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Definr.com is a pretty cool dictionary site. It’s tagline is “incredibly fast dictionary” and it is fast. Definr.com is only one page but it does everything a dictionary should do and does it well in that page.

From a BBC News Article “Stricken Antarctic ship evacuated“.

The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.

Favikon is a great new web app that makes it very easy to create favicons.

The great thing about Favikon is how easy it makes creating a favicon. First you upload the image that you want to convert to a favicon. Then you can resize and crop that image to your hearts content. When you are done editing the image in the cool little editing window you can then preview and download your new favicon.

Ars Technica’s article “Games that can educate” reports that EA has donated the original SimCity to the OLPC project

Those of us who have fond memories of the original SimCity know that EA’s contribution will provide many students with a valuable and entertaining learning experience. The continued involvement of Don Hopkins in the porting effort is a promising sign that the game will remain true to its roots while it continues to evolve.

Trinity makes a last second comeback with about 30 laterals. This has to be the best finish to a D III game ever.

You can watch the video at ESPN.

The article “Leopard” over at DaringFireball.net is a nice over view of the new OS X Leopard.

My nutshell take is this: I’ve been using Leopard full-time for about three months, and there’s no question it’s a worthy update. Is 10.5.0 truly ready for production use, or would most users be better off waiting for 10.5.1? We’ll see. No one ever got hurt by waiting a week or two to install a new OS. But there’s no question that most of the new features and changes in Leopard are winners. There are some turds, too, but the ratio of improvements-to-regressions is pretty high by my score.

OS X Leopard is out!!! Engadget has been collecting impressions of the new OS in their article “All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions”

Install was pretty painless. A few clicks and you’re off. It took just under an hour (58 minutes, to be exact) to do its thing, despite the installer claiming it would be a 3-4 hour upgrade for our stock MacBook Pro.

For old school users: installing the barebones OS onto a G4 Power Mac’s freshly formated disk took just 20 minutes.

The install chewed up a good 3.3GB of space on top of what was already there. Apple recommends a solid 9GB, so be prepared if you’re constantly low on space like us.

This is a pretty cool portfolio site http://www.mariusroosendaal.com/I got this link from my buddy Joe

MacRumors.com has some new screen shots of the Dock in OSX Leopard. They look pretty sweet, much better than the shelf on it side look.

Apple’s Gold Master (Retail) version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has at least one visual tweak over the developer seeds. It appears Apple has listened to user feedback about the visual inconsistency with dock items appearing on a 3d shelf on the Left and Right side of the screen

I love the Vimeo login page. The clouds in the background move, how cool is that. Vimeo is a video sharing site like youTube but it allows you to share videos with only the people that you want to share them with. It kind of makes me think of Pownce for videos.