Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov - 1956

2012-02-03T01:00:00.004Z

"Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age?

Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?

Multivac fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended.

Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype attached to that portion of Multivac. Five words were printed: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER. [...]"

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

The Valley Guesthouse

2012-02-03T01:00:00.001Z

"We are happy to welcome many guests from all over the world and share the warm atmosphere of Boudha. With our Nepali/Dutch combination we give you the warm Nepali hospitality with a Western look."

http://www.thevalleyguesthouse.com/The%20Valley%20Guesthouse.htm

cy.eumap.eu - Twitter in Welsh

2012-02-03T01:00:00.000Z

http://cy.umap.eu/

Cardiff’s Taff Trail

2012-02-02T01:00:00.004Z

The trail actually starts just around the corner from Cardiff Bay (or should I say, Mermaid Quay), a hot spot in Cardiff. You can actually walk for hours and hours, but here are a few highlights (walking away from the sea starting in the bay): Millennium Stadium,Bute Park, Potcanna Fields, Llandaff Cathedral.

http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/2010/06/04/cardiff-walks-things-to-do-in-cardiff-taff-trail/

Tibet was an Independent Nation

2012-02-02T01:00:00.003Z

"The Tibet Autonomous Region (T A R) is not seen as the authentic Tibet; it was created by China in 1965 for administrative reasons, comprises less than half of historic Tibet and consists of the provinces western Kham and U-Tsang. POPULATION Tibet has an estimated population of about 6 million Tibetans and 7.5 million Chinese settlers. The estimated population within the Tibet Autonomous Region (T A R) is 2.62 million, of which Tibetan (93%) and Han Chinese (6%), whilst the rest live in the Tibetan areas outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. ECONOMIC Tibet is rich in natural resources, such as gold, iron, lead, uranium and huge reserves of forest."

http://secrettibet.rsfblog.org/archive/2011/05/13/tibet-was-an-independent-nation.html

Twitter Trends Map - Cardiff

2012-02-02T01:00:00.002Z

http://trendsmap.com/local/gb/cardiff

The International Dunhuang Project

2012-02-01T01:00:00.007Z

"IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes."

http://idp.bl.uk/

Is Vegetarianism A Hoax?

2012-02-01T01:00:00.006Z

“I have stopped fighting the basic algebra of embodiment: For something to live, something else has to die. In that acceptance, with all its suffering and sorrow, is the ability to choose a different way- a better way.” - Lierre Keith

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/06/vegetarianism-is-a-hoax/

"But some things are making sense now. First of all, there are no easy solutions or universal answers that fit everyone. Not even for yogis. Secondly, death is life. I’m not suggesting we kill like we kill now. That factory farming is acceptable. That massive slaughter can ever be sanctioned. I’m not even suggesting killing is ever wonderful. What I’m suggesting is that life happens and death happens. And death happens for life to happen. This is a universal truth. Something that I may ever be entirely o.k. with."

Reseiclo

2012-02-01T01:00:00.001Z

"An enormous amount of wood is needlessly thrown away every day in South Wales. A significant proportion of this wood ‘waste’ that is sent to landfill can be re-used in a variety of different ways.

Reseiclo aims to rescue and re-use as much of it as possible.
Don’t throw your wood away - We can recycle it!"

http://www.reseiclo.co.uk/

US destroying Pakistani Buddhist site (video)

2012-01-31T01:00:00.004Z

"(Wisdom Quarterly) The Swat Valley, modern Pakistan, was once part of the vast ancient Indian state or territory (mahajanapada) of Gandhara. This area produced some of the finest Westernized sculptures of the Buddha and largest temple complexes with colossal statues -- since it was nearer his actual birthplace, thought to have been somewhere in the Near East (ranajitpal.com) closer to modern Afghanistan."

http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2010/12/us-destroying-pakistani-buddhist-site.html

Should cyclists stump up for a ‘seat at the table’ tax?

2012-01-31T01:00:00.003Z

"Motoring taxes are not ring-fenced for spending on roads, they go into general Treasury coffers, the ‘Consolidated Fund’, and have done so since 1937. Ring-fencing of taxes is generally considered a bad idea. For instance, if motoring taxes had to be spent on improving conditions for Britain’s motorists, it would be just as logical for cigarette taxes to improve the comfort and convenience of Britain’s smokers. "

http://ipayroadtax.com/pay-to-play-tax/cyclists-should-stump-up-for-a-pay-to-play-tax/

"If cyclists – or their bicycles – are to be taxed, it would be only fair to have a scale of charges. Payment ought to be by size, vehicle axle loads, mileage driven and carbon dioxide emissions. So, HGVs would pay through the nose for the damage; cars would be stiffed because of the high mileage and emissions; and bicycles, which cause next to no road damage, would pay the least because they are the transport equivalent of Brazil’s pygmy geckos, lizards so light they can stand on water. "

"The standard figure is that damage to roads is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight. So a rough figure suggests that a car, which weighs about ten times as much as a cyclist (say 1000kg versus 100kg) should pay 10x10x10x10, or 10,000 times as much in ‘road tax’. So if a car pays £100 a year, the cyclist pays 1p. I’d happily pay my next 50 years’ ‘road tax’ now if it would shut up those certain motorists."

