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

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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.