Common Craft
This site is created by a small company that produces short explanatory videos: http://www.commoncraft.com/ if you’ve ever wondered about RSS or wikis and the like, it’s a place to start.
personal digital archiving
Anyone else have problems/worries/nightmares with keeping and storing across time all those precious photos and other files you now keep in digital format? Dlib has two articles (or one article split into two) this month on the subject which are/is helpful and …
Wedding Ring Coffin
This is easily going to qualify as weirdest site submitted this week: http://www.weddingringcoffin.com/index.php Apparently you can also have a wedding ring turned into a bullet to wear as jewellery. Let’s not go there…
Clusty
Yet another search engine: http://clusty.com/ It’s not bad at disambiguation which seems to be their selling-point so it might be helpful for those searches where there are many meanings to a search term. From their blurb: “Clusty is different from other …
How to…
Lot’s of ‘how to’ sites around the web; this one with videos: http://www.wonderhowto.com/ Of course, these may not be skills you *ought* to learn…
DHMO
This has been around for a while but seems to grow and add new features every time it’s visited: http://www.dhmo.org/
100 years from now?
This: http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2008/03/the-100-year-st.html notes a 100 year old article that makes a stab at guessing what we’d be up to now. Some are bizarrely true (e.g. the ability to send a photo by telegraph, so that it can be seen in …
Badgers more your thing?
To continue on the theme Badgercam, from the same place where the BBC Natural World documentary was filmed: http://www.wildlink.org/badger.htm and news about it here if it’s not yet dusk in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7242930.stm Badgercam is only active at night, and …
PandaCam
After yesterday’s polar bear, the same contributor (thank you) offers: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html There are also 3 other cams from the San Diego Zoo: polar bears, elephants, and apes.
Flocke
Suggested by someone at a guess because of the ‘cute’ factor, TOTD was interested to see just how fast a polar bear grows: http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/eisbaer/
