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Free Nature Sounds

Elaine — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:54:14 +0000

The Free Nature Sounds site not only provides a several nature based sounds, but allows you to mix them and make a sound file to download to your PC.

Google Celebrates Tchaikovsky’s 170th Birthday

Elaine — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:19:46 +0000

More about the composer.

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account

Elaine — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:52:31 +0000

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account. I particularly like reason #6. Reason #5 is also very good.

Happy Pi Day

Elaine — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:07:05 +0000

Google celebrates Pi Day (3.14).

Fullscreen Weather

Elaine — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:02:32 +0000

Weather Underground is providing a new full screen weather map new fullscreen map application.

Click on fullscreenweather.com and enter your area code. If you use Firefox or a similarly behaving browser, press F11 for an even bigger map. (Press again to restore your normal screen.)

Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking

Elaine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:22 +0000

The Electronic Freedom Foundation is researching individual browser configurations to see how unique they are at Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking. I wasn’t surprised to find out that my configuration is unique since I run Google Chrome on a Linux system. What did surprise me was learning that websites know what plugins I am running. They also provide a Primer on Information Theory and Privacy.

Make a monster

Elaine — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:01:28 +0000

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Make a monster is a fun flash application which allows you to assemble body parts into a monster.

Google Dashboard

Elaine — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:16:21 +0000

Do you ever wonder how many Google services you use. Google Dashboard will tell you after you enter your Google account password.

Google Doodles

Elaine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:59:07 +0000

Tired of missing Google Doodles? Doodlewatch has a chronological log of the graphics displayed on the Google site. I’ve linked to the filter for the logos seen in the United States, but there are other filters for other countries.

Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Elaine — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:40:41 +0000

Our conclusion? These new “privacy” changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.

via Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account, pending changes to Facebook’s Privacy Policies.