Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents

Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents: "The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965."

Look! Store your Books in the Rafters

Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Look! Store your Books in the Rafters

Five weird ways to see search: Quintura, Clusty, and more | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

"weird" has clearly changed since this article was written, but it's still interesting...
Five weird ways to see search: Quintura, Clusty, and more | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "Standard search engines are great for finding individual Web pages to answer discrete questions. But their lists of search results do not help you to understand a field in general. If that's what you need, you might want to check a visual search engine that clusters results, and in doing so gives you a better overview of a field."

SkreemR Mp3 Search

SkreemR Mp3 Search - About: "SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. We don't actually host any files--we index what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. Our goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible."

Search Wikia - About

i just got my account set up. they're right...search results are very poor quality. curious to see how this shapes up.
Search Wikia - About: "Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.

We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..

Wikia's search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.

Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the 'miniarticles' that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:

* Short definitions
* Disambiguations
* Photos
* See also"

Annotated Justinian Code

am i a dork for thinking this is cool? don't answer that...

University of Wyoming - George W. Hopper Law Library - From about 1920 to 1952, Fred H. Blume, attorney and Wyoming Supreme Court Justice, worked alone in his spare time to produce a massive, annotated English translation of Justinian’s Code. His hopes of seeing it published during his lifetime never came to fruition. Blume also translated Justinian’s Novels into English during the same period, but they, too, remained unpublished. This web site is dedicated primarily to housing an edited, electronic version of Justice Blume’s magnum opus--what he referred to as his ANNOTATED JUSTINIAN CODE. It also contains his translation of the Novels and other materials related to Justice Blume’s Roman law work, but it does not attempt to be a portal for research on the Code or Roman law in general.

myGreenElectronics

myGreenElectronics: "Electronics improve the way we live, work and play.
But, there's one place where electronics should have no impact—the environment. Through responsible use, reuse and recycling of electronics, the consumer electronics industry and consumers can protect and preserve the environment—together."

CoinCalc.com - [Coin Jar Calculator]

mr. information could've used this last weekend, when he cashed in our bottle full of $58 dollars in coins! we guessed that there was maybe $20 or so...it was fun to be wrong!

CoinCalc.com - [Coin Jar Calculator]: "Most of us have a jar in our house full of loose coins...Ever wonder how much money that jar is worth? CoinCalc.com will help you figure it out.

Just grab a representative handful of coins and fill in the values below along with the total weight of your jar."

Converting Google Book PDFs to Actual Books

Converting Google Book PDFs to Actual Books: "PublicDomainReprints.org allows you to paste in a book URL from the Google Books program – at least those books in the public domain, which Google offers as full PDFs – to then order them via print-on-demand service Lulu.com. (To find just public domain books on Google Book Search, check the “Full view” option on the Advanced Book Search page.) Other than Google Books, Public Domain Reprints also supports sites like the Internet Archive."

plasq.com - Skitch - Snap, Draw, Share

plasq.com - Skitch - Snap, Draw, Share: "Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? ... Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email..
Skitch is the Internet age's Camera and it Rocks!"

The Evolution of Web Apps & Human Interaction

Internet Evolution - Ilya Joel-Pitcher - The Evolution of Web Apps & Human Interaction: "As we increasingly embrace the Internet and online applications, our interactions with the Web will evolve in two ways. First: Applications will emerge to address the unexpressed, hidden needs of users. Second: Human behavior in some societies and cultures will evolve so that technology access becomes one of those basic needs."

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks: "When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like 'so say we all' or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but today we're skipping the obvious and highlighting our favorite obscure Google web search tricks."

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. "