Dale Bewley's Perl Scripts

"These scripts are free for the taking, but copyrighted under the GNU GPL."

http://www.bewley.net/perl/

WebSnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Site

"websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness."

http://www.websnapr.com/

Imagemagick

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

http://studio.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

WebShotsPro.com : Website Screenshot Generation

Website thumbnail service

http://www.webshotspro.com/

Making An RSS Feed

"How does RSS syndication work? Say you publish a new web page about a particular topic. You want others interested in that topic to know about it. By listing the page as an "item" in your RSS file, you can have the page appear in front of those who read information using RSS readers or "news aggregators""

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271

Spacious Passion - Wisdom Publications

"A Western teacher of the Tibetan Nyingma tradition offers her explanation of the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind to Practice, presenting these ancient teachings in a modern light.

She explores the sutra teaching of The Four Thoughts in relation to tantra and Dzogchen and presents them as vividly relevant to our everyday lives: the extraordinary precious opportunity to live as an honourable human being; the experience of impermanence that pervades our existence as an opportunity to awaken; the emotional and psychological patterning which dominates our lives; and the seemingly endless cycle of dissatisfaction in which we imprison ourselves. It includes question and answer sections."

http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=16739

Sphider

"Sphider is a popular open-source web spider and search engine. It includes an automated crawler, which can follow links found on a site, and an indexer which builds an index of all the search terms found in the pages. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as its back end database (requires version 4 or above for both)."

http://www.sphider.eu/index.php

Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP

"A little while ago, I was working on an intranet site for a mid-sized company. As the site grew in both size and popularity, the assigner requested me to extend the site with a search feature. Since one of the rules of the intranet was that all logic code should be written in-house, using an existing open source engine was not an option

Within a day, the engine was quite complete, and the result actually turned out better than expected. With PHP, MySQL, and a few techniques, these small projects are very easy. This article presents a cut-down version of the search engine. I hope this will encourage you to develop an engine that suits your particular needs, with the exact features you desire."

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/10/24/simplesearchengine.html

The Tree of Life Has Lost a Branch

All life on Earth can be divided into two essentially different life forms—eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The eukaryotes gather their genetic material in a nucleus, while the prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) have their genetic material floating freely in the cell. Eukaryotic organisms—such as humans—can, as a result of the new findings, be divided into the following four categories:

• Plants (green and red algae, and plants)

• Opisthokonts (amoebas, fungi, and all animals—including humans)

• Excavates (free-living organisms and parasites)

• SAR (the new main group, an abbreviation of Stramenophiles, Alveolates, and Rhizaria, the names of some of its members)

http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2007_4/Artikler/The_Tree_of_Life

Where Is Consciousness? I've Lost It!

Is the Brain Really Necessary?

"Although the boy had an IQ of 126 and had a first class honours degree in mathematics, he had "virtually no brain". A noninvasive measurement of radio density known as CAT scan showed the boy's skull was lined with a thin layer of brain cells to a millimeter in thickness. The rest of his skull was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The young man continues a normal life with the exception of his knowledge that he has no brain."

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_necessary.htm

KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support

"The open-source KDE desktop environment is making the jump across platforms with broad support for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs, the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being ported."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080123-kde-goes-cross-platform-with-windows-mac-os-x-support.html

Virgin Galactic unveils Dyna-Soar style SpaceShipTwo

" Virgin Galactic has unveiled a SpaceShipTwo (SS2) design, created by Scaled Composites, that harks back to the NASA/USAF Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar glider of the 1960s, while Scaled's carrier aircraft, White Knight II (WK2) has been given a twin-fuselage configuration."

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/01/23/221031/pictures-virgin-galactic-unveils-dyna-soar-style-spaceshiptwo-design-and-twin-fuselage-white-knight.html

What makes a good form?

Clear, Concise, Clever and Contextual.

http://formulate.com.au/articles/what-makes-a-good-form/

Spherical Mobile Office

"Michiel van der Kley, has been producing designs since 1987. His latest design, Globus shows van der Kley’s creativity and imagination. Globus is a multi-functional mobile office with a twist, or sphere more like it. Closed, Globus will attract the most curious of spectators, and open, it reveals its’ real, creative function. Half of Globus is a comfortable swivel, seat, while the other half is a usable, adjustable table which can be used for a laptop or whatever the need may be. With hidden wheels to make Globus mobile, once opened up, the wheels are locked into place. Globus is available in a variety of shades and colors."

http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/01/23/spherical-mobile-office/

The Great British Venn Diagram

"So I guess a lot of people are in some doubt as to what the difference is between England, Great Britain, the British Isles and the United Kingdom. Here I present a handy-dandy Venn diagram to explain this.

The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are the only two sovereign states in this image. They are shown in red. Ireland and Great Britain are both islands and are shown in green. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are constituent countries of the United Kingdom and are shown in orange.

You have the basic idea. There are many other islands in the British Isles which are not shown here. Most of these are politically part of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, with the exceptions of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, which are British crown dependencies and not part of the UK (or ROI) at all."

http://qntm.org/?uk

Flat Holm island

"Rich in wildlife, steeped in history. Just 5 miles from Cardiff and Barry, the tiny island of Flat Holm is a different world with a wealth of history and wildlife. You will be amazed at how much there is to discover."

http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/flatholm/

Apostrophe Protection Society

"The Apostrophe Protection Society was started in 2001 by John Richards, now its Chairman, with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language."


http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

While you’re waiting, don’t save in OOXML format

"Saving your documents in OOXML format right now is probably about the riskiest thing you can do if you are concerned with long term interoperability."

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2031

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Rainbow 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCfvcfHwKA


"Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd) is the name used to refer to the act of listening to the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon while watching the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz for moments where some believe that the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. "

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

IBM revs MS Office challenger, Lotus Symphony

"Lotus Symphony is a suite of software tools for creating text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents - the most frequently used desktop tools - based on OpenOffice code. It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), Microsoft Office, and Lotus SmartSuite formats."

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1008362/

"For users, the increasing popularity of ODF means it is less necessary to stick to Microsoft Office when seeking to ensure compatibility with other office documents, whether created inside or outside their own organizations"

Historic Cities: Maps & Documents

"This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web."

Illustrated: Brightstowe (Bristol) 1581

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html