, you can lower the barrier of entry to 3D modeling, so that almost anyone can make quality 3D models with just a couple of sessions of practice.

100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek – Here are 100 free resources for expanding your understanding the more advanced intricacies of computing.

101 really useful tips for Mac Beginners – No matter how long you’ve been using a Mac for there’s always more to learn and useful tips to discover.

Bookase.com – an online tool to search and compare price of new and used books among major ecommerce bookstores around the world.

The Complete Guide to Google Wave – This e-book’s complete contents are available for free online. Whet you appetite now for when it’s finally freed from beta.

How to make a district 9 Weapon – It may be a bit late, but this homemade film prop would look just as kick-ass sitting around the house as it would as part of a Halloween costume.

LisThings – This is an excellent virtual desktop corkboard that lets you create Post-It notes that you can see whenever you log into the site.

Spreeder – a free online speed-reading training tool. Paste in your desired text, tell it how many words per minute, and hit play.

Geocities Saved – ASCII has announced that its team has managed to archive quite a large portion of the websites hosted by the now-defunct Geocities.

Discussion

400,000 XO Laptops in Uruguay Cannot be Wrong
Are we becoming a gadget addicted generation?
Calling America’s bluff on Internet gambling
I Kept Playing — The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction
Why is it we don’t have artificial intelligence?

Entertainment

Colbert’s Best Robot Moments
Goodbye GeoCities: 7 Retro Things We’ll Miss Forever
Microsoft brings the Jingle for Bing to schools.

Tech News

Bloggers Mugged by Regulators: The FTC wants to police book reviews on Twitter
Carriers Eye Pay-As-You-Go Internet
The Internet is about to die. Literally die!
Yahoo Hires Lap Dancers For Hack Day, Apologizes

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