Powermonkey

http://www.powermonkey.co.uk/

Safest Seat on a Plane: PM Investigates How to Survive a Crash

" So when the "experts" tell you it doesn't matter where you sit, have a chuckle and head for the back of the plane."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.html

Earth to the Enterprise

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/earth-to-enterprise.html

Open Source Food

http://www.opensourcefood.com/

Top 10 Weird Science Sites

Top 10 Weird Science Sites

http://askbobrankin.com/weird_science.html

Free Secure Online Storage—Xdrive

Free Secure Online Storage—Xdrive

http://www.xdrive.com/

PARK(ing) Day

a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

http://www.parkingday.org/

Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You

The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/57802/

Bessie Smith

http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html

The Cookbook

"Back when I edited cookbooks, I made sure that we set up a test kitchen and verified every step of every recipe. We cooked, revised, and cooked again until we could say that every recipe worked as written."

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/cookbook.html

Firefox narrowly misses 28% use in Europe - Internet Explorer under 70%

The ascension of Firefox continues… Nearly 28% average use rate in Europe in the beginning of July 2007, with a progression in the totality of the 32 European countries studied.

http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-july-2007/index-1-2-3-102.html

Quantum Bit Random Number Generator

"The work on QRBG Service has been motivated by scientific necessity (primarily of local scientific community) of running various simulations (in cluster/Grid environments), whose results are often greatly affected by quality (distribution, nondeterminism, entropy, etc.) of used random numbers. Since true random numbers are impossible to generate with a finite state machine (such as today's computers), scientists are forced to either use specialized expensive hardware number generators, or, more frequently, to content themselves with suboptimal solutions (like pseudo-random numbers generators)."

http://random.irb.hr/

You Can Play the Record, but Don't Touch

"there's a camera linked to a computer. It snaps detailed images of the groove cut into the disc, and uses the images to reconstruct the sound without ever touching the record"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11851842

Real Men Love the Fifth Element

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Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player

"The only video player you need. Free and open-source, because open media matters."

http://www.getmiro.com/

Aspartame is Poison

"Why would anyone, anywhere, willingly and knowingly ingest something that nature doesn’t deem edible or process-able?"

http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/17/aspartame-is-poison/

Back up like an expert with rsync

"It takes a little time to become familiar with rsync, but once you are, you should be able to handle most of your backup needs with just a short script."

http://www.linux.com/feature/117236

A saint in the saddle?

"A menace is spreading. Silently, invisibly, moving across the planet. A new breed of hero is needed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6900694.stm

Lennon glasses go on Internet auction block

A pair of gold-rimmed, wire sunglasses worn by Beatle John Lennon have come up for auction at a British Web site and could fetch more than $1.5 million

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/16/lennon.glasses.reut/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Meccano ‘Dam Busters’ computer stars at MOTAT

"They were used throughout the 1930s, 40s and even the 1950s to perform all sorts of difficult computing tasks — to create artillery firing tables, for example, and to calculate soil erosion. However, the only original, complete Differential Analyser left in the world happens to be the one that helped Barnes Wallis design his famous bouncing bombs. They were the ones used in the Dam Busters attack on German hydro electric dams, in the Ruhr Valley, during World War II."

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/7627BB58BAFE998DCC257317001AA6D1

Back From the Dead

"Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19751440/site/newsweek/page/0/

The Open Library

http://www.openlibrary.org/

Symptom Checker

"This tool does not provide medical advice It is intended for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Never ignore professional medical advice in seeking treatment because of something you have read on the WebMD Site. If you think you may have a medical emergency, immediately call your doctor or dial 911"

http://symptoms.webmd.com/symptomchecker

DropBoks

Online storage

https://www.dropboks.com/

Supporting the Welsh Language

Supporting the Welsh Language

(This is the policy of the new Labour / Plaid Cymru Government with regards to the language)

The Welsh language belongs to everyone in Wales as part of our common national heritage, identity and public good. We will work to ensure that more people, young and old, can learn Welsh and encourage it to thrive as a language of many communities all over Wales.

We will be seeking enhanced legislative competence on the Welsh Language. Jointly we will work to extend the scope of the Welsh Language Legislative Competence Order included in the Assembly government’s first year legislative programme, with a view to a new Assembly Measure to confirm official status for both Welsh and English, linguistic rights in the provision of services and the establishment of the post of Language Commissioner.

We will drive forward our efforts to obtain agreement on the use of the Welsh language in specified areas of EU business. We will use this experience to explore with the Westminster government the making of an official application to the Council of Ministers for the Welsh language to receive official EU language and working language status.

We will expand the funding and support for Welsh-medium magazines and newspapers, including the establishment of a Welsh-language daily newspaper.

We will support the dot.cym campaign to gain domain name status for Wales on the internet. We will continue research work into population shifts in order to promote balanced populations in all parts of Wales.

Greasemonkey - Firefox script

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function.

http://www.greasespot.net/

Google Doc Download GM Script

Users of Google's document and spreadsheet web service can easily access and manage their important documents in one central location. They still would like to be able to back up and archive their files on their own systems. Unfortunately that isn't so easy. You would have to open each document and choose to export them individually and becomes quite time consuming if you have more than a handful of documents.

http://1st-soft.net/gdd/

How to download all of your Google documents at once

Download all of your Google documents at once

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/05/02/how-to-download-all-of-your-google-documents-at-once/

How to Be Productive With No Worries

This system allows you to focus on what’s important, to limit your workload to something a bit more sane, and to increase your effectiveness by focusing less on the busy work and more on the high-powered tasks.

http://lifedev.net/2007/07/time-management-simplified-how-to-be-productive-with-no-worries/