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Andy
I'm a designer for Netscape in New York City, and a rabid Mets fan. I am desperately seeking to avoid MySpace, and could really use some gold stars.
Website: http://andyfraley.com/
Member Since: April 19, 2006
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks
Time Wasted? Perhaps It's Well Spent
Careers & Jobs – American workers, on average, spend 45 hours a week at work, but describe 16 of those hours as "unproductive," according to a study by Microsoft. America Online and Salary.com, in turn, determined that workers actually work a total of three days a week, wasting the other two.
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(nytimes.com)
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Voted for on May 31, 2007 08:59am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks
Finger length may foretell academic potential
Science – The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 30, 2007 11:08pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Google takes big step to make Web work offline
Gadgets & Tech – Google Inc. said on Wednesday it had created Web software that runs both online, and offline, marking a sea change for the Internet industry by letting users work on planes, trains, spotty connections and even in the most remote locations.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 30, 2007 11:04pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Hands on: Boogie, karaoke and dancing game for Wii
Video Games – Boogie combines a rhythm-based dance game with karaoke (via an included microphone) and a host of likeable, wacky characters and they pull it off surprisingly well.
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(joystiq.com)
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Voted for on May 29, 2007 04:06pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Japanese taste nostalgia in adult candy shops
Health & Fitness – Tokyo's all-you-can-eat "dagashi" or "cheap candy" bars make one childhood fantasy come true, giving stressed-out Japanese a chance to relive the good old days when their biggest problem was deciding between fizzy sticks and sour plums.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 24, 2007 02:08pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats
Science – Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 24, 2007 11:36am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks
This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It)
Science – We are continually updating a treatment of our own life -- and the way in which we visualize each scene not only shapes how we think about ourselves, but how we behave, new studies find. By better understanding how life stories are built, this work suggests, people may be able to alter their own narrative, in small ways and perhaps large ones.
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(nytimes.com)
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Voted for on May 23, 2007 11:17am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks
Singapore aquarium puts chips in fish
Science – Singapore's aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips to help visitors identify the different species on display.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 23, 2007 07:50am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Lessons From Google Mobile - Boxes and Arrows
Art & Design – Basic problem solving still completely swamps any other creative concern when working on mobile sites. A refreshing blast of Spartan usability problems, mobile site design is uncluttered with your typical mamby-pamby web problems. Can a user get the information, and fast? Answer this question and you're far ahead of everyone else.
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(boxesandarrows.com)
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Voted for on May 22, 2007 12:03pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
After Cutty Sark fire, heritage chiefs dare to hope that a treasure can be rebuilt
Art & Design – Investigators were last night combing through the blackened shell of the Cutty Sark to establish the scale of the damage caused by the fire that ripped through the historic 19th-century tea clipper in the early hours of yesterday.
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(arts.guardian.co.uk)
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Voted for on May 22, 2007 08:49am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Officials embrace feng shui amid job worries
Art & Design – Some Chinese Communist officials have turned to once-outlawed feng shui masters, who help choose offices facing auspicious directions, reposition furniture or place talismans to ward off "evil spirits" from competitors.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 17, 2007 02:26pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks
Positioning phones to create new social networks
Gadgets & Tech – Combined with mobile Internet access, GPS (global positioning system) is seen in the industry as adding a new dimension to social networking that could also have implications for the media business.
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(reuters.com)
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Voted for on May 17, 2007 09:42am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
'Cooking Mama' for Wii whips up a feast
Video Games – If you think the "Iron Chef" TV show serves up a wacky culinary experience, wait until you get a taste of "Cooking Mama: Cook Off," a new video game designed for the Nintendo Wii.
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(edition.cnn.com)
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Voted for on May 15, 2007 11:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
Orlando International reports steady growth
Travel – Overall, almost 200 weekly flights were added at OIA by airlines such as JetBlue. The new flights included both domestic and international destinations.
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(orlando.bizjournals.com)
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Voted for on May 15, 2007 10:38am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Take me Out to the Ballgame... in Orlando
Sports – Central Florida will host the first regular-season Major League Baseball game in its history tonight when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays play the first of three games against the Texas Rangers at Disney's Wide World of Sports.
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(orlandosentinel.com)
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Voted for on May 15, 2007 10:36am
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