Council make Nant Fawr Corridor a nature reserve

2012-01-31T01:00:00.001Z

"Cardiff council has taken a step towards preventing the site of the Llanishen Reservoir becoming a new housing estate today, and categorised the long term plan as “environmental vandalism”."

http://www.now-cardiff.com/community/council-make-nant-fawr-corridor-a-nature-reserve/602/

Porth Termau - Welsh Terms

2012-01-30T01:00:00.008Z

"To search for a term on the website, type the term in the search box and click on the 'Search' button. The language used in the search will be detected automatically. The results which match your search exactly will be shown at the top of the page, with less exact matches shown underneath."

http://www.termau.org/porth/

2012-01-30T01:00:00.002Z

"reddit is a source for what's new and popular online. vote on links that you like or dislike and help decide what's popular, or submit your own!"

http://www.reddit.com/

New plans revealed for Cardiff’s main rail stations

2012-01-30T01:00:00.001Z

"This is the first look at the major redevelopments planned for Wales’ two busiest railway stations.

Cardiff Central station will have a new two-storey southern entrance and ticket hall under plans submitted by Network Rail.

Nearby Cardiff Queen Street station will also finally have a new entrance fit for the 21st Century."

http://yourcardiff.walesonline.co.uk/2011/02/09/new-plans-revealed-for-cardiff-main-rail-stations/

Orange Prize for Fiction

2012-01-29T01:00:00.006Z

"Launched in 1996, the prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a 'Bessie', created by the artist Grizel Niven. "

http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/

Recycled Island will be created from plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean

2012-01-29T01:00:00.004Z

"Recycled Island is a great idea for getting rid of the floating plastic dump in the Pacific. The island would be built where the trash is located and would convert the waste onsite cutting down on cleanup and building costs. It would be between Hawaii and San Francisco in the heart of the Pacific Ocean’s currents."

http://green.blorge.com/2010/07/recycled-island-will-be-created-from-plastic-waste-in-the-pacific-ocean/

Proust - Answer questions to help you share your story

2012-01-29T01:00:00.003Z

Introduction To Proust.com from Proust on Vimeo.

"Answer questions to help you share your story.

Choose to keep it private for your loved ones or make your story public.

Send questions to family & friends and learn things you never knew ... Just one question can bring you closer."

http://www.proust.com/

What do they know?

2012-01-28T01:00:00.006Z

"Make or explore Freedom of Information requests"

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

The Mongoliad: a shared universe that could only live on the Web

2012-01-28T01:00:00.004Z

"The Mongoliad will consist of a series of linked stories written by different writers, a Wikipedia-style concordance, and "an ongoing stream of nontextual, para-narrative, and extra-narrative stuff which we think brings the story to life in ways that are pleasingly unique, and which can't be done in any single medium." "

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/25/neal-stephenson-greg.html

Beelzebub has a Breville on his sideboard

2012-01-28T01:00:00.000Z

Satan is making toasted cheese sandwiches & singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Apparently "Beelzebub has a Breville on his sideboard".

http://twitter.com/#!/Its_Death/status/30289450307162112

http://twitter.com/#!/Its_Death

Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker

2012-01-27T01:00:00.019Z

"Riddley WaIker is set in an unspecified, post-apocolyptic era in the future, when dogs have become humanity's enemies, and history is a rubble of allegory. It's told in a language that recalls the "smashed mess of mottage" of Finnegan's Wake, but Mr. Hoban's inventiveness guarantees that the language of Riddley is his own creation. Gutteral yet eloquent, we hear in it echoes of rudimentary English (and a tendency toward sagas) that evoke Beowulf, mixed with remnants of the technological catchphrases and political jargon of the 20th Century. "

http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/riddley.html

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

There is a wonder in reading Braille

2012-01-27T01:00:00.003Z

"There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back." ~ Jim Fiebig

http://twitter.com/#!/Book_Review_/status/38598244783243264

The UK's last, great, expensive, short roads

2012-01-27T01:00:00.001Z

"[...] A3 tunnel at Hindhead in Surrey. A four-mile section of dual carriageway is being added, but the vast bulk of the £371m cost is concentrated on the 1.2 mile (1.9km) tunnel. It is the longest road, under land rather than a river, in the UK, costing around £300m, equivalent to £142,000 per yard (£155,000 per metre). "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13924687

Comments:

"The 'Free' motorway network has seriously undermined the development of a modern rail network which is the logical way to tranport most frieght and passengers around an island like the UK. Subsidies to air travel (such as no tax on kerosene) have also undermined rail. Rail rocks! Meanwhile local roads have become a nightmare of potholes and roadworks, and we will always need these."

