SurfFoo for April 11th
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Gems from the Web:
- Witty Comics - Make a Comic - Make your own comic strip. Online. And free.
- 100 Million iPods and still going strong - Since the first iPod was introduced = 50,327 iPods sold per day since launch
- My Photo Booth Photo Blog » Why does the art die? - I decided to gather my thoughts in one and come up with the problem. And the problem is: the crucial moment in history of photography we are living these days: its end.
- It?s good to be back - I thought that Yvonne had stopped blogging for good, but out of the blue, a great writer is back again.
- Top 100 font downloads - Great selection of fonts, most of them free for personal use.
- The Fastest way to find High-Quality Freebies on the Web - Finding High Quality free files on the internet is every designers daily dilemma. Sometimes you don?t have the time to make your own swooshes, or seamless paisley background image. This is why we search, and from my experience, the search can be brutal.
- Film Exclusiv Agregator - RSS feed for film related content
- WordPress NiceAdmin Plugin Version 1.0.0 Released - It doesn?t change the usability or functionality of WordPress whatsoever, it just makes it a little easier to look at! Hope you like it!
- Can I get my money back, Wikipedia? - Now Wikipedia is adding nofollow to all external links. That basically knocks out a very key referrer to my blog, so no doubt I will lose search engine placement due to the decision.
- Ten Things You Shouldn?t Buy New - Some things are best purchased new ? lingerie pops to mind ? but lots of other stuff depreciates quickly while still having plenty of useable life left. Here are ten items where the cost vs. use equation strongly tilts toward buying used.
- The TV Is Dead. Long Live the TV - On the 80th anniversary of the first long-distance TV broadcast, the industry that evolved out of it is under siege. Old rules — defining who, where and what to watch — are collapsing, making room for new ideas and talent on air and online.
- Tactile 3D maps could help blind people navigate - A team of researchers at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece have created a system that can convert video into tactile, three dimensional maps designed to help blind people navigate.
- iPod saves soldier’s life - Wouldn’t have worked with a Zune, apparently
- Apple TV hacked for RSS and emulation, plus bounty for USB drive support - Engadget - The Apple TV has received two new abilities in its second week of availability thanks to a couple of new hacks: one, a fully functional and integrated RSS reader, and two, video game emulation for NES, SNES, N64, and Sega Genesis game consoles.