Barry Manilow & Bob Dylan

"the story about Bob Dylan and Barry Manilow is true. The oft-repeated anecdote, at first, seems too good to be anything but an urban legend: Dylan stops Manilow at a party in 1988, hugs him and says "Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you.""

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=a83b1656-32b9-476b-85fb-74ff876d0d89

Yma O Hyd Chords

"Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
Am            G
Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
    Am
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth,
     C
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth,
     G            E7
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth
             Am
Ry'n ni yma o hyd,
             G
Ry'n ni yma o hyd"

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/d/dafydd_iwan/yma_o_hyd_crd.htm

Introduction to Reading Music

"Some people think trying to read music is hard and difficult. The following set of pages will try to introduce the most important topics in reading music in a very easy to understand way. Don't expect to fly through all the lessons and understand. As with anything new, it'll appear complicated and complex but as you look at the examples and read the explanations it will make sense"

http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

Got a band but can’t afford to shoot a video? Use public CCTV cameras and then demand the footage!

"The Get Out Clause are an upcoming UK band who are currently unsigned. They took a brilliant and I’m sure soon to be much copied method to producing their own video. Unable to hire a production crew for a standard 1980’s era MTV music video, they performed their music in front of 80 of the 13 million CCTV “security” cameras available in England, including one on a bus.

They then used Britain’s Data Protection Act to request the footage that was shot of them. Grab some decent and inexpensive video editing tools (say. . . an iMac) and presto! They got themselves a unique and in my opinion quite interesting music video."

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=3961

Zopa - Social Lending

"Social Lending is where people lend and borrow money with each other, sidestepping the banks. And the more you think about it, the more it makes sense."

http://uk.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/

Quidco - Cashback Co-Operative

"Quidco is the web's cashback cooperative. Quidco collects referral commissions from online merchants and passes them all on to our members. The Quidco cooperative is a cashback revolution where members keep their full earnings in exchange for giving Quidco £5 out of their earnings once a year."

http://www.quidco.com/

NS&I - You and Your Money

"We can’t give you financial advice, but we can give you the facts. Our mission is to inform and inspire, to educate and enlighten, to entertain and explain. Above all, we want to help you make sense of money.
NS&I"

http://www.nsandi.com/youandyourmoney/index.jsp

Microsoft Is Officially Out of Ideas

"The tight-lipped mastodon has just started to let a trickle of feature details slip out, and I have to say that the early glimpses have not been very impressive."

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/05/29/microsoft-is-officially-out-of-ideas.aspx

Microsoft Chiefs Talk Past, Look To Future

"When I asked about the high points, he said "Windows 95 was a nice milestone." He also spoke highly of Microsoft SharePoint Server software, but didn't mention Vista."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/28/scitech/pcanswer/main4130722.shtml

Concharto - An encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings

"Concharto is an encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki."

http://www.concharto.com/home.htm

Pin in the Map

"This is a free service which lets you easily share maps of locations with your friends via email or your website. Simply click on the map to mark a spot, enter a bit of text if you want, and you get an easy link to the map to share."

http://www.pininthemap.com/

Worldmapper

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest."

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/

United Nations Environment Programme - Maps and Graphics

"This service is an on-going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and sustainable development. "

http://maps.grida.no/