Amazon.com Best of 2007

Amazon.com--News Release: "Amazon.com Announces ''Best of 2007'' Lists

SEATTLE, Dec 28, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today released its 'Best of 2007' lists, which include the bestselling, most positively reviewed, most-wished-for and favorite gift products as determined by Amazon.com customers in 2007."

crazy deposition

just for fun, here is a crazy deposition transcript, in which the deposed insists that he "follows the chicken"
Follow_the_Chicken.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Nymbler - Your Personal Baby Name Assistant

Nymbler - Your Personal Baby Name Assistant: "How do we go from name inspirations to new name ideas? Nymbler combines human expertise and artificial intelligence to sift through thousands of names and find the ones that fit your taste."

kwout | A brilliant way to quote

kwout | A brilliant way to quote: "'kwout' is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.

To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser."

geography pop quiz!

This Traveler IQchallenge is brought to you by the Web's Original Travel Blog 

Truemors :: Search Wikia to Rival Google

Truemors :: Search Wikia to Rival Google: "The open-source search engine backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales could go live as an early test version as soon as next week. Unlike Google, Search Wikia will not share search data with advertisers, nor invade privacy by storing users’ search terms."

M-W Word of the Year (WOTY) 2007

Merriam-Webster Online: "This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ('leet,' or 'elite') speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double 'o' in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for 'we owned the other team'—again stemming from the gaming community. Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2007 based on votes from visitors to our Web site: 1. w00t (interjection) expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word 'yay' w00t! I won the contest!"

Naughty Library in Paris - Hell at the Library

Naughty Library in Paris - Hell at the Library: "La Biblioth�que Nationale in Paris is finally letting the public take a peek at its secret collection of erotic works that have been hidden for 40 years. Since the 1830’s, librarians hid books and reference materials that they deemed too dangerous for public morality. The collection of naughty books, scandalous poems and provocative pamphlets was referred to as l’Enfer or “Hell” and has been under tight lock and key. "

wordie

Wordie

"Wordie is for people who love words. Start by making word lists: words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Add citations, comments, and tags. See who else has listed the same words. Try checking out a random word. And join the discussion--Wordies are friendly!"

The Book Design Review - Best Book Covers of 2007

The Book Design Review

Amusing America - SFPL.org

Exhibitions - Online Exhibits - Amusing America - SFPL.org: "Amusing America is the premiere exhibition of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library with support from the California State Library. Amusing America is the story of participatory commercial amusements in American cities—San Francisco in particular—and how they changed the way Americans lived. "

Legal Technology - Federal Court Records Opened to the Public

Legal Technology - Federal Court Records Opened to the Public: "The public will receive free access to federal court records at 16 libraries in 14 states in a joint, two-year project by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Government Printing Office."

Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes - Boing Boing

so cool...
Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes - Boing Boing: "Tony Sale and a group of British vintage computer enthusiasts is rebuilding Colossus, the gigantic proto-computer that Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park scientists built to crack German codes during WWII. The original Colossus machines were all broken up (into pieces 'no bigger than a man's hand'!) after the war for security reasons, but Sale has tracked down the surviving Colossus engineers and is making great strides in completing the machine. The finished Colossus is to be pitted against a contemporary general-purpose PC in a code-breaking race. The raw fodder for the race is a set of messages encrypted using Nazi ciphers and transmitted by amateur radio enthusiasts in Germany."

Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?

Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?

"Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today.

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities."

FreeRice

FreeRice

Fun vocabulary game! For each one you get right, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger. Play lots, 10 grains ain't much!

Google and MySpace, sittin in a tree...

It’s Official: Google MySpace = OpenSocial

The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. From the jointly issued news release:

“MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.”

KitchenBug Brings the Ultimate Social Recipe Application, 1000 invitations

KitchenBug Brings the Ultimate Social Recipe Application, 1000 invitations: "KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way. kbug2.jpgYou can store all your recipes within the website by just adding the URL of a page or copy-pasting the text you wrote in your word processor. The interesting part is what is happening around this process, where the service generates a suggestion of tags for the recipe. The best part is when you write a recipe they automatically suggest ingredients and link them to Wikipedia for further reference. It is also interesting because it brings a sort of semantic structure to recipes which helps in better search and classification. However for now their search engine is would work better with an auto-suggest or advanced search feature for example . KitchenBug has all the usual social features for interacting and sharing content with your friends (rating, comments,…)."

docstoc : find and share any document

Welcome to docstoc : find and share any document: "docstoc is a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents. Upload your documents for all the world to share."

