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Wednesday NFL Draft links to click
... now it’s time for the real fun to begin. The NFL Scouting Combine is just two short weeks away, and the Patriots have four of the draft’s first 63 picks in this year’s draft (Nos. 27, 31, 48 and 63). Maui News - No NFL Combine for Maui guys The official invite list to the NFL Combine is out and for the Maui candidates, unfortunately, the news is not good — none of the Maui players...
Sabermetrics for beginners: Links to get you started
...th these links the information likely wouldn't be as good. WHIP (there's that disclaimer again); Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), on which fWAR (or Fangraphs WAR) for pitchers is based; strike-out and walk rates; groundball, fly ball and line drive rates; and home run per fly ball rates. Also, It's not strictly pitching, but Texas Leaguers uses PITCHf/x data to give you, the cons...
Today's Links February 3, 2012
... cold weather. Hat Tip: Trail Cooking & The Outdoors BSA Launches E-Funding Website Supporting the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and most prominent youth character development organizations, is now just a mouse click away. via Scouting News Digest powered by RSS Digest You may also be interested in:Shinnecock Lodge #360 Montauket Chapter A1?THE WIMACHTENDIENK by Terr...
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Google+ bug report: links that get disabled
... button when you get over there. Google+ Weirdness You may want to PAUSE THE VIDEO so you can read this whole page. I use Blogger's Share function to cause my blog posts to appear on my Google+ posts page. Beginning yesterday, I noticed that the post titles, which are supposed to be permalinks back to blog posts, are no longer links. More precisely, the titles are links for a moment, as the...
MFT Teasers - Inspired by Up, Up & Away Die-namics
...n win $200 in stamp sets and Die-namics, and play along with the MFT Design Team for a month. If you'd like to see all the teasers for today, please click on over to the MFT Blog NOW. Be sure to leave comments as you go for the chance to win one of 2, $10 gift certificates given away daily. The winners will be posted on February 7th just before the release party, on the MFT blog. ...
WOYWW.... Getting Carried Away!
... this to me!!! And... more news... a few weeks ago Kirsty Wiseman asked me if I would like to join in with a brand new Design Team for Fantastic Ribbons... well, how could I say no eh? Being as I love all things ribbony. So, February is the start of a brand new blog and challenge... the theme this month is to make Accessories... and erm... this is where I got carried away! The first thing I mad...
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Step Away From The Computer.. Slowly.
...y twitter feed suddenly erupted about some basketball player performing an insane dunk in the game. Literally 5 minutes later, the video had been uploaded to Youtube and I was able to see it for myself. Five minutes! You can check it out here by the way; quite aptly known as "The dunk that broke twitter". We're starting to see things in real life that have only been imagined in movies and science ...
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A Very Rough Estimate of the Republican Delegate Math Ahead, Part One
...the Wall Street Journal called this week to discuss how we might game this process out given the current dynamics, FHQ was typically hesitant. A presidential nomination race is a sequential process -- one step affects subsequent steps -- and attempting to parse out the possible scenarios can quickly become an exercise in futility. Yet, if we want to know if a knockout punch strategy is still possi...
Since we're talking about math tricks (apparently), here's a nifty one
...t make a difference to the end result), but if you're mostly competent at basic arithmetic or just need a quick check, it's a lot of fun. I taught it to Ana, but because "casting out" isn't a term in her vocabulary and because it's unlikely she'll ever learn it in school (so she doesn't really need to know the correct term) I called it "throwing away" the nines instead. For multiplication, I stumb...
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Choice
...our safety online, IE9 protects you from the threats faced on the web today – better than any other browser. Whether it’s dangerous downloads, phishing websites or harmful links, IE9 makes sure you stay safe. 5. A more beautiful Web: With IE9’s support for HTML5 and industry-leading hardware acceleration, we are helping developers to push the limits of what is possible on the web today. W...
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Cloud Portability
...ast you amassed over the years. You probably doesn't remember Tripod, the killer app of yore. Picture this: a customized homepage, featuring whatever you fancy about you... You, online. Tripod joined Lycos (yeah, go-get-it Lycos, a star of the silent internet times - limited colors, dial-up, only background track the faxlike connection), and followed its master to Germany (Bertelsmann), Spain (Tel...
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Best short stay in London - where, what and why go for homestay
... Lived in conditions A number of the homestay properties are lived in - the owners actually live there themselves, only to vacate it for a couple of weeks when they have to do some travelling themselves. You would trust that you would be able to find what you need in the property. It's literally someone else's home. 4. The local feel Live like the locals do! That is something that most...
Iphone Texas and ALL the Photo Apps You'll Ever Need
...ame. This app allows you to add a bokeh effect and make the picture look as if you used a DSLR lens. It has shaped bokeh - stars and hearts included. Big Lens has some great filters that you won't find elsewhere; my favorite being the solar flares. They look very realistic - like what you would get off of a glass lens. You'll find a variety of filters in this app, too - with warms, colds, lomos, f...
People Already Have News, Now What? - (by @baekdal)
...e? The laggards who are still living in the old world would still get angry, but most people would just get slightly upset, take out their tablet or smartphone and check the latest news there. Not to mention that they have probably already done that even before getting out of bed. Even if a newspaper where to disappear completely, like if the journalists of the BBC where to go on strike for a we...
Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform
...ushed up to 4096kbps. Vzaar offers six basic encoding profiles: Small Standard 4x3 (320x240) | Widescreen (320x180) Medium Standard 4x3 (448x336) | Widescreen (448x252) Large Standard 4x3 (576x432) | Widescreen (576x324) Original Keeps the original frame size (dimensions) of your source video (but not bitrate) High Definition (HD) 768x576 size when not viewed in fullscreen mode 1280x720 size when...
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{HSCRC12} Hymn #4, Standing on the Promises
...is sufficient for us. 2 Corinthians 12:9 "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." **He will continue His good work of grace in us until Jesus returns. Phillipians 1:6 "being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carr...
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Twitter Screen on the Wall
...ine or any Twitter list you choose to view on the wall e.g. news sources like Breaking News, etc. A quick glance at the screen as you go about your business should be enough instead of having it reside as an app on your computer especially if you are the lurking Twitter user. Obviously, there are downsides to certain content that Twitter shows like links that you have to click or embedded images ...
"Welcome to Cancerland" — or What does Komen do with all that money?
...eal with Komen? Just the Seattle seller, or pro-gun groups as well in their battle for gun rights everywhere? If I'm a deal-maker (and donation collector), I smell an opportunity. Did Komen or anyone else make use of it? I have no idea, but it's a fair question. But if you start to wonder what the NRA (for example) might have given up in side deals to get gun-toting "washed in the pink" — and wh...