Our Assembly

2012-01-26T01:00:00.008Z

"On 3rd March, 2011 the people of Wales gave a resounding Yes to direct law-making powers.

What happens next?
The 20 policy fields that are already devolved to the Assembly remain the same - they include Education, Housing and Health. Areas such as Defence, Taxation and Policing will remain within the remit of the UK Parliament.

What changes as a result of the Yes vote in the referendum is that the Assembly will now be able to pass laws in those 20 devolved policy fields without having to refer to the UK Parliament first. Under the previous system, the Assembly had to seek approval from Westminster for primary legislative powers on a case-by-case basis."

The Civic Trust For Wales / Ymddiriedolaeth Ddinesig Cymru

2012-01-26T01:00:00.004Z

"The Civic Trust for Wales promotes civic pride as a means to improving the quality of life for all in the places where we live and work, and encourages community action, good design, sustainable development and respect for the built environment amongst people of all ages. "

http://www.civictrustwales.org/

Phillip Pullman's Riposte

2012-01-26T01:00:00.001Z

"[...] And if they open it and read it, they don't have to like it.
And if you read it and dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it.
You can write to me.
You can complain about it.
You can write to the publishers, to the papers,
You can write your own book.
You can do all those things.

But there your rights stop. [...]"

http://brfuk.blogspot.com/2010/03/phillip-pullmans-riposte.html

This is South Wales

2012-01-25T01:00:00.006Z

"This is a website for people to read and write the latest local news, get together and discuss local issues, find and talk to people with similar interests, find and review local businesses, and see what’s going on locally."

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/

Solar System Scale Model

2012-01-25T01:00:00.003Z

"Solar System Scale Model [phrenopolis.com] shows a scale model of the solar system. The planets are displayed in a scale corresponding to the first image, which is that of the sun. Unlike most solar system visualizations or models, the planets are shown at their true-to-scale average distances from the Sun."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/11/solar_system_scale_model.html

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/

Speaking Welsh may delay onset of Alzheimers

2012-01-25T01:00:00.001Z

"SPEAKERS of Welsh and English might have more than their bilingualism as an advantage over monolingual counterparts.

Because scientists believe being bilingual – a state familiar to generations in Wales brought up on the likes of Sali Mali from their earliest days – exercises the brain and protects against Alzheimer’s disease.

[...]

The study showed bilingual Alzheimer’s patients developed symptoms several years later than those who spoke only one language."

Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/02/19/speaking-welsh-may-delay-onset-of-alzheimer-s-91466-28196591/

Send postal mail using electronic mail

2012-01-24T01:00:00.006Z

"NetGram's E-mail Bridge® turns e-mail into traditional paper mail delivered by the postal service."

http://www.netgram.com/

Going beyond our solar system

2012-01-24T01:00:00.004Z

"They are of similar size to Jupiter but in much closer orbits around their parent stars. Each has a temperature of approximately 10,000 degrees Centigrade. They must therefore be extremely inhospitable to any known form of life. WASP-12 is 475 light-years from Earth, while HAT-P-20 is 230 light-years away.

Chris Fuller said "I was amazed that we could detect distant planets orbiting other stars from a telescope in the middle of Cardiff." Jon Rees added: "It is remarkable to be able to see distant worlds and work out what conditions must be like there.""

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/going-beyond-our-solar-system-6613.html

Chogyam Trungpa Video: What is Spiritual Materialism?

2012-01-24T01:00:00.003Z

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/01/new-chogyam-trungpa-video-what-is-spiritual-materialism/

World Book Night - 23rd April 2012

2012-01-23T01:00:00.006Z

"This site exists in order to celebrate books and to connect readers with one another. You can learn more about World Book Night itself, the 2011 books and authors, and connect with other passionate readers.

And most importantly, you can help us shape World Book Night 2012 by telling us your ten favourite books - the books you most love to read, give and share - to give them a chance to be featured in next year's list. Simply sign up or login and tell us what books really matter to you. "

http://www.worldbooknight.org/index.php

Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail.

2012-01-23T01:00:00.003Z

"What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where–in the holy names of Education and Progress–important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued."

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-buy-books-newspapers-straight-intenet-uh/

The National Buddhist Prison Sangha

2012-01-23T01:00:00.002Z

"The National Buddhist Prison Sangha (NBPS) is a right action program offering spiritual guidance and support to prison inmates. Existing since 1984, this pioneering program is one of the most extensive services of its kind.NBPS SITTING Assistance is provided to men and women in a wide range of prison settings throughout the United States and Europe: maximum to minimum security, juvenile, military, federal, and local. The organization is open to all types of Buddhist as well as to those who wish to study meditation but do not identify themselves as Buddhist."

http://www.mro.org/zmmold/rightaction/nbps.html

Dzogchen - Keith Dowman

2012-01-23T01:00:00.001Z

"Dzogchen is 'The Great Perfection', the apogee of Tibetan Tantric Buddhist meditation accomplishment. It is the Buddha's enlightenment in rainbow light.

