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Scientific American Article: The Secret Language Code

Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns by running computer analysis on many thousands of emails and historical documents. Neat.

His book, "The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us" comes out on Aug 23 (2011), and there is a Kindle version, too.

PortForward.com

Router instructions and web-based auto-configuration tool.

YouTube

Just when I was ready to dismiss YouTube as the place for short, home-made clips of people's cats and teenage pranks, Google buys YouTube and adds a host of features, improved indexing, cleans up the copyright management, and now adds new, functional viewing page features (March 2010).

Wolfram-Alpha

"The Computational Knowledge Engine." A good place to start is the examples page.

Suggestion: Have two browser windows open at the same time: one to Google and one to Wolfram Alpha. Try several different queries and keywords in both, putting the same term in both and seeing how the results differ.

Portland Fruit Tree Project

http://portlandfruit.org/

Register fruit trees, have harvest parties, share the fruit and donate to local food banks and kitchens.