Google, Meet Google – YAGCG is a strictly unofficial gadget for adding Google calendars to your iGoogle home page. It has pros and cons compared to the official gadget, but according to its developer the chief reason for its existence is that it actually offers acceptable performance in Firefox – something the official gadget does not.
You Can Find Anything on the Web These Days – Mr. Gene lets you input a sequence of nucleotide base pairs, and then ships it off to synthesize custom DNA for you, starting at 69 cents per base. And yes, as far as I can tell they’re for real. What’s next, build your own army of robot minions via a Web 2.0 interface?
GTD Too Tough for You? – If you can’t hack Getting Things Done or even Zen Habits, take a look at GTTFD With Henry Rollins, courtesy of Mike Sizemore. A bit of web humor for a Monday morning (and something to make all of us system-obsessed types slow down and snicker at ourselves for a moment, too).
Bridging the Generation Gap – Next time you’re stuck for an explanation, try Jon Swanson’s 8 ways to explain 2.0 friends to 0.0 parents. The power of analogy may dispel a bit of confusion around the next holiday dinner gathering with non-internet relatives.
Simplify Your Twitter-Linking – That’s the point of Tweet’l, a URL-shortening service designed expressly to lower the friction of creating links for Twitter. It’s also got a batch of extra bells and whistles including statistics, random linking, and link descriptions.
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