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OEM Take Back

Recycling your old samsung products is now as easy as 1,2,3.

http://www.oemtakeback.com/samsung/

PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution. Please see the companion informational PEP describing style guidelines for the C code in the C implementation of Python. This document was adapted from Guido's original Python Style Guide essay, with some additions from Barry's style guide. Where there's conflict, Guido's style rules for the purposes of this PEP. This PEP may still be incomplete (in fact, it may never be finished <wink>).

http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47]. A feature of HTTP is the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

Google - public data

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives

The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde.

http://www.archive.org/details/naropa

World Government Data | guardian.co.uk

Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data

Book (Natural Language Toolkit)

Natural Language Processing with Python

http://www.nltk.org/book

Dive Into Python

Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. [...] The complete text is available online.

http://www.diveintopython.org/index.html

IP address geolocation SQL database | Share your knowledge!

I was trying to find a free SQL database of IP geolocation with country, city, region, latitude and longitude for a project but none was accurate and up to date so I decided to create my own and now I offer it for free.

http://blogama.org/node/58

Online Etymology Dictionary

The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthauzen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," Ayto's "20th Century Words," and Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang." [Anyone know a better guide?]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

Where Jacob tells me I'm linking wrong

"When quoting something that you didn’t write, use quotation marks." [I trend toward quotations only, and when it is something I didn't write, I add it to my notes, like this]

http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/82063924/an-asi...

Legal Guide for Bloggers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Updated Feb 11 2009 Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.

http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal

Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is… | FlowingData

Last week was the end of our FlowingData personal visualization project. I asked readers to collect data about themselves or their surroundings and then visualize it some way.

http://flowingdata.com/2008/09/09/winner-of-th...

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

<script type="text/javascript"> if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) { document.write("YUP."); } else { document.write("NOPE."); } </script>

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedthewo...

URL Decoder/Encoder

Handy for turning encoded JavaScript URLs from complete gibberish into readable gibberish.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

:: BedPost ::

Simply log in after every time you have sex and fill out a few simple fields. Before long, you'll have a rolling history of your sex life on which to reflect.

http://bedposted.com/

SensibleUnits.com

Convert boring units to real objects as you type!

http://sensibleunits.com/

Cell phone radiation chart - CNET reviews

If your phone isn't listed here (U.S. customers) and you've purchased it within the last few years (the FCC Web site currently does not provide information on models certified before 1998), you can request the SAR information from the manufacturer or your

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6602_7-5020355-1....

Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

Below you’ll find the celebration of retro and vintage design — ads, illustrations, book covers, pins and posters from 1920-1980s.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/21/cel...

Cook's Thesaurus: Cooking Greens

Basically what it says. I didn't know you could cook elephant ear. That's weird.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Greenckg.html

hotspotr

Community WiFi Cafe Hotspots

http://hotspotr.com/wifi

Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com

Explore the wide variety of inventions and ideas of science fiction writers - over 1,200 are available on Technovelgy. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all.

http://www.technovelgy.com/

George Orwell: 12 Writing Tips

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages...

CD Baby: How to Legally Sell Downloads of Cover Songs

The Copyright Act provides for what is called a “Compulsory License” for downloads and CD sales, which means that if you follow the steps set forth by statute, you can distribute your recording of that song on a CD or over the internet.

http://cdbaby.net/dd-covers

A Guide to Writing Well :: Fire and Knowledge

This claims it is distilled from On Writing Well, and I liked that book.

http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/...

Some book statistics

1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. 70 percent of U.S. adults have not b

http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html

wipbox

WipBox enables sellers to create better, richer listings through deeper knowledge gathering and better preparation

http://www.wipbox.com/

CSS techniques I use all the time | The Montoya Herald

It’s interesting because I’ve thought of myself as a CSS expert for a while now (I’ll challenge anyone to a competition, seriously) but I still keep learning and improving.

http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/02/01/css...

