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33 Names of things you didn't think had names

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:58:10 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks:

29. SNORKEL BOX
A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.

30. SPRAINTS
Otter dung.

31. TANG
The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.

32. WAMBLE
Stomach rumbling.

33. ZARF
A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

And Deepti's Octothorpe's in the list too......now, everyone try saying hemidemisemiquaver 10 times fast!

Clip Source: www.canongate.net

1. AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.

2. ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing.

3. CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.

4. COLUMELLA NASI
The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.

5. DRAGÉES
Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.

6. FEAT
A dangling curl of hair.

7. FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.

8. HARP
The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.

9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)

10-13. JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.

14. KEEPER
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.

15. KICK or PUNT
The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.

16. LIRIPIPE
The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.

17. MINIMUS
The little finger or toe.

18. NEF
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.

19. OBDORMITION
The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.

20. OCTOTHORPE
The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.

21. OPHRYON
The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.

22. PEEN
The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.

23. PHOSPHENES
The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.

24. PURLICUE
The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.

25. RASCETA
Creases on the inside of the wrist.

26. ROWEL
The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.

27. SADDLE
The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.

28. SCROOP
The rustle of silk.

Tags: list, interesting

Turn Google into Napster

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:45:58 GMT

clipped by: alongcool
clipper's remarks: awesome!

Clip Source: tech-tonic.net

Okay peeps, I’m sure most of you know how to use Limewire and Bittorrent these days. But, I’ll bet you haven’t used Google to perform a quick Mp3 search for the nagging song that’s been stuck in your head all day. The truth is that Google can be used to conduct a search for almost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. This functionality has been available for a long time, but most users haven’t caught on to it. So here’s a quick example of how to use Google to search for Mp3s. It’s like turning Google into the Napster of 2000.

The following is a Google search string for searching open web directories containing downloadable Nirvana music files. Substitute the term Nirvana in the search string for any other band of your liking. You can always bookmark the search result for future use.

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Nirvana”

With some very slight modifications the same search string can easily be used to search for ebooks in DOC and PDF format:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″

Or perhaps your looking for some specific video file:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “towelie”

You can check the official Google Advanced Search Operators page for further details on editing this search string to meet your specific needs. Enjoy yourselves!

Now thry this http://www.briefli.com/ link it does exactly what we tought of doing above.

Shaastra Thamesportal

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Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:35:06 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: pretty funny stuff

Clip Source: www.lucidcafe.com

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Never lick a steak knife.

The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Tags: funny, humor

Translation and Language Learning Tool

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:42:01 GMT

clipped by: carmepla
clipper's remarks: This Fire Fox extension has just updated with lots of new tools. Before, it was a useful translation tool. Now, it's also a comprehensive learning tool. Since I'm a language lover, this update has impressed me. Very useful for me.

Clip Source: www.concisefreeware.com

The Ultimate Language Tool!

Main Features

Web Page Translation - Translates full web pages (over 1,000 different language pairs)
Translated Search - Searches foreign pages using terms written in your language
Auto Translation - Automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain
Text Translation - Translates text entered in the search box or selected on any web page
Language Resources - Over 90 language services (encyclopedias, text-to-speech, etc.)
Ixquick - Metasearch engine with unique features, language search and complete privacy
Learning Languages - Over 100 links to language learning sites for a variety of languages
Freeware - FoxLingo is completely free and contains no adware or spyware
Complete Privacy - FoxLingo does not take any information from it's users

Supports 45 languages & over 1,000 different language pairs

Afrikaans, Arabic, Aranese, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish Latin American, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh

Tags: language, learning, translation

Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:42:58 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: more (a lot more!) @ source

Clip Source: ubuntuguide.org

Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide

[hide]

