Everything

MetaFilter

2008-10-24T19:47:00.001+13:00

This is still my favourite site on the internet where I spend a lot of time reading:

PortableApps.com

2008-01-02T03:11:00.001+13:00

Some very useful applications here, you can run the latest versions of products without disturbing your existing installation until you are sure you want the latest version

WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?

2008-01-02T02:58:00.001+13:00

This is well worth having a look at, World Question Centre

Avidemux v2.4 for Win32

2007-10-25T16:05:00.001+13:00

Imagine an application which does everything VirtualDub can do, but runs on various platforms, supports a lot of containers, comes with all Codecs you need built-in and doesn´t use the nasty VfW interface. That applications is Avidemux!

The Scientific Case for Common Descent

2007-09-22T19:01:00.001+12:00

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

List of countries by current account balance

2007-09-22T02:03:00.001+12:00

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

$315 billion dollars looks like

2007-09-20T17:16:00.001+12:00

This

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

2007-09-19T22:58:00.001+12:00

Worth a look

Expressive Monkey Pictures

2007-09-18T17:09:00.001+12:00

Here

React Operating System

2007-09-15T01:13:00.001+12:00

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

2007-09-12T16:20:00.001+12:00

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

2007-09-11T18:28:00.001+12:00

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

2007-09-03T00:01:00.001+12:00

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

2007-09-02T21:18:00.001+12:00

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.

People say this is a good software

FIREFOX GOD

2007-08-30T19:58:00.001+12:00

300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox

Damn Small Linux

2007-08-29T01:15:00.001+12:00

Home page

Techmeme

2007-08-26T03:22:00.001+12:00

A good site to find the latest tech news

Glary Utilities

2007-08-23T23:00:00.001+12:00

Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC

THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN

2007-08-22T22:52:00.001+12:00

Researching the health effects of low level ionising radiation

CARPET STAIN INDEX

2007-08-22T17:01:00.001+12:00

Get those annoying stains out

Essential Utilities

2007-08-21T18:09:00.001+12:00

Bootdisks etc

Exclusive Micro Spy Earphone

2007-08-20T00:15:00.001+12:00

You need one of these, haha

FileMaker

2007-08-19T18:32:00.001+12:00

Apparently a substitute for MS Access?

Shadow Protect IT Edition

2007-08-16T16:57:00.001+12:00

Looks good

The park of Monsters

2007-08-14T18:33:00.001+12:00

Bomarzo

Spanish Civil War Posters

2007-08-05T23:00:00.001+12:00

Art Deco, surrealism, realism, and photomontage

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

2007-08-05T22:49:00.001+12:00

Enterprise Architect provides the competitive edge for software design and systems engineering, requirements management, business process analysis, project management
Competes with Visio

New Webpage of Mine

2007-08-03T17:47:00.001+12:00

Link

Aptana

2007-08-03T15:56:00.001+12:00

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications, supposed to be very good

Install Ubuntu from Windows in 3 Steps without Using a CD

2007-07-31T09:06:00.001+12:00

Read about it here

Tutorials for Open Office

2007-07-29T21:15:00.001+12:00

Very useful

Painless Partition Recovery

2007-07-28T22:07:00.001+12:00

Partition Find and Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery

COLLECTED WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

2007-07-26T19:35:00.001+12:00

Here

The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web

2007-07-23T21:13:00.001+12:00

Here

Fallacy Files Weblog

2007-07-23T18:52:00.001+12:00

Here

Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04

2007-07-20T20:35:00.001+12:00

Here

Browser Emulator

2007-07-18T20:42:00.001+12:00

Here

All the old browsers, Netscape, IE, Lynx

Laser Turntable

2007-07-17T20:05:00.001+12:00

Expensive but desirable

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

2007-07-11T21:39:00.001+12:00

Play many old arcade games on your PC

The Stencil Library

2007-07-10T23:37:00.001+12:00

Looks very interesting and comprehensive

Synoptic Time Table of Earth History

2007-07-04T22:56:00.001+12:00

Moderately interesting

World Clock

2007-06-30T22:41:00.001+12:00

Definitely worth a look

Free Vector Clip Art

2007-06-26T01:07:00.001+12:00

Here

History of Europe

2007-06-26T00:50:00.001+12:00

Some good maps here of ancient Europe

Philosophy of History

2007-06-24T18:47:00.001+12:00

Wonderful site with many links

Asperger Syndrome

2007-06-24T16:27:00.001+12:00

A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME

Images That Changed The World

2007-06-22T00:10:00.001+12:00

Worth a look and also many tips on a useful site including use of DBan HDD wiper

What is Server2Go

2007-06-18T18:25:00.001+12:00

Server2Go is a Webserver that runs out of box without any installation. That means it is a webserver that can run directly from cdrom, usb stick or from any folder on harddisk.

