March 2008 Archives

http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/100-ways-to-organize-life/

A collection of links to various sites on the Web that help you to get yours and others lives in order and completely organized.

http://www.focalpointyoga.com/pranayam.htm

In Sanskrit the word for breath is the same as the word for life; "Prana".  Yogis, medical doctors, healers and psychologists agree that the breath is an important link between our body, mind, and spirit, and that simple breathing techniques can significantly help reduce the effects of chronic stress, anxiety, and depression.

Regular practising of "Pranayama", or yogic breath control, can calm the mind, boost the immune system, improve concentration, lower blood pressure, and benefit a wide range of mental, emotional, and physical ailments.  This cool website provides free information and instructions on "Basic" and "Advanced" breathing techniques, including "Ujjayi Breath", "Alternate Nostril Breath", and "Abdominal Breath".

http://www.day4death.com/

Ever wondered how long you have got to go in this life? Just input a little bit of data into this site and it will do the maths and work out statistically where, when and how you will finally kick the bucket!

Mine was 6th November 2044 - this may be a little optimistic given my current lifestyle...

http://www.sawse.com/2008/01/07/10-more-photos-at-the-exact-right-time

Continuing on from the last post with a similar title - here's some more of the same...

http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/how-to-solve-a-rubiks-cube

I could have done with this guide oooh...let's say 25 years ago - ah no - I wouldn't have had access to the old interweb back then :-S

The Guantanamo Testimonials Project is a site dedicated to assessing the effects of the U.S. war on terror on human rights in the Americas.

"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to memorialize them there in perpetuity."

Read the testimonies of the prisoners themselves, lawyers, interrogators, physicians, chaplains and many other different individuals associated with the Guantanamo incarcerations.










Emergency restraint chair (picture taken from the site)

http://www.sawse.com/2007/11/02/25-photographs-taken-at-the-exact-right-time/

These are awesome - check this page out...

You know the trick where you can draw ever changing pictures on different pages of a jotter and then flick through the pages to give a simple animation?

Well they've been digitalized...

http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/amazing/burma.htm

As many folks are feeling fairly spiritual around this time of the year I thought it suitable to include this page today.

Tilt your head to the left when you look at it.

I'm going to be taking a break from this blog for a couple of days now so see you back here on Monday!

http://soundsnap.com/

Share sound sound effects and loops...

http://www.2spare.com/item_92528.aspx

When you're desperate...it pays!

http://www.quazen.com/News/Alternative/10-Freak-Car-Accidents.69675

http://www.quazen.com/News/Alternative/10-Freak-Car-Accidents-2.71373

"A car accident can be one of the most horrifying experiences in a person’s life. They are sometimes inevitable and the moments before they happen with the feeling of helplessness can be very terrifying. However, some of them are just a one in a million freak accident, to the point where they seem staged. Here are ten of the weirdest car accidents you will ever see."

and then there's another 10...(see both links above)

Check out these photos taken through an x-ray device.

http://www.keybr.com/

As I wurk in IT now ti is a bit of an embarkassment that I do not know how to tuch-type. I'm a 2-finger wunder adn alweys have been but have recemtly been learneng the basics of touch - with not much suscess so far it has to be sed..

The web-app on this page is a good aid towards learning - it tells you what to type, times you and counts the number of mistakes that you make.

http://strictlynophotography.com/

Photo sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them!

http://www.storycorps.net/listen/

Listen to personal stories told my many hundreds of people that have been recorded and uploaded to this site. You can also record your own story on this site. Some happy, sad, tragic and interesting stories recorded here by people.

http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/

This is "a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an "English" word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, derivative, archaic or abandoned words in what we loosely define as the "English Language", that a clear-cut definition seems impossible. For the purposes of this project though, words are included that may stretch any basic definitions. Particular attention has been paid to archaic words, as they tend to be more evocative - as if their very age lends additional meaning or overtones."










You might find this site handy for this...

http://www.songfacts.com/

Have you ever wanted to know the stories and meanings behind certain song lyrics? Well this site has a pretty fully stocked searchable database of the facts behind songs and band names stretching back into the mysteries of time (well the 20th Century anyway)...


the best...Hawkwind

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

"PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard."

View some gruesome pictures of stars with little mouths instead of eyes - not to be looked at while eating!

http://www.dylanmessaging.com/home

You know the famous video of Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'? On this site you can customize the video of him holding up the placards of the words with your own personal message and then send this to a friend. This is very, very cool..:-)))

Have you ever wanted a better way to:
 * see what your friends are reading?
 * keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read?
 * get great book recommendations from people you know?

http://www.goodreads.com/

...could you take out in a fight?

"This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combating experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass."

http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/

Did you know...

-that it snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979?

-that a 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat?

-the first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272?

-or that Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter . . .he blew up his lab, and decided to stop work on that project?

these tidbits and many more equally useless bits of info available...

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http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/02/13-photographs-that-changed-the-world/

http://www.yogabasics.com

There are many many sites on this topic on the Net but I found this to be one of the better ones out there. Detailed articles and pictures for beginners.

Site has some interesting stories that you may have missed in the news in 2007.

"Armed Robots Take the Field in Iraq"

"The American Heartland Grows Crops—with Human Proteins"

and "U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Gets Cut in Half" plus 7 more...


A robosoldier

View images of everyday objects under the microscope. Fish scales, dollar bills, light bulb filaments, artificial sweeteners, cork and pen nibs are some of the objects in this gallery.

Also check out the archives of this site.

http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

Enter your age and see what other people managed to accomplish when they were your age.

At my age - "Physicist Georg Simon Ohm discovered Ohm's Law." and "Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon."

and there's more.