19 Best Apps for IPad & IPhone according to GadgetLab.

@2morrowknight &  @wired recently tweeted: Gadget Lab picks 19 of the year's best apps for iPhone and iPad - http://wrd.tw/eRjk8R #tech /via @wired Check it Out!

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Delicious Bookmarking Site Not Definitely Going Away

According to an article from DigitalTrends blog Dec 20,
(http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/delicious-wont-be-shut-down-says-yahoo...) says that Yahoo, who owns the bookmarking site clarified ​​​​​​​​​​​​its decision that​​​​​ they haven't decided to shutter the service but in fact will try and sell it. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Apparently, Twitter started overflowing with “Save Delicious” statements because of Yahoo's claim “We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months." Yahoo later said it has plans to find a new home for it. Some are saying it’s simply too late for Delicious, and that the fault is Yahoo’s. TechCrunch blogger Jon Orlin, a Yahoo employee for five years, claims he isn’t surprised by the company’s inability to develop Delicious. He questions the strategy or lack there of and said “…when you have ‘the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe’ in a potentially very social product and you can’t figure out how to run it in a lean, innovative and profitable way, it’s a real sign you are in trouble.” He is also skeptical about any buyer of Delicious having success because it will have "missed the boat for the innovative startup." There are many more Bookmarking products these days which are more popular than they were in 2003 when Delicious debuted, and of course this means it’s worth less and also faces some very able competitors. You may like to try Pinboard and Diigo which most likely has importing features for existing Delicious bookmarks you have. For the near future I think I believe Delicious won't disappear in a poof.

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Ways Social Media is Helping the Gulf

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This article shows just a few of the ways Social Media on the Internet is helping with the Gulf disaster. Please check it out.

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Making Fractal Cookies: Mmmm, Math is Yummy!

via evilmadscientist.com

Make a yummy treat for dessert while learning how fractals are constructed. The pattern is known as the Sierpinski carpet pattern. You can make jewelry out of fimo with this technique as well! If we knew making cookies couldhave been this fun and educational, we would have visited this website by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories way before this!

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Mashpedia: A Real-Time Encyclopedia

Makeuseof.com highlights another great resource for doing research on the Internet. Mashpedia is put together by Juan Sosa. It is definitely worth bookmarking for your next big search. Here is what Makeuseof.com writes about it:

 

When we search for information online, we usually read wikis, search results, watch videos, read news and blogs, and sort through social network streams. But wouldn’t it be nice if all of these were located on one seamless page?

Enter Mashpedia, a real-time encyclopedia that aggregates multiple live web feeds about a specific topic and converts them into a structured and easily readable layout.

Mashpedia is a great web tool for those who want to learn something new every day, or for people who want to stay on top of any topic.

Features:

• Aggregates multiple web feeds about a topic.
• Get information from Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, and more.
• Fast and seamless.
• Free; no sign up required.
• View and post comments for each entry.

Check out Mashpedia @ www.mashpedia.com

via makeuseof.com

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10 Simple Google Search Tricks

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There are several ways to search the web more precisely. The New York Times recently highlighted 10 tricks you can use to get more out of a Google search.

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Unsinkable Art

via reflectionof.me

Another example of very innovative, unusual & wacky art. Make sure you check out all the pictures!

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Explorations Of The Deep:10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web

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The "Invisible Web," that part of the World Wide Web that is not commonly searched by our standard search engines such as Google or Bing is estimated by the Library of Congress to be close to containing 91,000 terabytes.
Saikat Basu's article at MakeUseOf.com, quotes a Wikipedia article in which that figure is an increase from close to 3,000 terabytes back in 1997.
When you consider that the 'open' web most people take for granted they have access to is only 167 terabytes, one can finally understand how much of the information and web pages on the Internet are closed to us for most of our searches.
MakeUseOf.com's article tries to help out by shedding the light on some of what they refer to as the Web's "Dark Continent" that Web content unindexed by standard Search Engine Spiders like Google.
They list and describe 10 Search Engines that you may want to try the next time you need to do some deep research that a normal, everyday search just can't seem to dig up.
Here are the 10 resources they recommend getting to know for your research deep diving:
Infomine at http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
The WWW Virtual Library at http://vlib.org/ Oldest Catalog on the Web
Intute at http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Esteemed British Resources
Complete Planet at http://aip.completeplanet.com/ Indexes 70,000 Databases
Infoplease (with it's kid spinoff: Factmonster.com) at http://www.infoplease.com/ Info Portal to Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Biographies, Atlases
DeepPeep at http://www.deeppeep.org/ Beta service indexing databases not normally covered by the standard search engine
IncyWincy at http://www.incywincy.com/ Metasearch engine filtering results of the Invisible Web
DeepWebTech at http://www.deepwebtech.com/ Five Deep Search Engines covering Science, Medicine and Business
Scirus at http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Science Research
TechXtra at http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html Engineering, Math & Computing in Industry
(For more details please see the original Full Article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ )

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We're Fouling Our Own Nest In The Atlantic, Too.

via news.nationalgeographic.com

Just like the Great Pacific Garbage patch written about earlier on this blog ('The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Must Be Addressed' Jan 31, 2010), the Atlantic Ocean has a newly discovered Plastic filled Gyre of its very own.

