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Show me the goodies is moving to Flexiblog

Unnamed Source — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:12:54 +0000

***UPDATE*** Show me the godies is moving to Flexiblog…

In case anyone’s been wondering where I’ve been, I’ve moved to a new blog over on Blogspot. Content will probably be pretty similar, although time will tell

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

Unnamed Source — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:47:56 +0000

+ 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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:39:56 +0000

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)

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:56:16 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:19:04 +0000

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)

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:28:40 +0000

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)

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:42:36 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:20:53 +0000

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

Cool web games, reviews etc at Web Game Magazine

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:10:21 +0000

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’

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:56:23 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:53:15 +0000

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

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:44:00 +0000

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.’

New Tolkien novel goes on sale – The Children of Hurin

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:35:38 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:20:34 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:57:32 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:49:55 +0000

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:15:10 +0000

- 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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:07:19 +0000

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

People sharing their secrets anonymously by post card…

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:03:04 +0000

- 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’…

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:50:42 +0000

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???

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:44:22 +0000

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

House price crash in Spain?

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:40:15 +0000

The BBC have an article on this.

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

Unnamed Source — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:38:45 +0000

Click here for a BBC article on this.

Concert Tickets… peer-to-peer style

Unnamed Source — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:37:11 +0000

*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

Unnamed Source — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:06:42 +0000

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.