Wow, it’s a huge dump this week! I hope you, my readers are enjoying these linkdumps. If there’s enough interest, I may write up something to include my diggs on my blog like this too.

• mezzoblue § Speaking? Tips.
  Great tips for giving a presentation. Will be useful for my teaching role.
  (tagged: conference conferences guide howto list powerpoint presentation speech tips)
• Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues
  A great guide to improving your life, by one of the more respected figures of history. Self examine yourself every day against the thirteen virtues listed by Franklin.
  (tagged: article christian christianity cool culture education franklin gtd guide history howto inspiration jesus life lifehack lifehacks paper people philosophy planning productivity reference statistics system tips virtues)
• Letterfu – Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue
  Writing a letter? Print a letterfu design, write/print your correspondence on the back, then fold it up, and stick on a stamp — the stamp holds it closed.
  (tagged: communication cool letter lifehack paper pdf snailmail useful writing)
• slayeroffice | articles | alternatives to innerHTML
  Good if you’re doing XHTML, because application/xhtml+xml MIME type doesn’t allow .innerHTML work because .innerHTML is NOT in the DOM. .innerHTML returns a string, the DOM is an object structure. There’s a difference.
  (tagged: html javascript js scripting webdesign webdev webdevelopment work xhtml xml)
• Nate Harrison – Can I get an Amen?
  An audio documentary about the most important sample in the history of jungle and drum and bass, the instantly recognisable "Amen" break, which is only six seconds of sample.
  (tagged: art cool culture geek history legal movie music remix sampling story video)
• Gamasutra – Soapbox – "World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things"
  "Fun is learning in a safe environment" "First, a lot of parents complain about what impact games have on children, but those parents are generally only seeing the trivial surface of the game, rather than what the game is REALLY teaching. Chess appears
  (tagged: culture education games gaming gta learning mmo mmorpg rules video worldofwarcraft wow)
• Pirates: A Constructible Card Game || kuro5hin.org
  A cool CCCG, Collectible, Constructible Card Game. I picked up a few packets a few weeks ago from Graphic on Cuba St. Wouldn’t mind amassing a fleet of my own, and taking anyone on in a decent game.
  (tagged: awesome boardgames ccg collectable fun games multiplayer opinion pirates reviews)
• Official Google Blog: Testimony: The Internet in China
  An excellent read on the reasoning behind creating google.cn
  (tagged: censorship china chinese free freedom freespeech google government internet liberty search speech web)
• Macworld: Secrets: Using Tiger: Learning AppleScript, Page 1
  A good primer in the ways of the coolest tool available on the Mac, AppleScript.
  (tagged: apple applescript cool development educational howto learning macintosh macosx programming reference scripting tutorial)
• Phiculator, the Golden Ratio calculator from Thismanslife : Design, Graphics, Photography // James Mellers, Nottingham UK
  Calculate that proportion!
  (tagged: aesthetic asthetic beauty calculator curve design downloads flash fun goldencurve graphics layout programming ratio swf tool tools useful utilities web2.0 webdev webdevelopment)