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Now do this is a super simple new take on the to do list. Web-based, of course. [via MoMB on twitter]

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Let’s not forget this. Slide by Kevin Kelly. Photo by Thomas Marban.

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Happy birthday to Jack Dorsey. Thanks for the miracle of Twitter. Have a look at Jack’s original notepad sketch of Twitter. (via @bs on Twitter)

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Jessica might have twittered it, but we know we all do it.

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ViewAt.org has captured the dream of seeing full-screen panoramas easily through a web browser.  No more slow QTVR movies. People can upload their own panorama photographs and select a Google map location. See for yourself at ViewAt.org. Thanks to Bloggersblog’s tweet for the tip.

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If you’re tired of big bloated expensive software running on your computer, take a look at TinyApps where “small is beautiful.” The site’s been around for a few years and offers numerous resources for software for internet, text, graphics, files, Palm, OSX and Windows.  What’s a tiny app?  “As defined by this website, a tiny app (application) is software weighing 1.44mb or less.” Almost all the programs listed on the site are free. Miles Wolbe, an I.T. consultant in Maui, is the creator. We love that he has a Green Award for software which “doesn’t require installation, doesn’t write to the registry, and does not create or modify files outside of its own directory.” Not just that, but he’s also environmentally-conscious in real life.  His answer to “what is the single most helpful thing I can do for myself, my fellow beings, and the planet?” Go vegan.

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Sometimes a site’s palette just doesn’t work for you, or you might have special eyesight or color blindness that makes reading on dark colors difficult.  As a web geek, I’ve been using my trusty “toggle CSS stylesheets” browser favelet from Tantek to strip the site of all styles, returning it to a state of default black font on a white browser background. Alex Payne’s twitter above leads to the Zap Colors bookmarklet posted on Russell Beattie’s blog. Zap Colors also makes the text on a page black and the background white but keeps the style formatting of the original page.

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Andrew Mager reminds us of the origins of the WorldWideWeb by posting this link to Tim Berners Lee and R. Cailliau’s original proposal for the WorldWideWeb. It’s been 17 years since they wrote this.  “HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already available at CERN.  The project has two phases: firstly we make use of existing software and hardware as well as implementing simple browsers for the user’s workstations, based on an analysis of the requirements for information access needs by experiments. Secondly, we extend the application area by also allowing the users to add new material…

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