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These are the bookmarks I created on July 18th, 2008:

• API Overview : Tech Center : NPR - NPR’s API provides a flexible, powerful way to access your favorite NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations.

These are the bookmarks I created on July 8th, 2008:

• django-komodo-kit - Google Code - The Django Komodo Kit intends to various utilities and plugins to enhance productivity while implementing Django-based projects using Komodo Edit or Komodo IDE.

These are the bookmarks I created on May 2nd, 2008:

• Facebook Application Development How-to: 11 Tips You Don?t Want to Miss | Cognition -

These are the bookmarks I created between April 8th, 2008 and April 9th, 2008:

• QIK | Streaming video right from your phone - A streaming video service for mobile phones. It’s still very early in development, but a real cool idea.
• DonorsChoose.org: Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn. - Stephen Colbert says to donate… must donate…
• Helma Javascript Web Application Framework -
• A comparison of Django with Rails | magpiebrain - A good comparison of Django and Rails — very well done.
• Google App Engine - Google Code - Google’s new scalable web service to build apps with python. Pretty exciting stuff…
• a2z WordFinder: Free Dictionary Lookup For Scrabble, Literati, Anagrams, Word Puzzles and Teaching Lessons - A handy dictionary for verifying Scrabble words.

These are the bookmarks I created on February 19th, 2008:

• » Microsoft Giving Away Free Developer Software To Students » InsideMicrosoft-part of the Blog News Channel - This is a great deal for college students, if only for the XNA Creators’ Club membership and Expression Studio, two things I’d LOVE to get for FREE! The list of free software includes pretty much all the major MS dev tools — over $2K of software.
• Gamerscore Blog - Gamerscore blog is one I check regularly and never noticed that I didn’t have a link for it before…
• Newspond - Wow, three new Digg clones in one night! Newspond uses an auto-aggregator (like Techmeme) to gather stories from the Web and presents them based on tags / topics in different categories.
• Mozilla Messaging - Thunderbird should be getting a shot in the arm from Mozilla Messaging, a re-dedicated wing of the Mozilla Foundation that will give specific attention to email, calendars, and various messaging needs. Death to Outlook / Exchange! Viva la revolucion!
• Morphic - Morphic is the evolution of Squeak / Smalltalk. It is being used within Lively Kernel.
• Sun Labs Lively Kernel - Just read a really interesting article about Lively Kernel that made me want to check it out. I am intrigued to say the least.
• Mixx - News, photo, and video sharing - YADC - Yet Another Digg Clone. Mixx has been getting some good press (via other Digg clones especially! haha), so I figured I should check it out.
• Techmeme - Another one for the ‘occasional’ folder…

These are the bookmarks I created between February 7th, 2008 and February 10th, 2008:

• Annals of Crime: Friend Game: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - A terribly sad article about hoaxes and suicides on social networking sites. This touches on several other sad stories I’ve read over the years (Miss Norway, A Rape in Cyberspace, etc.) To me, this represents just how signifcant the virtual life can be.
• etc3 Source - The source code for Erica T Carter’s digital poetry engine.
• A Companion to Digital Humanities - The entire anthology is available for free online. I haven’t read this yet, but it seems like it could be very interesting.
• Machinima from Second Life KLRU Event - This post features a video of the PBS event in Second Life at the virtual Austin City Limits. It was a well-attended event with a high quality audio stream sponsored by KLRU.
• About the Series | Situated Technologies - The About page for what sounds like an interesting series of pamphlets.
• Social Design Best Practices - OpenSocial - Google Code - An interesting list of things that social applications should do. This seems reasonable and useful.
• EPIC-FU - art+tech+music for geeks - A videoblog KThread recommended to me.

These are the bookmarks I created between February 5th, 2008 and February 6th, 2008:

• Second Life’s Must-Have Stuff - I think I should buy a spaceship in Second Life.
• How to Enter the Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time) - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech, art - The winner for best Instructable, Feb 2008.
• People-powered customer service & support for PBS - The Satisfaction page for PBS.
• Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service - This is a cool new site that offers peer-driven customer service.
• FrontPage - IPython - I have used IPython for awhile now. I like it plenty. Just bookmarking for the records…