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Just a list of universities that offer free courses of video-based lectures. University’s video based courses Free Stanford University (stanford.edu), OpenClassroom Carnegie Mellon Michigan Berkeley MIT: OCW, MITworld

I wanted to be able to see all the websites and review them as a whole so I made this list, some interesting sites there I’d not seen before. Time 50 best websites of 2011 Links all on one page Here are the first links in each category in the Time 50 Best Websites 2011 [...]

Apparently, according to a FoaF’s post today on FB nuclear power produces CFCs (Chloro-Fluoro-Carbons poster child of global warming terror in the 90s). Here’s a little research I did on that claim. Note this is not properly written up, as yet, but simply a record of sources found and my notes along the way. Does [...]

St.Davids Day, 1 March 2011, is the national Saints day for Wales. “Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus!” simply transliteraties as “day saint David happy” and is the traditional greeting as you wave your daffodils and wolf down a few dozen welsh cakes. Happy St.Davids Day /Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus! Saint David’s Day Saint David’s Day St [...]

No matter how hard you try sometimes baby just seems to end up sockless. Nearly every parent has faced the frustration of losing socks leaving your little bundle of joy less than joyful and turning blue around the tootsies. The answer? Well, there are a few … I know this a departure from my usual [...]

First thoughts on new internet access speeds provided by fibre-to-the-premises. This is an enlarged version of a submission to HN. Incredible download speeds Dialup to broadband The move from dialup rates of 28.8kbs to ADSL (broadband) rates of 2Mbps changed the internet experience markedly from being largely static to allowing streaming video. It has also  [...]