Dzogchen is also a path of existential praxis which is the quintessence of all Tantra. But it cannot be taught or learned. Either you get it or you don't. It is the school of Buddhism with greatest affinity to the sanity of twenty-first century mystical aspiration."

http://www.keithdowman.net/dzogchen/index.htm

http://www.keithdowman.net/dzogchen/garuda.htm

Monowi, Nebraska. Population: 1

2012-01-22T01:00:00.004Z

"Wandering the paths and peeking into the crumbling buildings was fascinating and sobering at the same time. This would be a ghost town except for the one living (and elderly) soul left but signs of a vibrant past life were everywhere. "

http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2011/05/05/monowi-nebraska-population-1/

Morevna - Open-source Anime

2012-01-22T01:00:00.002Z

"Morevna is an open source anime project made using open source tools like Synfig, Blender, GIMP and Krita. [...] Morevna is not only created using free and open source tools, but Morevna anime will also be released and distributed as free content. This project definitely deserves a lot of appreciation."

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/07/morevna-open-source-anime-project-using.html

http://morevnaproject.org/

Home Rule

2012-01-22T01:00:00.001Z

"While reducing under-occupancy can’t solve the crisis of provision by itself, and there will still be a need for new construction, a better distribution of the housing we’ve built already would help to relieve the pressure on both people and places. First we need to see the problem. I suggest a new concept: housing footprints. Your housing footprint is the number of bedrooms divided by the number of people in the household. Like ecological footprints, it reminds us that the resource is finite, and that if some people take more than they need, others are left with less than they need."

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/01/03/home-rule/

Move to rescue obscure words

2012-01-21T01:00:00.008Z

"(1) Oncethmus - The loud and hard cry of a donkey (2) Suffarcinate - Pack tightly (3) Weesquashing - Spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes. (4) Archigrapher - Principal or head secretary or clerk (5) Lugent - Sobbing or grieving (6) Philargyrist - Someone who loves money (7) Homerkin - Liquid measure for beer (8) [buffoonery] Not a rare word as such, but the collective noun for orangutans, which is weird enough to warrant a footnote (9) Jobler - One who does small jobs (10) Sturionic - Pertaining to the sturgeon. (11) Eternitarian - One who believes in the eternity of the soul (12) Quadrimular - Something lasting four years - unlike a tattoo! (13) Modernicide - The killing of modern people. (14) Welmish - Of a pale or sickly colour (15) Aeipathy - A continued passion; an unyielding disease"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/07/rescuing-obscure-words

http://savethewords.org/

Mojo Morgan

2012-01-21T01:00:00.007Z

"The blues gives me a feeling, which no other music can," reveals Mojo. "When I was a kid, I was listening to Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, then all the 60s blues from the UK such as Alexis Corner, John Mayall, and the Electric Blues, that came out at that time. As I grew, so did my love of music."

http://www.reverbnation.com/mojomorgan

Record labels based in Wales

2012-01-21T01:00:00.003Z

"As you'd expect from the land of song, with a literally ancient musical tradition, there's a lot of music and hence a lot of labels in Wales. Few are very large, but most are interesting."

http://www.wmf.welshmusicfoundation.net/mw%20minisite/labels.htm

http://www.welshmusicfoundation.com/cat1020/sub106/

MusOpen.org: Public domain performances of public domain music

2012-01-20T01:00:00.003Z

"Classical music itself, by virtue of being old, is mostly public domain, but recordings of performances are usually under copyright, and not many are available for use in free culture works. An emerging new resource, aiming to resolve this problem is MusOpen — a repository of public domain recordings of public domain music, available in Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats."

http://fsmsh.com/3520

http://www.musopen.com/

Letter Templates

2012-01-20T01:00:00.001Z

"A letter template is a fully detailed and readymade format for writing a letter. It is like an actual letter but without the personal contact details and specific points of mention which can be entered by the user as per the requirements. Letter templates are useful for saving time and giving a professional touch to a formal letter."

http://www.lettertemplates.org/

Longform

2012-01-20T01:00:00.000Z

"Longform.org posts new and classic non-fiction articles, curated from across the web, that are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser.

We recommend enjoying them using read later services like Instapaper and Read It Later and feature buttons to save articles with one click."

http://longform.org/

Japan gadget charges cellphone over campfire

2012-01-19T01:00:00.003Z

"A member of Japanese electronics venture TES NewEnergy unveils a pot that can charge mobile phones while boiling water for use in earthquake and other emergency situations, at a demonstration in Tsukuba City in Ibaraki prefecture on June 9. The Hatsuden-Nabe thermo-electric cookpot turns heat from boiling water into electricity that feeds via a USB port into digital devices such as smartphones."

