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  1. Academy will use ranked voting to choose Oscar winners: http://tr.im/IkhD
  2. "Tongue Twisters" - excellent Economist article highlights the diversity of the world's languages: http://tr.im/Ikdw
  3. the story I thought was too macabre to be true turns out to be true: Israel harvested body parts from Palestinians http://bit.ly/5iYAnL
  4. All done with Xmas shopping with 4 days to spare, no adrenaline rush for me this year.
  5. Back in the real world after disconnecting from beautiful Pandora. Avatar is a must-see, a feast for the eyes.
  6. Photo: What global warming skeptics are really afraid of http://tumblr.com/xt14subzv
  7. interesting exercise in future history: "How the US lost the naval war of 2015": http://tr.im/I1sn
  8. interesting list, only read 1/4 of these: "20 best science fiction books of the decade" http://bit.ly/6SK2jQ < @sh4na < @absolutspacegrl
  9. Inês Gonçalves summarizing the iGoogle v2 features: Canvas, OpenSocial and Gadget Dashboard.
  10. at La Finestra, listening to a Google developer talk about the new features in iGoogle.
  11. installing Windows 7 into a VirtualBox. Let's see how good is the new support for 2D acceleration added in VB version 3.1.
  12. "Parlamento Europeu aprova microcrédito para desempregados iniciarem o seu negócio" - fundo de 25M€/ano já em 2010: http://tr.im/HHFw
  13. Language popularity measured by tweets: PHP wins by a long margin, followed by Java, Javascript, Ruby & Python: http://tr.im/HC3v
  14. the Espresso editor (Mac) has built-in support for Zen-Coding and is extensible in Python. Version 1.1 released today: http://tr.im/HBVp
  15. SuperCollider Twitter challenge: 22 music pieces, each done using just 140 characters of code. Amazing: http://tr.im/HtTY
  16. fascinating demo of the SI Tablet, Time's soon-to-be eBook (babes in swimsuits in Lisbon around the 2:30 mark) http://tr.im/HrWh
  17. RT @timoreilly: Explore the galaxy at different wavelengths! Beautiful. http://www.chromoscope.net/ from @jodrellbank via @titforrat
  18. @hugojpinto @iRupeal the BSG writers made the worst possible choice for the 5th cylon, so they could say "U didn't see that coming, did ya?"
  19. awesome video demo of Zen Coding, a plugin for quickly writing HTML using CSS selectors: http://tr.im/HrRc
  20. "Traveling by Cargo Ship Around the World" http://tr.im/HryH