Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links: June 03, 2007

Cat grows wings

Granny Feng's tom cat has sprouted two hairy 4ins long wings, reports the Huashang News.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2344838.htm

Scilab The open source platform for numerical computation Scilab

Scilab - The open-source platform for numerical computation

http://www.scilab.org/

10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

"Don’t be concerned that your life and career aren’t working out the way you planned. The closer you stick to any plan, the quicker you’ll go wrong. The world changes constantly. However carefully you analyzed the situation when you made the plan, if it’s more than a few days old, things will already be different. After a month, they’ll be very different. After a year, virtually nothing will be the same as it was when you started. Planning is only useful as a discipline to force people to think carefully about what they know and what they don’t. Once you start, throw the plan away and keep your eyes on reality."

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/10-simple-ways-to-save-yourself-from-messing-up-your-life.html

Putting 6039 pages in context

"On the hard disk Ecma 376 (Microsoft Office Open XML or MSOOXML) is just 47MB, a mere drop in the ocean compared to the total storage capacity measured in triple to quadruple digits. However when it is printed out in its full glory, it is easy to feel awed by the amount of work that will be needed in any competent review or evaluation of this technical specification. Any reviewing organization, say ISO for example, has its work cut out for it if any level of quality it to be attained during the review. One wonders if it is feasible to either evaluate or even implement."

http://technocrat.net/d/2007/5/22/20305

Moneytrackin'

"Online accounting for real people"

https://www.moneytrackin.com/

webGobbler gallery

webGobbler wanders the web, downloads random images and mixes them.

http://sebsauvage.net/webgobbler/

Why Welsh is easier for dyslexic children

"Welsh is one of several languages where spelling and pronunciation are connected by consistent rules, which makes learning the basics simpler for the 10% of children thought to have some form of dyslexia."

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=why-welsh-is-easier-for-dyslexic-children%26method=full%26objectid=19227944%26siteid=50082-name_page.html

Math markup marked down

"Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that are incompatible with our internal workflow, which was built around previous versions of the software, Science cannot at present accept any files in the new .docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007, either for initial submission or for revision. Users of this release of Word should convert these files to a format compatible with Word 2003 or Word for Macintosh 2004 (or, for initial submission, to a PDF file) before submitting to Science."

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/04/math-markup-marked-down.html