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7 things

7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Putting butter, mayonnaise, or ice on a burn is a myth.
  2. You can smelt iron ore in a microwave.
  3. In the first half of 2009 I covered 2% of the distance to the Moon.
  4. Actor Greg Grunberg (Heros' Matt Parkman) is also a social media entrepreneur.
  5. If you click on a link with your mouse's scroll wheel, it will open in a new tab. You can then close a tab by clicking anywhere on it with the scroll wheel. Works in Chrome, Firefox, IE (haven't tried other browsers. Requires a scroll wheel that you can click, of course.
  6. You can put a Twitter feed on your blog with Google Docs. Create spreadsheet, pull Twitter RSS feed into it, embed spreadsheet in blog. This also mean that you can use Google Docs to read RSS feeds.
  7. The method I sometimes use to shorten long cables is called a chain sinnet (or monkey braid). This means I can finally stop calling it 'crochet' (because that's what it is and how I learnt it).
Posted by Luca in 7 things on Saturday 11 July 2009. Please leave a comment

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