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8 Things That Suck About the iPad – apple ipad – Gizmodo. I don’t mind the bezel, but I agree with everything else. I mean, what? No camera? No Flash?

But it still looks pretty awesome.

Why Twitter is great in the classroom. A great article with a nice set of videos and some good tips on using Twitter in class.

From Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom

Learnlets » What does the 20th year of the web mean?. A thought piece from Learnlets, Clark Quinn. And an infographic via Dataviz:

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1 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix.
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
3/4 cup vegetable oil.
4 large eggs.
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3/4 cups butter or margarine.
1&2/3 cups granulated sugar.
2 cups all purpose flour.
Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish shaped crackers.
Fish shaped candies.
Fish shaped solid waste,
Fish shaped dirt.
Fish shaped ethyl benzene.
Pull and peel licorice..
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment.
Candy coated peanut butter pieces, Shaped like fish.
1 cup lemon juice.
Alpha resins.
Unsaturated polyester resin.
Fiberglass surface resins.
And volatile malted milk impoundments.
9 large egg yolks.
12 medium geosynthetic membranes.
1 cup granulated sugar.
An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'.
2 cups rhubarb, sliced.
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb.
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb.
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb.
3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.
1 large rhubarb.
1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb.
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice.
Adjustable aluminum head positioner.
Slaughter electric needle injector.
Cordless electric needle injector.
Injector needle driver.
Injector needle gun.
Cranial caps.
And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor
control chemicals. That will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

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Here’s the full recipe video:

and another:

Here’s one that you could eat (not tried it myself, but it looks good and doesn’t contain the cranial caps and cross borehole electo-magnetic imaging rhubarb) click for edible Portal Cake recipe.

‘The Cake is a lie’ meme explained

Portal is still my favourite game. I <3 GLaDos

ClipSpeak. Simple text-to-speech tool. Sits in the system tray and ’speaks’ any text you highlight can and copy (Ctrl C). Only comes with one voice, Microsoft Sam, who sounds a bit rough, but you can add other voices.

It’s fully portable too. I’ve not tried it on a thumb/flash drive, but it should work ok.

Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme. A site that lists all the known internet memes and explains what they’re about.

[edit: oh, the fun... hours of it. Well worth a few minutes/hours]

Transparency: Benefits and Best Practices | UX Booth. This is a great bunch of best practice examples of personalising websites by making the authors visible, and so rendering the company they represent more human.

via Boagworld podcast. The same podcast has a good feature on Google Analytics.