Clipmarks | boozich's 'great' clips

Online Education Database - This is a strange site, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it - but this link lists over 100 specific search and research tools, often relevant to specific subjects.

MathWorld - if you have the great misfortune of having to take math, then this site can be of great help. Everything mathematics from Geometry to Calculus is covered by this site in great detail.

GeoHive and Fedstats - These are both statistics sites, so if you need to know how many people. Fedstats allows public access to public agency statistics. Geohive is a bit cooler, primarily providing global statistics (gender populations, coal reserves, etc). I know, it’s so exciting I can’t stand it.

Theoi and Encyclopedia of Mythology - Both excellent resources on the subject of mythology and ancient religions. This is useful information all across the humanities.

Tags: research

The Dalai Lama's Recommendations for You

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:38:26 GMT

clipped by: smilesalad
clipper's remarks: Another list to put on the wall

Clip Source: www.progress.org

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs:

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Tags: advice, life, spiritual, dalai

great pics

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:22:10 GMT

clipped by: prashanth

Clip Source: thefairest.info

Tags: appreciation, beauty, photo, nature

Dalai Lama - Buddhist guide to life

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:32:25 GMT

clipped by: missmelq
clipper's remarks: Did't have quite enought room to get the last couple mentioned....

Clip Source: www.missico.com

Dalai Lama

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Tags: buddhism, psychology, philosophy, religion, guide to happiness

Top 10 banned books of the 20th Century

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:54:21 GMT

clipped by: treebeard31
clipper's remarks: Great covers

Clip Source: alternativereel.com

Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century

Tags: banned books

Rare Book Room

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:19:20 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: An awesome reference site with a good collection of scanned rare books.

Clip Source: rarebookroom.org

Introduction

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.

Over the last ten years, a company called "Octavo" embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page).

This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution.

Tags: books, rare books, reference

Travel photography - fun perspectives

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:18:59 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: It's a great series of photographs. I can't seem to find out by whom though. I like the idea of it...though I'm not too sure about covering up the actual landmark itself....maybe something alongside it instead....but still a great idea.

EDIT: Michael Hughes....found him!!! Voila his Flickr page.

Clip Source: haha.nu

The world is in your hand

jo has sent this collection of a project, which is supposed to be named “The world is in your hand”. Unfortunately no source/author known, please help us to make credits.

Tags: photography, travel, photos, souvenirs, interesting, michael hughes

Clipmarks named Top 5 Web Service of 2006 by PC Magazine

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:02:32 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: This is a great honor!! Thank you to everyone who has helped make this such a great year. I truly feel that Clipmarks is a special place on the web...and it's because of the people who clip and share interesting things they find during their journey on the web.

So, this award goes to all of us...the people who clip the best of the web, the people who pop and comment on those clips and the people who simply love to read it all. Thank you and congrats to everyone!

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Clipmarks
Think of it as an online scrapbook. With Clipmarks, you can easily cut and save little bits of info from the Web, as much as you would from a newspaper or magazine. You can annotate them. You can organize them. And of course, you're encouraged to share them. This is one tag-happy social-networking site that's actually worth using. And it's free.

Tags: clipmarks, internet, web, service, pc magazine

A great little pic

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:30:25 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Worth a look.

Clip Source: www.claybennett.com

Tags: not, funny, sad

My second "clipiversary"

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:56:32 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Yes, it's been 2 years today. Thanks for everything, guys...

Clip Source: omega.wordpress.com

Time runs so fast and somebody should definitely do something about it; like bribing the sun and convince it for slowing down the earth’s orbital voyage around it. When I was browsing the new clips at Clipmarks this morning, I suddenly noticed that date on my profile: “Joined: 11/10/2005″. Yes, today it’s been exactly 2 years since I joined Clipmarks, which means 730 great days, 104 wonderful weeks or 24 months full of clipping, sharing and fun.

As I often mention it here on this modest blog or elsewhere, Clipmarks has been a very special thing in my online life. Now while I am browsing more than 1700 clips I posted (and many more others, posted by fellow clippers) I can’t help thinking “What if there had not been a site like this, what if Clipmarks never existed?”

So thanks again Clipmarks, for these great 2 years; and thanks to all clippers who have been making this “infotainment” experience a very special one. I am proud of being a part of this great community.

Tags: clipmarks

Great Minds Drink Alike

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:06:37 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Great Minds Drink Alike: Cafes Tapping Nation's Fascination with Science & Research

Major media from the Chicago Tribune to ABC News to Wired magazine and The New York Times have all reported on a new trend sweeping the U.S., Canada, and Europe: the rise of science cafes. Founded in London, the global network of Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.

"A lot of people come to see real live scientists — some of whom are extremely famous and prominent — and see how their brains work,"

The quarterly Cafes have tackled diverse issues such as biomechanics, the biology of gender, the big bang theory and global warming, but the basic formula stays the same

To find a Café Scientifique event near you visit their global cafe locations map.

Tags: mind, physics, education, life, science, cafe

Life Beyond Google: Eight Great Alternative Search Engines

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:24:22 GMT

clipped by: anpl32

Clip Source: webworkerdaily.com

Everyzing is one of my favorite sites for searching for audio- and video-based information found on the web. It actually indexes the words spoken in podcasts and videocasts, and then it displays excerpts as text

SearchEngineColossus is great for doing targeted searches in any language using the actual engine that locals use.

Answers.com. Answers.com lets you type in a question and then sifts through your search results to find the answer to your question.

SearchGov is a great way to search for government institutions and offices, and divisions within them.

If you remember a string of text from a book, you can often find it in context at SearcheBooks.

IncyWincy crawls the Invisible Web. It’s especially good at executing searches within targeted search engines on the web and letting you know exactly which rock it’s finding promising results under

FindArticles. The site houses over 10 million articles

Tags: web search, search engines

Snow & Ice in China - pics

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:49:31 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.rtoddking.com

Outside the main entrance to the ice festival, called “The Fourth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World.”

A Thai temple of ice...

...complete with hallways and rooms inside

A bridge of ice, spanning ice, leading to more icy ground.

An entire ship constructed of ice, with passengers onboard.

The snow festival is mostly a display of art; the ice festival is mostly a display of architecture

One of the popular activities at the festival is climbing a wall of solid ice.

An overview of the ice festival from atop the Great Wall of ice

The Great Wall doubles as a long ice slide; just sit and go

A view from atop that structure, looking back on a Russian-styled building and a mock Great Wall, both constructed out of ice

The ice festival, a few miles away from the snow festival

Even the sunsets in Harbin look cold

I was surprised to discover this sculpture of a Native American

The sun begins to set

Most of the sculptures appearing at the snow festival are competitive entries

Snow and ice sculpture

The

Tags: photos, 2003

great photos from the sky

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:49:52 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: "Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art"

Clip Source: files.kavefish.com

Tags: photos, pictures, sky, from