Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links: June 09, 2008

2008-06-09

The Riding Diary

"THE RIDING DIARY - listing Horse Shows, Dressage, Showing, Showjumping, Eventing, Hunter Trials & Fun Rides across the UK"

"The Riding Diary Website contains the details of thousands of equestrian events across the UK, from Showing to Fun Rides, Showjumping to Dressage and lots more besides! So whether you are looking for a local gymkhana or a County Show, the Riding Diary Website is the place to find it."

http://www.ridingdiary.co.uk/

Horsemanship

"Hacker es mi caballo y aplico los metodos de la doma natural en este montaje que describe el proceso de doma que seguí con él (vídeo de 2005)"

"Hacker is my horse and I apply the methods of the natural taming in this assembly that describes the taming process which I followed with him (2005 video)"

Office of Citizen Misinformation

"Located just a stone's throw from the Palace of the Supreme Minister, Pickle Street Market is infamous for its food, cheap goods, and long queues.

The food in the market arrives ready-rotten and unfit for healthy consumption, by-passing the need for the marketers to invest in storerooms and wait until their wares are ready to fall to pieces before placing it on their stalls.

Among the many delights to be found is the infamous Black Outland Apple, a fruit that grows to the size of a football, with a black cankerous hard outer shell known to be fatal to the unsuspecting and lead to the premature wearing of a cardboard coffin."

http://www.forbiddenhistory.co.uk/tourism/market.html

The Magic Background To Pearl Harbor

"The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E. O. 11652, the Department of Defense decided that it was in the public interest to declassify the intelligence which the U.S. obtained from the communications of its World War II enemies. This study contains a major part of the communications intelligence which the U.S. derived from intercepted Japanese communications during 1941."

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/magic/

Britons in USA in 6th Century - Shock Claim

"Historians and researchers announced today that Radio Carbon dating evidence, and the discovery of ancient British style artefacts and inscriptions, provided "the strongest indications yet" that British explorers, under the Prince Madoc ap Meurig, arrived in the country during the 6th Century and set up colonies in the American Midwest."

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/8/prweb44779.php

Ladies Home Journal - What May Happen in the next Hundred Years

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What If...? An alternative history of the world

"What if the dinosaurs had survived? Or Hitler won in 1945? Or the aeroplane had been invented 1,000 years earlier? Would there even be life on earth if the moon had failed to form? Science fiction writer Stephen Baxter canvasses the possibilities"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-if-an-alternative-history-of-the-world-414074.html

The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class

"Columbus Discovered the Earth is Round
Einstein Flunked Math
Newton and the Apple
Washington and the Cherry Tree
Benjamin Franklin, the Kite and the Thunderstorm"

http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class.html

Brit Study Says Organic Grass-Eating Cows Give Healthiest Milk

"A new study (from Newcastle University) gives reinforcement to the idea that organically-produced milk is healthier than regular milk. The study showed organic (summertime) milk had 67 percent higher levels of vitamins and antioxidants, and 60 percent more conjugated linoleic acids than regular milk. It also had higher levels of good Omega-3s and lower levels of Omega-6s than conventional milk. The key was the grass factor - organic cows tend to get a lot more grass and clover, conventional cows get more grain"

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/brit-study-says-organic-grass-milk-healthier.php

The Googlization of Everything

http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/

Gmapsmania

"100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups"

http://gmapsmania.googlepages.com/100thingstodowithgooglemapsmashups

Let your website visitors save events to their Google Calendars

"If you have events advertised on your website, events that you want to draw visitors to, it is possible to have a Google Calendar button positioned next to those events which lets visitors to your site save those events directly to their Google Calendar. It’s quick, easy, and convenient and it means that people won’t forget about what you’re planning."

http://www.googletutor.com/2008/05/27/let-your-website-visitors-save-events-to-their-google-calendars/

Publishing Google docs to your blog

"Yesterday, while showing a professor Google Docs, I discovered a feature I hadn’t seen before: the “publish to blog” option (not unlike the same feature in Flickr and del.icio.us and, from what I now understand, was also available with Writely). I wanted to test it out, so this morning I tried pulling in the outline of a presentation I will be doing with Jerry and Andy at ACCS this Friday in order to see how clean it is — let me tell you something, it is very clean!"

http://bavatuesdays.com/publishing-google-docs-to-your-blog/

Using Google to View MySpace or Any Restricted Site

"Most companies and schools employ proxy servers to filter unwanted sites so employees won't waste precious company resources surfing sites that the companies deem unproductive. While the use of proxy servers to block unwanted sites may be understandable in commercial cases, there are also companies that are overdoing it, banning almost all websites and creating a lot of inconvenience to their employees.

If you are in such an environment, what can you do about it? One way is to use an anonymous proxy server (such as http://www.spysurfing.com/). But once the system administrator learns about this, he will likely block this site as well. A much more foolproof way is to use Google (yes, you read that right). In this article I will show you three ways to use Google to bypass a proxy server."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/12/21/using-google-to-view-myspace-or-any-restricted-sites.html

Gspace

"Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface."

http://www.getgspace.com/

ASCII Maps

"Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment
by the good people at Poly9 and the invaluable Markus Gebhard
(whose software and timely help were put to good use). "

http://www.asciimaps.com/

Google Docs Uploader

"If you've been thinking about abandoning Microsoft Office on the desktop in favor of a Web-based solution, Google Docs is a natural solution. The nice thing about Google Docs is that you can upload Microsoft Word docs and Excel spreadsheets without a problem. If you have a lot of documents you'd like to import however, the Google Docs Uploader can save a lot of time."

