Joan’s Jewels | Mostly my musings, web wanderings, digressions and the like

Jan 26, 2012 -

Apple.Mac

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JoansJewels 01/27/2012

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Jan 24, 2012 -

Apple.Mac

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JoansJewels 01/25/2012

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Jan 2, 2012 -

WebWanderings

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WebWanderings 01/03/2012

Apple.Mac

BlogWorld

FeedBeater, Create RSS Feeds, Email Alerts For Any Webpage

Creativity

100 Questions to Help You Write, Publish, and Sell Your Ebook

GoogleStuff

Internets

Photoshop

200+ Free Space Brushes

Science.Space

WebMistress

14 Useful Tools to Make a Web Designing Task Easier

WordPress

Creating An Account Center In WordPress

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Jan 2, 2012 -

Science.Space

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Starting the day with a reminder

Every morning, or nearly as often as I am able, I visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day website. I’ve been doing this for about 10 years or so, and I have found it to be inspirational, educational and occasionally deeply moving.

Here’s the link: APOD

Go, see for yourself, and you can decide if you find it a much more satisfying alternative to Facebook or Twitter or some other social media merry-go-round.

Jan 1, 2012 -

WebWanderings

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WebWanderings 01/02/2012

Apple.Mac

BlogWorld

GoogleStuff

Dabble in Google Doodle history

Internets

WordPress

WP-Filebase – A Powerful Download Manager For WordPress

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Jan 1, 2012 -

Current.Events, Weird and Weirder

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Feline Point of View: New Year’s Resolutions

funny pictures - Think you better get started on your New Year's resolutions. So many improvements needed, and so little time.

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Jan 1, 2012 -

Current.Events, Ramblings

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2012: The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

With all the hype, speculation and downright silliness about the year 2012, or more specifically, December 21, 2012, being the end of the world, I have one simple question to ask: Which day are we talking about here? The December 21st of the ancient Egyptian calendar? Or the Julian calendar? Or perhaps even the Mayan calendar?

The fact remains that each of these calendars, as well as many others, have played fast and loose with the number of days in the year, making it impossible to assume that any one of them could predict the end of times at all. For some background (and to see an interesting mix of light reading and pure mathematics), try this site:

Timeline of calendars

The point is, there is no way of pinning down the exact date of anything, much less the day that marks the end of everything. A giant meteor, previously undetected, could spring out from behind the sun on July 23rd, completely wipe out all living beings on our planet, and no one would be left to raise their hand and complain, “Hey, wait a second! This is way too early for the end of the world. I’d like a do-over, please.”