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-japan-gadget-cellphone-campfire.html

Instapaper - save web pages for reading later

2012-01-19T01:00:00.002Z

"Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.

We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.

Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them."

http://www.instapaper.com/

How to get your book reviewed

2012-01-19T01:00:00.000Z

"The reviewer is doing you a favor, so be nice. You don't have to put on the hard sell to impress me, but it's important to be friendly and professional. Introduce yourself, give me a very brief synopsis of your book, include links to your book and website, and offer to send a review copy. "

http://blog.marketingtipsforauthors.com/2011/06/how-to-get-your-book-reviewed-by.html

"The typical review package includes a print copy of the book, and at least two pages of information about the book and the author, including synopsis, excerpts of other reviews, blurbs, an author bio, links, and contact information. Some publicists also include Frequently Asked Questions or a Q&A with the author. Putting something like this together doesn't take much effort, and goes a long way toward making you look like a professional. "

Freezepage - Take copies of Web pages and keep them for your own records

2012-01-18T01:00:00.005Z

" Take copies of Web pages and keep them for your own records. / Easily and safely share Web Pages with friends or colleagues. / Prove exactly what was at a Web address at a specific date."

http://www.freezepage.com/

Infostripe - build it, share it, connect it all

2012-01-18T01:00:00.002Z

"In minutes create a free hosted page and share a link, email address, phone number, location, photos, videos, music, podcasts, apps and more.

Display linked icons for; Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Flickr, Instagram and over 200 other networks, stores, sites and communities."

http://infostripe.com/

Example: http://infostripe.com/katebotwinski

St Dwynwen's Day

2012-01-18T01:00:00.000Z

"St Dwynwen's day is celebrated in Wales on 25 January and commemorates the patron saint of friendship and love.

Dwynwen lived during the 5th century and was, by all accounts, one of the prettiest of Brychan Brycheiniog's 24 daughters. The story goes that Dwynwen fell in love with Maelon Dafodrill, but unfortunately her father had already arranged that she should marry someone else. Maelon was so outraged that he raped Dwynwen and left her.

In her grief Dwynwen fled to the woods, where she begged God to make her forget Maelon. After falling asleep, Dwynwen was visited by an angel, who appeared carrying a sweet potion designed to erase all memory of Maelon and turn him into a block of ice.

God then gave three wishes to Dwynwen. First she wished that Maelon be thawed, second that God meet the hopes and dreams of true lovers and third that she should never marry. All three were fulfilled, and as a mark of her thanks, Dwynwen devoted herself to God's service for the rest of her life. "

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/faq/stdwynwen/

Nov. 23, 1963: Doctor Who Materializes on BBC

2012-01-17T01:00:00.006Z

"1963: At 6:15 on a cold, wet night, the BBC premieres its new family science fiction show, Doctor Who, with its first episode, “An Unearthly Child.” The series will become a legendary part of modern British folklore and the longest-running sci-fi series on TV.

Featuring a benevolent traveling alien known only as The Doctor, the series followed the adventures of the heroic Time Lord and his human companions through time and space."

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/11/1123dr-who-debuts

Click to Make Some Music

2012-01-17T01:00:00.005Z

http://mandaflewaway.tumblr.com/post/2057242738

Noteslate helps you get rid of your Notebook

2012-01-17T01:00:00.002Z

"The NoteSlate is a thin tablet that features 13” eInk screen that does only one thing – help you take down notes. It has a stylus with erase features, a simple 3 button interface for saving or deleting notes, and navigating through pages."

http://eeepc.net/noteslate-helps-you-get-rid-of-your-notepad/

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD

2012-01-16T01:00:00.003Z

"Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. "

http://science.commongate.com/post/Nobel_Prize_genius_Crick_was_high_on_LSD

Pastie

2012-01-16T01:00:00.002Z

Syntax highlighting / IRC integration / Paste text

http://pastie.org/2117226

Mike Oldfield - Wonderful Land

2012-01-16T01:00:00.001Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klKCQZJEFlA

The Welsh alternative to Valentine’s Day – Download our FREE card

2012-01-15T01:00:00.008Z

"While the shops are filling their shelves with fluffy pink hearts and cherubs in anticipation of Valentine’s Day, the ladies of the Visit Wales blogging team are actually more excited about St Dwynwen’s day.

The patron saint of lovers, Dwynwen whose name means “she who leads a blessed life”, is feted on January 25th. Although she is no longer officially recognised by the Vatican, she still enjoys great popularity in her home county of Anglesey, and St Dwynwen’s day continues to grow in popularity across Wales."

http://blog.visitwales.co.uk/4947/the-welsh-alternative-to-valentines-day-download-our-free-card/

Dear Photograph

2012-01-15T01:00:00.005Z

"take a picture of a picture from the past in the present"

http://dearphotograph.com/

Lightables.net creates Flickr photo grids

2012-01-15T01:00:00.003Z

"Not only does it look great, it's also super simplistic to use, in order to see more photos you simply drag the screen around to pan through everything in the same way you would with an iPhone or other touchscreen device."

http://www.popgadget.net/2011/03/lightablesnet_c.php

http://lightables.net/#tridral

http://lightables.net/#aro-books-worldwide

The Miniolian - standard tuning.

