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• LiveNewsCameras.com - Watch Live Streaming News From the USA & World - Beta Version
  Get streaming news video from TV stations around the world.
  (tags: news video)

• Information Design Patterns
  A whole batch of patterns for displaying information.
  (tags: design visualization information patterns)
• John Templeton Foundation : Natural Sciences,Human Sciences,Philosophy and Theology,Character Development,Freedom and Free Enterprise,Gifted Education,World Religions
  A foundation that’s new to me. “Supporting Science - investing in the big questions.” I like the tagline.
  (tags: development entrepreneurship funding)
• Track Your Gas Mileage with FuelFrog
  An easy online way to track gas mileage. Like the integration with Twitter.
  (tags: twitter gas)
• WebAssist Professional - Web Pro Center
  Good, free Dreamweaver training vids from WebAssist.
  (tags: dreamweaver)
• Videos and Slides | blogtalk.net
  Back in March I attended the wonderful BlogTalk2008 conference in Cork. Check out the slides and some videos from the conference here.
  (tags: blogs socialmedia)

• The Things That Carried Him - Joe Montgomery - Iraq Casualties - Army Funeral - Esquire
  An article from Esquire magazine covering the final trip home for one American soldier killed in Iraq. Incredibly powerful stuff, a must-read.
  (tags: iraq)

• Open Innovation | Innovation Management
  An open marketplace for ideas. Want to solve a challenge? Check their database of problems in need of solution. Got a problem? Submit it here and offer some cash for a solution. Interesting idea, but they need more problems in their database.
  (tags: innovation crowdsourcing)
• Cambridge University Press eBook Store
  The Cambridge Press is now offering a bunch of their books in e-book format. Lots of heavy stuff here, but lots of interesting stuff too.
  (tags: ebooks)

• Experts Choice
  An Amazon web store that asked a dozen top bloggers what books they’d recommend. It’s a great list - I’d recommend most of the books listed here. All profits go to a good cause.
  (tags: books)

• FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
  Build your own font, online.
  (tags: fonts design)
• twistori
  A scrolling view into the Twitter universe. A collection of random thoughts on the themes love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish. Kinda cool.
  (tags: twitter visualization)

• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
  Lots of great stuff here for web developers.
  (tags: CSS)
• Magnatune: license music and MP3 download
  A great online music source. They sell MP3 files with no DRM. While their selection isn’t terribly broad yet, they’ve got some good stuff. You can pay whatever you feel the music is worth.
  (tags: music mp3 creativecommons)
• statetechmag.com - Home
  An online magazine focused on tech usage in government agencies.
  (tags: government)

• Best Top Graphic Design Blogs and Articles
  A list of graphic design resources. Lots of gold here.
  (tags: design webdesign)
• NASA’s top 10 views of Earth | CNET News.com
  Awesome pictures from NASA for Earth Day.
  (tags: photos)

Marie Boran of SiliconRepublic.com has posted a nice article about the OpenCoffee movement in Ireland. Yours truly is quoted in the article.

OpenCoffee is an informal networking event attended mainly by people in the tech industry. It’s been a great event to help me meet people in Dublin (and other communities in Ireland), and is a great chance to get freelancers out of their bubble to meet people in the same situation as themselves. Check the OpenCoffeeDublin web site for more information.

The UW-Stout community was saddened last week by a tragic house fire that resulted in the deaths of three students. The opportunistic nut-jobs at Westboro Baptist Church, known for showing up at military funerals to tout their belief that God is punishing the U.S. for its acceptance of gays, decided this was another golden opportunity to show the world the depths of their hatred. Their four protesters showed up on the Menomonie campus last Thursday bearing placards with statements such as “God Hates Fags” and other well-known bible verses. They were greeted by a crowd of students, faculty and townspeople estimated to number 1,000. While the counter protest wasn’t entirely peaceful (one student was arrested for stealing signs from the Westboro protesters), the locals did manage to make the fine point that the Westboro message wasn’t welcome in Menomonie. After less than 1/2 hour doing God’s work, the Westboro folks tucked tail between their legs and scooted out of town, presumably to crawl back down their little hole in the ground. A representative from the church commented to the newspaper:

“I have to tell you the brutish children of Wisconsin are a cut above the rest in their rebellion and disobedience and filthy behavior.”

Ahhh, makes a person proud to be child of Wisconsin!

Badger Herald - Four Westboro Baptists meet 1,000 protesters at UW-Stout