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Daily Archives: October 15, 2024

Guide to effective searching on ebay

Thread by derek guy via Twitter – I want to show you how to get some deals on eBay. Since I write about menswear, this thread will be focused on men’s clothing and accessories. But my guess is that you can apply these tricks to other categories…So my first tip is that you should learn how to use eBay’s full search capabilities. There are two parts to this. First, learn how to do Boolean searches. I’ve typed up a little cheatsheet. If you bookmark this tweet, you can save it for later…OK, now you know how to do a Boolean search on eBay. Once you’ve searched for something, I want you to click the box for “include description.” This allows your search to cover auction titles AND descriptions. Why is this important? Because auction descriptions have a lot of info… [in other words, search like a librarian and leverage metadata!]

Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israeli Protest Movement

Over 150 groups involved in the disruptive anti-Israel protests on college campuses and elsewhere in the United States are “pro-terrorism.” The vast majority support Hamas and/or the October 7 terrorist attacks. The movement contains militant elements pushing it toward a wider, more severe campaign focused on property destruction and violence properly described as domestic terrorism.… Continue Reading

Google’s Illuminate PDFs to Podcasts

Joshua Kubicki – This video gives a quick overview of Google’s latest experimental tool called Illuminate, which transforms research papers into audio content. It’s similar to Google’s Notebook LM, but instead of turning documents into cheery upbeat podcast-like experience, it creates more of an audiobook or “micro-audiobook” for research papers. The video walks viewers through… Continue Reading