2012-01-15T01:00:00.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi46jbw_TE0

Two Hundred Sit-ups

2012-01-14T01:00:00.003Z

"Most of you reading this won't even be able to manage 20 sit-ups. Actually, I'm sure many of you can't even do 10. However, it really doesn't matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive sit-ups training program, I'm positive you'll soon be able to do 200 sit-ups!"

http://www.twohundredsitups.com/

Controversial Bridge Into Bute Park

2012-01-14T01:00:00.001Z

"The bridge is part of controversial changes to Bute Park to provide a new access route for lorries to enter and leave the park. Before this bridge over the Bute Dock Feeder was built, lorries had to enter and leave by one of the main pedestrian routes behind Cardiff Castle.

Despite sustained opposition from the public, and a motion of opposition, Cardiff Council (controlled by the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru at the time) pushed ahead with the construction of this new bridge, which opened in 2010."

http://blog.stuartherbert.com/photography/2010/06/17/merthyr-road-controversial-bridge-into-bute-park/

Tony McPhee - Graveyard Blues

2012-01-14T01:00:00.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbXYDtNyMkM

The surreal YouTube genius of Cyriak

2012-01-13T01:00:00.006Z

"My favourite is what appears to be Cyriak's most recent work, the brilliant Cycles, for which he deserves some sort of Bafta. Put aside what you're doing and watch it now. It's most effective if you put the music (by Cyriak) at full volume."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/31/cyriak-youtube-online-animator

http://cyriak.co.uk/info.html

What if there are no secrets?

2012-01-13T01:00:00.005Z

"I’m writing a book arguing that we are becoming more public and that’s good — and that institutions (government, companies) have no choice but to live up to our new standards of transparency and openness. But I am also examining when transparency goes too far.

Is the Wikileaks story an example of crossing a line? First, we have to ask where the line should be. I think it has to move so that our default, especially in government, is transparency. Rather than asking what should be made public we should ask why something should be kept private. Imagine if all government information and actions were public except matters of security and personal and private identification. There will be pressure to head there. "

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/07/26/what-if-there-are-no-secrets/

Ymlaen Mae Canaan - Steve Eaves

2012-01-13T01:00:00.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZM46-WFEg

How to organize a retreat

2012-01-12T01:00:00.008Z

"Never (never) have people go around a circle and say their name and what they do and their favorite kind of vegetable or whatever. The problem? People spend the whole time trying to think of what to say, not listening to those in front of them (I once had to witness 600 people do this!!)

Instead, a week ahead of time, give each person an assignment for a presentation at the event. It might be the answer to a question like, "what are you working on," or "what's bothering you," or "what can you teach us." Each person gets 300 seconds, that's it."

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/how-to-organize-a-retreat.html

Turn your name ito a face

2012-01-12T01:00:00.007Z

http://turnyournameintoaface.com/

Malta's colourful vintage buses bow out

2012-01-12T01:00:00.002Z

"Malta is replacing its fleet of characterful vintage buses with a more modern and efficient model but not all the islanders welcome the change.

The island of Malta does not exactly have a central bus station.

Instead, it has the Funtana tat-Tritoni, an open-air fountain in the middle of the capital city Valletta, which is home to a frenzy of bus-related activity. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9520210.stm

Book Marketing Spreadsheet + Consulting

2012-01-12T01:00:00.001Z

"When I was getting ready to launch my own book, Life After College, I knew I needed a way to track the hundreds of book promotion action items and ideas floating around in my head — everything from website development to book tour planning to advance copy recipient lists, so I created a 15-tab master spreadsheet as a way of organizing the hundreds of things an author thinks about on the road to book launch."

http://www.lacbook.com/for-authors/book-marketing-plan-and-consulting/trackback/

Nine guidelines for writing effective email messages

2012-01-11T01:00:00.003Z

"Keep it brief: I never make it through a long email. I find myself scanning, and I miss important details. You’re not writing a book or a love letter, you’re sharing information. Share the information and move on. If you write more than two or three paragraphs, a face-to-face meeting or conference call might be better.

Include a succinct subject: Long subject lines are as bad as no subject at all. Pinpoint a few keywords that convey the email’s purpose. [...]"

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/nine-guidelines-for-writing-effective-email-messages/5154

How to be organised: the timer

2012-01-11T01:00:00.002Z

Photo by pasukaru76 on Flickr

"First, make a list of all the things you want to do , including the one you're procrastinating. [...]

Then, next to each item, write 5, 10, 20. Set your timer to 5 minutes, and do the first one on the list until the timer rings.