Debt Collection Practices: When Hardball Tactics Go Too Far

This guide explains the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and other laws that apply to debt collectors.

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm

ASL Browser

Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

FSI Language Courses

- the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

http://fsi-language-courses.com/

NutritionData.com NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter

NutritionData provides a complete nutrient analysis or any food or recipe

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

Envirosell - home

Our specialty is examining consumer shopping behavior using a combination of observation, customer intercept interviews and in-store video recording. We are a testing agency for Fortune 500 banks, stores, restaurant chains and consumer product companies,

http://www.envirosell.com/

Libre Map Project - Free Maps and GIS data

The purpose of the Libre Map Project is to aggregate and make digital maps and related GIS data available for Free.

http://libremap.org/

Google bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The technique was first discussed on April 6, 2001 in an article by Adam Mathes in the online zine uber.nu.[5] In that article, he coined the term "Google bombing" [...] The phrase "Google bombing" was introduced to the New Oxford American Dictionary in M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

Captain Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Earth 2147. The legacy of The Metal Wars, where man fought machine - and machine won.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Power

Opt out of unsolicited mail, calls and cookies - Lifehacker

The New York Times rounds up ways to opt out of solicitations online, from junk snail mail, to telemarketing calls, to Doubleclick web site ad cookies.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/privacy/opt...

Web Design References

University of Minnesota Duluth - Information Technology Systems & Services

http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Onl...

History of Religion

Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!

http://mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Tech Center at OtherWorldComputing.com

Instructional videos for various Apple related hardware replacements

http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cf...

Guitars on American Airlines

Guitars may be brought on board only if they can be safely stowed in an overhead bin or approved stowage location in the cabin. A personal item is allowed in addition to the instrument.

http://www.aa.com/content/travelInformation/ba...

Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon

A staggering 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material is required to produce each gallon of gasoline

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10...

Happy Beggar

how can I quickly and easilly convert my XVID/DIVX to WMV so it play on my XBOX 360 console?

http://happybeggar.com/index.php?option=com_co...

Marijuana in the Lives of Americans

When you're high, there's a characteristic way that you talk, which has to do with not remembering anything that's just happened.

http://www.druglibrary.org/special/novak/high_...

Online Style Guide - Times Online

Dexy's Midnight Runners despite much evidence to the contrary, please use the apostrophe

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2941-6...

Japanese writing system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ラドクリフ、マラソン五輪代表に1万m出場にも含み RADOKURIFU, MARASON gorin daihyō ni ichi-man mētoru shutsujō ni mo fukumi (I also liked the various Unicode PDF files)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_...

Main Page - Sljfaq

This is a Frequently Asked Questions for the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.japan, which is an internet discussion forum concentrating on the Japanese language.

http://www.sljfaq.org/w/Main_Page

Emoji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The name literally means picture (絵 e) character (文字 moji). The characters are used much like emoticons elsewhere, but a wider range is provided.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

anomie

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness" (From Suicide). This is a form of anomie.

http://durkheim.itgo.com/anomie.html

BBC - Languages Quick Fix

Mp3s & PDF download cheat sheets. No Japanese, though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/

Regular Expression Basics | evolt.org

you can use a regular expression to do things such as perform client-side validation of email addresses and phone numbers, search multiple documents for strings and patterns you wish to change or remove, or extract a list of links from source code.

http://evolt.org/node/22700

Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide :: Vermont Folklife Center Middlebury VT

Oh yeah, one more thing--in response to popular request, you can now download this entire resource as a PDF file. I can't promise that the PDF will be updated as often as the HTML, but I'll try.

http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audio...

Regular Expression Online Tester

Anytime I use Regular Expressions, I find myself doing a bit of trial-and-error until I get the right pattern.

http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php

DELL - System Information

Enter service tag, get shipped date. How old are the computers in the test lab, part 1.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global....

