A few weeks ago Amazon announced they were opening up the Kindle for development, and as of today they are accepting requests for the Kindle Development Kit in limited beta. Head over to Amazon to sign up to be a beta developer and to request the KDK. The site also has updated Kindle Developement Kit FAQs and API information. [Amazon]
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Kindle Development Kit Now Available In Limited Beta [Kindle]
If you’ve ever wondered which disease will be the disease that kills you, I recommend that you take the 9 minutes to watch this TEDMED video.
The opening evening of TEDMED, I was sitting near the front, waiting for presentations to start. I made casual conversation with the man next to me, before realizing that he was actually about to speak.
Actually, “speak” sounds like a bit of an overstatement. This guy, Bill Davenhall, was pitching me on the importance of maps. Maps! Boring old maps! What did maps have to do with the future of medicine?
So he explained a few cool things that maps could do. For instance, when combined with satellite imagery, they could track plants most common in areas of malaria outbreaks, warning residents before hindsight was 20/20.
Within about 2 minutes of chit chat, he’d sold me. Then, he got up on stage and showed this presentation, and I was floored by his thesis (what we should be able to do with data that we already possess). [TEDMED]
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Your Health, Predicted by a Map [Health]
Have you guys heard?! Comcast’s brand is so irreparably tainted by their horrible service, they’re changing it to Xfinity! Yes, Xfinity. Hilarious! Let’s help them transition by making some ads for them.
Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Xfinity Ads in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k in size, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I’ll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!
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Let’s Help Comcast Transition to Xfinity [PhotoshopContest]
The Climate Change Denial Lobby has been pushing their most recent lie: that there has been no warming for a decade and that, in fact, there has been cooling. They claim that this is “proof” that global warming isn’t happening. …
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Warmest Decade on Record | culturekitchen
My kitchen is in general enough simple and fast, of the kitchen of every day that everybody can make home, well on with time I learned to polish a little the presentation etc but it is not obligatory, the most important it is that the …
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The kitchen, my passion,
The kitchen is also the family gathering place, the centerpiece of the home. Therefore, it is important that every kitchen remodeling idea be taken into consideration. This is especially true when available space is limited, and kitchen …
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Ideas and Tips for Small Kitchen Remodeling | e-newscast
New York Restaurants and Dining. Improvisational Adventures in the Kitchen, Part 2: In Which Rachael Ray Exonerates Herself. Village Voice news, blogs, music, movies, restaurants and the arts.
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Improvisational Adventures in the Kitchen, Part 2: In Which …