"National Geographic News" has published an article about the patch which sits hundreds of miles off the North American Coast. In some places, more than 200,000 bits of trash per square kilometer were found by students in the Sea Education Association Semester Education Program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

The patch is described as covering a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia.

See more information about this issue at the "National Geographic's" Daily News website at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbag...

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Alien Sculpture from 1,200 Pounds of Motorcycle Steel

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As an artist who likes to work with found objects for my own assemblages, the artwork from Robosteel out of their Dublin, Ireland art studio appeals to me on many levels. The fact that it is recycled is very positive, but I am sure that as a former motorcyclist it must also have made this have special appeal for me. I am also a sci-fi geek, so the subject of this work, the alien queen from possibly one of the greatest of all sci-fi horror movies, Alien, no doubt also drew me in. According to neatorama.com's blurb about the artists, they were inspired by Picasso's sculptures of found objects.
Link via DVICE

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Searching the Green Web with Green Maven

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Led by a team of mavens from Green MBA at Dominican University of California, greenmaven.com's search engine hosts over 10,000 websites, and their business directory is nearing the 4,000 mark. Use the Hot Searches cloud on their site, read their blog, use their easy directory or just search on a keyword, it's easy. Upon review the team will take submissions of your green site or recommendations as well. Happy Green Hunting!

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Bacteria Bugs Now Eat Trash And Make Fuel Too!

Bacteria Bugs Now Eat Trash And Make Fuel Too! Full Article at HowStuffWorks.com

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Genetic engineering really can do good for the world! Read this article to understand more about plastic recycling as well as an engineered bacteria that can eat it.

Recycling Gets the Gold In Vancouver

Full Article at Scientific American

I always appreciate "Scientific American's" angle on popular topics. This article examines how the medals for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver were made out of recycled electronics waste. No doubt, that's an achievement that should win the 'green' medal in the environmental olympics.

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Extreme Art Ice Sculptures

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Woman's Day magazine has convinced me that 'Extreme Art' needs to be a tag. This stuff is sublime.

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A Spoonful of Sustainability

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Another great idea to help stop the plastic waste buildup:
bamboo utensils! "Ready to Go ware" can help
us reduce our carbon footprint.

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Must Be Addressed

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The world's dependency on plastics has resulted in tangible evidence of pollution. One look at the Garbage Patches in our oceans will convince you of how humans have fouled their home. Read this article to get up to speed on what we can do about it! Also, check out The GP2 project's website at http://www.thegp2project.org for more info!

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Award-Winning Vermont Water Treatment Plant Goes Green.

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The Champlain Water District, which serves 68,000 customers in the Burlington, Vermont region is the largest surface treatment drinking water facility in the state.

The District has won many prestigous awards for innovation in water treatment methods.

Mike Barsotti is the director of water quality and production there. Today he was conducting one of many educational tours he gives of the plant's operations for middle school students at Frederick Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington. He showed them where their plant stores cool air from the lake water they filter. This is then used for air conditioning in the hotter months of the year to cool off the plant thereby reducing their plant's carbon footprint. it is this kind of thinking that will enable our communties and businesses to thrive in a more ecologically smart way. Find out more at their website http://www.cwd-h2o.org/index2.html

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Plant Chic

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Ecouterre's blog lets us know how living plants can make us 'Eco-Chic!'
All I know is that Dorothy will soon be replacing her Ruby slippers with these.
Via George Dearing dot com

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Don't Eat Your Vegetables; Make Art Out Of Them!

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This counts as both a beautiful and scrumptious website. Margaret Dorfman makes these Vegetable Parchment Bowls from fresh vegetables that have been cured, pressed, dried and aged. Then she molds them into bowls which are thin and translucent without chemicals. They seem ethereal and tasty at the same time. I appreciate art that is made from found objects in nature.
You can find more about her artwork at http://www.galleryoffunctionalart.com/dorfman.shtml

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eclectech : petit chaton

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I luv wacky websites & french things: @eclectech 's stuff at http://bit.ly/VTXPM is genius. This is about a girl, a Cat and a big hunk of Brie.

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Something About Organic.

via thedailygreen.com

Is eating 'Organic' always the way to go? No. Check out this article.
via @2morrowKnight, @the_daily_green & @GreenGirls

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Inc Magazine's Green 50 - Forks and spoons made out of potatoes. Cups made from corn

At Excellent Packaging & Supply, it almost seems as if the plates and tableware themselves are the menu.

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When you're done eating your meal, you can eat your utensils for dessert. I like it.

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Biogas: The Way Back To The Future

Maybe Doc Brown wasn't wrong in the movie "Back To the Future" when he said we would find a way to make garbage into energy. Take a look at this really simplistic easy to understand video about it:

Biodigesters are devices that convert animal waste and kitchen trash into biogas which can then be used for heating, cooking or lighting. Developing countries have been helped by these but with the economy the way it is worldwide these days, not to mention our big problem with too much trash (see "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch") more investors are looking into these technologies.

There are some good websites to get yourself knowledgeable about Biodigesters and even how to construct homemade versions so you too can run your household on Biogas!

Check out:

A simple Biogas Calculator, and on CopperWiki, a collaborative wiki for articles to share knowledge about "living consciously." You can find a very good overview here of Bio-Gas.

For extra fun, there really is a Do-It-Yourself project for making a car run on trash, like Doc Brown does to his Delorean in "Back To The Future!" Watch this video to see how it's done: