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How to fix Microsoft Word’s spell-checker. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine.

I agree.

Here is another, similar open-source idea I added to my idea-stream this week.

xkcd – A Webcomic – Windows 7.

Desmond Tutu, on Obama, in the Atlantic. Love this quote:

The African in him is the one who is making him ask, “What is the consensus?” That’s the African way at its best. The good leader in Africa is the leader who keeps quiet and lets others speak and then says at the end, “I have heard you all, and this is our mind.”

Iphone Sketches – a set on Flickr.

Nasa captures new images of Earth from space:

CNN slideshow

Agree or disagree with James Howard Kunstler (I sometimes do and sometimes don’t), you have to love the way he writes. From this week’s Clusterfuck Nation:

The American banking sector imploded spectacularly to the degree that investment banking actually went extinct — as if a meteor landed on the corner of Madison Avenue and 51st Street.

Thomas Friedman visits my home town of Hong Kong and on his way back, realises that America needs a reboot. Money quote:

“Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones.”

There is much to disagree with in his piece. No, innovation in places like Hong Kong doesn’t come at a cost to civil liberties. No, it doesn’t come with higher tax dollars.

In Hong Kong, as in other Asian hothouses, efficiency is a mark of pride.

YouTube – Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing.

Living proof, that the internet is here to stay.

YouTube – Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Thank you, Allan Kent.

Sandy Nicholson shoots those that came 2nd.