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Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets:

For a few years now, I've been arguing that iPods are a weird sort of snob technology. By which I mean: People use them mostly not to fulfil a utilitarian function -- i.e. to play music -- but rather to broadcast a message that they are true music aficionados. To walk around with the aery white earbuds jammed in your skull is to insist that you are the sort of person who not only needs to have music around you -- but needs to have 10,000 songs at your beck and call every second of the day, because nothing less would satisfy the subtle nuances of your all-encompassing taste: Cutting-edge German techno? Early Lomax folk blues recordings? Mozart? Your soul is on permanent shuffle. Mere labels cannot define you.

Ever used a site that doesn't work in Firefox, even though it could with just a few minor tweaks? Ever frustrated by a site you really like apart from one annoying thing it does, or felt the desire to customise sites you visit often? Just as user CSS allows you to change the way Websites appear, so user JS allows you change the way Websites behave.

Paul Gauguin
Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 - May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art.

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Listal is a web based collection manager application which supports DVDs (region 1 and 2), books, games and music.

The main features of listal are :

* Completely free to use
* Fast and simple user interface
* Organise your collection by tagging items with keywords which will also contribute to the overall classification of items for all users.
* Share your collection on the internet with an easy to remember url (yourname.listal.com)
* Create custom lists of items which can give recommendations and advice to other visitors. e.g. 'My favorite movies of 2004'
* Read and write reviews of your items.

Learning from Leonardo da Vinci
Think Like a Genius and Its Qualities

By Runel Soria

According to Thomas Alva Edison 'Genius is ninety nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration' this mean that you must be more on hard work than wishing to be someone. Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.

Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC. Virtually all of the programs listed here are free of charge and for use under Windows (Palm and OS X pages also exist)

Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 � June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. Klee was born in M�nchenbuchsee (near Bern) of Switzerland into a musical family - his father, Hans Klee, taught music at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near Berne. In his early years, Paul wanted to be a musician, but decided on the visual arts in his teen years. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. After travelling to Italy and then back to Bern, he settled in Munich, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other avant-garde figures, and became associated with the Blaue Reiter. Here he met Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married; they had one son.

One side can be wrong

Accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences, warn Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne

Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian

It sounds so reasonable, doesn't it? Such a modest proposal. Why not teach 'both sides' and let the children decide for themselves? As President Bush said, 'You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.' At first hearing, everything about the phrase 'both side

Find out who's linking to you and their Pagerank, description, language and size. The Pagerank is recieved from the Google server and may be different from the Google Toolbar.

Deep into Sleep
While researchers probe sleep's functions, sleep itself is becoming a lost art.

by Craig Lambert

Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in sleep research. He asked whether Stickgold knew of any reason not to prescribe modafinil, a new wakefulness-promoting drug, to a Harvard undergraduate facing a lot of academic work in exam period.

Web Badges / Buttons

Getting Things Done, OmniOutliner, and syncing to paper

Update 9/1: Whoa - Merlin linked to me and my traffic has been going crazy. Thanks to everyone who�s reading and leaving comments!

Getting Things Done
I�ve been using GTD for about a year. (Here�s Merlin Mann�s gentle introduction to GTD, if you haven�t heard of it.) I�m like 12% more efficient. But I�m 80% less worried about what I have to do, and that�s magic.

Jacques Louis David Gallery

Eight tools for streamlined decision-making

Effective Decision Making [Mind Tools]

Like so many things, smart decision-making can benefit from the addition of structure, focus, and a bit of metaphor. While imperfect in their own ways, the kinds of tools that support this mental corralling can help tremendously in quieting the chaos, surveying the available options, and then collecting and evaluating the information you need to choose the best course of action.

Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done

In the past few months, I've been trying to apply some of the principles of David Allen's Getting Things Done to my own work habits. This article describes how I've been using a combination of Thunderbird's labels and saved searches to facilitate handling my email inbox in a GTD fashion.

What is Foxie?

Now you can surf the web with ease and comfort. Foxie (fox + ie; pronounced /Foxy/) is a collection of free security, privacy and productivity tools developed by the Foxie Team. It was originally designed to bridge the gap between Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox (an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation) but soon grew in scope and size to offer additional unique features not found on any stand alone browser.

Foxie empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser by blending tabbed browsing, ads & pop-up blocking, Malware cleansing and privacy & security protection with our smart search capabilities to enhance your browsing experience. Foxie is not a web browser and fits seamlessly into your IE browser.

What is Blogma?
July 12, 2005

Blogma is a special portal designed to highlight the most popular technology topics discussed throughout the expanding universe of Web logs.

ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source.

ShrinkTo5 can copy movies with an undeniably superior picture quality. No matter if you wish to copy just the main movie or the whole movie DVD, ShrinkTo5 always produces a superb picture quality, since the ShrinkTo5 engine always concentrates on the main movie. No tedious configuration is needed like with other copying tools, ShrinkTo5 will always find the perfect balance automatically.

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Magazine Cover Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are!

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

The following is a 'healthy food hot list' consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet.

What is Dropload?

Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each! Recipients can be anyone with an email address

Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails

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About my Idea Generation Methods website
By Martin Leith Skip to Index

This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; my many sources include books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues.

The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organisational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts.

The methods are listed below. Each is linked to a description, and in some cases you will find full instructions for using the method to generate ideas.

Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over
Comments Posted by Readers

BY DAVID KESMODEL
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
August 31, 2005

In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers.

Traffic-Power.com sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization � tactics companies use to get themselves to appear higher in searches at Google, Yahoo and elsewhere � alleging defamation and publication of trade secrets. The suit, filed in a Nevada state court earlier this month, also listed as defendants several unnamed users of the blog.

At issue are statements posted in the comments section of Mr. Wall's blog, SEOBook.com. Many blogs allow readers to post comments, often anonymously, and Mr. Wall's blog included several reader submissions that blasted tools sold by Traffic-Power.com.

Traffic-Power.com said in the suit that confidential information about the company has been published on the blog, and it accused Mr. Wall of publishing 'false and defamatory information,' but it didn't identify any of the material in question.

Legal analysts said the case falls into somewhat murky legal territory, but that Mr. Wall may have some protection from liability under federal law. Courts generally have held that the operators of computer message boards and mailing lists cannot be held liable for statements posted by other people. Blogs might be viewed in a similar light, they said.

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index