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Qipit - Copy and share documents

Qipit - Copy and share documents: "Get Qipit - free mobile online copy service Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish! * Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs) * Email or fax qipit digital copies via email, your online Qipit account, or right from your phone * Store all of your paper documents and notes as digital documents for easy archiving and sharing * Tag your qipit documents for easy searching and sorting * Publish and share your documents on the web"

Technophilia: Get Lost in Translation Sites

(a great review of web-based translation services)
Technophilia: Get Lost in Translation Sites: "The web makes it possible to search for documents written in every conceivable language, but what if you don't actually know the language you find that special somethin' written in? No worries—there are plenty of online translation services that can give you anything from just a good idea to a complete translation of what you're looking at."

Free documentaries.org

Free documentaries.org: " At freedocumentaries.org we believe strongly that in order to have a true democracy, there has to be a free flow of easily available information. Unfortunately, many important perspectives, opinions and facts do not make it to our televisions or cinemas (you can watch movies in our media category if you want to know why)."

YouMail

About YouMail: "We created YouMail because we believe basic cell phone voicemail is, quite frankly, lame. We were annoyed by a bunch of stuff, like: * How come we could personalize every aspect of our cell phone - like ringtones - but couldn't change a greeting for a specific caller? * Why did we have to listen to ten voicemail just to get to the one that mattered? * How come if we accidentally deleted a voicemail, we could never get it back? * Why couldn't we easily share or permanently save important voicemails, like a friend's drunk dial or a relative's engagement call? * Why does your phone tell you that you have a voicemail, but not who left them, when or how important they are? * Why do we have to sit through useless instructions all the time? * Why can't we automatically hang up on people who we don't want to talk to anymore? * Why do we have to record greetings at all? We want to just choose cool ones like ringtones! We could go on. The bottom line is simple. YouMail is about reinventing voicemail and making it a fun, powerful personal experience that you'll absolutely love. "

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
"This is a database of public domain sound effects and audio clips that have been tagged, categorized, and created by users. Previews play right when you click the button, and you can download them right away in multiple formats (MP3, AIFF, and WAV)." (from Crave)

Inventor's Handbook

Inventor's Handbook: "This handbook was created by the Lemelson-MIT Program to address the independent inventor's and aspiring entrepreneur's most frequently asked questions regarding United States patents. We hope that this handbook will provide some helpful information on the patenting and commercialization processes."

Fuser – Simplify your online life

Fuser – Simplify your online life: "Fuser is the coolest way to unify your mail from multiple accounts. View your mail and social networking messages in one convenient location. It's easy and secure."

Database of Historic Wallpaper

(via ResearchBuzz) Database of Historic Wallpaper: "The historic database is available at http://www.spnea.org/wallpaper/catalog/search.htm. You can leave all the search options (including year, country of origin, paper type, finish, pattern name, etc.) blank and you’ll get a list of all the samples. I did a search for handmade embossed wallpaper and got 25 results. Results are shown in a table which includes the sample’s accession number, year span (start and end), exact year (if available, and I didn’t see any that were available) and a thumbnail of the paper."

Library Hotel, New York City, Best Small Hotels

Library Hotel, New York City, Best Small Hotels

The Library Hotel in New York City is the first hotel ever to offer its guest over 6,000 volumes organized throughout the hotel by the Dewey Decimal System.* Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to

Wyoming Libraries get sexy!

Wyoming Libraries

Copier translates languages on the fly

(via Crave)
Fuji Xerox has developed a prototype that can scan Japanese text and print it out in translated English, Chinese or Korean without changing the layout of the original page. "Fuji Xerox's secret lies in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated translation server and combining this with algorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and lines for maintaining page layouts," according to Digital Tokyo World.

End of the Line - Foreign Policy Photo Essay

End of the Line - Foreign Policy: "With one of the world's longest beaches, Chittagong is Bangladesh's biggest port. Half of the world's supertankers are disassembled here."

Spunk Library - Anarchy, anarchist, and alternative materials

Spunk Library - Anarchy, anarchist, and alternative materials: "The Spunk Library collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. For a more complete description of what Spunk is about you can view the Spunk Manifesto."

Constitution Day

Constitution Day: "This guide outlines resources available in commemoration of Constitution Day, September 17th."

LazyLibrary - read less. get more.

