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2007-04-18

How can I Make my Offline Life Easier?

Most of us are already hip-deep in online efficiency tools like shared calendars, code libraries, and rss feeds; here are 30 simple ways that you can make your life (the real one) easier

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-make-my-offline-life-easier.htm

Space shield to block radiation

British scientists are planning to see whether a Star Trek-style deflector shield could be built to protect astronauts from radiation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6567709.stm

Terminology extraction

Terminology extraction, term extraction, or glossary extraction, is a subtask of information extraction. The goal of terminology extraction is to automatically extract relevant terms from a given corpus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_extraction

TermExtractor is a FREE software package for Terminology Extraction. The software helps a web community to extract and validate relevant domain terms in their interest domain, by submitting an archive of domain-related documents in any format. Furthermore, TermExtractor is a very useful starting point for Domain Ontology construction, Semantic Similarity, Knowledge Management, etc., since it allows the identification of domain-relevant terms, constituting the linguistic surface manifestation of domain concepts.

http://lcl2.di.uniroma1.it/termextractor/

Odd objects gallery

Welcome to odd objects gallery of selected 3D works by Biggles. He would love to hear from you if you wish to purchase any of his work, or commission him to produce something similar.

http://www.biggles.uk.com/oddobjects/gallery.html

Say No to 0870

Non-Geographical Alternative Telephone Numbers

http://www.saynoto0870.com/

Bleak House

Bleak House won the Best Drama Serial at the 2006 BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards. Also at the BAFTAs, Anna Maxwell Martin was named Best Actress.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/

Exchange Rates Graph

http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/GBP/graph120.html

Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like

In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature of space and time? After analyzing different perspectives, Sparling offers an alternative idea: space-time may have six dimensions, with the extra two being time-like.

http://www.physorg.com/news96027669.html