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June Link Dumps

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Science:
Brain Maps - Explore the Brain like never before! An interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on more than 10 million megapixels of scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet.

Fun:
How Observant Are You?

Photography:
How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

Computer:
How to encrypt your email

May Link Dump

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Fun:
Your secret superhero identity
How To Spin A Pencil Around Your Thumb - Have you ever watched somebody in class or at the office skillfully twirl a pencil around his or her thumb and wondered how that person did it? Have you tried to do it on your own and found that it's not as easy as it looks? By following these steps and practicing - a lot - you can amaze curious onlookers with your brilliant pencil spinning, too!

April Link Dump

Astronomy:
StarChild - A Learning Center for Young Astronomers.

Fun:
Japanese Translator .co .uk - Your Name in Japanese.

Stumbled Links For April

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MAP:
Map Builder - "MapBuilder lets you tag locations on a map and publish it on your own site.
Mapping is now easier than ever. It's free."

FUN:
Random Disease Generator - Help pharmaceutical companies come up with new ideas for diseases and drugs they can market.
Jet lag Advisor - Working in conjunction with the UK’s leading sleep expert, Dr. Chris Idzikowski, we have developed the ultimate jet lag advisor. By answering a few simple questions regarding your recent or planned flights, we can advise you on the best things to do to minimise your jet lag.

ODD:
MeterBroken - Is a proactive awareness campaign whose goal is to ward off bogus parking tickets by debunking the myth that it is illegal to park at “broken” meters.

SCIENCE:
LabLit.com - The culture of science and fiction and fact.

KIDS:
I Used To Believe - The Childhood Beliefs Site.

SPIRITUAL:
Sacred Destinations - a catalogue and travel guide to more than 1,500 (and counting!) sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical religious sites and religious buildings and artifacts around the world.

ENVIROMENTAL:
Bioneers - Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth.
WorldMapper - The world as you've never seen it before
Discover Antarctica - Explore the bottome of the Earth.

LITERATURE:
PoetryFoundation.org - Poetry Tool

Computer:
HDClone Free Edition - HDClone Free Edition copies the content of hard disks on a physical level from one disk to another hard disk. It can be installed on floppy or cd (ISO image included). It is able to copy hard disks of different sizes, which allows you to "move" data from an old hard disk onto a new one. This version supports disks over 128 GB. This version adds ISO and has better performance.

Stumbling Links For March

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Scuba Diving:
Jean-Michel Cousteau at LIDS
Hand signals used by divers approved by RSTC
ARSBC - The Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia, ARSBC, is a non-profit society based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Our mission is to create environmentally- and economically-sustainable "artificial reefs" in British Columbia and around the world for the enjoyment of Scuba Divers, and for the protection of environmentally- and historically-sensitive marine habitats. Since 1991, the ARSBC has sunk 6 ships and one Boeing 737 in B.C.
TURTLE LIVE - Live webcast Of Turtle napping spot.
Live webcasts Of Orca's - They will also notify you at key times when orca are near the camera and mics.
Aquaskipper - Fly above the water with the most popular product from Inventist! Your hopping motion causes the hydrofoil to propel you forward while giving you lift. Since the hydrofoil has very little drag in the water, you can move at speeds of up to 17 mph. With the AquaSkipper, you can ride on waves, try new tricks, and race your friends. Any way you use it, the Aquaskipper fun and a great way to exercise.
Tank of the Month - February 2006 - Reefkeeping.com - Don't personally like Saltwater Tanks...but all I got to say is WOW!
Sea Slugs Madness - Nice Site!
World first? - Diving instructor captures images of divers interacting with killer whales.
Something Fishy - How Humans Got So Smart
Ocean Was a Hot Tub in Dino Era

Kids:
TRAINING TOILET PAPER - Paw prints show kids how much toilet paper to use. Kids follow the prints to the puppy and tear off the right amount.
Adobe Digital Kids Club - Lessons and activities
The MINI-MIZER - Build a Lego You!
StoryNory - Free download of children stories.

Mind:
Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer - Doing 'brain exercises' such as watching Countdown, playing Sudoku or taking a shower with your eyes closed can make us all up to 40 per cent cleverer within seven days, according to research by a BBC programme this week.
A Theory on the Deja Vu Phenomenon - A physiological explanation of the deja vu phenomenon may exist. The optical and neural paths from the two eyes may be slightly different. Or, alternately, a "newer" and "older" brain processing method might be responsible.
Sleep position gives personality clue - If you want an insight into somebody's true personality, then try to catch a glimpse of the way they sleep.
What's Your IQ?

Health:
Strange afflictions - Ever felt the urge to eat dirt or attack the alien impersonating your brother? Megan Gressor can explain why.
Over-the-counter (OTC) Medicines - familydoctor.org
New England Journal Of Medicine - NEJM Handhelds : PDA Home
If I am feeling chest pain, should I call 911?