LazyLibrary - read less. get more.: "Ever read a book that was a few hundred pages longer than it needed to be? Yeah, so have we. Fortunately, there are authors out there that would rather have a concise and effective book than a lengthy and diluted tome, and that's where we come in.Welcome to the LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it's over 200 pages, you won't even see it. Read all about anything, in less time, for (usually) less money."

Postful

Postful: "Most of us know people who can't receive e-mail. For me, it's my grandparents. For others it's a friend in the hospital or in the military. We'd like to write, but between stamps, envelopes, printing, and mailing, it doesn't get done. With Postful, it's as easy as sending an e-mail. You can even create unique e-mail addresses for frequent contacts so that you don't have to type in their mailing address each time!In business, you don't have time to deal with letters. We put a corporate mailroom in your e-mail client. Postful is smarter, faster and more cost-effective than stocking stamps, envelopes, and letterhead (not to mention wasting your time stuffing letters). Whether in a busy office or on the go, Postful will change the way you work."

FCU

wired.com Wired Geekipedia

wired.com
your reference guide to all things otaku.

Get Grandpa's FBI File

Because if you dont ask, you'll never know...
Get Grandpa's FBI File
"Find out now by ordering a copy of their FBI files and learn a bit more about your family history. Best of all, it's free! (Well, except for the cost of a postage stamp.) Just click on the green arrow to get started!"

Tafiti

Tafiti
"Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search."

Now Play It

Now Play It: "'Now Play It' is a new and exciting way to learn and play your favorite songs.This unique video service features real music and real artists all backed by real learning techniques.It has been developed to help offer a more instant and direct way of learning, for every range of musician.'Now Play It' aims to get people as close to the artist and songs they love as simply as possible.If you want to play a song, there is no better way to learn than from the artist who wrote or performs it...welcome to 'Now Play It'."

Eco-Libris - Moving Towards Sustainable Reading

Eco-Libris "Hey, we know you love books. Who doesn't? But what about all the trees that are used to produce the paper for these books? About 20 million trees are being cut down EVERY YEAR to produce the books sold in the U.S. alone. What can you do about it? Well, here's a suggestion: stop reading... NO, NO. just kiddin'.

A better solution would be to start planting trees for all the books you read. To let you do just that, we thought up Eco-Libris, a means to balance out the paper in your books by planting trees. To maximize your impact, the trees will be planted in developing countries benefiting both the environment and local communities. "

Omnibiography.com - The largest directory of biographies on the Web

Omnibiography.com - The largest directory of biographies on the Web: "OmniBiography.com is the largest directory of biographies available on the Web containing information on more than 110,000 important people from antiquity to the present time. It includes biographies from the most important sites on the web in all languages."

Fone Finder query form

Fone Finder Find the geographic location of any number in the world.

Ninjawords - a really fast dictionary

Ninjawords - a really fast dictionary: "A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja."

snooth.com

for when you're ready to move beyond Boone's Farm...

"Snooth promises to revolutionize the way people choose wine.

By combining the company's proprietary algorithms with the world's most comprehensive wine database, Snooth is able to accurately identify the wines best-suited to an individual.

Snooth analyzes a user's unique set of interactions with the site and, using its powerful recommendation engine, leverages this digital fingerprint to generate highly-personalized wine recommendations. Snooth also interprets wine queries more naturally and optimizes the relevancy of search results, by incorporating semantic search elements into its core technology."

amaztype

i havent the faintest what this does, but i think it looks cool...
amaztype

Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods.

Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods.: "What is Walk Score?We help homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what's nearby and calculates a Walk Score for any property. Buying a house in a walkable neighborhood is good for your health and good for the environment."

The European Library - Organisation - About Us

The European Library - Organisation - About Us: "The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. This website allows to search through the resources of 30 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.). Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47 collaborating national libraries of Europe."

Radio-Locator

Radio-Locator: "Welcome to Radio-Locator, the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."

Spock.com hopes to become the Google of people searches

Spock.com hopes to become the Google of people searches

That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up? - washingtonpost.com

That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up? - washingtonpost.com: "Last month, scientists at Clemson University in South Carolina determined that applying the five-second rule to dropped food will not actually prevent the food from gathering bacteria.The nation's reaction to this: Duh."

Open Library (Open Library)

Open Library (Open Library): "Imagine a library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We're building that library."