3.5 Where to find a list of all the programs and libraries that come with Ubuntu

3.9 Where to look for new programs

3.10 Where to look for style elements for your desktop

4.1 How to add extra repositories

6.4 How to install J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox

6.6 How to install Flash Player (Macromedia Flash) Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox

6.7 How to install PDF Reader (Adobe Reader) with Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox

6.9 How to install Download Manager (Downloader for X)

6.21 How to install Multimedia Codecs

6.22 How to install DVD playback capability

6.24 How to install Multimedia Player (VLC) with plug-in for Mozilla Firefox

6.36 How to install DVD Ripper (dvd::rip)

6.44 How to install Email Client (Mozilla Thunderbird)

6.60 How to install Partition Editor (GParted)

6.85 How to install Windows Applications in Linux (Wine)

6.87 How to install VMWare Player

7 Other Desktop Environments

8 Eye Candy

9.3 How to install Windows Games (Cedega)

11.3 How to install Graphics Driver (NVIDIA)

11.8 How to detect CPU temperature, fan speeds and voltages (lm-sensors)

11.9 How to control fan speed (lm-sensors)

11.10 How to show nvidia GPU temperature (nvidia-settings)

11.17 How to list partition tables

11.19 How to list mounted devices

12.4 How to duplicate CD/DVD

12.9 How to mount/unmount Image (ISO) files without burning

13.3 How to configure network connections

13.5 How to configure broadband connections

13.10 How to share folders the easy way

Tags: ubuntu, guide, help, howto, tutorial, faq, resource, dapper drake, 6.06, wiki, computer, os, operating system, install, setup, configuration

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:34:56 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: monkeyblog.org

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

A graphical guide for all new users with a Windows background using Ubuntu ^{Revision 4}

Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? "Where's the EXE?", "Where do I need to extract this to?", "How do I run it?", "Where did it go?" - have you been thinking questions like these? Don't worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide will help you understand with screenshots, instructional videos and to-the-point language.

The package manager

Installing software with Synaptic

Installing software with the terminal

Installing a package manually (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, .package, klik:// → .cmg, .sh, .bin, .exe, ...)

Appendix

Note: The guide was written for Ubuntu 6.06 - The Dapper Drake using the tools of the Gnome desktop environment as its base. The program names and paths will undoubtedly vary if you're using Kubuntu or Xubuntu.

Tags: linux, ubuntu, distro, help, howto, guide, tutorial, install, program, graphic, windows, toc, resource, literature, computers, os, operating system

The Future of Science - 6 Presentations (video)

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:09:34 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: 6 (seemingly) very interesting talks (videotaped, freely available).
by Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Marc Hauser, Antonio Damasio, Michael Gazzaniga, Lisa Randall.

On Evolution, Religion, Neurology & the Brain, Humanity, Morality etc...

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Edit:
-The Dennett talk is about the same as he did at TedTalks, but somewhat longer (42m in stead of 25m).

Clip Source: www.edge.org

THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE [10.12.06]

Edge was recently in Venice for the 2nd World Conference on the Future of Science which was held on September 20th-23rd 2006, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the Isle of San Giorgio Maggiore. The Isle of San Giorgio lies in the St.Mark’s Basin, facing the Doges’ Palace (Palazzo Ducale, Opening Ceremony), the main city’s monument. A number of the members of the Edge community were in attendance including Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, Marc D. Hauser, Michael Gazzaniga, Antonio Damasio, and Daniel C. Dennett. The participated in the three day program that covered Evolution of Matter: The Universe from the Big Bang to the Future; Evolution of Life: Darwinism in the Light of Modern Genetics; and Evolution of Mind: A Natural History of Culture. The videotaped talks are now available online.

Lisa Randall The Evolution of the Universe [adsl]	Steven Pinker The Cognitive Niche [modem - adsl]	Marc Hauser Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar [modem - adsl]
Michael Gazzaniga Are Human Brains Unique? [modem - adsl]	Antonio Damasio The Emotions in Evolution: a Neurobiological Perspective [modem - adsl]	Daniel Dennett The Domestication of the Wild Memes of Religion [modem - adsl]

Tags: future, science, lecture, literature, speech, video, audio, dennett, daniel dennett, damasio, hauser, pinker, randall, gazzaniga, evolution, religion, cognitivism, morality, neurology, brain, humanity, universe, edge, resource, multimedia

Interlinked Chinese Characters Dictionary

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:45:00 GMT

clipped by: carmepla
clipper's remarks: A dictionary driving you to many dictionaries at a time. Very useful, specially to search into difficult searching resources, like the Animated Chinese Characters. Always useful to search one character into different dictionaries with only one single entry.

Clip Source: zhongwen.com

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web

Most of the major Chinese character dictionaries on the web are interlinked at a character-to-character level, allowing visitors to quickly jump across dictionaries to check the same character entry without having to search again for the character. Find a character in any of the above dictionaries and you can follow the blue links, jumping between more than a dozen dictionaries spread across seven countries and four continents. (I once gave a brief talk on this phenomenon.)