Odd:
International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board - The International Earth Destruction Advisory Board (IEDAB) is an independent scientific institution which monitors the current status of the Earth and the number of times it has been destroyed. In the event of the Earth being destroyed it will be the IEDAB's job to relay this information to people who need to know and provide advice on how to proceed.
Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations
How to Stop Time
Spirit Project - Palmistry
Tricks of the Trade - Professional secrets from those in the know.
Awesome - A Site about Cool Shit
Aquada - Now this is a cool car!
The Micropolitan Museum - the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter
proudly presents...
Portable Telephone
The Witching Hours - Medieval Through Enlightenment Period European Witch History
The Final Curtain
Nessie on the Net - The Ultimate Loch Ness Monster Live Cam, Scotland
Doodles, Drafts Designs
Sacred Destinations — a catalogue and travel guide to more than 1,500 (and counting!) sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical religious sites and religious buildings and artifacts around the world.
Statistics - We've all been in this situation before – the meeting's in 5 minutes, and your boss asked you to find a statistic online to prove a point. Like that the tobacco consumption in Brazil is decreasing, or that most seniors prefer cats to dogs. Whatever it is, we're now here to help you create valid-looking statistics in an instant!
The Forbidden Knowledge - Conspiracy Theory
World's most expensive cars 2006
Instructables - step-by-step collaboration.

Fun:
Cityscape - is a game where you have been assigned to create a new city in a recently discovered region that's prime for development. Using the 18 urban aspects at your disposal, you are able to build your city, but only those who build them in the proper order will achieve the highest ranking: a teeming Cityscape.
Skip Intro
Extreme Survival Quiz - Test your survivial acumen in some extreme circumstances.
So You Wanna Build a Macquarium + Glow in the dark Fish = It's a good match!
Monty Python's Silly Walks Generator - ROFL!
Plane Banner Generator - Cool!
Play Free Online Games - Role Playing Games
How to Fold Paper Into a Secret Note Square - Some people have trouble opening this type of note, so it's perfect for passing secret notes to your friends.
Sketch Swap - Draw One to Get One.
Origami - Cool!
Mystic Pig - Ask the Pig...he knows...lol
The Cleaning Hunk
WALL OF MEMEORY - Walls last a very long time. If you want to remember something forever, scratch it into the wall of memory.
Brittlelactica - Got Milk?

Internet:
Google's Domains - Google this google that, you hear google everywhere. Yes, it is a very useful search engine, but don't you get tired of typing w.w.w...g.o.o.g.l.e...c.o.m every time? the domain name gets boring :smile: So, what to do? Google owns a lot of funny names that point to their site!
Nothing for Sale Site - Name your own price.
Chatzy - Chatzy is a free private chat service. Fill out the form to create a chat room immediately - only for you and the people you invite!
FeedYes.com gives rss feeds to websites without feeds - Just type the url of any page, and FeedYes gives you the feed.
Kaboodle - Collect, Save items from across the web onto a single page.
AjaxTrans - Real time translation as you type!
StanaPhone - Free and unlimited calls to any other Stanaphone subscriber, anywhere in the world.
Email graphic traceroute - Paste an email with full headers (we need the 'Received' lines -- we don't need your email addresses, digg). The app will (we hope) trace the path your email message took as it passed through various servers, on Google maps.
Way Back Machine - The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Find out what Google thinks of you.
Project IP - In addition to your IP address projected above, Project IP lists just about everything a webserver can find out about your computer.
Amazing Webpage Emailer - Very neat toolbar which lets you email a web page, without the adverts and rubbish, with the proper formatting and even if it’s locked behind passworded doors. Fast too. Plug-ins for IE, Firefox and Netscape. They do ask you for your email address while sending though, so be prepared.
Mailnation Email - Free 1000GB Email Services.
Ning -The new free and easy way for you to create your own Social Web Apps - so let the fun begin!
Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises.
Searchdon - Make Personal Search Engine with Famous Themes
How to protect your privacy and security when browsing the web
Comparison Of Web Browsers - From Wikipedia
Wikipedia - What Wikipedia is not

Photography:
Tiltomo - Here you can play with our Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.
World In Motion VR - Take a unique trip to some of the most amazing places on Earth with World in Motion VR.
Drop Shot - Video Sharing
JP Trenque - Photography
Lomography - Yup Yup Yup...lol
MyHeritage - MyHeritage.com is one of the world's first services to apply advanced face recognition technology to personal photos and family history; and it's free!
Things that make you go aahh - And awwwwww.....lol
Snowflake and Snow Crystal Photographs - These pictures show real snow crystals that fell to earth in Northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. They were taken by Kenneth G. Libbrecht using a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope.`
BubbleShare - Your photos + Your voice = Your Story

