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7 Google Search Games. Of course, Google Search does not have the eye candy of Google Earth but if you can look beyond that, there are some quick games that are based on Google Search. Most of these games are built around search queries. Call them teasers or timewasters but they can addictively grow on you. But the best thing is that being based on Google, these free online games are virtually “˜office proof’; easily accessible and free from office network constraints.

These seven casual Google games could be just the thing when you are bored with the drudgery of using search engines for their normal everyday use. Pacman It started its life as a doodle to celebrate PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday. Gwigle The Gwigle Game involves guessing the search query by looking at the results. The puzzle game also throws up questions from Google Maps, Images and other Google apps like the calculator. A similar query guessing game can be played at What Did I Search For? GoogleWhack Googlefight Guess-the-Google Google Image Labeler. Free Morse Code Software To Send & Receive Coded Radio Messages. While the process of understanding and decoding binary code is quite a bit different than Morse Code, the concept of transmitting information in a series of blips and beeps is almost identical to the “on” and “off” bits of computer binary code. For this reason, the telegraph completely transformed the world of over-the-wire communication, and when radio communication was invented, and particularly during the era of World War II, communicating by transmitting sound in Morse Code was an obvious progression of the technology.

The use of Morse Code was so prevalent that guys serving in the military eventually learned to decode Morse by listening to the sound, without the need to reference any decoding codes at all. Obviously, the world has moved on since then, and we now have email, voicemail, instant messaging systems and cellphones. There seems to be little use in today’s world for the archaic technology represented by Morse Code. Transmitting & Receiving A Morse Code Message. 3 Free & Easy Stick Figure Animation Programs. But the best thing about stick figures is that they are straight and simple. Even the most artistically inept guy could draw one. Well, a lot of people do draw stick figures. From toilet door signs to Flash games, from cartoon strips to movie posters, stick figures are there where nothing else quite fits in.

Well, there’s no doubt that stick figures are like universal symbols. You just have to do a search on YouTube to see how virally popular they are. If it’s so simple then how do we make a few stick figure animations for ourselves? Let’s take a look at three free stick figure animation programs that can help us draw a story in straight lines. Pivot Stickfigure Animator Pivot Stickfigure Animator (ver. 2.2.5) is the oft-quoted stick figure animation software when it comes to freewares. Pivot Stickfigure is just a 485KB download and it runs on Windows. The interface is very simple. Hit the Play button and set the speed to see how the animation turned out. Stykz Image: Beat Machine. What Is Geocaching And How To Have Fun With It. Basically, geocaching is a world-wide scavenger hunt using GPS technology. The hobby is great for people of all ages (including little kids) and abilities (even for people with disabilities). There are caches hidden all over the world in cities and forests and everything in between.

There is no right or wrong way to get started in geocaching, but, hopefully, this post will inspire you to try out an exciting new hobby. Learn More About Geocaching To learn a bit about geocaching, watch this excellent little video: On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer placed the first geocache (called a “geo stash” back then). The most recent statistics indicate that there are “1,084,870 active caches and an estimated 3-4 million geocachers worldwide. Some geocaches can be as small as a hearing aid battery, and others can be as large as a dumpster.

Unlike treasure hunts, a geocache cannot be buried; it can be hidden well, but you should not need a shovel to retrieve it. Getting Started Geocaching.com The Description WOW! Kipkay Videos. GRYNX. Online: hacks Archives. Here’s a special post from Hackszine – great way to follow all the authors from our HACKS series…. Ed note: In this guest post, veteran Hacks series author Paul Bausch takes on a challenge that’s been on my todo list for a while, providing a solution that should be of immediate interest to all readers of this site and just might serve as a seed for future hacking around here. I have a shelf full of O’Reilly Hacks books across a wide range of subjects. I contributed a couple in the Web Applications category, but I also have Hacks books about digital photography, hardware, scripting languages, gaming, and operating systems.

