What do you want to drink today?

Mashable has always been a great resource for everything related to the web2.0, as well as a great resource for people like us. On this post about the social community sites focusing at alcohol drinkers, they really did a great job. You can read about services for beer lovers, wine fans communities and search engines, and a few other gems, that you’d probably wan’t to check out. If you know of any other sites for alcohol people, please comment here.

Apple’s 2010 future computer - as predicted in 1988

This is the vision Apple had in 1988 about how computers will look like in 2010, and what kind of services and features they will include. This is really interesting, and some of the predictions are quite amazing.

Touching Base and Closing the Loop

Lifehacker has a great post about office jargon and their true definitions, that you’d love to read. Here’s an example of one of the examples to “office-speaking”:

I’m calling to touch base: “I want something from you but I can’t say it up front.” Or “I am worried that you are lost and I’m sniffing around for signs to confirm my hunch.”

Stop procrastinating - use your free time to finish things

20070524-write.jpgLifeHack.org has written a list of 20 things you can do with your free time - most of the things mentiones, are things we usually postpone, as they are not much fun, but when you have a few minutes on your hands - you can easily finish a few, or just start them and come back to it, on your next free hour.

What a smart idea! Make good out of these annoying captcha boxes

If you don’t know what CAPTCHA means, just go to any website that requires some sort of registration - those little boxes with letters and numbers that you have to type? That’s captcha.

reCAPTCHA figured out a way to make something good of this really annoying anti-spam feature, that most website like to implement, instead of just hiring more people to filter the spam. They simply replace those images from random letters to specific words from books that were scanned. This way, instead of just bothering us, we also help digitizing books.

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