Science:
Rainbows - Rainbows have many forms. Multiple bows, bows that cross, red bows, twinned bows, coloured fringes, dark bands, spokes and more. Find out about them here.
Live Science
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
"Lost World" - Found in Indonesia Is Trove of New Species
The Transparent Butterfly

Geography:
Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America
GeoNames
Sacred Destinations — a free online travel guide to the history, significance and features of over 1,100 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical religious sites and places of worship around the world.
Saharan Prehistory & Rock Art - Really Nice Site!
World History - Interesting....
Stone Pages - Web guide to Megalithic Europe :Over the last 14 years we have personally visited and photographed all 529 archæological sites you will find in these pages (117 in the six national sections and 412 in our Tours section), creating the first Web guide to European megaliths and other prehistoric sites, online since February 1996
The Roman Empire

Astronomy:
Nordlys - Of all naturally occuring heavenly phenomena, few come close to a night
with a magnificent northern lights display. Flickering curtains of dancing
light against the dark skies, northern lights is certainly one of the most
spectacular of nature's phenomena.
How to discover asteroid impacts - The story of the discovery of two impact craters.
Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
Comet dust sparks scientific intrigue - Samples hint at ancient origins, with tentative signs of organic compounds.
Solar System Simulator

Free Downloads:
Desk Projection v1.0.6 - Allows you to project a transparent image of your choice on top of your desktop using alpha blending. I can be controlled either through a tray icon or with comand line arguments.
NoSleep! v2.18 - Allows you to temporarily deactivate the screen saver and any standby feature directly from the system tray. NoSleep! is minimal in size, yet provides remote control capabilities, a full (un)installation routine and - as a bonus feature - Swatch Internet Time.
TheBeat v1.07 - Displays the Internet Time from Swatch as a system tray icon (near Windows' own clock).
fd's Flickr Toys - Helping you do fun things with your digital camera since 2005. ;-)
OldVersion.com
Torrents sites - WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
Open Source Windows - Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of. No adware, no spyware, just good software.
Peer to Mail - Store and Share files on any Web-Mail account!
Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager (Standard)- Use this application to backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. Use USB Flash Drives to store personal data, to keep your network configuration and to share information with your friends. Microsoft USB Flash Drive.
List of open source software packages - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Assassin II - When malicious software invades your system, the most invasive ones will ensure that they are malignant. Some malware can even startup with the system in Safe Mode and regenerate using a new set of credentials. Thus, your everyday scanner will fail to remove these processes. However, Assassin v2.0.0 has been equipped with the necessary features one will need to terminate and remove almost any hostile process from ones system within minutes and all without rebooting or changing the system configurations.
FastKake - Will create a set of handy and useful shortcuts which will give you full control of your Windows operating system and simplify your computing life.
Public Domain Torrents - Lot's of Free Movies and Legal too.
tinySpell - Spell checker.
Outlook Express Tweaker 1.01 - Some useful Outlook Express settings are not exposed in its Options dialog and the only way to change them is to tinker with registry. That is if you don't have OE Tweaker. Once you get this handy utility customizing the hidden Outlook Express settings becomes a snap.
Sun Clock 6.5 - world map is subtly different every day. As the seasons change watch the polar sea-ice expand and contract, the snow cover on land extend and recede, and the vegetation of the Amazon jungle, sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere change in intensity. Using satellite imagery taken throughout 2004 the annual cycle is simulated.
Nullsoft Beep - is an application that makes your computer sound like computers sound in the movies. It requires Windows 95 or later with DirectX 3 or later.

Portable Apps:
Portable USB Drive Apps - Wiki Wiki Wiki
Dirk Loss' Win-Tools
Portable Freeware
SysInternals
Tinyapps
del.icio.us tag usb

Government:
RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them - This article has been linked all over the Internet. We want to make it clear that $20 bills will only 'pop' or 'explode' in certain microwaves. We've had E mails saying they do, they don't, 'you're all kooks' etc etc. What is confirmed is the public policy to embed US and European money with high tech tracking devices as part of the hulking surveillance society.
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 USC)
Ellis Island - Passanger Records

Dogs:
Mystic Dog - Dog Horrorscopes
Doggles - Sun Glasses For Cool Dogs.
Peta Catalog - 'Songs to Make Dogs Happy' CD :Hehehe...should get Sitara one of these...lol
Making Bath Times Fun for You and Your Dog

Gadgets:
HAL - Control Your Home by Voice From Anywhere!
LAZER SCISSORS - Laser Scissors You can cut a straight line! Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. No marking, no crooked cuts.
Tiny USB IrDA Adapter - Talk about small!

Computer:
Images: Windows Vista - Here's the new stuff.
Browser Security Test - How did you do ?

