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I guess now there’s a Google Bible.
NY Times reports on David L. Wagner’s passion for caterpillars today.
“When somebody tips back a glass of wine, they should be thanking caterpillars,” Dr. Wagner said. “You should be raising a toast.”
The elm spanworm by David L. Wagner.
Business Week Online is all abuzz about Burt Bees. This homegrown, eco-friendly company has been selling their simple all natural products for years. Staying true to their brand, the trends eventually caught up with them. Now Burt Bees has shifted from selling at craft fairs and speciality markets to mainstream. Their website still projects a homegrown feel while still offering cool interactive features.
Jeremy is on St. George’s isalnd but I think his mind is marooned even further away.
I just posted a new, long essay over at Floydville:
Five weeks and two days ago, I received the priceless gift of Izaak’s kidney. Each week my body grows a little stronger, and I feel a little better. Soon I will be back to full strength. Every morning and evening, I record my blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, and temperature. At different times through the day, I take a variety of medications.
Watch out for the pirate lawyers!
I stumpledupon this cool site that lets you program a text message, a time to call, and even the caller id number to call from, allowing you to send your self real time voice messages: so you call yourself tomorrow today. Play with it; it’s kinda cool.
Create stunning masterpieces like Jackson Pollock. Miltso Manetas has created a fun little create-your-own Jackson Pollock page.
If you haven’t been keeping up with the developments in online software, there are multiple options now available for writing documents, creating spreadsheets and even developing presentations that rival PowerPoint. I’ve played with some of these and find them pretty cool and nice alternatives to spending an enormous chunk of cash of productivity tools that come with a bunch of bells and whistles most of us don’t even need.
Here are some of the ones I came across from a simple search and checking folks like TechCrunch.
Zoho offers a whole suite of productivity tools from word processing to spreadsheets to presentation tools and more. Most are free; some have a nominal cost. I played around with the word processing and may start using it myself. It exports as a .doc and other files and has the features I use most.
gOffice offers word processing, desktop publishing, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Writely was recently purchased by Google. They’re not offering new accounts yet, so I haven’t tried it. But you can sign up for an invitation.
ThinkFree comes with a gig of free online space and offers word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. ThinkFree takes a little longer to load but appears to have a bunch of editing tools. Both the icons and toolbar emulate MS Office.
Ajaxlaunch is offering a variety of web world tools including word processing, a sketch program, a video editing program, a soon to come ajax operating system, and more. Plus it has an online forum, so it appears to be creating a little community around these developments. Looks very interesting.
Google Labs is always introducing interesting applications including spreadsheets. One tool that I’ve added to my toolbar that could be helpful for those doing research on the Internet is the Google Notebook. This allows you to capture clips of web pages with links to the page and store them in a folder that is always accessible from your toolbar.
Thumbstacks is an easy tool for building online presentations.
Empressr is also an interesting presentation tool.
If anybody has found other online office tools they like, I’d love to hear about them. Moving between several computers at different locations, I find the online apps makes it very easy for me to work on projects.
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