Archive for the ‘reference’ Category

What kind of geek are you?

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Probably some combination of the 56 listed on this poster.

56 geeks

link (via ohgizmo!)

Useful USB

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Make a digital Swiss Army Knife.

Here’s a list of 55 of the most useful USB programs around.

link (via downloadsquad)

It’s all connected man!

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

TuneGlue Relationship Explorer

TuneGlue shows similar bands through nodes using data from last.fm and amazon. It also displays album info, links and news for larger bands.

It’s fairly incomplete and I question many of the relationship choices, but it’s still fun to play with and has a lot of potential.

link (thanks boognish)

All fish are not created equal

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Seafood Watch

Visit the Audubon’s Living Ocean’s site, print out a wallet card and the next time you are at a restaurant or in the supermarket, pick out an environmentally responsible species to eat.

I had seen these ’seafood watch’ cards in the past, but was reminded of them when reading “Uncle Mark’s Gift Guide & Almanac” (page 26). Check out the rest of their gift suggestions and general tips here [PDF].

link (via Uncle Mark’s almanac)

Enhance your sirius experience

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Sirius

DogStarRadio is a must use for anyone with Sirius radio. See what’s playing on every station at once in realtime(!!), see program schedules, news, and all available in RSS.

Or if you don’t have sirius, see if the content is something you like.

link (thanks alex)

Get your daily dose of HD

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Discovery Atlas

Sure Engadget HD has high-def news, but the daily listings of every HD show across the board is nice. Breaks it down by channel and video mode (720p, 1080i, etc).

link

Open source gift guide

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

open source gift guide

The holidays are here and Make put together a list of open source hardware and software gifts. My favorites include PortableApps Suite, Lego Mindstorms(I covered these in Technotronic), FREE BEER and Stellarium.

link

UW Library joins Google book project

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Google Book Bucky

Proud of my former school and employer (I worked a few semesters in the Chemistry Library) for getting involved in Google Print and trying to get as much material out there as possible.

    “The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library, they said.”Those books and documents represent one of the largest U.S. collections of historical and government documents. They will be selected from a combined 7.2 million library holdings.”"The University of Wisconsin-Madison joins the University of California and Spain’s Universidad Complutense de Madrid — two other major libraries Google has announced are participating in the library book search project in the past two months.”

    “The Google Books Library Project began last year with five participating libraries — the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library and Oxford University. Google is also conducting a pilot project with the Library of Congress.”

link (via CNN Technology)

Web 2.0 Directory

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Web 2.0 Directory

A pretty Flash listing of many Web 2.0 companies. Click any logo to see a description of the company and follow a link to it. Searchable with a handy tag filter.

link (via Techcrunch)