Boing Boing: William Gibson on writing in the age of Google

Boing Boing: William Gibson on writing in the age of Google

this blurb offers a fascinating perspective on research...that it's really limited by what you already know. i'm fond of saying that, that you dont know what you dont know, and Mr. Gibson expresses it aptly - that even with the vast and infinite nature of the net, "You're still really inside some annotated version of your own head."

cool.

Singing Bach over broadband | Science Blog

Singing Bach over broadband | Science Blog: "A singing computer scientist wants to use cutting-edge technology to create Europe's first successful Internet choir.

Dr Barry Cheetham, a senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, is seeking to combine his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing."

Freebase : Sign In

Freebase : Sign In: "Free + Database = Freebase
It's about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data. It's a big job and we're just getting started."

Tall Eye - If I dig a very deep hole, where will I end up?

Tall Eye - If I dig a very deep hole, where will I end up?: "Are you concerned about where you go to arrive if you dig a very deep straight infinite hole on Earth? Your problems are solved!

Surf on the map below, choose where you will dig your hole and click there. After this, click on 'Dig here!' and you will see the place where, one day, you will (believe me) put your feet."

SPACE.com -- What's Really Visible from Space

SPACE.com -- What's Really Visible from Space

Ruined Music � About

http://ruinedmusic.com/
Ruined Music: "Most people have a song that’s been ruined.

A breakup turns “our song” into “the one song I can never hear again.” A crush goes downhill and takes your favorite record with it. A best friend vanishes, leaving you holding the mixtape. Talent show disasters, high school humiliations, family crises… somehow there’s always a song playing in the background.

Ruined Music collects essays about these songs we’ve lost. If music is the soundtrack to our lives, here are the scenes when it all went wrong.

Read. Write. Reclaim your record collection."

Blinkx

Blinkx: "At blinkx.com, users can search over 12 million hours of video content, from 200 of blinkx's media partners (a list that includes a broad range of providers - from HBO and MTV to PBS and YouTube). Through its unique, patented and award-winning video and audio analysis technology, blinkx's software literally watches and listens to rich media online, providing users with unparalleled access to more video from more sources than any other site on the Web - all searchable through a single gateway. Whether a user wants to catch up on the news, watch home movie stunts, replay their local team's highlights or watch a missed episode of a prime time TV show, blinkx is the essential remote control with which to navigate the Video Web. "

The Book Inscriptions Project � About the Project

The Book Inscriptions Project � About the Project: "We collect personal messages written in ink (or pen or marker or crayon or grape jelly) inside books. Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better.
Send a copy of the cover and the inscription and any details about how, when and where you found it."

goodreads | see what your friends are reading

goodreads | see what your friends are reading:
"Have you ever wanted a better way to:
* see what your friends are reading?
* keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read?
* get great book recommendations from people you know?
* make reading fun again?"

Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life

"Ultimately, the Encyclopedia will serve as an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet, as well as all those later discovered and described. Encyclopedia of Life will be used as both a teaching and a learning tool, helping scientists, educators, students, and the community at large gain a better understanding of this planet and all who inhabit it."

wow....

>yoName - About Us - Search for anyone accross social network sites

>yoName - About Us - Search for anyone accross social network sites: "yoName turns your computer into a private detective. Look for anyone you want. You can even look them up by a username or an email address! If they're on any of the big-time networks like MySpace or Facebook, yoName will find them. Look up friends, family, ex-es. Look up yourself and see if someone's impersonating you. Or just have fun and look up celebrities, even if the first five entries for Paris Hilton are all 'male, 39, single, in Madison, Wisconsin'."

Wanna Be presidents | Free Government Information (FGI)

Wanna Be presidents | Free Government Information (FGI): "There's a new site of interest to any political junky. It's called Wanna be presidents. WBP is a dynamic blogroll of all of the blogs of the 2008 presidential hopefuls -- or at least those that are officially running. Read the latest from all the candidates in one place. "

scribd - share docs online at Infodoodads

scribd - share docs online at Infodoodads: "While sharing your newest safety policy update on scribd may not be as exciting as the newest embarass-your-friend video on YouTube, it is still a valuable service and emerging social network. "

If Someone Wanted To Publish My Blog Entries For Money, I Wouldn't Say No | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

If Someone Wanted To Publish My Blog Entries For Money, I Wouldn't Say No | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

hahaha!

