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The Morning Buzz — April 9, 2010

Yow! Have you seen this list of periodic tables?

Thank you Tony for the heads-up about Knightroots, a free site of Hampshire, England parish register transcriptions.

Microsoft’s Bing shopping site has a few new updates.

The Huffington Post is launching a Twitter edition to focus more on “real-time news.” I’m not mentioning this as an endorsement of Huffington Post, I’m mentioning it because there is a very real difference between “real-time” news and more developed news stories, and making a distinction between them is going to be a growing problem for news organizations. This is one way the problem is being addressed.

I stumbled across a site in my wandering around that hasn’t even opened yet — private betas start going out April 26. Mindflash will let users create their own self-paced training courses. Looks like it could be extremely useful for work.

A database of over 6,000 red light and speed cameras. NYT blog post
here
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Yes, I’m discovering this way late, but the fact that there is an actual Rickroll database is cracking me up. Good morning, Internet…

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