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30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark - Page 6 We'll wrap up this list with 5 web apps that aren't exactly unknown, but are so awesome they still deserve to be included: Gmail As far as web apps go, it’s hard to get more famous than Gmail, the favorite webmail client of the technologically in-the-know. When it launched, it was immediately famous for its immense storage provisions (1 GB at a time when Hotmail offered a whopping 2 MB of storage), revolutionary thread-based email display, and controversy surrounding the privacy ramifications of advertisements based on your emails’ contents. Now, the novelty’s worn off, but Gmail is still best webmail client around. Meebo If you’ve ever used omni-IM service Digsby, you know that its greatest feature is the ability to log in to all your IM accounts from any computer with Digsby installed. Pandora No list of webapps is complete without everyone's favorite internet radio service, Pandora. Remember The Milk Remember The Milk is an online to-do list app, with a remarkably convenient interface.

Great Poems & Greatest Books of All Time & Life-Changing Arts - StumbleUpon A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry. The poems are sorted by vote. To vote for a poem, click on the left of it. Voting is possible once per day. Votes PoemAuthor IfRudyard Kipling EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti If you think the best poem of all times is not even on this list, by all means, let us know which poem it is and why you think it should be added. Get inspired.. inspire others.. Back to Greatest Books of All Time

not martha - to make : marble magnets I finally gave in and made marble magnets. Not surprisingly they are quite fun, smooshing the glue out to make a perfect little magnified image is very satisfying. Here, in order of appearance, are the places I referenced: paper candy instructions with pictures (this is the first place I saw this project) dogmestic with instructions and pictures photogeek pictures ugly green chair cute ladybug magnets – pictures with packaging threads at Glitter:onetwothree I bought all of these supplies at Michael’s, including the glue I went back for since I got the wrong kind to start with. I bought 1/2″ and 3/4″ round (strong) magnets (in with the frames, near the corks); 1/2″ and 3/4″ clear flat glass marbles (in the fake flowers aisle, check the mosaics section too); silicon sealer made by the Crazy Glue people (in the glue aisle). These are great packaged in those Altoid-sized tins, I’ve seen them in office/gift shops like that.

The 100 Best Books of All Time Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988. The sequels covered crime & mystery, horror, and fantasy. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]

Eco Homes: Sustainable Tree Houses | Home and Gardening Eco Factor: The tree houses that are made from the wood capable of being sustained will be catered by the inexhaustible energy.Benoît Fray, who is an industrial designer, has discovered a sustainable tree house, which can be built by using the locally obtained wood. Benoît Fray, who is an industrial designer, has discovered a sustainable tree house, which can be built by using the locally obtained wood. It is also known as Dans mon Arbre. This ‘Tree House’ is an existing space that is capable of spreading out and developing according to the existence of its occupants. It is also adequate to adjust to their requirements at the same time. One of the best advantages of this tree house is it is powered completely by the renewable energy. This is a tree house that is particularly designed for the campsite use. More at Benoît FRAY at Coroflot, and ecofriend , dansmonarbre .

mary & mac design Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia - StumbleUpon 1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list | Books | guardian.co.uk Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list. Feel we've left off a crucial book? Email to us with your nomination and an explanation in no more than 150 words at review@guardian.co.uk, or post your submission to The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, by 4 February. Comedy Crime Family and self Love

The 10 Greatest Apocalyptic Novels Of All Time After scouring book reviews and Wikipedia, a list of the Top Ten Best Apocalyptic Novels was born. The books on this list take you down the darkest paths in uncivilized worlds, from cannibalistic gangs to vampire infected corpses. If this list doesn't get you thinking on the quickest way stock your basement full of water, canned goods and rifles, I don't know what will! Enjoy! World War Z Documenting the war on zombies, "World War Z" takes you through horific times with some of the most vivid writing this genre has ever seen. "World War Z" paints such a realistic picture of a world after Zombies that even skeptics would find themselves engrossed in the novel! Blindness Forget world wide pandemics of flesh eating bacteria or a zombie illness! The family unit escapes and attempts to build a new life in the outside world, just as sight is returned, just as quickly as it was taken away. I don't know who I felt worse for reading this book. The Road The Postman Oryx and Crake Alas, Babylon Swan Song

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