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Make a cloud lamp. The ORIGINAL cloud lamp project!

Make a cloud lamp.

Have you ever noticed the strange pearl effect that is seen in some liquid soaps? The chances are it's caused by Glycol Stearate or Glycol Distearate which gives a strange optical effect in liquid when it is disturbed by turbulence. This design was inspired in January 2003 when I was washing my hands after a long day derigging Glasgows Christmas lights. Cutest thing ever? I think so. People sayings. The Bureau of Communication - Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence. Flip. Best Text-to-Speech Demo: Create Talking Avatars and Online Characters. 100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things. These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates.

100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things

Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose. We will also try to keep the list updated, so if your favorite download site is not here, let us know about it with a comment. Audio Books Librivox: One of the most popular audio libraries on the web. The LibriVox volunteers record books that are in the public domain and release them for free. Podiobooks: Similar to podcast, Podiobooks are serialized audiobooks that are distributed through RSS feeds. Oculture (Audio & Podcast): Offers a rich array of educational and cultural media. Learn Out Loud: A one-stop destination for video and audio learning resources. File2HD.com.

Download free songs - The Songs! Music_life. 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About. It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar.

50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About

But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. And unlike some lists you may have seen, which try to name the very "best" websites, but end up just telling you a lot of stuff you already know, we've chosen instead to highlight 50 of our favorite sites that fly under most people's radar.

Think of it as the Maximum PC blog roll (remember those?). These sites represent great alternatives to popular web destinations like YouTube and Hulu, and include useful references, powerful web apps, and the unknown blogs you must absolutely bookmark. 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About - Page 1. It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar.

50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About - Page 1

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Intute: Use this website’s search tools to find the best and most reliable sites to start your research. Meta Search Want to search it all at once? Dogpile: Search Google, Yahoo, Bing and more at once with this great search engine. Databases and Archives Books and Journals Science Math and Technology Social Science. Pale Blue Dot « a simple prop.

There Will Come Soft Rains. "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow, published in 1920 (see 1920 in poetry).

There Will Come Soft Rains

The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war (lines 10 and 12), which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later. Theta Wave Brain Synchronization. This is a replication of a Theta wave entrainment rhythm first created by scientists in the 1960s to lull patients into a deep, colorful, creative dream state.

Theta Wave Brain Synchronization

Listen to it for 10 minutes, longer if you can. The longer it plays, the deeper you’ll go. So go. How It Works The human brain produces different levels of electrical activity depending on the amount of information it is processing. Throughout the day, the brain lingers between four different types of brainwave patterns: Get High Now (without drugs)

Even If You Know About The Gorilla, You Might Not Catch The Unexpected. There's a very famous perception experiment, which many of you have probably seen.

Even If You Know About The Gorilla, You Might Not Catch The Unexpected

If you haven't, you should watch it here before reading on: Decision Maker. How to use The grid lets you enter options (things you'll choose between) in columns.

Decision Maker

Just click the "add option" button, and enter the name of each option. Then you need to enter criteria that you want to rate your options on, like price, quality, frequency etc. Click the "add criteria" button and name your criteria. ProxyPy Web Proxy - Google proxy - Anonymous Proxy.