The Coral Content Distribution Network

"Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, CoralCDN might be your free solution for these problems!"

http://www.coralcdn.org/

e.g. http://www.coralcdn.org.nyud.net/

Losar

"This is new year's eve in the Tibetan calendar, so happy lo gsar (lo sar).

lo means year, and gsar means new, so now some of you know three new words! This is a nice, simple word for anyone learning the Tibetan alphabet, too."

http://jigtenmig.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-lo-gsar.html

100 great free and open source tools

"Over the last few months I have been madly documenting all the free and open source tools and applications I have used or come across during my working day. So below you can find 100 of the best tools and applications I have found."

http://www.andrewsellick.com/73/100-great-free-and-open-source-tools-for-web-developers

10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces

"Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one."

http://positivesharing.com/2006/10/10-seeeeeriously-cool-workplaces/

The Reagan Doctrine

"Some time ago, Ronald Reagan pointed out that one couldn't trust the Soviet government because the Soviets didn't believe in God or in an afterlife and therefore had no reason to behave honorably, but would be willing to lie and cheat and do all sorts of wicked things to aid their cause. Naturally, I firmly believe that the president of the United States knows what he is talking about, so I've done my very best to puzzle out the meaning of that statement.

Let me begin by presenting this "Reagan Doctrine" (using the term with all possible respect): "No one who disbelieves in God and in an afterlife can possibly be trusted." If this is true (and it must be if the president says so), then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten. In order to keep them from lying and cheating every time they open their mouths, they must be bribed or scared out of doing so. They have to be told and made to believe that if they tell the truth and do the right thing and behave themselves, they will go to heaven and get to plunk a harp and wear the latest design in halos. They must also be told and made to believe that if they lie and steal and run around with the opposite sex, they are going to hell and will roast over a brimstone fire forever.

It's a little depressing, if you come to think of it. By the Reagan Doctrine, there is no such thing as a person who keeps his word just because he has a sense of honor. No one tells the truth just because he thinks that it is the decent thing to do. No one is kind because he feels sympathy for others, or treats others decently because he likes the kind of world in which decency exists. "

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/asimov.htm

As we may think

"Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important."

Dr. Vannevar Bush

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush/

Macaulay Library - Animal Sound & Video Catalog

"The Macaulay Library is the world's largest archive of animal sounds.We have more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world's birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals."

http://www.animalbehaviorarchive.org/loginPublic.do

Trappa av TAF Arkitektkontor

Staircase design

http://www.belowtheclouds.com/2008/01/18/trappa-av-taf-arkitektkontor/

Four NETS for Better Searching

"Most people use a search engine by simply typing a few words into the query box and then scrolling through whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of words ends up narrowing the search unduly and causing them not to find what they're looking for. More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-target web pages that must be combed through. You can do better than that, and that's what this page is about."

Narrow - Exact - Trim - Similar

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

Great Minds in Mathematics

"A civilization is like a great river flowing through time, nourished and strengthened by many rich tributaries from other cultures. Let us project our imagination backward to a few thousand years. We are invited by the mathematics society of Greece, the birthplace of many mythical gods. We ask them a simple question: "Who created mathematics?" They respond "Mathematics begins with this half-mythical figure of Pythagoras. Science Begins with him. Western philosophy begins with him. He is even the first to use the word mathematike. Before him there was only mathemata, which meant knowledge or learning in general." "

http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/%7Emalek/Mathlinks/Minds/Minds1.html

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on - Inside CRM

"If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company's presence online and reaching more potential customers, business partners and employees."

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/50-social-sites-012808/

4 Ways To Help the Government Adopt Open Source Technologies

Find champions who are respected in the community of government decision-makers

Speak the language of the decision makers

Make it easy for those in the government to become educated about FOSS

Engage an honest broker

http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/30/4-ways-to-help-the-government-adopt-open-source-technologies/

SuperCook - The Intelligent Recipe Search Engine

"Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with the ingredients you have at home. To begin, simply start adding ingredients you have. The more ingredients you add, the better the results will be."

http://www.supercook.com/

Mobile web server

A webserver on your mobile phone

http://mymobilesite.net/

The Lukhang - a hidden temple in Tibet

"The top floor of the little known Lukhang temple enshrines a series of murals which the present Dalai Lama refers to as jewels of Tibetan civilization. An artistic representation of the Buddhist path to enlightenment, the Lukhang murals offered visual guidance to successive incarnations of Dalai Lamas who retired to the 20 X 20 foot chamber for periods of meditation and spiritual retreat."

http://www.asianart.com/articles/baker/index.html

See also: http://www.thdl.org/collections/cultgeo/lukhang/images.html

Glypho - A fun new way to read and write novels

http://glypho.com/

wridea - Free your mind

"Never forget your ideas again. Save them as you have them.

Create categories and organize your ideas."

http://www.wridea.com/

Metronome Online

"an online metronome ideal for quick and easy use while practicing music, this music tool helps with your rhythm as well as tempo selections and it is always available for free to all students of music at metronomeonline.com"

http://www.metronomeonline.com/

Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster

"Create your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Print it, frame it! Make two—we know you've got hundreds of digital images and photos to spare! Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other posters. Perfect for the office, schools, teachers, coaches, as announcements, for parties, invitations, and a lot more."

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

Project Draw

"Project Draw is a new feature-rich web-based vector drawing application built by the Labs team. Use it to create simple floor plans, electronic-circuit diagrams, network diagrams, user interface mock-ups, and more. Save your work in a variety of formats on our server or yours. No plug-ins or downloads required - if you have a JavaScript-enabled Internet Explorer or Firefox browser, you’re good to go. If you've registered with Autodesk Labs, logon and try Project Draw out now!"

http://draw.labs.autodesk.com/ADDraw/draw.html

Clic Clic Cymraeg - Welsh Course

"This course, which assumes no previous knowledge of Welsh, consists of twelve units, each unit introducing you to elementary language phrases used in the everyday dialect of North Wales as a whole. Just like any other language, Welsh dialect can be slighty different in two neighbouring towns, but the language in this course will be well understood and used over a wide area of North Wales."

http://www.menai.ac.uk/clicclic/

Sing4Wales - Calon Lan

http://www.sing4wales.com/saesneg/?page_id=8