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

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

Blogging for profit - get more people to your site

• Simple, little article about blogging for profit
• In summary, it recommends doing a bit of ‘blog promotion’ to get lots of users to your site, rather than just doing lots of posts to get your site to the top of blog directories

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.

BBC’s ‘ten things we didn’t know last week’

• The BBC do a weekly magazine item listing ‘10 things we didn’t know last week - you can see the archive here
• Some examples… ‘Scouting for Boys by Lord Baden-Powell is the fourth bestselling book of the 20th Century, after the Bible, the Koran and Mao’s Little Red Book’
• ‘We each get a completely new skeleton every 10 years, because of cell renewal’
• ‘Spiralling obesity rates are forcing councils to upgrade their crematoria, to take wider coffins.’
• ‘It is cheaper to ship waste from London to Shenzen in China than it is to send it by road from London to Manchester.’

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!

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‘.

House price crash in Spain?

The BBC have an article on this.

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

Click here for a BBC article on this.

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.

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.)

Low calorie food pics… what 200 calories looks like :)

*Low calorie food pics here*
Someone’s put together a collection of pictures that show what 200 calories of food looks like. They start off with a picture of loads of celery and work all the way down to a tiny bit of oil in the bottom of a glass. The pictures were taken with the same camera and using the same setup, so the portion sizes can be easily compared. V cool!

Free traffic! Increase web site traffic for free.

Get some free traffic to your blog / web site (through a site called ‘ipings’.) All you do is fill in 4 boxes on a form (name, URL etc), and click submit. When you do, a bunch of sites get notified that you have new content for them to come and index. Its a dead easy way to increase traffic to your web site / blog.

**WARNING! - you should only use the service when you add new content to your site. Pinging without having new content “probably will get you banned or ignored”!!

If you want to know about how the site works and what happens when you ‘ping’, check out the ‘about‘ and ‘to ping or not to ping‘ pages. Well worth reading IMHO - there are good explanations of how web spiders work and how pinging can help you get listed on major search engines!

Do you Digg?… Digg this post at Digg.com

Digg is a GREAT place to go to find out what cool/interesting/fun sites people have come across. Its a major (ranked 88th most popular site in the world! at Alexa.com) ’social bookmarking’ site, where members submit ‘content’ (weblog posts, news articles, etc.) Other users then check out the content themselves and if they like it they ‘Digg’ it.

**To Digg this article, click here **

Mortgage refinancing. Get the best mortgage rate!

Mortgage refinancing can “substantially slash mortgage repayments” - this article details five easy to follow steps to help you get the best mortgage rate you can, and to pay your mortgage off early.