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Via Time: Can one person slow global warming? Sure! You—along with scientists, businesses and governments—can create paths to cut carbon emissions. Here is our guide to some of the planet’s best ideas, with an assessment of their impact and feel—good factor. link

• How scientists are simulating a brain, cell for cell
• Why Do We Sleep?
• The Best Exercise You’re Not Doing
• Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn
• With Just Wind, Generate 10,000 kW Electrical Power in Your Backyard
• 10 More Ways to Make YOUR Life More Meaningful
• Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?
• Carl Sagan: toking astronomer says what everyone else is afraid to
• 10 Things You Never Knew About SEX
• Top 20 Historical Myths
• Bees sense quantum fields, and that’s why they are disappearing
• Ancient riddle of the Great Pyramid’s construction solved?
• Calvin (of Hobbes fame) explains Newton’s Law of Motion
• Pressure of Light Can Move Liquid

• FREE Special Effects Tutorials in Photoshop
• 30 Stunning One-Page Websites You Should See
• Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript
• Uni-Form
• Color matching sphere
• Fix your websites URL’s to increase traffic study shows
• 30 Stunning Websites Every Designer Should See
• 15 Javascript Snippets You Can’t Live Without
• 10 CSS Tips to Make Your Life Easier
• Another API enters Google’s roster, this time it’s Picasa
• On PHP and Libraries
• Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me
• Adobe Photoshop CS3: Top 5 Standout New Features
• Collection of stupid quotes made by clients during the Dot Com days.
• Magic lighting effect in photoshop
• What makes a great photo?

Via LifeHacker: “I’ll be talking a lot here in coming weeks about Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen whose apt subtitle is “The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” You’ve probably heard about it around the Global Interweb or have been buttonholed by somebody in your office who swears by GTD. (It probably takes a backseat only to the Atkins Diet in terms of the number of enthusiastic evangelists: sorry about that.)” link

• Color Theory For Developers
• Colorscheme 2
• Colorblender
• Colors on the web
• kuler
• Colorschemer
• Colourlovers
• Colr
• Colorcharts

Via Wiki: The programmes were made over four years by producer Alastair Fothergill and his team, who were responsible for the successful The Blue Planet (2001). The narrator, David Attenborough, worked on them while also embarking on the last in his ‘Life’ series, Life in Cold Blood, which is due for completion in 2008. The series’ music is composed by George Fenton. Filming involved visiting 62 countries and 204 different locations. link

Via Improve The Web: f I mention the word design it’s likely to call up images of creative graphics, artistic layouts, and decorative aesthetics. But is that what design is all about? Are all those fanciful wows necessary to have a successful web design? While design certainly takes aesthetics into account it is just as concerned with the functionality of the thing being designed. read

• Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind
• New Family of Stars Found in Milky Way
• Your Eye’s “Megapixel” Resolution
• The biggest environmental problem: too many people
• free university lectures – computer science, mathematics, physics
• The Reality of Antimatter
• Massive solar storm coming in 2012
• The Human Brain is a Poor Judge of Risk
• Bush Administration Edited Scientific Reports To Downplay Global Warming

• Tutorial: AJAX Made Easy
• IE7 still creating problems for developers?
• 42 Design blogs and sites designers and webmasters need to know
• 3 Simple Solutions for Shooting Against the Light
• The (only) Ten Things to Know About CSS
• Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me
• On PHP and Libraries
• LogoMaid steals logo from SimpleBits

Via Digg and Stanford Magazine: In 1613, Galileo published Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari, his remarkable observations of the sun. On a fall day, 393 years later, Edward Tufte stands in front of a packed hotel ballroom, holding up a first edition of that book.

The room could be in New York, San Francisco, Cleveland or any of the dozens of other cities where Tufte, ’63, MS ’64, teaches his daylong course Presenting Data and Information. Today he’s at the New Haven Omni, just blocks from the Yale campus where he taught for 22 years. Nearly 400 people have come, at $360 a head (half-price for students, and a set of his books is included), to hear the man who has been called the Leonardo da Vinci of data, the Strunk and White of graphic design, the George Orwell of the digital age. link