Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

#600 Google Map Tip -- Google Maps has incorporated a handy new feature: "The next time you start entering an address or a label into Google Maps, we'll offer to auto-complete it for you if it's in your saved locations. Auto-completion is also available when you're searching for businesses. If you've labeled the address "1600 Amphitheatre Pky, Mountain View, CA" as "work" (as some Googlers would), when you start typing [pizza near work], we'll offer to auto-complete it as [pizza near 1600 Amphitheatre Pky, Mountain View, CA]." °°°°°°

#601 Cell Phone Hack -- goFreeSMS is a free (ad-based) SMS service that lets you send text messages from a cell phone or computer.

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#602 Word Keyboard Shortcut -- Ctrl+S - Saves the active document with its current file name, location and format.

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#603 Know Your Fallacies -- Argumentum ad consequentiam - The author points to the disagreeable consequences of holding a particular belief in order to show that this belief is false. (Ex. You can't agree that evolution is true, because if it were, then we would be no better than monkeys and apes.)

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#604 Google School -- If you want to specify that Google not include a query item in your results, use a minus sign or dash: dog breed - "Labrador retriever" (This will search for the terms dog and breed but exclude results with "Labrador retriever")

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#605 HowTo -- Write a thank-you note.

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