Coed Hills Rural Artspace

"Coed Hills Visitor Centre is situated in the picturesque Vale of Glamorgan, just 8 miles west of Cardiff. In an area packed with ancient history and breathtaking beaches, the farm is a family day out that could change the way you view the world."



http://www.coedhills.co.uk/

Medieval football writers studied

"Ms Roberts said references to early forms of the game were made between 942 and 950AD in the Book of Taliesin, where soldiers kicked the heads of defeated soldiers."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7486118.stm

The 7 Best Electric Scooters: From Prototypes to Production Models

"We've been writing about all kinds of scooters for years, but because of high oil prices, they're now seeing a renaissance of sorts. With 30% of Americans saying they would consider riding a scooter--even some people we wouldn't expect to--and sales of scooters up by 200% (and that was as of two years ago), now seems like a perfect time to revisit some of our past scooter coverage and bring it all together."



http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/7-best-electric-scooters-prototypes-production-models.php

The Importance of Naming Standards

"Ah, Naming Standards. IT loves to talk about naming standards, particularly when they're talking about databases or code modules. In such a world, naming standards allow other developers to more quickly pick up on a piece of code or a database design and be productive understanding it more quickly. They can also help yourself out, after you revisit a piece of old code or database that you worked on 3 years ago."

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/achieving-great-bi/the-importance-of-naming-standards-16058

Can't Darwin and God get along?

"Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic."



http://www.salon.com/books/atoms_eden/2008/07/01/saving_darwin/

Mapping scientific citations

"Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by eigenfactor. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields. An arrow from field A to field B indicates citation traffic from A to B, with larger, darker arrows indicating higher citation volume.



The map was creating using our information flow method for mapping large networks. Using data from Thomson Scientific's 2004 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), we partitioned 6128 journals connected by 6,434,916 citations into 88 modules. For visual simplcity, we show only the most important links, namely those that a random surfer traverses at least once in 5000 steps, and the modules that are connected by these links.



Our map browser allows you to explore this map dynamically in greater detail."



http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.htm

10 Tips for How To Name Your Project

"Run your proposed name through Google. The fewer results you get the better. If you get down to no results, you're there. "



http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2006/06/22/10-tips-for-how-to-name-your-project/

What's in a Project Name?

"We've come up with the following loose guidelines for project naming:

1. We prefer one word names.
2. They should be relatively easy to pronounce and easy to spell.
3. They have to be client friendly.
4. They should be globally unique across the company. No duplicates.
5. We need a reasonable number of items in the set to choose from, in A-Z order."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000996.html

Paris, World War 2

"An exhibition of rare color photographs of occupied Paris in World War Two has sparked a controversy in France, with some politicians saying it paints too rosy a picture of life under the Nazis. (Reuters)"



http://community.livejournal.com/euro_photos/194356.html

How to fold anything

"Create order in your closets and drawers with this guide to folding and achieving the perfect crease"



http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/package/0,21861,1160129,00.html

Email Dossier - Investigate email addresses

Investigate and verify e-mail addresses



http://centralops.net/asp/co/EmailDossier.vbs.asp

Privnote - Send notes that will self destruct

"1 Post a note, 2 Send the link, 3 Note self destructs when read"



https://privnote.com/



This may have been destroyed by the time you come to look at it

https://privnote.com/n/qgjthiiquxeuibth/

Chartgizmo - Create Stunning Charts Online

"With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.



ChartGizmo may be useful for those who needs to visualize financial, scientific or other type of data."



http://chartgizmo.com/

The Library Moves On

"... But for me, visits to the library used to be filled with a sense of joyful anticipation about what I might come across by flicking through journals randomly picked from the shelves of the journal collection ..."

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/014951.html

ODF translation to be simplified

"South African localisation experts, Translate.org.za, have launched a new project to simplify ODF document translation.

The project aims to develop software that will convert documents in the ISO-approved OpenDocument format (ODF) into XLIFF, a standard format used by translators. The process will convert just the text of ODF documents into the XLIFF format for translation and then convert translated text back into the OpenDocument format."

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2550

Google: Search Humyo for Free Music, Movies, TV Episodes and Music Videos

"Humyo.com is a free file sharing and hosting site that gives its members 30GB each of storage space. 25GB of this free storage is set aside specifically for the storage of media files (music and video). By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download."



http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2918/google_search_humyo_free_music_movies_tv_episodes_music_videos

Mind and Concept Mapping Tools

http://concept.cf.ac.uk:8001/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1112724975375_369457085_4927&partName=htmltext

The One Minute Manager Approach to Being a Comment Master

"Back in the early 80’s, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson authored a great little book called The One Minute Manager which outlined three simple management techniques that helped one become a more effective manager. These same concepts can also help one become a comment master instead of merely posting simplistic, non-productive comments, you could be contributing to the blog post and the productivity of the blog author as well."

http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/shamanstears/2008/06/30/the-one-minute-manager-approach-to-being-a-comment-master/

Backing up Large Files

"There are quite a few programs for backing up files, some with graphical interfaces, some with web interfaces and others which work from the command line. They are mostly designed to do scheduled backups to a server or hard disc but I wanted a straighforward way to make one-off backups of some large files to DVDs or a USB drive. I decided, therefore, to use a simple command line procedure to do most of the work. It takes only two commands to create the archive and three to restore the archive and check it for errors."

http://www.electronic-equipments.co.uk/tutorial/linux/backup_large_files.html

ZFS on FUSE

"So, just what are these advanced features of ZFS? Its developers re-examined filesystem design from the ground up. The result, according to the ZFS Web page, is that its developers have “blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that’s actually a pleasure to use.” Examples of its advanced features include:

* Pooled storage — The filesystem enables storage space from multiple disks to be “pooled” and allocated to specific mount points on an as-needed basis. This feature effectively combines volume-resizing and Logical Volume Management (LVM) features, but at the filesystem level. With ZFS, you don’t need to worry about how to size your partitions, since the filesystem adjusts itself automatically!

* RAID-Z — This feature is similar to Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) level 5 support, but with less overhead.

* Always-consistent disk space — The disk space is kept consistent at all times through copy-on-write operations. Thus, there’s no need to perform disk checks after a system crash or power outage.

* Disk scrubbing — This feature is similar to the Error Correcting Code (ECC) feature of certain computer memory modules; it permits the computer to detect and correct on-disk errors.

* Snapshots and clones — A snapshot is a read-only copy of a filesystem, and a clone is a read/write copy of a filesystem. You can use snapshots and clones to preserve a fixed version of a filesystem or to make backups of a filesystem.

* Built-in compression — ZFS supports compression at the filesystem level, which is particularly handy if you’re low on disk space or if you store highly compressible data."

 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6371