A Pocket DictionaryWelsh-English by Richards, William, 1749-1818

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2395854/A-Pocket-DictionaryWelshEnglish-by-Richards-William-17491818

Also available in text format


http://www.archive.org/stream/apocketdictionar19704gut/19704.txt

Cardiff Transition Project

"As defined on the Transition website, a Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?" "

http://home.cardifftransitionproject.org.uk/index.php

Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in HarperCollins deal

"Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber, is to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles.

The 100 Classic Book Collection ranges from Shakespeare and Dickens to Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. It will cost about £20 and will be available initially only in Britain. "

 http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article5303730.ece

The Watermark Tool Protects Your Images on the Web

"Photographers and graphic designers know all too well what it's like to have their work stolen from their Web galleries and turned into desktop wallpapers or posted on someone else's blog as their own work. Even bloggers with a scoop or a product review and photos to match like to make sure that other sites linking to their work or using their images give them proper credit. The Watermark Tool is a free Web app that gives photographers, artists, and site owners the ability to quickly add a custom watermark to their images."


http://www.appscout.com/2008/12/the_watermark_tool_protects_yo_1.php

Ice Orchestra Blows Hot and Cold

"Cold but warm...is how you could describe the sound of an ice trumpet carved from a 2,500 year old glacier. It's part of the orchestra of the Norwegian percussionist, Terje Isungset, who has been making his instruments out of ice for the last twenty years. He started experimenting with the sounds of stone and glass and then progressed to ice. There is a difference between natural ice and factory ice--the ice from the factories is "dead and has no sound". Even with the natural ice, some instruments have amazing tones whilst others have nothing."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/ice-orchestra-isungset.php

Fallacies

"The first known systematic study of fallacies was due to Aristotle in his De Sophisticis Elenchis (Sophistical Refutations), an appendix to the Topics. He listed thirteen types. After the Dark Ages, fallacies were again studied systematically in Medieval Europe.  This is why so many fallacies have Latin names. The third major period of study of the fallacies began in the later twentieth century due to renewed interest from the disciplines of philosophy, logic, communication studies, rhetoric, psychology, and artificial intelligence."


http://www.iep.utm.edu/f/fallacy.htm

Example

"Noting that the auto accident rate rises and falls with the rate of use of windshield wipers, one concludes that the use of wipers is somehow causing auto accidents."

Beauty Comes in Surprising Shapes

"... You only get the diseases if you're worried about your weight all the time. You see advertisements from slimming centres that say, 'Liberate yourself from your extra baggage so that you are free to be yourself.' It's rubbish! You're liberated only if you're comfortable about who you are, and what you look like any time of the day and anytime of the year! Why would I want to waste my time on slimming regimes when I have so many other important things to do and so many people to be friends with? I eat healthily and walk regularly; I'm this size because I am born to be big! There is more to life than worrying about weight all day long."

http://www.thylacineslair.com/MindRetreat/BigBeauty.htm

Chinese 'classical poem' was brothel ad

"To our sincere regret ... it has now emerged that the text contains deeper levels of meaning, which are not immediately accessible to a non-native speaker"

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chinese-classical-poem-was-brothel-ad-1058031.html

15 Tips for Writing Effective Email

"Have you ever needed to email someone - a stranger, asking them for a favor? How can one compose email such that they will be read and responded to? How do we effectively email someone who gets a lot of email?"

http://thinksimplenow.com/productivity/15-tips-for-writing-effective-email

"Generally speaking, the sender and receiver see things from drastically different points of views. And from the perspective of a sender, we often do not spend time understanding who the receiver is and what their inbox might look like."

British teddy bears strapped to helium weather balloon reach the edge of space

"It's not often that Britain can claim a win in the space race. But these teddy bears drifting nearly 20 miles above Earth have become the first soft toys to take part in extra-vehicular activity (to use correct NASA jargon) at such an altitude."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1091896/Out-world-British-teddy-bears-strapped-helium-weather-balloon-reach-edge-space.html

Using the Hell out of your Digital Camera

"As time goes on, more and more people are carrying little cameras with them everywhere they go. I'm one of them. Here are a few camera tricks I've picked up through the years."

http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/camera/camera_tricks.php

For example

"Mechanisms you are repairing

This is another insurance policy. Before you unplug your router, fix a guitar string or disassemble the lawnmower throttle linkage, snap a photo of what it used to look like. You probably won't need it, but if you have to drop the project for a few days, you might appreciate a visual refresh of what it look like when it was just a little broken."

Warspeak: Linguistic Collateral Damage

""Demonizing" the enemy is an important part of any struggle that seeks a willing coalition to back it. Referring to the enemy as "a regime," part of an "axis," or even "big-spending liberals" or "fat cats" is just lexical wordfire in some struggle between members of the species that possesses language. Just keep your head down and well-informed and warspeak will bounce off you like bullets off Superman."

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/drgw008.html

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

""Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
http://mediatedcultures.net"

"We'll need to rethink a few things"

Forrest J Ackerman, writer-editor who coined 'sci-fi,' dies at 92

"Forrest J Ackerman, who influenced a generation of young horror-movie fans with Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing what has been called the world's largest personal collection of science-fiction and fantasy memorabilia, has died. He was 92."

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ackerman6-2008dec06,0,6853867,full.story

The Last Guide to CSS Layout You’ll Ever Need

1. Fixed or Fluid?
2. W-H-N-M-F
3. Two Column - Fixed
4. Three Column - Fixed
5. Fluid Layouts
6. Equal Height Columns

http://searchlightdigital.com/the-last-guide-to-css-layout-youll-ever-need

Why the love affair with man-eating plants?

"A new BBC adaptation is being made of The Day of the Triffids, but why are we still prepared to believe in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by flesh-eating semi-sentient plants? And do we have a love affair with fictionalised destruction?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7762438.stm

"When we die, everything ends, but in these stories that's inverted - everything ends but we get to live on. It is the world evacuated of everyone else. You can go into shops and have everything you want, live in any house you want."