Clip Source: zhongwen.com

Type or paste in search term:

English:

Big-5 character:

GB character:

Tags: chinese, dictionary

Online Etymology Dictionary

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:38:44 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: FF search plugin (via mycroft): here

Clip Source: www.etymonline.com

clipper

c.1330, from clippen "shorten," perhaps infl. by M.Du. klepper "swift horse," echoic. The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1830, from clip (1) in alternate sense of "to move or run rapidly."

clip (1)

"cut," c.1200, from O.N. klippa, probably echoic. Meaning "rate of speed is c.1867. Noun meaning "extract from a movie" is from 1958.

clip (2)

"fasten," O.E. clyppan "to embrace." Meaning "receptacle containing several cartridges for a repeating firearm" is from 1901. Meaning "piece of jewelry fastened by a clip" is from 1937. Also preserved in paper clip. Original sense in U.S. football clipping penalty. Clipboard is from 1907.

Tags: etymology, language, linguistics, english, latin, greek, origin, dictionary, search, search engine

Colors, Language & the Brain - The World Color Survey

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:47:50 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: On cross-linguistic color categorization.

More on the World Color Survey overhere: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/

Some really interesting papers there...
Like this one:
Color Naming Across Languages (open with your pdf reader)

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Do we all mean the same thing when we talk about colors?

The World Color Survey is a massive project which attempts to understand how colors are categorized in different languages. The researchers studied 110 different languages, none of which had a written component, which ensured that only spoken word categories would be used to describe the colors.

Forty-one of the 110 languages in the survey have words corresponding to each unique hue. In each language, the range of colors identified as corresponding to the gloss for each color spans nearly the identical range of hues. Here's a graph summarizing those results for 38 of the languages (3 were eliminated from analysis because too few participants spoke those languages):

But what about the other 69 languages? Their results actually followed a similar pattern in most cases. For example, 40 of the languages had a term corresponding to "grue" -- a mixture of green and blue. These languages still broke the colors into similar categories, but lumped two of the categories together. Even among languages that had all four color categories, "blue" and "green" were the most frequently confused colors. Other languages had words for "grelow" and "relow," but overall, there was close to 90 percent agreement on the boundaries of color categories.

Kuehni argues that this is evidence for common color categories in all humans. He's careful to point out that while this doesn't rule out the possibility that colors are culturally determined, given the wide range of cultures studied here, it's strong support for the idea that color categories are determined neurophysiologically -- that the way we categorize colors is embedded in the structure of the brain.

Tags: color, colors, colour, colours, language, brain, linguistics, survey, research, science

The Best of Google Video

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:20:36 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: some really great stuff here.

Clip Source: hubpages.com

The Best of Google Video

Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

James Randi debunks Uri Geller and Peter Popoff

60 minutes: The World around Us - Randi vs. Geller (video quality is not the best)

MeaningofLife.tv

The Root of All Evil? Part I (with English subtitles)

The Root of All Evil? Part II

The History Of Hacking

From the Googleplex: Authors@Google

John Battelle - "The Search"

Seth Godin - "All Marketers are Liars"

Dr. James Watson - "DNA and the Brain"

David Vise - "The Google Story"

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt.1

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt. 2

A Brief History of Disbelief Pt. 3

TED Talks (Google Video) TED Talks (ted.com)

Richard P. Feynman - The Pleasure of Finding Things out

The Elegant Universe - Einstein's Dream

The Elegant Universe - String's the Thing

The Elegant Universe - Welcome to the 11th Dimension

SPACE - BBC TV Series

Programme 1: Star Stuff

Programme 2: Staying Alive

Programme 3: Black Holes

Programme 4: Are We Alone?

Programme 5: New Worlds

Programme 6: Boldly Go

Milton Friedman - "Free to Choose" (Episodes overview and links to Google Video)

University of California Television (UCTV)

The Origin of the Human Mind: Insights from Brain Imaging and Evolution

Grey Matters: Music and the Mind

Conversations with History: On Theory, with Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen

Conversations with History: The Peace Movement in Historical Perspective, with Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling

Tags: google video, video, film, best, list, links, philosophy, religion, science, physics, space, universe, google, hacking, atheism, technology, literature

10 Things I Learned from My 4-Year-Old

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:48:58 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.steve-olson.com

10 Things I Learned from My 4-Year-Old

To use positive words
One evening at the dinner table my son said, “Dad this food is disgusting.” I thought - where did that word come from? Another time while I was explaining the rules to a game he said, “Now that’s just ridiculous.” A minute later he said, “this is stupid, I give up.” At that moment it dawned on me… He’s getting this stuff from me. From now on I better choose my words carefully.