Check any Used Car Vehicle History Report using the VIN Number

By using the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), you can see if the car has been reported to be wrecked or stolen. You can also find out if there was any reported flood damage or if there are any recalls on it.

http://www.dmv.org/vehicle-history.php

My Money Blog » Blog Archive » Creating A Virtual Office For Cheap or Even Free

If you’re starting a side business, you probably don’t have the budget for a secretary, commercial office space, or all the usual business amenities. But you can still project a professional image by using these cheap and even free services

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2006/07/cr...

Create Your Own Hotspot

patrons use bookstore-provided scanners to read the barcodes of books and then find out more about them online at Wi-Fi-equipped terminals. If they end up purchasing the books through Amazon.com using the bookstore's affiliate links, the store still makes

http://www.jiwire.com/small-business-guide-to-...

Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines

Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google ind

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/a...

Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens

The Forms Catalog provides citizens and businesses with a common access point to federal agency forms.

http://www.forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal?...

Inside Open Source: Command-line gems: screen

The screen program is very powerful and you can have many “screens” as you want, so can juggle many tasks effectively in the background. To learn more about screen, read its man page. To see a list of its keyboard commands, press Ctrl+A, and then type

http://opensource.apress.com/article/48/comman...

Flërnk: A Guide to OS X Software for Switchers

My goal is to simply outline those applications that are not only the most useful, but have direct bearing on the life of those who have recently made the jump from Windows. I will also include links to several Mac-friendly websites as well a few extremel

http://flernk.blogspot.com/2006/07/guide-to-os...

Novelty theory

Novelty theory attempts to predict the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_Theory

Transistors

A Transistor can be thought of as a device that is active in only One Direction: It can draw more or less current through its load resistor (sometimes referred to as a pull-up resistor).

http://www.williamson-labs.com/480_xtor.htm#in...

Unix FAQ - The macosxhints Forums

This thread is intended as a way of answering some of the questions that are frequently asked (especially by beginners) about Unix on OS X.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t...

Google Calculator (Cheat Sheet)

Solve mathematical problems with Google's built-in calculator function. Simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in Google's web search box and hit the ENTER key or click the "Google Search" button

http://www.googleguide.com/help/calculator.html

govtrack.us

Monitors allow you to keep a careful watch over the government. Representatives, bills, subjects, committees, and votes can be tracked using monitors

http://www.govtrack.us/users/aboutmonitors.xpd

Forgot the Administrator's Password?

The fact is that you need to gain access to a computer and you cannot "remember" the administrator's password.

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_pa...

NewsForge | Open source package passes personal learning test

In the world of education, technology plays an ever-increasing role in student management and other administrative tasks. Teachers all over the world are using an open source GPL-licensed course management system called LON-CAPA, and the result are "revi

http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=0...

AppleScript — Getting Started & Script Editor

Although AppleScript is easy to learn, and considered a high level language, it is remarkably versatile at reducing or eliminating repetitive tasks, organizing files and projects the way YOU want, or moving data automatically from one application to anoth

http://macscripter.net/articles/415_0_1_0_C/

Engrade Online Gradebook

Engrade is a free online gradebook that allows teachers to manage their classes online as well as post grades, assignments, attendance, and upcoming homework online for students and parents to see. Engrade is free and easy to use. Join over 10,000 teacher

http://www.engrade.com/

NewsForge | A free education

The computers were used mainly for viewing children's educational Web sites, and playing simple Macromedia Flash games. I decided to introduce free software into her classroom. The results were heart-warming.

http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=0...

OSXFAQ - Technical News and Support for Mac OS X

This tutorial is presented as a regular column and takes the Unix beginner through the basics of using the Terminal application - the means by which one speaks and listens Unix.

http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/

General Disarray » Blog Archive » Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know

I really love Microsoft Office, because I don't have a choice of another office suite to love. I mean, OpenOffice, I guess. But who uses that? Computer hippies, that's who!

http://generaldisarray.wordpress.com/2006/04/1...