Books:
BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Blurb Home

Food:
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - All Seafood List

Music:
Find Music You'll Love - Pandora
Star Trek Music
Desktop Blues

Mobile Phone:
Skweezer - Is both a mobile-optimized browser and a fully functional Web portal, with features such as e-mail, contacts list, RSS reader, and more.
Gadget17 - Series 60 Freeware

RSS:
FeedYes - gives rss feeds to websites without feeds.
Feed43 - Your favorite site doesn't provide news feeds? This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
FeedBlitz - RSS, Blogs, XML, readers and aggregators can be confusing. Adding email services to your blog isn't. Email RSS feed and blog subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz.

Link Dump For Febuary

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Computer:
The VerticalMouse 2 - Boy oh boy are there some wacky input devices on the market today, and it seems they get even kookier when they're ergonomic.
Laptop inventions - Interesting laptop inventions.
XP On Your Thumb Drive - Fred Langa offers a step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.
Create Your Own IM BOT

Scuba Diving:
Bluetrek X2 Bluetooth Water-Resistant Headset - The Bluetrek X2 is an earpiece that’s not quite so delicate as most, called the first water resistant and weatherproof Bluetooth headset by its manufacturer.
Antarctic Krill Provide Carbon Sink In Southern Ocean - New research on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a shrimp-like animal at the heart of the Southern Ocean food chain, reveals behaviour that shows that they absorb and transfer more carbon from the Earth's surface than was previously understood.
World Ocean Observatory
BubbleRIngs.com - A Bubble Ring is like a smoke ring, except it exists underwater, and it is made of pure, clean air. Bubble rings are created by swimmers, scuba divers, dolphins, humpback whales, and the RingMachine invention.

Gadgets:
Sfera Alarm - For those who have a hard time getting up in the morning, here’s a sadistic new way to assure that they’ll pay heed to that blaring alarm clock at the crack of dawn.
Top 10 Strangest IPod Accessories
Make - Technology on your time.
Knock Code Technology will open your door without keys

Health:
Ginkgo Biloba Extract - More Than Just For Memory?
Unintelligent Design - A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth

Animals:
Three New Species Of Lemurs Identified -Researchers have identified three new species of lemurs, the small, big-eyed primates native to the island of Madagascar.

Astronomy:
New Map Of Milky Way Reveals Millions Of Unseen Objects - Nearly 400 years after Galileo determined the wispy Milky Way actually comprises myriad individual stars, scientists using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have done the same for the "X-ray Milky Way."
Apollo Chronicles - The Mysterious Smell of Moondust

Odd:
Earth Hurtles Toward 6.5 Billion - The planet's population is projected to reach 6.5 billion at 7:16 p.m. EST Saturday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and its World Population Clock.
The Toy Will Bring You Joy
Cow Abduction.com

Internet:
Live Thumbnails - Watch 'em Grow
What is passclicks? - Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember thir old style textual password
SuprGlu - Piecing Your Web Together. Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites.
You can turn off the internet here
How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients
Test Your Browser's Security Now
NSA eavesdropping - How it might work
How Do I Avoid Getting Tracked While I am Online?
www.DNSstuff.com

Games:
Magic Cube 4D Applet

Gardening:
Virtual Garden

Photogrpahy:
The Bodyscapes Galleries
GRAFFITI ARCHAEOLOGY
Ashes and Snow

Politics:
World Public Opinion - Others report what the world does. We report what the world thinks.

Free Downloads:
Copy Path - Copy Path is a tiny utility that allows you to right click on any file and copy the full system path to your Windows Clipboard. Many people may not find this a big help, but if you deal with network files and such all day at work, like I do, you may find this little tool is a real timesaver.
Desktop Earth - Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth.
John's Background Switcher
World Wind - lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
Gmail Skins - is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).
Listible - Windows opensource and/or freeware.

Dogs:
Fido's First Cell Phone
Tick-Busting Robot Nabs Pests

Wandering around momentarily...

UrlyArt - Photo mosaic
Best Funny Pictures - Incredible photos of a baby hippo that was stranded by the tsunami and the tortoise that adopted him
Collecting Antique Mouse & Rat Traps - Antique Mouse & Rat Trap Gallery
Charlotte Freiis Design Studio - Childrens Paper Chair
Sketch & Swap - Draw 1 to get 1
WHAT'S UP? - What's Up is an application that tracks a large number of RSS news feeds. The sources of these feeds are displayed on a map of the world. Whenever any of the news feeds releases a new article, its title immediately pops up.
Time out of mind - Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
XtraGoogle
101 Zen Stories
How smart are you really?
Thousands of giant squid wash up on Chilean beach
SA solar research eclipses rest of the world
Make -Stuff.com
Sharks' future in doubt as they shun ocean depths
Kibo's.signature
Virtual Dog
Davinci Code Dialogue
May 2008
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