When my son was born, I imagined how I would teach him about life. Little did I know that he would be the teacher. He taught me:

To look for opportunity everywhere
My son views the entire world and every new person, new object, or new event as an opportunity to learn something. When a new person walks in the room he wants to know who they are and if they would like to play. If I drop a new object into a cluttered room, he will spot it, touch it, pick it up, ask questions about it. Nothing new goes unnoticed.

A new synonym for persistence
Santa Claus brought my son a white board and a set of dry erase makers for Christmas (can you tell I’m in IT). My son learned to write very early. He spent months obsessed with writing letters on the white board. One day I looked at the board while he was writing and I saw this combination of capital letters - SHHANDSHOWBO. He also knows how to sound out words, so I asked him what it was. He said, “It’s a word I made up - Sha-hand-show-bo.” I asked, “What does it mean?” He said, “To keep trying even when it’s hard.” Now when I get frustrated I think - Sha-hand-show-bo.

Tags: lessons, life, learning, kids, postivie thoughts

How to remember where you parked

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:58:08 GMT

clipped by: carmepla
clipper's remarks: A tip for the "absent-minded professor" people.

Clip Source: www.badlanguage.net

How to remember where you parked

Dude, Where’s my Car? This happens to me a lot. I park somewhere and then totally forget where. One time, many years ago, my car was stolen and I didn’t realise for several days because I just assumed I’d parked it somewhere really out of the way.

Anyhow, I have found a great solution: my cell phone camera. I always have my phone (an Orange C600) with me and I just take a quick snap of where my car is - something that will remind me, like a streetname or a familiar landmark. Next time I’m looking for the car, all I have to do is look in the gallery and the most recent picture will show me where it is. I can also email the picture to my PC for extra reminderage.

Tags: tips

Two kinds of Creativity

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:04:50 GMT

clipped by: carmepla

Clip Source: www.howdesign.com

Theory of Creativity

by Doug White

We don't spend too much time debating creativity or the way it works. But here's a theory that separates creatives into two distinct camps. Where do you fall?

What can designers learn about the creative process from an economist? A great deal, surprisingly.

Tags: business, creativity, innovation

The Seventh Sense

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:52:22 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.damninteresting.com

The Seventh Sense

Posted by Zack Jordan on September 16th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

From childhood, we are taught that the human body has five senses. I'm sure we can all recite them: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. This list has remained unchanged since the time of Aristotle. To most people, a "sixth sense" refers either to one outside the realm of the scientific, or one that simply does not exist in most humans.

However, ask a neurologist how many senses the human body has, and you might get a surprising answer. Many identify nine or more senses- some listing as many as twenty-one. The first category of senses is the "special" senses, including the familiar sight, hearing, taste, and smell. The second category is made up of the somatic senses, which we usually lump under "touch"- including our perception of pressure, heat, and pain. The third category, however, is not nearly as well-known. These are the interoceptive senses- those that deal with data originating in the body itself.

Tags: senses, perception, science, sacks, proprioception, sense, biology, body, psychology, brain

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33 Names of things you didn't think had names

Turn Google into Napster

Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry

Translation and Language Learning Tool

The Ultimate Language Tool!

Main Features

Supports 45 languages & over 1,000 different language pairs

Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide

Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide

Contents

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

The Future of Science - 6 Presentations (video)

Interlinked Chinese Characters Dictionary

Online Etymology Dictionary

Colors, Language & the Brain - The World Color Survey

Do we all mean the same thing when we talk about colors?

The Best of Google Video

The Best of Google Video

From the Googleplex: Authors@Google

SPACE - BBC TV Series

University of California Television (UCTV)

10 Things I Learned from My 4-Year-Old

10 Things I Learned from My 4-Year-Old

How to remember where you parked

How to remember where you parked

Two kinds of Creativity

The Seventh Sense