Scientists unveil plan designed to cut cost of space travel

"Professor Shane Ross, from Virginia Tech in the US, said: ''Basically the idea is there are low energy pathways winding between planets and moons that would slash the amount of fuel needed to explore the solar system. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6170961/Scientists-unveil-plan-designed-to-cut-cost-of-space-travel.html

The Book Oven

"Help make text perfect, or upload your own content.  Invite your colleagues, editors or friends to work on a private or public writing project."

http://bookoven.com/

AbeBooks

"AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books. More than 110 million new, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print books are offered for sale through the AbeBooks websites from thousands of booksellers around the world. Readers can find bestsellers, collectors can find rare books, students can find new and used textbooks, and treasure hunters can find long-lost books."

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

Librivox

"LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. "

http://librivox.org/

Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books

"... books bought from Sony’s online store will be readable not just on its own device but on the growing constellation of other readers that support ePub. Those include the Plastic Logic eReader, a thin device that has been in development for nearly a decade and is expected to go on sale early next year."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/technology/internet/13reader.html?_r=1&hpw

The Squirrelizer

"Adds that ground squirrel to any image"

http://www.lutralutra.co.uk/squirrelizer/

Inspirational Blind Photographers and their Portfolios

"When we look through the lens we are really only using one sense, sight. How would we cope if that was taken from us either partially or fully?"

http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspiration/inspirational-blind-photographers-and-their-portfolios/

Eurovision 2009 Results Visualized

"Eurovision 2009 Results Visualized is a simple interactive visualization that aims to make the analysis of the past Eurovision Song Contest easier to understand."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/07/eurovision_2009_results_visualized.html


http://blob.creanode.com/blob/eu2009/

Ramdisks - Now We Are Talking Hyperspace!

"Ramdisks are usually spoken of in hushed tones when sysadmins get together. Some view them with awe because of their performance and some view them with skepticism and say they are only useful for creating benchmarks. Almost all of them agree that using them on a regular basis must be done with care because of the problem of losing power shuts immediately shuts down the ramdisk erasing the contents of the ramdisk. However, there are uses for ramdisks besides running benchmarks. More over there are storage devices that use RAM as the storage media that can reach rarefied levels of performance of millions of IOPS."

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7388/1.html

Plainsight

" PlainSight is a versatile computer forensics environment that allows inexperienced forensic practitioners perform common tasks using powerful open source tools.

We have taken the best open source forensic/security tools, customised them, and combined them with an intuitive user interface to create an incredibly powerful forensic environment"

http://www.plainsight.info/

Bryn Bella Webcam - Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia

"This image is from the webcam that looks out from our bed and breakfast accommodation in Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia. You can see across the village of Betws-y-Coed towards the mountains of Snowdonia."

http://www.bryn-bella.co.uk/snowdonia-webcam.asp

Snowdonia from Anglesey webcam

"A panoramic view of the Snowdonia mountains is in view from Rhys Thomas's Anglesey webcam which faces south east.

It's a handy way to check out the cloud cover if you're heading for the hills. As the old joke goes: "If it's cloudy it's raining. If it's not cloudy, it's going to rain later."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/webcams/pages/anglesey.shtml

UK Press Online

"This is your gateway to over a million pages of the 20th Century's biggest-selling newspapers, from 1900 to today, all as published on the day they were published and all searchable by name, word or phrase."

http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/

Export Google Sites

"Google's Data Liberation team built a Java application for importing and exporting Google Sites. The application lets you export the pages from a site and all their attachments to a folder.

"The folder structure of an exported site is meant to mimic the Sites UI as closely as possible. Thus if exporting to a directory "rootdirectory," a top-level page normally located at webspace/pagename, would be in a file named index.html, located in rootdirectory/pagename. A subpage of that page, normally located at webspace/pagename/subpage, would be in a file named index.html in rootdirectory/pagename/subpage. Attachments are downloaded to the same directory as the index.html page to which they belong," mentions the user guide."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/export-google-sites.html

Google Street View's Partner Program

"Google has a partner program for Street View. "Do you manage a unique property (pedestrian mall, amusement park, university campus, etc.) that users would like to visit in Street View? Through our Partner Program, you can now request Google to collect imagery of your location. Once the images are added to Street View, people all over the world will be able to virtually explore your property.""

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-street-views-partner-program.html

Slowcoast - Soundslides

"Soundslides are short documentary films inspired by an artisan"

http://www.slowcoast.co.uk/soundslides/