The Scientific Case for Common Descent

Common descent is a general descriptive theory that concerns the genetic origins of living organisms

List of countries by current account balance

Forget about Global Warming we've got bigger problems than that, so has America, Free Market Economics - the race to the bottom.

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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

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Expressive Monkey Pictures

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React Operating System

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu.

AoA Audio Extractor Free

Provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
With AoA Audio Extractor, you can easily extract audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats.

Windows Updates Downloader

WUD allows you to download all of the current Windows Updates using a simple interface.

Now that AutoPatcher has gone you might need this

Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer

SUPER © (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Player and Encoder of various types of multimedia files.

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