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links for 2008-07-14

July 14th, 2008 by timelady

• Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Roundup: Seven Lazy Ways to Go Green
  With this month being green month here at Apartment Therapy, we thought we’d share some tips on how to make all your home’s gizmos and appliances run a bit more on the eco-friendly side…
  (tags: ecofriendly gadgets appliances green)
• The Great Biofuels Con - Telegraph
  Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels – the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy.
  (tags: environment globalwarming greenhouse food crisis biofuels disaster)
• Setting Up a Website to Market Itself | Look, Link, Love
  Many people hope that after starting their website off it will eventually sell itself. This is possible, but can be a bit difficult for webmasters to grasp. Then, even after the concept is grasped the goal is still pretty hard to achieve.
  (tags: web webdevelopment socialnetworking tools)
• iTWire - Linux in schools: a teacher speaks
  And with a small window seemingly open for Australia’s FOSS community to push for the use of free and open source software in schools, the question arises - how does one go about making the first inroads?
  (tags: foss floss opensource software linux community australia scchool education)

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