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The Complete Notebooks of da Vinci, RSS Edition


With Really Simple Syndication, better known as RSS, you can get content from most of your favorite sites (including PopScis blog) delivered to you every day simply by copying an RSS feeds URL and pasting it into a newsreader (download one for Mac or Windows). And although its cool to get all your blog reading consolidated into a single place (Brangelina update, check! Gadget porn, check!), why not relive the life of Leonardo da Vinci while youre at it?

The very definition of a Renaissance man, da Vinci filled his notebooks with everything from shopping lists to sketches for future paintings to prescient thoughts on future inventions like tanks and submarines. His collected daily writings total 1,565 pages, but thanks to the RSS feed on this Web site, you can take it all in slowly, one day at a time. Just subscribe to the feed to get a single page of LdVs innermost musings delivered to your computer daily. Growing your hair long like Tom Hanks and combing Leos grocery lists for world-changing ciphers remain optional. —John Mahoney

Link from Lifehacker.com (part of an extensive list of cool things to do via RSS).

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Don't fight it: Microsoft is onto something.

The idea is simple: Take a full-fledged Windows XP Professional notebook and add a pen-shape electromagnetic stylus, touchscreen display, and the software to make it all work. This is the Tablet PC in a nutshell. The first generation, with models from Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Viewsonic, and others, will begin hitting the market this month.

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