First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanoes In Antarctica

"It extends across an area larger than Wales."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080120160720.htm

PDF Escape - Online PDF Editor

"PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files. It allows you to open your PDF files right here on the web without downloading or installing any software.

With PDFescape, you can fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new form fields to a PDF file. Best of all, it's Free!"

http://www.pdfescape.com/

Powerstick USB Charger

"The Powerstick is a USB charger weighing just 40 grams that can re-charge portable devices as fast as a wall charger. It is supplied with 9 connectors to fit: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, Blackberry and Samsung phones as well as iPod and iPhone. It has a small LCD screen to show you how much juice it has left and once plugged into a USB power source the Powerstick can fully charge in 90 minutes"

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/01/21/pocket-size-usb-charger-for-your-gadgets/

Alone in the dark

"What happens if you are left alone in the dark in solitary confinement for days on end? The result is called sensory deprivation and the human mind struggles to cope with it."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7199769.stm

"The nothingness, that was extremely hard. Because the question in your head is how am I going to get through the next 10 minutes? Or months later, how am I going to get through the next day? Is there enough left in my head?"

Force strong for new Jedi church

"We would read out essays members of the congregation have submitted on their feelings about the Jedi and the Force: do meditation, relaxation and visualisation techniques and a bit of light-sabre training."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7200531.stm

Scymraeg

Examples of less-than-accurate welsh translations

http://www.flickr.com/groups/scymraeg/

With an explanation here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/scymraeg/discuss/72157594294784528/

Live Swiss Train Map

"Welcome! For all of you visiting this website: this site is still in ALPHA-phase. You're not supposed to see it ;-) But as some bloggers already wrote about it, we decided to keep it open. In a couple of weeks time, we'll add more info here, and more functionality. For now, we keep on developing.

In the meantime, please help us solving our list of bugs by mailing me at robert (at) swisstrains (dot) ch"

http://www.swisstrains.ch/

The trains all ran on time when I lived there ...

Library Arcade Games

"The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final version."

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/