Interview Series on Metadata - Wired Blogs

Epicenter - Wired Blogs: "In this series, which is cosponsored by Wired News and the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, David talks with some of the leading businesspeople, scientists, and thinkers who are coming up with innovative new ways of putting ideas, information and knowledge together. Now that the digital age has blown apart traditional ways of organizing information, what's next? Suddenly, everything is miscellaneous.

David kicks off the series by interviewing novelist, BoingBoing co-editor, digital rights activist and entrepreneur Cory Doctorow. For Cory, piling up information without strict organizational rules can be workable provided that we have sufficiently reliable metadata. The problem is that people don't all use metadata the same way or use tags consistently, and that can be a real obstacle to making coherent sense of piles of information."

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/metacrap_and_fl.html
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Miscellaneous-Power-Digital-Disorder/dp/0805080430\

Map My Name Project

MAP MY NAME
A university student project to identify all the users in the interwebs and determine how many people are online in the world, and where. (I think?)

I will not even pretend to understand how this is intended to work, but I'm going to do it, because hey, it's interesting!

FUN! Jamglue - Remixing for the Masses

Jamglue - Remixing for the Masses:
1. Upload or Record your own Tracks
2. Create an original Mix or personalize someone else's in our simple online Mixer
3. Show off your music: email it, embed it, or just sit back and let the Jamglue community discover your talent!"

Better Gmail - bundled extensions from LifeHacker

Paul Kedrosky: Tech Tip: Better Gmail is Gmail 2.0
"Gina at Lifehacker has created the #1 most important tool any Gmail user needs. It's an add-in, called Better Gmail, combining all the major Greasemonkey hacks for Firefox-based Gmail users, and it turns Gmail from indispensable into ... really indispensable."
Lifehacker download and article

Cool Hunting: SimulSays

Cool Hunting: SimulSays: "SimulScribe, the brilliant and simple voicemail service that transcribes your messages into an email (20 November 2006) has just launched a new application that beats Apple to visual voicemail. SimulSays, released today, is a downloadable application for your BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 that shows your transcribed messages and lets you play them back without having to dial in"

ONLINE TIME TRACKER: Track billable hours with Toggl - Lifehacker

ONLINE TIME TRACKER: Track billable hours with Toggl - Lifehacker: "Toggl's purpose is simple: to time the number of billable hours you spend on a client project.

Once you register (for free), create a new project for a new client, and 'toggl' the on button. Toggl starts tracking the time spent in a live second by second timer right in the web browser. Hit stop when you're done. "

involver � about

involver � about:
still in beta. i had to ask to be notified when the site is accepting more users...looks cool though, like a less-manic twitter.

"involver is the simple way to discover, create and share the best of what’s going on around town with a word-of-mouth network of friends.

You’ll find fun things to do, covering everything from concerts and nightclub happenings to festivals and local flavor. So, expand and enhance thy social life. Get involverized."

Middio - YouTube music video search engine

Middio - Uniting music videos: "Middio is a simple website that organizes music videos uploaded by the public to YouTube. In other words, Middio goes through the trouble of finding and properly tagging music videos already floating around the web so that you don't have to."

Let There Be Light - Blackle.com

Blackle Search

"Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages."

Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature

Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature

Map your favorite authors and see what others you might like!

RIP Kurt Vonnegut - Author, Thinker, Lover of librarians...

I Love You, Madame Librarian -- In These Times

LibriVox

LibriVox: "LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. "

Sunday Sundries - Library Ninja, Episode 1

musotik.com

musotik -:

Musotik is a tool for finding music on the net. It's still in early beta, but it's pretty neat. You enter an artist and the search engine delivers all sorts of information - videos, torrents, biographies, etc...

YouTube - How To Steal A Library Book

YouTube - How To Steal A Library Book
this is a neat video

YouTube - How To Steal A Library Book

YouTube - How To Steal A Library Book

1-800-GOOG-411

Google Launches Free 411 Service

Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411. Yay!

tumble into love withTumblr

Tumblr

Tumblelogs are like blogs with less fuss. Tumblr is your friendly and free tool for creating tumblelogs.

See also, a definition of tumblelogs on Wikipedia.

Excellent!

Boing Boing: I-RSS - an RSS feed for your decisions

Boing Boing: I-RSS - an RSS feed for your decisions
(from BoingBoing)

Popularity Dialer

genius!

Popularity Dialer

"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.

With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you."

Sunday Sundries - Modest Needs�

We've all been here...I found this sentiment behind this effort to be so moving and I wish I could be on the giving end.

