August 2010
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Beautiful Maths Equations for All Browsers →
MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX and MathML that works in all modern browsers.
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25 Hot Safari Extensions →
Great compilation from @macworld for a list of 25 of the best Safari Extension. (via @gruber)
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WatchThe movie about the biggest Social Network and all that “probably” went behind it. Love the tagline ” You don’t make 500 million friends without making some enemies”.
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The Assumption
Read this via @bobulate and it made me realise how many times I have done this myself.
When contacting people for the first time, whether getting in touch by email, phone, or letter, there is no need to reference what you assume to be their context:
“I know you’re probably swamped, but …” “I am sure you’re absolutely busy, but …” “I am positive you have too many emails to read, but …” “I know...
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God's Number is 20 →
If you are into Rubik’s Cube you should be reading this. Optimally you require 20 moves only to reach any orientation.
With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cube™, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves. Every solver of the Cube uses an algorithm, which is a...
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Dying Wave! →
Finally Google bids adieu to Wave.
Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like...