Reinventing MiscBytes!

Hi Everyone,
I appreciate those of you who are still coming here looking for MiscBytes each day.   Currently I’m working on a couple of other projects, but mainly I just haven’t decided what I want MiscBytes to be.   I first started it with the idea of putting health/science news here, but since I have a day [...]

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Let me add you to my Twitter list!

Last night when I logged into Twitter, I had a message from them that they are trying Lists in Beta. They mentioned that not everyone is getting to use Lists yet, so I should not tweet about it. Therefore I won’t. Shhh…
Once I got access to Lists, I can see that most of the people [...]

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Dr. Don Stewart and DS Art – MiscBytes Niche of the Month!

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What if you’d already not only finished college, but had graduated from medical school and even completed an internship at the Mayo Clinic, then finally admitted to yourself that your passion was not the medicine and surgery you’d spent all that time and effort and money training for, but art instead? I think many [...]

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How I got started with my Google Wave Preview!

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When you first log into Google Wave, you may wonder, what do I do next?  For one thing, notice on the lower left side of your screen, any Gmail contacts you had before who have Wave accounts will already appear in the Contacts section. If they are online, they will have a green [...]

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How to find your inner passion

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This is a guest post by Stefan Nilsson, the blogger at Ducedo, where he blogs about The Art of Making Money Online.
I have been making money online for a few years now with different methods, including blogging, but it was not until this summer I decided to begin writing in English and it has [...]

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Study: Your confidence in your own thoughts is affected by your posture!

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We all know that sometimes other people’s confidence in what we say is affected by our body language, but scientists have now shown that our confidence in our own thoughts is affected the same way! When we sit up straight with great posture, we are more convinced of what we are saying, according to a [...]

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Cool bytes from around the internet!

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Here are some cool bytes I have seen around the internet the last few weeks. Some are inspiring, some are instructional, and some are just good entertainment! Hope you enjoy, and be sure to Tweet or Stumble if you do!

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Personal Development for Smart People

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This book is not fluff or platitudes. Steve is an extremely intelligent man who started programming computers at age 10 and is a very analytical thinker, and he examines personal development as a field that must obey universal laws just like physics does!

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9 mm SFX Custom Contact Lenses – MiscBytes Niche of the Month!

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This month’s niche of the month is 9 mm SFX , a custom contact lens company which specializes in theatrical and special effects contact lenses. Their contact lenses are responsible for a lot of the cool ocular special effects we see in many, many movies, commercials and music videos, and in fact 9 mm Special [...]

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Flatland – colorful math fun for all ages

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I saw FLATLAND: THE MOVIE a few weeks ago, and as a math lover I found it very geeky cool and wanted to share.  Apparently I am not supposed to buy the personal copy of the movie then display it for the rest of the world here, go figure.   So I’m going to embed the [...]

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Disturbingly easy Gravatar impersonation and more internet fun

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Here are three little things I have thought about while enjoying the internet lately: 
1)    If someone knows the email address I use for my Gravatar and for commenting on blogs, then they can “be me” and comment on blogs saying anything they want to in blog comments, appearing as me, unless someone has reason to check their ip address in [...]

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Gut feelings

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Have you ever just known which choice you want to make even though there was a long list of rational reasons why that should not be your choice? I read Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious lately and found it fascinating. I’m very aware that my unconscious mind knows exactly what I want to [...]

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Cool bytes from around the internet

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A couple of these are not even recent, but they are really cool so I wanted to share with you. What I call “real life” below, some of my local friends might instead call “Geek Life.”
Real Life:

10 Reasons Why Geeks Make Good Fathers
Watch Movies and TV Online for Free
Learning From [...]

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Google Wave Sandbox – I have a login!

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Google has granted me access to the Google Wave Sandbox now, and I started exploring it late last night. I’ll be doing more posts on Google Wave as I learn about it.

I just wanted to share with you the little I’ve done so far so you could see the screen shots for yourself! [...]

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Kinda creepy – Twitter stalking

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Most of us use Twitter as it was intended – to @reply to people who talk to us, or to @reply to someone when we see a keyword we can respond to. But you know you can follow your friend’s vacation drive from Spokane to Miami or any other fascinating updates anytime you want by looking at their single [...]

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How to start a website

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The following is a guest post by Jenny Dean.  I’ve known Jenny online for about a year, because we linked to each other’s cat sites last fall.  Her sites are of  wonderful quality and full of excellent content, and I always truly enjoyed reading them. You’ll find that Jenny is a great person, so if you have [...]

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