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Nerdery

Forever: This Week's Desktop

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Nerd Alert: January 27th

Sweet Sisters of Splashing Tablet-y Mercy … this is the first Apple themselves have hinted at something new. Engadget has the story …

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My Son on ESPN Magazine Cover

Or your son … or your daughter. Can’t resist. Put ‘em on the cover, or in highlights on Sportscenter.
This was too cool not to share … when was the last time a Kansas City Royal made the cover of ESPN?

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Linus & Luke: This Week's Desktop

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7 Things I Miss Today

Listening to BNL’s holiday record this morning and dancing around the house with my baby daughter, and I’m just kinda sad that Steven Page left Barenaked Ladies. It got me thinking about this stuff on a Saturday morning.
List of Completely Superficial Little Things I Miss by Tim Miles

Barenaked Ladies w/ Steven Page
New episodes of The [...]

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Funnery: Wordle

Take a quick Friday break and paste some text or, better yet, a URL for your (or any) website into Wordle.
It produces a kinda-sorta-word-cloud that’s full of bright colors and stuff. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Here’s one I did for The Daily Blur.
What does yours [...]

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Thankful: This Week's Desktop

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How to Stop Facebook from using your photos in ads

Starting today Facebook will use your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts.
If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings => Privacy Settings=> News Feed and Wall => Facebook Ads => Choose “No one” and save changes.
Here’s a quick video tutorial.

Thanks to Bryan Eisenberg for [...]

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