AVESTA - Zoroastrian Archives

We provide the complete text of the extant Avesta, the most ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism, as well as many Pahlavi scriptures. It also includes information about the Avestan language, and other useful information for students of Zoroastrian religio

http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html

del.icio.us/elisebauer/recipes

Delicious recipes? I think this is too meta, especially saving it to del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/elisebauer/recipes

Take a color picture, make it into a screen

Take the screen, print it on a shirt. Instant revolution. Who is that old guy in the box? I want a delicious that let's me put a description and notes for the link, but also let's me write my own content, and headline. Take another step out of blogging, p

http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/tut...

We Test the Tips - What Really Saves Gas?

By changing your driving habits you can improve fuel economy up to 37 percent right away (depending on how you drive). Combine several tips and perform routine maintenance and you will save real dollars, not just pennies.

http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/driving/artic...

OilPoster.org

"If a picture is worth one thousand words, then The Oil Age Poster is worth one million words because people can not only see the oil production Hubbert's peaks in many countries and regions, but also read the facts proving that global peak oil is both in

http://www.oilposter.org/index.html

English grammar - 5-column-system - language school

Her goal was to make English grammar as user-friendly and as easily applicable as possible without having to explain it through the use of expansive grammatical terminology.

http://www.lbt-languages.de/english/lernhilfe/...

Printable Maps - Reference

Do you need a simple prepared map that you can print at home, at school, or in the office? Look below at our expanding list of maps formatted to be viewed, printed, or downloaded.

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/reference.html

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB)

Developed by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), the Terrorism Knowledge Base offers in-depth information on terrorist incidents, groups, and trials. [With WIZARDS!]

http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp

,or who has the consent of a party,

Texas Penal Code § 16.02: So long as a wire, oral or electronic communication — including the radio portion of any cordless telephone call — is not recorded for a criminal or tortious purpose, anyone who is a party to the communication, or who has th

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states/texas.html

address1 address2 address3 city state zip phone filetype:xls - Google Search

Never create dummy test data again. Just use the data of real dummies. It could probably be pruned with a little more effort. No time right now.

http://www.google.com/search?q=address1+addres...

Jim Breen's Japanese Page

As many readers of this page will know, I have an on-going interest in Japan, its people and language. I have assembled this set of pages: (a) to provide information about a number of my projects in the area of Japanese computing and dictionaries, (b) to

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html

My Electronics Hobby: Telephone FM Transmitter

With some modification, I create my own version of FM Telephone bug complete with stripboard layout. Theortically, the frequency range is from 88MHz to 94MHz but you may experiment with the coil structure to tune it

http://leoricksimon.blogspot.com/2006/04/telep...

BAD PHYSICS: Misconceptions spread by K-6 Grade School Textbooks

This article was written in 1994 (one of the first things I put up on this site.) Lack of proper tags led me to use all-caps. I really should change those after ten years!

http://www.amasci.com/miscon/miscon4.html

What's special about this number?

The word 'four' has 4 letters and is the smallest honest number. Honest numbers are numbers n that can be described using exactly n letters in standard mathematical English.

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/numbers/Num1_69....

NOAA's National Weather Service - XML warning/watch product data feeds

This page provides access to NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and other similar products several different formats.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/

How to Cook Rice Perfectly

Aside from differences in culture, many Americans shy away from rice due to a fear of cooking it. (Hence the popularity of instant rice, which offers "perfect" rice--in exchange for flavor and texture.)

http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/pages/c0000...

Pew Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.

http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp

BreakTheChain.org - Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation

Question everything! E-mail is an unreliable medium for sharing information. It is unreliable, cannot be tracked and no company uses it to give away money or products

http://www.breakthechain.org/

Truth Or Fiction - email reality check - verify rumors

Before you forward that email...check it out at TruthOrFiction.com!

http://truthorfiction.com/

The Assayer

The Assayer is the web's largest catalog of free books, and also collects user-submitted reviews.

http://www.theassayer.org/