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links for 2007-10-16

You convert it – Free online file conversion (Document, Images, Audio and Video) Free! Convert and Send any media files format (Documents, Images, audio & Video) without buying or installing anything on your PC (tags: convert send) TripIt | Organize your travel Just forward your travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com (tags: travel itinerary)

links for 2007-10-15

Historical Anatomies on the Web: Browse Titles Historical Anatomies on the Web is a digital project designed to give Internet users access to high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library’s collection. The project offers selected images from NLM’s atlas collection, not the entire works. (tags: anatomy illustration) — U.S. Deaths Confirmed By […]

links for 2007-10-04

Bell Labs: Ritchie and Thompson Receive National Medal of Technology from President Clinton (tags: unix)

links for 2007-10-02

Greenfeet.com – The Planet’s HomestoreEverybody leaves footprints on the environment. We ALL do it. We do it by just living our lives and going about our business. We all consume resources and we all leave an environmental footprint. However, the choices we make, in our behavior, in the prod(tags: green business recycled)

Beeswax Candles

Beeswax Candles Soy Candles Bees Wax Candles Soy Wax Candles “Bluecorn Naturals is a small company dedicated to producing the finest pure beeswax candles you can find. From the act of lighting the flame to the warmth it brings, the candle experience is an essential part of our lives here.” (tags: candles beeswax) Big Dipper […]

Citation tools

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online Enter what you’re reading or your whole library—it’s an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.  (tags: bibliography citation classtoday) BibMe – Free (MLA/APA/Chicago) Automatic Bibliography Generator The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the quickest way to build a works […]

links for 2007-09-23

Berkshire Meats, Inc. : 100% Natural Berkshire Pork, How to Place an Order from Berkshire Natural pork. Listed in The Meat We Eat, http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/006090the_meat_we_eat.php (tags: natural pork) XML-Enabled Applications – webreference.com “This chapter explains how to effectively use XML techniques and technologies available in PHP and Oracle when building XML-enabled PHP/Oracle applications.” This looks like […]

Sobering titles in Scientific American

I was checking the RSS feed I get from Scientific American and came across some titles of some disturbing articles. The North Pole is Melting “The permanent Arctic ice cap dwindled to a record low this week, presaging a future of a summertime Northwest Passage and obscuring fog.” … [2030] “It’s going to be a […]

Getting to two decimal places with Java

A student wrote in today asking about using Math.round() and getting results to two decimal places. Two links that describe the old multiply by 100 and then divide by 100 method are From Sun Developer Forums, http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=545068&tstart=45 From Roedy Green’s Java & Internet Glossary, http://mindprod.com/jgloss/round.html And here is one that describes displaying a result to […]

A Place to Bury Strangers – recent publicity

A Place to Bury Strangers has received a lot of well-deserved complementary publicity lately. It started on August 31, 2007 with the piece in Pitchfork reviewing their first album “A Place to Bury Strangers.” The Village Voice published a piece last night “A Place to Bury Strangers: Effects-Pedal Memory Games,” that seems from here to […]