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Happy Anniversary to Calvin and Hobbes! 
Stacy via Neatorama on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Happy Anniversary to Calvin and Hobbes! It was November 18, 1985 (I know, I’m a day late), that the precocious little boy and his sage stuffed tiger/real tiger first hit comic pages across America. So, I thought I’d hit you guys with a little C&H trivia… I know, it’s not nearly enough to fill the void Bill Watterson has left us, but it’s a little something.
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
(unknown author) via Gmail Blog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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I'm gonna stick w/ original flavor.
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineerGmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching toda
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(unknown author) via garfield minus garfield on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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Creative Qiyaam-ul-Layl Alarms
Ilm Seeker via Ilm Fruits on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Bismillah.
We all know that we should pray tahajjud, aka qiyaam-ul-layl. It's well established in the deen that this is a very, very rewarding thing to do (but it's not fard, so don't sweat it if you're not doing it). Some motivational factors for t
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12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
Chris Coyier via Smashing Magazine on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
by Chris Coyier
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, yet so many websites suffer from poorly written markup.
Let’s take a look a
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Calling All Map Geeks
Clark Williams-Derry via WorldChanging on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Cool site. Visit now.
Go here. Now.
Or maybe don't, if you don't want to get sucked into a vortex of clever map awesomeness.
This tidbit was origin
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GEOS: The Graphical Environment Operating System
(unknown author) via osnews.com on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
When you think of the history of our modern day operating systems, they are either the works of individuals and volunteers based on technical ability and software beliefs, or the work of large corporations employing many programmers. Rarely is the history of an OS based in the vibrant gaming era of the 1980s.
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(unknown author) via garfield minus garfield on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
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How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works [Cnn Hologram]
Jason Chen via Gizmodo on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
CNN's holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 de
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A Drop of Joy
(unknown author) via Between Dusk and Dawn... on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
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Alhamdulillah.
What is joy? Can you define happiness? Measure it? Can you assign it an absolute value?
No.
Can you find real happiness in wealth, estates and other luxuries a
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AOL’s Snarky Open Letter to GMail
(unknown author) via Cynical-C Blog on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
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"I don't care what anyone else says, AOL is great. What other company lets you send mail on the internet for free???"
I love the comments responding to the letter.
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Are the Canadiens a religion?
(unknown author) via www.nationalpost.com on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
Olivier Bauer, a theology professor at the Université de Montréal, is teaching a course that argues that the Montreal Canadiens are a religion.
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Traveling by zip-line
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
It's no secret that we have fun finding innovative solutions to big problems. Recently, some fellow software engineers and I applied this to a couple of extracurricular activities.In mid-August, Google moved into a new building in Mountain View, just west of our main campus in Mountain View, CA. Unfortunately, dinner was only available on main campus,
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How to Irritate By Email
Amy via Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
I'm sure the rest of you have plenty of useless email you have to sort through daily--a couple vide
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(unknown author) via garfield minus garfield on Mon, 13 Oct. 2008
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7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design
feketeg via Smashing Magazine on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design.
This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), but also the plannin
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The Goodness Remains
tawheedfirst via Tawheed First on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
If the fasting of Ramadaan comes to an end, then indeed the voluntary fasting is still prescribed throughout the entire year, and all praise is due to Allaah.
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How to Receive Allah’s Special Mercy
AmatulWadood via Ilm Fruits on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
Bismillah
We know that Allah ta'ala Name's Ar-Raheem is specifically for the believers, so how is it that one can receive this special Mercy from ar Raheem?
Obedience to Allah and His Messenger. "and obey Allah and His Messenger so that you all may receive Mercy." [3:132]
Taqwa of Allah ta'ala,
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Letting dead people do your work
Roy Jacobsen via Writing, Clear and Simple on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Last night I watched a video of a presentation called “Idea + Square = Origami,” by Robert Lang. Lang said one thing that made the audience laugh, but jumped out at me: The secret to productivity in so many fields, including origami, is letting dead people do your work for you.
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