Links for 07-03-2008
Free icons; free-thinking readers; virus eats brain cancer; starlings get sexier due to pollution …
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1 – 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
Some better and less schmaltzy than others, but you can’t sniff at free, folks.
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2 – Stephen Page: The free-thinking reader is not dead, but found online
“… publishers must harness the great power of online networks through enriching reader experience. We must provide content that can be searched and browsed, and create extra materials – interviews, podcasts and the like.”
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3 – A Viral Attack against Brain Tumors
“… researchers at Yale University have found that a virus that’s in the same family as rabies effectively kills an aggressive form of human brain cancer in mice.”
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4 – Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs
“… the polluted male starlings sang songs of exceptional length and complexity — a birdsign of reproductive fitness. Female starlings preferred their songs to those of unexposed males, suggesting that the polluted birds could have a reproductive advant
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5 – Single character commenting
“It’s a pretty common practice to comment and uncomment big chunks of code during the development and testing of software. Here’s an odd little hack from the ajaxian blog that can make this a little easier”
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6 – Avoid Keyloggers with Neo’s SafeKeys
“When you’re in a shady internet cafe in Bangkok and you’re worried about rogue software logging your passwords as you type them, you need a USB drive with Neo’s SafeKeys on it.”