The series has introduced me to a number of authors who are doing unusual things with technology in their particular area of expertise. So I went on a mission to gather the Hacks authors’ blogs using the tools I know best: Web Applications. I plugged the feeds into Google Reader, and renamed each feed the author’s full name. Related: Phillip Torrone Related. Take It Apart dot net. Tools, Parts, Kits for DIY'ers - Curious Inventor. SCHOLAR ISLAND. Time Nauts Blog - whatever comes to my mind. Home. Director of BA, Heads International Conference Titled “Rebuilding Trust in Europe” Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the BA, chaired the international conference that was held in Andorra titled “Rebuilding Trust in Europe” in the presence of a large number of presidents and prime ministers. In his opening speech, titled “Facing Facts: What’s Wrong with the Current World Order!”

, Dr. Ismail Serageldin started by questioning the problems and contradictions that the world faces today and which affect various countries. Dr. The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Traditio. What is Gnosticism? Many visitors have requested some basic introductory material explaining Gnosticism. To meet this need we offer these "places to start": two short articles, The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism and What is a Gnostic? ; and an audio lectures (mp3 format) on the Gnostic concept of Christ: The Misunderstood Redeemer. A reading of the Overview of the Gnostic Society Library collection will also give a useful brief introduction to the history and textual legacy of the Gnostic tradition. For more in-depth reading suggestions visit the Gnostic Society Bookstore—you will find offered there a selection of the best introductory and advanced books on Gnosticism, along with brief reviews of recommended books.

And of course just "surfing" The Gnosis Archive will lead to a wealth of information. Meditations Take a moment to reflect on a brief meditation and reading from the Gnostic scriptures, selected from this week's Gnostic liturgy. The Gnostic Society Library. Gnostic Info. Welcome to NEXUS Magazine! Links to other Websites. Future Science. KeelyNet 2010 - Free Energy / Gravity Control / Electronic Healt. Digg - The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images.

Social bookmarking. Common features[edit] In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

It also helps to promote your sites by networking with other social book markers and collaborating with each other. History[edit] A user page on del.icio.us in May 2004, displaying bookmarks with tags. Folksonomy[edit] A simple form of shared vocabularies does emerge in social bookmarking systems (folksonomy). Uses[edit] Libraries[edit] Conspiracies & Miscellaneous.

Illuminati News Welcome Page. File Downloader Spying. Steve Gibson's WebZone: eMail: NO. Newsgroups: YES! I very much wish I had the time to communicate with people individually. But, as you will see on this page, time is my most precious and limited asset. I have committed myself to accomplishing so much that I am left with no time to respond to individual eMail notes and questions. The only way I can be effective is throughInternet publishing and broadcasting. I have resigned myself to being unable to reply with individual answers to the huge volume of eMail I receive everyday. But there is a solution: The solution is:news.grc.com Since I need to stay in touch with the world, I try to hang out in some of the many active security and privacy newsgroups we host at "news.grc.com. " I hope you will accept my implicit apology and understand if you have sent eMail and I have not replied, or if one of my terrific staff replied for me.

Plans and projects fill and define my life. What has Been Done . . . and what is still to be Done? So . . . there you have it. HACKERWHACKER FIREWALL TESTER, SECURITY NEWS, FREE SECURITY SCAN. What's your story? Mozilla Firefox. Z Video Productions. Archives Noam Chomsky: Noam Chomsky: Talks at Google Noam Chomsky visits Google Cambridge to answer questions Arundhati Roy: Is India on a Totalitarian Path? Arundhati Roy on Corporatism, Nationalism and World’s Largest Vote Chris Hedges: “Israel’s War on American Universities” Excerpts from Chris Hedges talk at Northeastern University in support of its now banned Students for Justice in Palestine chapter Abby Martin: US Attempts Twitter Coup in Cuba USAID’s secret attempt to monitor and influence dissent in Cuba through a social messaging service called ZunZuneo Mark Weisbrot: Will Venezuela’s New Floating Exchange Rate Curb Inflation?

New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism Interview on the present and future role of anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and indigenous struggle in terms of the profound ecological crisis we confront today as a result of capitalist hegemony Abby Martin: Turkey’s False Flag Plot. Z Communications. INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT. Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Z Magazine Top. Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services.

These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e. "offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Some forms of crowdsourcing, such as in "idea competitions" or "innovation contests" provide ways for organizations to learn beyond the "base of minds" provided by their employees (e.g. Definitions[edit] The term "crowdsourcing" was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors at Wired, to describe how businesses were using the Internet to "outsource work to the crowd",[1] which quickly led to the portmanteau "crowdsourcing.

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