More Origami

2007-06-18T16:01:00.001+12:00

Here and here

YamiPod

2007-06-18T00:46:00.001+12:00

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod

Colonial Pictures and More

2007-06-18T00:24:00.001+12:00

Here

Sphere Making Machines

2007-06-18T00:23:00.005+12:00

Here

Flying Game

2007-06-18T00:23:00.003+12:00

Apparently very good

Also read here:  http://www.metafilter.com/62111/Bounce-me-up-Scotty

iTunes Sync

2007-06-18T00:23:00.001+12:00

iTunes to any other mp3 player, freeware

LEGO Digital Designer for Windows 2.1

2007-06-13T16:08:00.001+12:00

The latest version at Major Geeks

Historic maps and photos of Africa

2007-06-12T14:44:00.001+12:00

Here

Maps of Africa

2007-06-12T14:34:00.001+12:00

Here

Why I left Africa

2007-06-11T22:50:00.001+12:00

Zimbabwe's terror

Truly Shocking

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.4 Released

2007-06-11T00:50:00.001+12:00

This site has many portable apps

Main site here

TestDisk

2007-06-09T17:23:00.001+12:00

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again and repair MFT

FreeUndelete

2007-06-09T01:07:00.003+12:00

Go here

Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel

2007-06-09T01:07:00.001+12:00

This is very worthwhile having a look at. One of the best stories ever and very surreal pictures come with it

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years

2007-06-09T01:06:00.001+12:00

Very interesting

SysInternals - The Non-"p0wned" collection

2007-06-06T08:11:00.001+12:00

Here

JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World

2007-06-05T16:10:00.001+12:00

Well worth a look

Forget the Big Bang Theory

2007-06-05T16:08:00.001+12:00

We all know the story, delivered in grade school textbooks across the country, of how the universe began. The Big Bang. Fourteen billion years ago. Space and time and everything, exploding into being in a flash, and still exploding as celestial bodies race apart across the cosmos

A Brief Introduction to the Ekpyrotic Universe

The Cyclic Universe: A Talk With Neil Turok

2007-05-25T01:10:00.001+12:00

Free Will

I love this:

'It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable: it is with precisely this charm that it entices subtler minds. It seems that the hundreds of times refuted theory of "free will" owes its continued existence to this charm alone - : again and again there comes along someone who feels he is strong enough to refute it.'

Friedrich Nietzsche.

also:

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

Though leaves are many, the root is one;

Through all the lying days of my youth

I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun

Now I may wither into the truth.

William Butler Yeats

Just a season, but it lives on

2007-05-24T23:22:00.001+12:00

Forty years later, the ripples from the Haight-Ashbury are still being felt in our culture. The event itself may have gone bad almost at once, but the Summer of Love had a profound and lasting impact on American life.

Flv-Player S

2007-05-23T23:13:00.001+12:00

Details and free download here

Hippies

2007-05-22T12:41:00.001+12:00

"But if you’re really bitter and shortsighted, you could say the entire hippie movement overall was just incredibly overrated, gets far too much cultural credit for far too little actual impact, was pretty much a giant excuse to slack off and enjoy dirty lazy responsibility-free sex romps and do a ton of drugs and avoid Vietnam and not bathe for a month and name your child Sunflower or Shiva Moon or Chakra Lennon Sapphire Bumblebee. This is what’s called the REACTIONARY SIMPLETON’S view. It blithely ignores history, perspective, the evolution of culture as a whole. You know, just like America."

The Assault on Reason

2007-05-19T01:11:00.001+12:00

Everyone interested in our future should read this

Free Photoshop Plugins

2007-05-17T23:49:00.001+12:00

Many good plug-ins here

Underwater Tigers

2007-05-15T18:53:00.001+12:00

Here

Bushies Behaving Badly

2007-05-15T01:06:00.001+12:00

Worth a look.  All the scandals in one place

2007-05-14T23:51:00.001+12:00

I believe that the Governments in a lot of countries are so right wing that they amount to renegade organizations that are working on the side of financial organizations, this is happening in my home city of Christchurch and all over New Zealand as well. They are no longer on the side of the common people.

