Organic food in Fife, Scotland – shop, farm, boxes & cafe

+ A great place to go for organic food in Fife is ‘The Pillars’ farm, shop & cafe (they also deliver organic boxes.)
+ ‘The Pillars’ comes highly recommended by many and were nominees in last years ‘Spirit of Scotland‘ awards.
+ The shop/farm/cafe is located just outside Falkland.
+ There’s also an entry in the Soil Association directory about them, if you want to know more.

Easy way to find recipes for the ingredients you have

• Research Buzz has a tool to help you find recipes for the ingredients you have.
• You enter the ingredients in a search box and the site uses the terms in a special Google search. When you run the search you get taken to a Google search results page for recipes with those ingredients.
• For example, click here to see recipes that use ‘Chicken, wine, tomato’.
• Very handy

Amazing gymnastics/martial art moves! (video of actor from Jackie Chan films)

• This guy is amazing!!! Watch the video and see for yourself.
• His name is Joe Eigo and, among other things, he’s one of the actors/stunt men from the Jackie Chan films.
• The video has had over 5 million views, is rated 4.82/5 stars and is the 2nd top earning video at Metacafe!!

News highlights at one of the most popular sites on the web

• The ‘Drudge Report’ highlights some of the top stories from around the world in a basic & quick to read format
• Its got a HUGE readership: over 15 million hits in the past 24 hours!!! and over 4.5 BILLION hits in the past year

Cut and paste any part of your screen with Snippy (freeware)

• This tiny little freeware utility lets you cut and paste any part of your screen
• You can cut rectangle/squares, or do freehand cut and pasting
• You can cut with/without borders and define border thickness + colour
• V Cool

AWESOME flash video!! ‘Animator v’s animation II’ (Matrix’esque)

• Top ranked flash video of all time at ‘Newgrounds.com’! – this video is Very cool
• Click the link above, then click on the ‘Watch this movie’ icon to see it

Cool web games, reviews etc at Web Game Magazine

• Growing blog-style magazine that reviews and rates web games
• You can look up games by type or popularity. They also have some handy quick links to their favourite games in the left hand column.

Get rid of headaches, relax, and more with ‘Brainwave Generator’

• Free (limited version) program that lets you play computer generated sounds that are designed for e.g. getting rid of headaches (worked for me), relaxing, focusing attention etc
• You can also create your own tracks (the interface takes a bit of getting used to – let me know if you want any help on this)
• If you get the full version, you can download a ton of extra tracks that people have created themselves
• WARNING! – certain people shouldn’t use the program (see bottom of page) e.g. those with pacemakers
• You can read the background theory for the software here

Funny… Weekly caption competition archive at the BBC

The BBC do a weekly caption competion. You can see the archive here.

New Tolkien novel goes on sale – The Children of Hurin

• Tolkien’s son has completed a book from some of his dad(JRR Tolkien)’s manuscripts – see more at the BBC
• The book is on sale now

Very cute and funny kitten pics

• Some very funny/cute pics from ICanHasCheezburger
• In case you’ve never heard of the site (how?!?) – it seems to be top/almost top of the ‘today’s hottest blogs’ section at wordpress every day!

Take visitors to a random post on your WordPress blog

• All you need to do is add ‘?random’ to the end of your URL and the link will go to a random page on your blog e.g. click here for a random post from my blog
• See the article on this function here

Share big files with a ‘Box.net’ widget

• WordPress have just joined forces with Box.net to give us a cool widget to let people download big files
• You can see an example and learn more here

The rich getting richer on the back of the poor – sculpture pic

- Picture of a sculpture in Ringkobing (picture/sculpture says it all)

- BBC have a very relevant article about the richer getting even richer!?!?!

- There are lots of other cool/funny sculpture pics at the site e.g. Man at Work

Laughter quotes

- 10 or so ‘Laughter quotes’ at Sugar Shock
- e.g. ‘He who laughs, lasts!’

People sharing their secrets anonymously by post card…

- VERY cool site where people send in postcards with their secrets written on the back
- Some are quite intense/adult in nature (you have been warned!)
- Cards are usually done in quite an arty way
- Site claims it is ‘the largest advertisement-free Blog on the Web’ (hit counter shows 74 million + visitors)

Cool (though a little weird) pics of ’sculptures’…

Nice little collection of pics on someone’s blog. Some are pretty gothic, using skulls and bones etc. The site (uncommonpictures.blogspot.com) has some other arty pics as well.

Artificial people… the way forward???

ScienceAhead have a list of the ‘Top 10 Artificial Technologies Ready to Create a Real Human Being‘.

Uk’s richest get 20% richer in a year!

Click here for a BBC article on this.

Concert Tickets… peer-to-peer style

*Click here for concert tickets site (StubHub)*
StubHub is a site that lets you buy and sell concert tickets (and sports/theatre tickets) online. Its a peer-to-peer style system a bit like e-bay (in fact was bought by E-Bay in Jan this year,) so you also get the security of a big company being involved in the buying/selling.

How Tos and Instructions

Click here for general how tos and here for instructions on making things
Two fun and useful how tos/instructions sites are Instructables & WikiHow. Both have loads of articles on different topics. Instructables focuses on making things while WikiHow covers a broader range of how tos. WikiHow has over 18,000 articles.

Planet Earth 2?… habitable planet found! (article + video)

*New planet earth article here & video here*
A team of scientits have found the first potentially habitable planet outside our solar system! The BBC have an article and video clip with lots of info.

Multiple Intelligences… BBC article/program

*Click here for multiple intelligences article*
I like the way people are starting to think of intelligence in different ways. Instead of just the traditional IQ style intelligence, people are now talking about emotional & bodily intelligence etc.

‘Leaping Shampoo’… weird/cool YouTube video clip

*Leaping Shampoo video clip here*
Did you know that shampoo will ‘leap’ out of a glass if you pour it in the right way?!? This is a cool (& weird!) slow motion video clip that shows the effect.

230k+ views – 4* rated

Becoming/being self-employed… hints and tips

*Becoming/being self-employed article here*
Especially aimed at web-workers, a nice little summary of ‘best practices’ for the self-employed is available at WebWorkerDaily (lots of other interesting posts here as well.)