Earthcam
http://www.earthcam.com A great webcam site. See the world from the comfort of your home/office/classroom(?!).
Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
New blog, Old Fry
As if there weren’t enough to keep with! But this looks like it could be interesting: http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=22 and appears to be the web version of Stephen Fry’s Guardian column. Or is it the other way round? Anyway, just one excerpt: “You’d be …
Retrievr
Here’s a curious search engine: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ It appears to be searching based on colour (if shape is involved it’s difficult to see). But could be particularly useful for art students – or those just looking for inspiration.
Reasons to check out your library #473
“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.” Stephen Fry (recently voted ‘greatest living wit’).
21 things you should know about the internet
You probably don’t need to *know* all these things, but being aware of them is certainly useful. http://www.bizwaremagic.com/quick_internet_history.htm Although this is a couple of years old now, it’s still worth a look. If anyone can find an update for the …
Information R/Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM One of those marvellous videos which is a good reminder of why libraries of all stripes need to get with the plot or be left behind. Indeed, Ken Chard was reflecting recently on what will happen to libraries if …
Librivox
Project Gutenberg has been around for a long time making out of copyright books available freely over the internet. Here’s a site which attempts to do the same thing for audio books. http://librivox.org/ While the collection isn’t vast (it relys …
Random Words
Just occasionally in Word it’s helpful to have some text to manipulate as part of a test or demonstration. You can type in some garbage quickly or use an old text file, but one quick way of generating lots of text …
Overheard…
“This Library’s awesome. It’s got sofas and everything!”
Find of the Day
Libraries often try to collect and manage esoteric items as well as books, journals and the like. But none seems to be quite as ephemeral and as liable to marvellous serendipity as Find of the Day. http://www.foundmagazine.com/ If you find …