As said in the article we are all becoming serfs to the landed gentry.

Link

Virtual Solar System

2007-05-14T22:27:00.001+12:00

This is worth a look

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder

2007-05-11T00:07:00.001+12:00

This is an absolute shocker, do not click unless you are feeling certain about the goodness of man.

And more

How To Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) With Single Boot Screen

2007-05-04T23:01:00.001+12:00

Ilya Hevnikov’s Blog

XP PRO IIS Admin 1.8.0

2007-04-28T03:57:00.001+12:00

New Version of webmaster's tool to create multiple web sites on Windows XP Pro.

Designed to make and manage a multiple web servers on Windows 2000/XP Pro

The most beautiful islands on the world

2007-04-28T03:36:00.001+12:00

See the pictures of some of the most beautiful islands on the world

Launchy 1.25 Adds Customizable Commands

2007-04-27T21:30:00.001+12:00

Runny:  This plugin will let you add your own custom commands to Launchy

Howie's Software

2007-04-25T22:04:00.001+12:00

Some interesting Programs here including ScrnSaver

DVD Pimper

2007-04-22T16:19:00.001+12:00

All you need to rip CD's & DVD's

2007-04-17T23:45:00.001+12:00

How to write well.

This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist

The Tao

2007-04-17T23:05:00.001+12:00

When a superior man hears of the Tao, he immediately begins to embody it.

When an average man hears of the Tao, he half believes it, half doubts it.

When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud.

If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao.

The Anonymous Liberal

2007-04-13T17:41:00.001+12:00

"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held,
but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are
held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any
moment lead to their abandonment." -Bertrand Russell

Anonymous Liberal

"As an attorney who deals with subpoenas and requests for electronic
documents on a regular basis, I can tell you that if a private
entity--particularly one subject to legally mandated record keeping
requirements--were to inform government investigators seeking such
documents that they had been "mishandled" and were now "lost," that
entity would immediately find itself in a world of hurt and would be
lucky if it survived the aftermath. No amount of talking would be
enough to convince the authorities that there was an innocent
explanation for the missing documents. They would be absolutely
convinced that the "mishandled" documents were intentionally destroyed
in order to cover up wrongdoing."

Refers to this

2007-04-11T00:56:00.001+12:00

Topic 296: Scott MacFarlane, "The Hippie Narrative"

Of all the topics I have read on The Well this is one of the best.

Example: "A great many people have talked about psychedelics opening themselves to believing in a higher presence."

Response:

"I can see why that kind of talk would be more compelling than talk about how a psychedelic experience brings the user an understanding of how there's no higher power, That It's All Up To Us." - Cynthia D-B permalink #230

Extraordinary, the whole topic is well-worth reading.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2007-04-10T23:54:00.001+12:00

Here

AIDS History

2007-04-10T21:28:00.001+12:00

This timeline contains selected events in the history of AIDS related to the response of the National Institutes of Health and other agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ultimate Boot Disk

2007-04-10T20:27:00.001+12:00

Here

Bibliography Relating to Sexuality, Feminism, and Free Speech

2007-04-09T17:47:00.001+12:00

This looks fairly interesting

Gould Farm

2007-04-09T15:15:00.001+12:00

Licensed by the state of Massachusetts, Gould Farm’s psychosocial sub-acute treatment program promotes hope, autonomy and empowerment for the guests who come for care.

The Highly Sensitive Person

2007-04-09T08:37:00.001+12:00

See the self-test, I would guess that a lot of people see themselves as this

World Label

2007-04-06T19:41:00.001+12:00

LABEL TEMPLATES,
Download Avery template, cd label templates and address, mailing and
shipping label templates

Douglas Adams: The First and Last Tapes

2007-04-03T15:41:00.001+12:00

Here

Book That "Full Metal Jacket" Came From

2007-04-03T15:38:00.001+12:00

The Short-Timers

Where There Is No Dentist/Doctor

2007-04-01T23:04:00.001+12:00

Where There Is No Dentist

Where There Is No Doctor

Books to read or download for free.

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

2007-03-31T23:14:00.001+12:00

Amazing Pictures

Tweako

2007-03-31T22:22:00.001+12:00

Projects to undertake, ie Dual boot Vista and XP

Collaborative Computing

University of Oxford, Department of Zoology

2007-03-29T16:18:00.001+12:00

Software developed by the group