Gene Weingarten on what happens to you if you watch 24 straight hours of political punditry (it's not pretty)
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Li-Young Lee, "The Hour and What Is Dead," from Rose (1986), read by the author | Poets.org
Li-Young Lee is not only an extraordinary poet, but he's a great reader as well. This poem is not my absolute favorite but hearing it read aloud still gets me a little shaky.
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Tariq Ali on Bhutto's killing and the PPP
Ali, who was both a friend and critic of Bhutto, argues that the time has come for the People's Party to recreate itself as a genuinely democratic alternative. Sounds like wishful thinking to me -- but maybe he's right.
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Twitter Digest: once-daily Twitter updates for the contacts you care about
I'm kind of hooked on Twitter, and I "follow" way more people than I can actually follow. With Twitter Digest, I can get updates from people I know personally in a manageable format.
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DJ Rekha, Basement Banghra micromix
Like music? Like really good music? You have got to listen to this mix. It's the most incredible thing I've heard in a while. The page doesn't seem to work well in Firefox by the way. Try IE.
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Plain text to OPML Generator
In case you often have to turn lists of feeds into OPML files (say, a list of class blogs). Simple cut-and-paste tool. I knew it had to exist somewhere. Via Grazr's list of OPML tools (http://grazr.com/tools)
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Nathan Rein's Superhero Kit!
Fear the mutant guinea pig!
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Philadelphia lolcat
Haha. Sort of funny ... sort of not.
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Monitor Flickr with a Yahoo! Pipe (esp. for Twitter users)
When someone comments on one of my Flickr photos or responds to a comment I made, a new item is posted to this Pipes feed, which I then route through Twitter. Your own comments are filtered out, and inessential text is stripped, so it's ideal for Twitter.
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SignificantLearning.org: integrated course design resources
Information from Dee Fink, the author of "Creating Significant Learning Experiences," one of the better books for faculty on how to reorient one's teaching towards more effective and satisfying student learning.
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eHub: roundup of web-based blbiographic research tools
Good overview of some of the best available tools for doing academic and bibliographic research online. Features LibraryThing, Zotero, and BibMe.
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Non-caustic drain openers -- anyone have recommendations?
I'd like to figure out a way to deal with organic clogs in my drains without using Drano, Liquid Plumr, etc. My pipes are old and made of copper. Will enzymatic cleaners actually break up serious clogs?
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Now, you can make everything taste like bacon!
Bacon-flavored salt. What genius dreamed this up? I'm getting hungry just thinking about the possibilities.
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