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These are my delicious links for February 24th through March 2nd:

Petition to establish "hella-" as the SI prefix for 10^27 – kilo, mega, milli, nano, yotta, yocto…hella?
WinBootInfo – Does your Windows machine take an age to boot up? This utility will let you reveal the culprit. You can then use AutoRuns or a similar app to disable or tweat startups.
Google Person Finder for Chile Earthquake – Google has sadly been forced to …

Despite their many drawbacks PDF (portable document format) files, are ubiquitous and unavoidable if you’re in publishing. It’s a long time since I had the native Adobe Acrobat Reader (or whatever it’s called these days) on my system having opted for Foxit Reader, which mostly does the job just as well, but with many fewer security risks.

Only problem I have with Foxit is that it doesn’t always leave spaces between words when one copies from …

These are my delicious links for February 19th through February 23rd:

Paracetamol protects against kidney failure after muscle injury – Could paracetamol (acetaminophen) be used to save lives after serious injury or over-intensive exercise by protecting the kidneys from toxic free radicals release by muscles into the blood following trauma? Might be especially useful after crushing injuries following earthquake and other natural disaster.
Speak to the eerie silence! – Send a message into the ether …

The introduction of so-called Flagged Revisions on the infamous online information repository, Wikipedia, do not go far enough to allow the site to mature into an accurate and wholly verifiable Internet resource. Instead, the adoption of more traditional values is the only way forward, argue Australian information experts.

Wikipedia is a user-produced online encyclopedia and, since its inception in 2001, has grown to be one of the main resources for finding factual …

These are my delicious links for February 11th through February 18th:

Aardvark – Aardvark is a Q&A service akin to the old 90s question and answer expert sites and a bit like Yahoo answers but with social network connectivity. It just got bought by Google for a mere $50m
Swan on Sigma DC 18-200mm 1:3.5-6.3 – Swan shot with Sigma lens
What The Internet Knows About You – Find out what anyone can find out …