http://www.appscout.com/2008/02/google_docs_uploader_ditch_off_1.php

Google Backlinks

"Google Backlinks Check- Backward Links Checker

Google back links simply refers to the number of out going links to your website domain from other websites indexed by Google. The results on Google's data centers will vary during their back link updates until their main index (www.google.com) is updated. "

http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/google-backlinks.asp

Google Hacks

"The projects listed below are Google Hacks in that they use Google for something fun or interesting in a way that Google was not designed for."

http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlehacks

Gmail Loader

"Import your existing email into GMail!"

http://marklyon.org/gmail/gmailapps.htm

Google for Non-Profits

"Many of you spend your days making this world a better place, and we want to do our part to help. Today, we're excited to launch Google For Non-Profits, a one-stop shop for tools to help advance your organization's mission in a smart, cost-efficient way."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-for-non-profits.html

Googlism

"Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything!"
http://www.googlism.com/

e.g. http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=cardiff&type=3

Quikmaps

"Doodle on Google!"

http://www.quikmaps.com/

Wikimapia

"WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth"

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.5&lon=-3.2&z=16&l=0&m=a&v=2

How To Backup Your RSS Subscription Feeds In Google Reader

"... if you use Google Reader, you can backup all your RSS subscriptions to a file, and easily restore them if a disaster occurred."

http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-backup-your-rss-subscription-feeds-in-google-reader.html

Track visitors to your website using Google Maps

http://www.gvisit.com/

Build your Site Map online

" * Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
* Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo.
* Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine.
* Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your website."

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Goosh - the unofficial google shell.

"This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.
You type commands and the results are shown on this page."

http://goosh.org/

Quick Google Calendar Tip: Add by URL

"Adding public and friends’ calendars to your own Google Calendar account is quick and easy, as we have explained before. But what if the information given to you was a URL only? For instance, an organization may publish their public calendar’s URL in iCal format.

With Google Calendar, it’s also easy. First, of course, you need the exact URL of the public (or private!) calendar you wish to access. ..."

http://www.googletutor.com/2008/03/17/quick-google-calendar-tip-add-by-url/

Regular expression generator

http://www.txt2re.com/

GIMP Tutorials

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Meet the GIMP!

"This is a video podcast about GIMP. Gimp is a very powerful image manipulation program. It is free (as in speech and in beer), it is open source and it runs on Linux (and other Unixes), Windows and MacOS. It can do nearly all the stuff you can do with Adobe® Photoshop® and more than a lot of other programs including Adobe® Photoshop® Elements®."

http://meetthegimp.org/

Gimp Guru

"GIMP Image Editing Tutorials for Photographers
These tutorials show step-by-step techniques for accomplishing a variety of photographic "digital darkroom" tasks using the GIMP image editor."

http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/

Websites as Graphs

http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

Touchgraph Google Browser

"Explore the connections between connected websites"

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

Touchgraph

"TouchGraph's powerful visualization solutions reveal relationships between people, organizations, and ideas."

http://www.touchgraph.com/

Lightweight data exploration in Excel

"We often are given a chunk of data in Excel that we need to explore. Of course, the first tool you should pull out of your toolbox in cases like this is the trusty PivotTable (it slices, it dices!). But at times we have to dig a little deeper into the toolbox and pull out the in-cell bar chart."

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/lightweight-data-exploration-in-excel/

[This technique also works on OpenOffice, Google Spreadsheets, etc]

Grokking the GIMP

"The title of this book, Grokking the GIMP, is drawn from Robert A. Heinlein's classic science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. His story is about Valentine Michael Smith, the only survivor of the first human expedition to Mars and raised from infancy by Martians. The rescue mission arrives twenty years later to bring a young man knowing nothing of his own kind back to earth. The story recounts his repatriation and his adventures as he comes to grok the human race and his place in it. Grok, a word he often uses, is the Martian word meaning ``to drink,'' but which also serves as a quasi-religious metaphor in the Martian culture for having a profound appreciation and understanding for something.

Heinlein's book, published in 1961, drew immediate acclaim in the science-fiction world, and the story became a part of the iconoclastic cultural sentiment of the 60s in the United States. Today, the word grok is a part of the U.S. computer hacker vocabulary, and its definition can be found in The New Hacker's Dictionary.

So, do you want to grok the GIMP? When I first came across it in 1996, I did. I was writing an article and had some photographs of poor quality I wanted to touch up and enhance before including them. I had heard about the GIMP so I downloaded it from the Internet and compiled it. When I ran the program, it popped up a small toolbox. Without too much trouble, I discovered how to open image files and access the image menu containing all the GIMP functions and filters. Wow! It looked very cool...and powerful! But, I didn't have a clue how to use it to solve my photo problems. ..."

http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/

Hands on with Spore

"Spore offers an impressive amount of customization--colors, styles, textures, limbs, mouths, and highly customizable spines. Change the legs, and the animal will have a completely different gait. Reshape the mouth, and its call will change entirely."

http://www.appscout.com/2008/06/handson_with_spore.php

Smallworlds

"SmallWorlds is a 3D virtual world that runs inside your web browser. It enables you to build your own room, house, or even your own world, and fill it with a wide variety of items and fun activities."

http://www.smallworlds.com/

Bloxorz

"This is an excellent time waster to start off the work week right!"

http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008/04/21/fun-and-addicting-game-bloxorz/

42 of the Best Free Linux Games

"Can I game on it" is a frequently asked question we hear from Windows users toying with the idea of trying Linux for the first time. Well, the simple answer is yes!

To demonstrate the level of sophistication available, we have put together a list of 42 high quality Linux games that all have the virtue of being free to play. To ensure that there is something of interest here for every type of gamer, we have covered a wide variety of computer game genres, including the ever popular First Person Shooters (FPS), Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), as well as arcade games, board/puzzle games and more.

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html

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