"Modest Needs exists:
*To prevent otherwise financially self-sufficient individuals and families from entering the cycle of poverty, when this might be avoided with a small amount of well-timed financial assistance;

*To restore the financial self-sufficiency of individuals who are willing to work but are temporarily unable to do so because they do not have the means to remit payment for a work-related expense; and

*To empower permanently disadvantaged individuals who otherwise live within their limited means to continue to live independently, despite a temporary, unexpected financial set-back."

Sunday Sundries - onBeing - washingtonpost.com

I think it's the voyeur in me that likes these videos so much

onBeing - washingtonpost.com
"onBeing is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little better. What you’ll find here is a series of videos that takes you into the musings, passions, histories and quirks of all sorts of people. The essence of who they are, who we are.
There will be a new video every Wednesday, so check back often. In the meantime, feel free to add your thoughts to the comments section and tell us about someone you’d like to see in onBeing. Over time, we should end up with a pretty cool community. "

Sunday Sundries - Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever

LOVE magazines!
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The 51 Best* Magazines Ever: "The 51 Best* Magazines Ever
*Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, etc."

Sunday Sundries - lens culture: contemporary photography magazine

lens culture: contemporary photography magazine: "Lens Culture is an international online magazine celebrating contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures. Lens Culture features the work of photographers from all continents and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, poetic, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Discover well-written essays, analysis and criticism about photography and culture, as well as audio interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions, and our new section of photo book reviews. Lens Culture attracts visitors from more than 100 countries."

Jott -- Don't Forget -- Login

Jott -- Don't Forget -- Login: "Voice-powered, hands-free Messaging and To Do Lists"

like pinger.com, but different somehow, i think...i'll have to look at them both more carefully. very cool though! and a great option for interoperability of your communications systems.

eFax Free - Receive faxes by email

eFax Free - Receive faxes by email: "With your eFax Free account, you will get a non-local eFax number to receive faxes in your email"

SplashCast: Channel Yourself Across the Web

SplashCast: Channel Yourself Across the Web: "SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages 'tuned' to that channel."

Twitter: What are you doing?

Twitter: What are you doing?: "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!"

msgr

very cool. this would be great to use for a group project or just for a special event...
"msgr is a web service you can use to create your own instant messenger. Setup a messenger for your group of friends, e-group, orkut community, visitors to your website, or even your intranet!"

Fat Fingers - eBay typos and spelling mistakes

Fat Fingers - eBay typos and spelling mistakes: "Thousands of items on eBay are listed with descriptions containing spelling mistakes. These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them."

Pinger

Pinger About Us: "With Pinger you send voice messages directly to someone instantly--no ringing, no greetings, no lengthy prompts. Pinger is fast and efficient like email, but with your voice. It's mobile like text messaging, but with more personality."

Carbonite

Carbonite.com
Carbonite’s online backup service starts automatically and works quietly and continuously in the background protecting your data. If you’ve accidentally erased something, don’t worry; we’ve still got a copy. You can restore deleted files with just a few clicks on your PC. If your PC crashes, just visit our website to recover lost files.

LII: Search plugins

LII: Search plugins: "Legal Information Institute Search Plugins:
These browser plugins will allow you to search the LII (or parts of it) from your browser. Currently, they work with Firefox (all platforms), Mozilla (all platforms), and any other browser or search service that uses the Apple Sherlock standard"

CrossLoop - Simple Secure Screen Sharing

CrossLoop - Simple Secure Screen Sharing: "CrossLoop is a FREE secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of VNC’s traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required."

Joopz

Joopz is a (free!) web-based text messaging service that enables “web texting” – two-way communications from the Web to any mobile phone in the U.S. and Canada... and back!

Long Time Lost

Long Time Lost: "Long Time Lost is a free 'service' (more so it is a software app written by someone who had some spare time, good programmer friends, a little bit of creativity and a lot of coffee) that allows you to create a 'search' for someone you lost touch with. That 'search' is then indexed by Google (and other search engines) and then when that person you are looking for (or someone who knows them) does a 'Vanity Search' (the process of searching for one's own name on Google... we know you do it!) they find your 'search' and can respond to you and reconnect. All information is handled through the system so your private information like your email address isn't out there on the net."

