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Arctic at 74F 55 million years ago = more worry about global warming

Arctic Once Felt Like Florida, Studies Say - New York Times

The first detailed analysis of an extraordinary climatic and biological record from the seabed near the North Pole shows that 55 million years ago the Arctic was much warmer than anyone had thought — a Floridian year-round average of 74 degrees Fahrenheit.

The findings, in three separate papers in the issue of the journal Nature that comes out on Thursday, show how much remains to be learned about climate change, both natural and human-caused. But experts say that if anything, the papers suggest that scientists have greatly underestimated the power of greenhouse gases to warm the planet.

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Google web app shortcuts

Smallwire » Keyboard shortcuts for every Google webapp

All good geeks know that keyboard shortcuts are the shiznit. I have been a dedicated user of since I got my hands on an invite over a year ago. I thought I was a power-user until someone told me that you could archive a conversation by pressing ‘y’. “Shortcuts in webapps?!” I screamed. After this mini epiphany/freak-out, I ran around the help files of all my favourite webapps, looking for the shortcuts. Here they are. They’re useful. Go wild.

Very useful. Would be nice to see these in a table so we can see what are the common elements.

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Official Google Blog: Mark this for future reference

Official Google Blog: Mark this for future reference
Ever forget to return to a website you bookmarked? If you’re like me, the answer is “definitely.” For those of us with more than a few neglected bookmarks, the enhanced search box in the newest Toolbar beta can help you rediscover them. Now when you start typing in the Toolbar’s search box, relevant bookmarks that you’ve saved with the Toolbar will display in the list of suggestions.

It would be nice if there was something to indicate that the suggested site was one of my own visited bookmarks.

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Tim Pratt’s BLOOD ENGINES

Today’s deals from PublishersMarketplace.com: Tim Pratt’s BLOOD ENGINES, the first book in an urban fantasy series featuring a sharp-tongued sorceress, chronicling her confrontation with a crazed fellow sorcerer intent on destroying San Francisco, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Spectra, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown (NA).

Tim Pratt is a master - who doesn’t usually do series, so this is especially welcome news for openminded Pratt readers.

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Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson

CNN.com - ‘Graduate’ author to write sequel - May 31, 2006

Elusive writer Charles Webb said Wednesday he has signed a publishing deal for a sequel to his 1963 novel “The Graduate,” which introduced the memorable love triangle of twentysomething Benjamin Braddock, his sweetheart Elaine and her seductive mother, Mrs. Robinson.

The 1967 film adaptation made a star of Dustin Hoffman and created a screen icon in Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson.

Decades on, Webb is ready to reveal the characters’ fate.

“It was quite a while till I could figure out what they did next,” he said.

“Home School” picks up the lives of Braddock and Elaine about 10 years on, living in upstate New York with their two children and trying to keep Mrs. Robinson at bay.

Plastics.

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