Links for 17-09-2007
Northwest Passage thawed out, Jodrell Bank cinema, bomb-sniffing bees, writing and blogging tips and tricks …
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1 – How to Get Traffic and Links from Popular Blogs: Networking and Email Pitching
Does what it says on the tin.
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2 – Arctic thaw opens fabled trade route
“The Arctic’s sea covering has shrunk so much that the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route that connects Europe and Asia, has opened up for the first time since records began.” Astonishingly bad news.
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3 – Jodrell Bank Telescope To Become Largest Cinema Screen On The Planet
“This October, Jodrell Bank Observatory will present a unique spectacle as the iconic Lovell radio Telescope briefly becomes the largest cinema projection screen in the world!”
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4 – How To Improve Your Publicity Design
“Freelance designers who specialize in marketing materials are in high demand. As a result, freelance promotions designers can make a lot of money. So what specialized skills do you need to be a publicity designer?”
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“The purpose of note-taking is simple: to help you study better and more quickly. This means your notes don’t have to contain everything, they have to contain the most important things.”
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6 – 20 Surefire Ways To Beat Writer’s Block
Some good tips here that I’d not heard before.
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7 – Science in My Science Fiction: Come to the Dark Side
“I’m a scientist, a professional astronomer, who writes hard science fiction. I wish it weren’t called “hard” because that makes it sound difficult, when it’s more fun and understandable than most people think.”
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8 – Trained Bees Sniff Out Bombs
“Inscentinel is a company [that] takes bees, yeah the real live stinging sort, and straps them down onto a cartridge inside a portable vapor detector.” Surely a spoof. Surely. On the basis of the company name alone.
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9 – Very Young Children Can Step Into The Minds Of Storybook Characters
“In essence, rather than looking at how children are able to tell stories, [the study] looked at how children understand stories, and whether, like adults, children build up a ‘mental model’ of the story…”
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10 – Handy WP Plugin: Customize Your WordPress Login Page
“Thanks to the kind souls over at BinaryMoon, it’s now relatively easy to make a custom skin for your WordPress login page that won’t get over written during an upgrade, because it comes in the form of a plugin.”
