A Student's Guide To Money

This guide contains everything a student needs to know about money, from how to save it to how to spend it.

• Managing Your Finances At University: How to ensure you always have enough money to buy what you need.
• Managing Your Finances At University - Part Two: How to make a budget at university -- and how to stick to it!
• Money Saving Tips For Students: How to save money on nights out, books, computers, food, travel and other useful stuff!
• The Debt All Students Should Avoid: Thinking of taking out a student credit card? Read this first…
• Students: Reduce Your Bills! How to keep your energy, broadband and mobile phones bills down while at university.
• My Five Top Student Bank Accounts Here’s how to pick the best student bank account.
• Keep Your Stuff Safe At University Off to uni? See how the leading student insurers match up.

http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/2008/09/12/welcome-to-our-student-special.aspx

National Risk Register

"As announced in the National Security Strategy, the Government has published a National Risk Register which sets out our assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of a range of different risks that may directly affect the UK.

The National Risk Register is designed to increase awareness of the kinds of risks the UK faces, and encourage individuals and organisations to think about their own preparedness. The register also includes details of what the Government and emergency services are doing to prepare for emergencies."

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/national_risk_register.aspx

PDF Split and Merge

"PDF Split and Merge is a very simple, easy to use, free, open source utility to split and merge pdf files. It’s released in two versions: basic and enhanced. Includes a console and a GUI interface."


http://www.pdfsam.org/

Global ideas bank

"The Global Ideas Bank aims to promote and disseminate good creative ideas to improve society. It further aims to encourage the public to generate these ideas, to participate in the problem-solving process."
http://www.globalideasbank.org

Picjuice - Online photo editor

"With picjuice you can easily edit your photos: resize, crop, rotate, flip and adjust contrast and color levels. After you have finished, click on the "Save" icon to download your photo."

http://www.picjuice.com/

Wootz steel

"Wootz is a steel characterized by a pattern of bands or sheets of micro carbides within a tempered martensite or pearlite matrix. It was developed in India around 300 BC^[1]. The word wootz^[2] may have been a mistranscription of wook, an anglicised version of urukku the word for steel in Tamil or ukku, the word for steel in Kannada, Telugu and many other southern Indian languages."


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

The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades

"The art of producing the famous 16-18th century Damascus steel blades found in many museums was lost long ago. Recently, however, research has established strong evidence supporting the theory that the distinct surface patterns on these blades result from a carbide-banding phenomenon produced by the microsegregation of minor amounts of carbide-forming elements present in the wootz ingots from which the blades were forged. Further, it is likely that wootz Damascus blades with damascene patterns may have been produced only from wootz ingots supplied from those regions of India having appropriate impurity-containing ore deposits. "

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html

UK Technology Writer Takes His Electronics Off-Grid

"British technology writer and TreeHugger emeritus Matthew Sparkes faced a challenge- could he run all of his technology on solar and wind power, even in gloomy London? It turned into an interesting demonstration of how far technology has come but how far it has yet to go.... "


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/techology-writer-goes-off-grid.php

Wind Turbine from Scrap for under £20

"Max Robson's prototype wind turbine cost him only £20 (US$37) to build, using rubbish he collected from skips (or dumpsters, as they are called in the former colonies). The do-it-yourself turbine reportedly includes a bike frame and bearings, a Vespa magneto and a Ford Fiesta battery."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/cheap-diy-wind-turbine.php

Library of Dust

"In 1913, [...] an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves."

"Over time, however, the canisters have begun to react chemically with the human ashes held inside them; this has thus created mold-like mineral outgrowths on the exterior surfaces of these otherwise gleaming cylinders."


http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/library-of-dust.html

Eee PC Tips: A crash course in Linux

"So you're an early adopter and you've run out to buy yourself Asus's $400 Eee PC because it seemed like a great price for a fully functional 2 pound computer that's about the size of a typical hardcover book (and far smaller than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).

But the innovative easy to use interface might get old pretty quickly if you want to do more than surf the web and create letters, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint style presentations for your friends telling them how cool you are because you have an Eee PC while they don't. ..."

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/06/eee-pc-tips-a-crash-course-in-linux/

ASUS Eee PC Forum

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=20&SLanguage=en-us

Eee User

"Welcome to Eee User!
We are a community of individuals interested in the Asus Eee PC.
If this is your first time here, this website has three components:

• The blog
• The forums
• The wiki"

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/

Textbook Revolution

"Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.

TBR’s mission is to drive the adoption of free textbooks by teachers and professors. We want to get these books into classrooms. Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world. "


http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page

MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT)

"MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December."

http://jolt.merlot.org/

The Directory of Open Access & Hybrid Journals

"Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3694 journals in the directory."

http://www.doaj.org/