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Joe's Goals - Free Online Habit Tracker. TwoSides - There are two sides to every story. Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps. Paul Nylander’s Home Page. Ymarkov: The Last Ring-bearer. UPDATE: Second edition! More than 15 years ago Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov tried to settle certain geographical problems in Tolkien's fantasy world. One thing led to another, and he tackled a bigger project - what if we assumed that it's no less real than our world? His conclusion was that in such a case, the story of the Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about? The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of The Last Ring-bearer - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms.

Dr. Yeskov, a professional paleontologist whose job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life from fossil remnants, performs essentially the same feat in The Last Ring-bearer, reconstructing the real world of Tolkien's Arda from The Lord of the Rings - the heroic tales of the Free Men of the West written in that world. UPDATE: I have translated an essay Dr. Free ecards, free greeting cards, funny e cards, flickr photo ecards, youtube videos ecards, or your own photo e-cards. email, twitter and facebook birthday cards, and DIY ecards for any occasion on card karma. on card karma.

Curating the Culture of Today's Environment. Photopic Sky Survey. 10 Super Useful Tools for Choosing the Right Color Palette. Whether you are designing a clean corporate website or a grunge portfolio site, color is going to play a major role in how the design is perceived by the audience. That’s why it’s important to get the colors right upfront. There are plenty of tools out there made especially for this, but like anything else some are better than others. Here are 10 color tools that I think are exceptionally useful.

ColoRotate As well as being a useful way to choose colors, ColoRotate looks cool and is actually fun to use. Kuler Kuler is a community driven web app that lets your browse color palettes created by others. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer has been around for a while, but was just recently updated with a brand new interface and a new color scheme generating engine. COLOURlovers COLOURlovers provides more than just a way to find color palettes. Copaso Copaso is COLOURlovers palette generating tool. Color Blender Toucan ColorMunki Color Wizard Color Explorer About the Author Related Posts Read More.