Stirex Ergonomic Hand Tools - Self-opening Scissors

"Swedish Stirex makes a clever pair of scissors. No loops to wiggle your thumb and forefinger into, just grip and cut. Unlike other self opening scissors, this one has no dirt collecting spiral spring, which makes it ideal in the kitchen."

Sperling's Best Places"- "The ultimate resource for relocation, recreation, retirement"

Sperling's Best Places



"The ultimate resource for relocation, recreation, retirement"

Includes health rankings (ie, Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections), a "compare cities" function, and city profiles, including neighborhoods, schools, cost of living and crime rates.

LookLater.com - Online bookmark archive

LookLater:

"Instant searchable bookmarks in your own FREE and PRIVATE on-line archive
* Bookmark links, pages or images
* Automatically save context with each bookmark
* Search in titles or context or browse by date or site
* Tag bookmarks and import your existing tags
* No software to install, just a bookmarklet
* Integrates with del.icio.us, Google, eBay and more"

Voice over Email: WaxMail

Voice over Email: WaxMail"

"Love email but hate typing? Free WaxMail lets you talk instead of type. Your voice messages are attached to Outlook emails as MP3s ready to send to any email address. Recipients do not need WaxMail in order to hear your message."

MeetWithApproval.com

MeetWithApproval.com
A great idea for meetings, parties, friends, reunions, weekends, corporate events:

Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone & keep track of who is coming.
'Meet With Approval' could not be simpler. Fill out the form which creates a meeting page. Your friends or colleagues are notified of the event. They visit the meeting page and help decide a good date. When you are all happy, 'Meet With Approval' confirms the arrangement and you all meet up.

Best of all it's FREE!"

Rallypoint - Online Collaboration

Rallypoint - Online Collaboration:

"Rallypoint is a powerful online collaboration service that can be used to create, organize and share your company's knowledge. It enables you to build web-based documents and pages to share with your team members or other teams. Some of the things you can do with Rallypoint include...

• Create and share online pages with team members, across the hall or across the globe.
• Tag your pages with labels to cleanly organize them in multiple locations.
• Define user and group access to your pages including editors, viewers and subscribers.
• Speed page creation with private and public templates.
• Create collections of your favorite pages around any subject matter.
• Quickly find pages with a powerful built-in search engine.
• Subscribe to page updates to stay informed about topics that interest you.
• Find similar pages and information you and your team never knew existed.
• Embed images, flash and media directly into your pages.
• Attach documents such as Word and Excel to your pages to secure access to those documents."

grocerylists.org | The Grocery List Collection

Includes a best of 2005 list, as well as guides to coupons, promotions and other money-saving tips.

>grocerylists.org

Editor & Publisher - Newspaper Industry Information - News Media Analysis - Newspaper Business News

"Editor & Publisher is the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp

Superpatron

Superpatron: "Superpatron is a weblog for library patrons who love their libraries, who take advantage of everything they have to offer, and are always on the lookout for great ideas that libraries around the world are doing."

Lists: 2005 - The best-of the best-ofs

It's a meta list - a list of lists of the best of 2005 best-ofs. Check it out...

Howstuffworks "How Christmas Works"

Howstuffworks "How Christmas Works": "How Christmas Works"

Forbes.com Best of the Web

Forbes Best of the Web: Reference

http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=73



The billions of pages on the Internet contain almost anything you would wish to know; unfortunately, search engines can only go so far. Our favorites in this category give some order to the chaos, many with helpful search techniques, answers to common research questions and more. The best sites, which make finding that perfect word or fact a breeze, will renew your faith in the power of cyberspace

Bolivia current local time

Bolivia current local time

"Look up current time from database containing any country or major city in the world. Displays the time, the GMT offset, a globe image, and a section map. Features a world time calculator and a freeware utility to synchronize your PC with an atomic clock."

Bad Vibes - University of Salford

"Fingernails scraping down a blackboard... the scream of a baby... your neighbour’s dog barking: what is the worst sound in the world? This is what a new website from Salford University is trying to find out. The aim of the website is to increase awareness of sound psychology, by examining what makes a sound unpleasant to hear. Your votes on the site will also give us an insight into what is the worst sound in the world, and maybe why it is the worst sound. The format of the website is similar to other voting websites (like amihotor not), so click the link, audition some sounds, and let us know how horrible they are; you might even what to download one of our horrible ringtones."

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/news/news3.htm

FoodieView - The Recipe Search Engine

FoodieView - The Recipe Search Engine: "Why search for recipes one site at a time when you can search them all here? We scour the web to find the best recipes on the web's most popular recipe sites."

Texas Happy Hours

Queen of Clubs: "Check out the newest web site called www.TexasHappyHours.com and find out information and pricing for over 130 bars all over Houston. If you are looking for the happy hours for a specific day of the week in a certain area of town, just go to www.TexasHappyHours.com and click on the day of the week. Then, either browse all the listings for that day, or click on an area of town to narrow down the listings. Don't see your favorite bar? That's easy to fix, send www.TexasHappyHours.com information and it will be posted within a few days. www.TexasHappyHours.com makes every effort to ensure that the hours are the most current. Each listing has pertinent happy hour information as well as the last time the facts were updated. Texas Happy Hours periodically emails establishments to verify that their information is the most current, and forums are soon to come. Be sure to check it out the next time you meet your friends for happy hour. 6� Lounge is mentioned on the site, so I love it, already!"

Carmel Mobile Library Services in Kenya

What a terrific idea! Shipping books via camel makes my wobbly-wheeled bookcart seem high-tech, but if the shoe fits...



