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Here is another installment in the ‘Plain English’ series. This one covers Google Docs and in an excellent explanation.
Don’t miss RSS in Plain English if you haven’t seen it. That one is still my favorite.
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Technorati Tags: docs , how-to

» Mozilla launches new company focused on email | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
$3 million in seed funding, aimed at developing communications software and an ecosystem based on the Thunderbird email product, code and brand.
(tags: thunderbird email mozilla)

TripIt | Organize your travel
Online travel service that automatically organizes all your travel plans into one master online [...]

College Humor is back with new video: Internet Commenter Business Meeting 2. Complete with Lolcat!
Just like the first one, it isn’t exactly safe for work so keep the volume down.

Ahoy matey! 19 September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arggh!
No fear have ye of evil curses, sez you? Ahhh… properly warned ye be, sez I … Who know’s when that evil curse will strike the greedy beholders of this bewitched treasure.
From Pirates of the Caribbean (the ride)

Technorati Tags: pirates , itlapd [...]

OpenOffice 2.3 released
OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.
(tags: opensource open office)

Apple: You have our blessing to hack the iPhone to bits (Updated)
The company does not actively endorse third-party apps, rather, they will not actively work against them.
(tags: apple iphone hack)

Sony Drops DVD for Blu-ray Disc - Yahoo! News
Sony Corp. is increasing its bet on Blu-ray Disc and plans to ditch DVD and use the high-definition [...]

The TechCrunch40 is this week in San Francisco. The TC40 is where forty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period.
Not everyone can get there so I created an aggregator to monitor all the news and pictures coming from bloggers over the next [...]

Cancelled TV show goes to MySpace
The award-winning producers of TV shows Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life are taking their latest project online, citing “frustration” at US TV networks.
(tags: tv myspace video)

Google is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon.

Technorati Tags: xprize , moon

San Diego Zoo vets announced Thursday that a giant panda cub born August 3rd at the zoo is a healthy girl.
All together now…awwww

Technorati Tags: san+diego , zoo , panda , cub