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2008-10-20

FeedMySearch

"Turn your usual Google searches into tiny rss feeds. Get instant updates whenever a new result appears significantly on Google Free yourself from the noise of results moving up and down ! Only get what is new to your search."

http://feedmysearch.com/

DNS Check - Test your DNS-server and find errors

"DNSCheck is a program that was designed to help people check, measure and hopefully also understand the workings of the Domain Name System, DNS. When a domain (aka zone) is submitted to DNSCheck it will investigate the domain's general health by traversing the DNS from root (.) to the TLD (Top Level Domain, like .SE) to eventually the nameserver(s) that holds the information about the specified domain (like iis.se). Some other sanity checks, for example measuring host connectivity, validity of IP-addresses and control of DNSSEC signatures will also be performed."

http://dnscheck.iis.se/

Webwait - benchmark your website

" * WebWait is a website timer.
* Use WebWait to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection.
* Timing is accurate because WebWait pulls down the entire website into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools ignore."

http://webwait.com/


http://webwait.com/#aroencyclopedia.org was averaging 2.57 seconds after 4 runs

YouGetSignal - A collection of uncomplicated, powerful network tools

"YouGetSignal.com is a collection of network tools that I started working on in late September of 2007. The name of the site, YouGetSignal, is a nerdy play on a line of broken English from the infamous "All your base are belong to us" cut scene."


http://www.yougetsignal.com/

Big things come in TinyMe

"I was impressed by how nicely TinyMe installed on my 733MHz Pentium III Compaq Deskpro EN. It's not uncommon for at least one thing to go wrong during a distro installation, but TinyMe installed perfectly. Even the optimal 1024x768 monitor resolution was right. This has been a real problem with other distros, particularly Ubuntu and its derivatives. TinyMe's developers specify minimum system requirements of a Pentium processor and 64MB memory. They specify no disk space requirements, but a 2GB hard drive would easily hold a basic TinyMe install."

http://www.linux.com/feature/149918

10 Multi-Use Items You Should Consider Packing

"Next time you hit the road, pack these reusable, space-saving, and lightweight items."

http://matadorgoods.com/10-multi-use-items-you-should-consider-packing/

For Bicylists, There is Safety in Numbers

"It may seem counter-intuitive, but the more bicyclists there are on the road, the lower the rate of accidents. If you double the number of cyclists, the accident rate per cyclist will drop by a third."

 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/safety-in-numbers-on-bikes.php

Electric Vehicle (EV) Network

"The EV Network serves electric vehicle owners by providing a directory of charge points where such vehicles may be charged. Drivers of conventional petrol or Diesel vehicles have the use a wide network of commercial filling stations, but prior to the EV Network many owners of EVs were only able to charge their vehicles at their own homes. The EV Network encourages the more widespread adoption of electric vehicles by documenting where electric vehicle charge points exist across the UK. In England, Scotland and Wales, from Cornwall to Clacton and from Southampton to the north of Scotland we know where you can charge your electric vehicle. "


http://www.ev-network.org.uk/

No Friends? Blame the Traffic….

"People living on streets with heavy motor vehicle traffic are experiencing a considerable deterioration of their local social lives according to Joshua Hart, a researcher from the University of the West of England. Results suggest that residents on busy streets have less than one quarter the number of local friends compared to those living on similar streets with little traffic."

http://onthelevelblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/no-friends-blame-the-traffic/

20 examples of grammar misuse

"Grammar just ain't what it used to be, it seems. When we explained the difference between "fewer" and "less than", following Tesco's policy shift on this matter, readers told us what grammar rules they see being flouted or find confusing. The list was a long one."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7595509.stm

The Japanese Alphabet is a deep and meaningful poem

i ro ha ni ho he to / chi ri nu ru wo / wa ka yo ta re so / tsu ne na ra mu / u wi no o ku ya ma / ke fu ko e te / a sa ki yu me mi shi / we hi mo se su

"Although its scent still lingers on
  The form of a flower has scattered away
For whom will the glory
  Of this world remain unchanged?
Today I came over the mountains
  Of this evanescent existence.
We shall never allow ourselves to drift away
  intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams. "


http://supersonicelectronic.com/post/48571987/the-japanese-alphabet-is-a-deep-and-meaningful-poem

The Ceremonial Language Damin

"Damin was a secret language spoken only by initiated men on three islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, south of New Guinea. It has many remarkable qualities; for example, it is the only non-African language to use clicks as part of its regular phonemic inventory. It seems pretty clear that Damin was an invented language, and a cleverly built one, but unfortunately it has become extinct. This is a compilation of the information I’ve been able to find about Damin."

http://www.rickharrison.com/language/damin.html

Futurese - The American Language in 3000 AD

1000 AD: Wé cildra biddaþ þé, éalá láréow, þæt þú taéce ús sprecan rihte, forþám ungelaérede wé sindon, and gewæmmodlíce we sprecaþ...

2000 AD: We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly...

3000 AD: *ZA kiad w'-exùn ya tijuh, da ya-gAr'-eduketan zA da wa-tAgan lidla, kaz 'ban iagnaran an wa-tAg kurrap...

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html

UK National Audit Office - Risk Management



http://www.nao.org.uk/Guidance/topic.htm#Risk

"Good practice in the application of risk management - self assessment questions for departments " (PDF)
http://www.nao.org.uk/conferences/managing_risks/NAO_good_practice_risk_management.pdf

"Managing Risks to Improve Public Services" (PDF)
http://nao.gov.uk/publications/nao_reports/03-04/03041078.pdf

It's not Its ...

"IT'S It's is a contraction for it is or it has.

ITS Its indicates possessive."

http://www.its-not-its.info/

National Novel Writing Month

"National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30."

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Embed a Part of a YouTube Video

"If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/10/embed-part-of-youtube-video.html

IVR Hacks

"Are you sick of those annoying interactive voice response (IVR) systems that many companies use? "Press 1 for Customer Service, Press 2 for Sales," as you navigate an increasingly frustrating maze of options in an effort to reach a human being who can answer your question or process your sale.

ivrhacks.com is a directory of shortcuts to IVR systems for companies around the world. These shortcuts allow you to exit this maze as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, taking you to a human operator who can respond to your call in the old fashioned way; using their own voice and interacting with you through conversation. "


http://ivrhacks.com/