Carmel Mobile Services: "KENYA NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE (KNLS)

CAMEL MOBILE LIBRARY SERVICE IN KENYA



INTRODUCTION



The Camel Library Service is a library outreach program for people who are unable to use the static libraries in marginal areas in the country. The Kenya National Library Service launched it on October 14th 1996, and it is operational in Garissa town in North Eastern Province of the country. Following its successful implementation, the program was replicated in Wajir town on April 13th 1999. The Camel Library Service is meant to serve the Pastoralists in these areas which are geographically isolated because they experience difficulties in using directly the available library facilities at the static library branches."

The 5th Annual Year in Ideas - New York Times

The 5th Annual Year in Ideas - New York Times: "This issue marks the fifth anniversary of what is becoming a venerable tradition at the magazine: The Year in Ideas. As always, we seek to gain some perspective on what has transpired since January by compiling a digest of the most noteworthy ideas of the past 12 months. Like the biographer Lytton Strachey surveying the Victorian Age, we row out over the great ocean of accomplishment and lower into it a little bucket, which brings up to the light characteristic specimens from the various depths of the intellectual sea - ideas from politics and science, medicine and law, popcorn studies and camel racing. Once we have thrown back all the innovations that don't meet our exacting standards, we find ourselves with the following alphabetical catch: 78 notions, big and small, grand and petty, serious and silly, ingenious and. . . well, whatever you call it when you tattoo an advertisement on your forehead for money."

Discover Music - Pandora

Discover Music - Pandora:

Boing Boing: Q-Unit: Queen and 50-Cent mashup

"Q-Unit is a delightful mashup album combining 50-Cent and Queen -- with tracks like "This is How We Bite the Dust," 'Bohemian Wanksta' and 'We Will Rock You in Da Club.'"

http://members.home.nl/visionx/

The Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

Just a little something to put you in the holiday spirit...



The Stop Shopping Monitor � From The Rev: "The Christmas Sermon

Children — What is 'Giving' at 'Christmas?' What is it doing to us? This is the season where the supermodels march on us in earnest. The celebrities do their soft-shoe right off the label, they seem to push past the screen and plant a kiss on our bundled faces like bad weather made of pouring-down sex videos. There is a feeling in the air that the right wing apocalypse scheduled by Tony Blair and George Bush will not interrupt the monument of Christmas. First things first. That global warming, that Lake of Fire – it will happen as god wills it. But first we must pummel one another with plastic conveniences, schmazzle dazzle… oh my GOD. Christmas! What can you do? Try to gain copyright control on your own mind? My wayward flock, stay calm.



Corporate Christmas is the Total Falsehood that holds within it a great opportunity. Brave the neurotic elves and smiling Wal Mart hostesses, look for a moment into that blinding darkness. Here is THE ECONOMY THAT WARS ON THE IDEA OF GIVING."

Llibrary/housing project - Rondo Community Outreach Library

wow. a facility like this would be such an asset to inner-city library systems, like the HPL. very creative and innovative



http://www.stpaul.lib.mn.us/rondo/

October 6, 2004

Innovative Library-Housing Project Breaks Ground



SAINT PAUL, MN - In mid-September, Saint Paul Public Library celebrated groundbreaking for the new Rondo Community Outreach Library / University and Dale Apartments. The project is one of the few combined library-housing projects in the nation. A 32,000 square-foot library will share a building with a 98-unit mixed income housing complex.



The library and developers believe this is one of a few such combined projects in the nation. To the library's knowledge, it is the second in the Midwest, after the Waconia Public Library which opened a combined library, housing and municipal offices complex this summer in Carver County.



At the groundbreaking, Saint Paul Public Library Director Gina La Force lauded the partnership between the Library system and private sector developer, Legacy Management, as a perfect fit. "We hope that people find themselves at home in the library. In this case the library building will actually be home for many people... a place for open homes and open minds."



Archie Givens Jr., President and CEO of Legacy Management told the groundbreaking crowd that the partnership was a natural one from his perspective.



"When we were first approached to talk about a library by the Mayor and his staff and Gina, it was no discussion required. I love libraries and know the power and importance of the word and importance of reading and literacy. It was really a dream opportunity for us at Legacy," Givens said.



Givens is also President of the Givens Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to enriching cultural understanding through programs that advance and celebrate African American literature and writers.



Mark Campbell, a director of Multifamily Housing for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development called the project a national model.



"These days it is almost impossible to construct affordable housing according to the old model, so we all had to adapt and become more creative. This partnership will show others how it can be done - a model to create affordable housing and to create educational opportunities for our citizens."



When it opens in the fall of 2005, Rondo Community Outreach Library will replace the aging and often-crowded Lexington Outreach Branch.



The new library will be named after the Rondo Community, an historically multicultural neighborhood which was decimated by the construction of an interstate highway through its heart. The neighborhood continues to be one of the most diverse areas of Saint Paul, with large African American, African and Hmong populations.



University Avenue and Dale Street, the intersection on which the library will be constructed, once had local notoriety as the base of several adult-oriented businesses which many viewed as a blight on the neighborhood. Both grassroots community members and the Mayor of Saint Paul hailed the library and housing development as a cornerstone for a bright new era at University and Dale.



"This is a project which will stand the test of time," Mayor Randy Kelly said. "We will be bringing our children and grandchildren by here and saying we had a small part in making this a reality."



Quoting from the bible, community activist and Model Cities CEO Beverly Hawkins said, "If the vision tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come. Before this thing is finally done, this whole intersection is going to make you proud."