Read the full article here:
http://mim.io/42655#organised

Lama of the Gobi - Michael Kohn

2012-01-11T01:00:00.001Z

"The title of my book is Lama of the Gobi. It’s a biography about a Buddhist monk name Danzan Ravjaa who lived in the Gobi Desert in the early 19th century. Danzan Ravjaa lived a fairly unconventional life; he was a poet and a playwright, he traveled widely across Asia to stage his operas. He was a social critic who fought local Manchu rule so that his fellow Mongols could enjoy more social freedoms."

http://www.sellingbooks.com/michael-kohn-lama-of-the-gobi/

How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs

2012-01-10T01:00:00.003Z

" 1. Reporters and editors compose all stories in Google Docs. Using labels and native commenting, the stories get sent through the editing process.

2. When a story is ready to publish, it gets sent from Google Docs to WordPress with one click.

3. In WordPress, editors can publish the story to the web, then set up a print headline and print subhead.

4. The story then appears in inDesign, where print designers can lay out the print newspaper."

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/how-to-run-a-news-site-and-newspaper-using-wordpress-and-google-docs_b4781

Animoto - Create Video slideshows

2012-01-10T01:00:00.002Z

"Create stunning video slideshows. Turn your photos, video clips, and music into video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free and shockingly easy."

http://animoto.com/

Examples

http://animoto.com/play/1vAvICiUkMysSNiAheKRdQ?autostart=true

http://animoto.com/samples/samples_consumer/XNqwbV62D1lfr5H1ZuqPig

Twitter Profile Mistakes Writers Should Avoid

2012-01-10T01:00:00.001Z

"1. No description of who you are in your profile: Cheeky 140-character descriptions of your abstract qualities sound cool, but they make it very difficult for somebody to find decide if they want to read your work. Simply describe who you are, what you do and what you write. [...]"

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/5-twitter-profile-mistakes-writers-should-avoid_b32527

The Lost World of Tibet (rare footage of Tibet in 1930s)

2012-01-09T01:00:00.006Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR0y1CrcBio

"Here is a very interesting documentary by the BBC about Tibet in the 1930s and leading up the Chinese invasion of Tibet. It has a lot of very rare and amazing footage of the Dalai Lama and his family, festivals in Lhasa, and the Chinese occupation. It also includes commentary from the Dalai Lama, Samdhong Rinpoche, and others like the Dalai Lama’s sister-in-law."

http://tibettalk.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-lost-world/

Save the planet – a message from another world

2012-01-09T01:00:00.001Z

"The first thing that is noticeable to me is that this is still the world," he says. "What's visible is construction, what you have made. This is not something we, the Kogi, are used to seeing. You give precedence to the use of a thing rather than its source. That's the intellectual error. Ultimately, it's all nature." From Jacinto's viewpoint, when we glance at a car we might assess its cost and the status conferred on its driver. We don't recognise it as a clever piece of engineering of resources that once lay inside the earth."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/27/kogi-warn-the-west

England's Oldest Royal Remains Unearthed

2012-01-09T01:00:00.000Z

"They belong to Eadgyth, grand-daughter of Alfred the Great, who was born in 910 and died in 946 at the age of 36.

Eadgyth was also the sister of King Athelstan and therefore an important pawn in the politics games of the time.

She was married off strategically to Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor in 929 with whom she lived in Saxony and had at least two children.

On her death, she was buried in Magdeburg, and her tomb was marked in the Cathedral by an elaborate sixteenth century monument."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Remains-Of-Englands-Oldest-Royalty-Found-In-Germany/Article/201001315530808

Meet-o-Matic

2012-01-08T01:00:00.007Z

Simple meeting scheduler

http://www.meetomatic.com/calendar.php

Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry

2012-01-08T01:00:00.006Z

"Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry
by Stephen Dunn

Relax. This won't last long.
Or if it does, or if the lines
make you sleepy or bored,
give in to sleep, turn on
the T.V., deal the cards.
This poem is built to withstand
such things. Its feelings
cannot be hurt. They exist
somewhere in the poet,
and I am far away. [...]"

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_dunn/poems/14902

Personalised fake magazine covers

2012-01-08T01:00:00.003Z

"If you choose, YourCover will professionally print your full-color fake magazine cover for you; you can also choose to have it framed. Other options include the photo file download which allows you to instantly save and print your magazine cover at home or at a local photo shop. Personalized magazine covers are unique gift ideas and make memorable party favors or distinctive table centerpieces. Make your own magazine cover at YourCover.com. It’s a clever way to celebrate and commemorate an important person, occasion or milestone. And it’s a unique keepsake that’s sure to be remembered and enjoyed long after the event has passed."

http://www.yourcover.com/

OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

2012-01-08T01:00:00.000Z

"Unlike most free software for creating 3D models (such as the famous application Blender) it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in creating computer-animated movies.