Mash up RSS feeds with xFruits - Lifehacker

Mash up RSS feeds with xFruits - Lifehacker
"Want to play with RSS feeds? Try xFruits, where, according to tech enthusiast Steve Rubel, you can "teach your feeds all kinds of new tricks." He's not kidding around, either: you can create a PDF file from an RSS feed, send an OPML to your mobile, aggregate, and lots more. I played with it a little bit and was suitably impressed by all the options; it looks like they're even adding the option to create RSS feeds for your desktop files soon."

The Napkin Fiction Project Esquire.com

The Napkin Fiction Project Esquire.com: "We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country--some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first. In return, we got nearly a hundred stories."

Library 2.0 Reading List on Squidoo

Library 2.0 Reading List on Squidoo

Summary of Findings: A Portrait of "Generation Next"

Summary of Findings: A Portrait of "Generation Next": "How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics"

33 Reasons Librarians are Still Extremely Important - DegreeTutor.com

33 Reasons Librarians are Still Extremely Important - DegreeTutor.com

Texas Unclaimed Property

Texas Unclaimed Property: Hey, see if the state has any of your money!

Street Use: Camel Bookmobile

Street Use: Camel Bookmobile: Way to go Kenya!

Your Disposable Phone Number for the Web

COMMENTS: "Your Disposable Phone Number for the Web"
I'm sure someone will have a nefarious use for this, but it really does seem like a good idea for when you're selling/trading things on the internet and don't want to give out your real number to potentially shady people.

5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes - franticindustries.

5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes - franticindustries.: "I’ve had some time to play with Yahoo!’s new RSS mixing service, Pipes, and I’m impressed with the possibilities. Unfortunately, there’s still a hefty number of bugs, and some features are sorely lacking (experienced coders will probably be most annoyed by being forced at working in a visual environment and not being able to look at the actual code). Still, even in its current state Pipes is offering a myriad of interesting possibilities."

crazedlist.org : search craigslist like a madman

crazedlist.org : search craigslist like a madman

Novel Action, Inc.

Novel Action, Inc.: "Why pay for books when you can just exchange them and keep your exchanges? Select any books you want from our site and send us an equal number of your books in exchange. With low flat rate shipping, no transaction fees and a great selection, Novel Action is the best way to get used books! "

The Generator Blog: Catalog Card Generator.

Some fun library geekery.
The Generator Blog: Catalog Card Generator.

Delexa.org: Rank Domains by Topic

Delexa.org: Rank Domains by Topic: "Delexa.org is a web analytics tool combining the top 50,000 U.S. websites with their topic tags, using data from del.icio.us and Alexa. Use it to discover the most trafficked sites for any topic of interest, such as 'videos' or 'education'."

Foxit Software

Foxit Software: "Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set."

Wikiseek - A better way to search Wikipedia

Wikiseek - A better way to search Wikipedia

Monk-e-Mail

hilarious...send a text-to-voice email, delivered by a monkey!
CareerBuilder Monk-e-Mail

Benettonplay! Toybox

Benettonplay! Toybox: "Benettonplay has been created by a young team of international designers and artists at Fabrica, the Benetton communication research centre in Italy.

Benettonplay is a free online games site exploring play as a form of expression and communication. "

Remixes: Creative uses of free government information | Free Government Information (FGI)

Remixes: Creative uses of free government information | Free Government Information (FGI): "Remixes: Creative uses of free government information

One of the many benefits of no-fee public access to basic government information is that individuals and groups can take gov't info from many sources and create something new. Call it a 'remix' of government information. Sometimes this 'remix' is made freely available, and other times fees are charged. As long as the underlying basic gov't info isn't trapped by false claims of vendor ownership, FGI doesn't have a problem with that.

This page will highlight some of the free 'remixes' of existing free government information done by individuals and other groups. If you know of a qualifying project, either use the 'talk to us' link below, or post a comment."

New Words - Merriam-Webster Online

Merriam-Webster Online: "A Sampling of new words and senses from the new 2006 update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate� Dictionary, Eleventh Edition"

TaxProf Blog: Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person

I don't know how I missed this in December...

TaxProf Blog: Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person: "Nothing says I love you more than IRS chocolates:

* Bite Back at the IRS Bar"

Main Page - dKosopedia

Main Page - dKosopedia: "Welcome to the dKosopedia, a collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia. The dKosopedia is written from a left/progressive/liberal/Democratic point of view while also attempting to fairly acknowledge the other side's take. It was started in April of 2004, and currently consists of 7,358 articles."