OpenSCAD is not an interactive modeller. Instead it is something like a 3D-compiler that reads in a script file that describes the object and renders the 3D model from this script file (see examples below). This gives you (the designer) full control over the modelling process and enables you to easily change any step in the modelling process or make designes that are defined by configurable parameters."

http://www.openscad.org/

Off the Wall – The Beaver by Krystal Georgiou

2012-01-07T01:00:00.003Z

"Another classy animation from the Off the wall project from Big little City.

This cute creature is on a munchies mission to fill a hole.

Excellent work by Krystal Georgiou."

http://www.biglittlecity.com/off-the-wall-beaver/

New Endings offers fresh start for Cardiff's dead ends

2012-01-07T01:00:00.001Z

[A]rchitects and Grangetown residents Kevin Hong and Mhairi McVicar of the Collaborative Design Studio realised these dead ends can also offer new beginnings, that they are opportunities for creating meeting places, talking places, growing places, swapping places and places for play. They set up New Endings as a project to identify these dead ends and engage the community in creating and possibly implementing new uses and interesting designs for these sites. In the middle of last year I joined them in the project and together with other colleagues and Grangetown residents we secured some funding from towards the initial stages of the project the Arts Council of Wales and the RSA Catalyst Fund.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2011/mar/23/new-endings-grangetown-project-cardiff-dead-ends

http://newendingsgrangetown.wordpress.com/

Muziic - Create playlists and listen to interet radio

2012-01-07T01:00:00.000Z

"Muziic is a true multi-platform service that allows you to stream virtually any song or music video on-demand, build custom playlists, tune-in to thousands of internet radio stations and browse high quality music content - anytime, anywhere."

http://www.muziic.com/

Debate re-ignites about where to build in Cardiff

2012-01-06T01:00:00.006Z

Cardiff Local Development Plan History on Dipity.

"Candidate sites, showing where new housing estates totalling up to 4,500 homes in some cases, put the city’s greenfields under-threat once again."

http://yourcardiff.walesonline.co.uk/2011/01/17/debate-reignites-about-where-to-build-in-cardiff/

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

2012-01-06T01:00:00.002Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTMOSCh7aJU

The Only Immortal Animal on Earth

2012-01-06T01:00:00.000Z

"Have you ever wondered what would happen if our life cycles were reversed, that is if we were born old and died young? Well, there’s one animal that comes close and has achieved immortality in the process, just to top it off. Meet the Turritopsis nutricula, a small saltwater animal or hydrozoan related to jellyfish and corals. "

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/only-immortal-animal-on-earth/20087

The Wilderness Downtown

2012-01-05T01:00:00.012Z

An interactive film...

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Why I’m Going to Publish the Mediactive Book with Lulu

2012-01-05T01:00:00.011Z

"Some members of the traditional publishing industry don’t care for what I write, and some who do aren’t thrilled with one of the ways I try to spread my ideas. So when Mediactive appears between dead-tree covers a bit later this year, the traditional publishing industry won’t be in the mix.

I’m going with Lulu, a company that understands the changes in media. This is a self-publishing service — an operation that takes my work and turns it into books that can be sold, by me and by anyone else who wants to sell them."

http://mediactive.com/2010/05/09/why-im-going-to-publish-the-mediactive-book-with-lulu/

The Copenhagen Wheel

2012-01-05T01:00:00.007Z

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/12/mit_wheels_out_new_bike_protot.html

"Even in this city where bicycles outnumber cars on virtually every street, officials are hoping to persuade more people to give up four wheels for two.

Yes, a whopping 37 percent of commuters ride bikes to work or school in the Danish capital -- and air hoses are more common here than gas pumps. But city officials are having trouble bumping that percentage up to a 2015 goal of 50 percent."

United Kingdom Venn Diagram

2012-01-05T01:00:00.001Z

"The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England"

http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england-venn-diagram/

Just my imagination - The Cranberries

2012-01-04T01:00:00.002Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27-I5p2_bdk

Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers

2012-01-04T01:00:00.001Z

"Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs, the two historians of science at George Mason University who have created the project, have so far charted how frequently more than two dozen words — among them “God,” “love,” “work,” “science” and “industrial” — appear in British book titles from the French Revolution in 1789 to the beginning of World War I in 1914."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/books/04victorian.html

The Voynich Manuscript

2012-01-04T01:00:00.000Z

"The Voynich manuscript is a handwritten book thought to have been written in the early 15th century and comprising about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations. Although many possible authors have been proposed, the author, script, and language remain unknown. It has been described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript""

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

http://www.voynich.nu/index.html

http://voynichcentral.com/

PiratePad

2012-01-03T01:00:00.007Z

"This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents!"

http://piratepad.net/

http://piratepad.net/pNx7ujq64I

Project Management Handbook

2012-01-03T01:00:00.006Z

Project Management Handbook

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7656951/Project-Management-Handbook