If you like flight simulators as well as the satellite images of Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk), here’s something that offers the best of both worlds: Goggles (http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html). This very simple online flight simulator makes clever use of Google Maps: just enter a location (e.g. London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin) and then use the keyboard arrows, the A and Z keys and the spacebar to control the plane. The images are impressive and give you a very realistic experience. You can now even link to a specific start location (e.g. your own hometown) in the Goggles flight simulator!
Source: Tips & Advice Internet
Catalyst magazine
Catalyst, a free magazine published by the Commission for Racial Equality, is at the forefront of debate on race relations and racial equality.
Included in this week's issue which looks at Britishness from three varyingly oblique angles is an article on Scottishness. Given the many column inches were taken up this summer with questions of whether Scottish people should support England in the World Cup, or 'anyone-but-England'. Despite devolution, the relationship between England and Scotland, and between Scottishness and Britishness, remains complex.
http://www.catalystmagazine.org/
Source: Catalyst
Included in this week's issue which looks at Britishness from three varyingly oblique angles is an article on Scottishness. Given the many column inches were taken up this summer with questions of whether Scottish people should support England in the World Cup, or 'anyone-but-England'. Despite devolution, the relationship between England and Scotland, and between Scottishness and Britishness, remains complex.
http://www.catalystmagazine.org/
Source: Catalyst
Before you buy that new printer...
Unless you have shares in Canon or HP, you might like to consider the sage advice offered in this week's Technology Guardian. Apparently...
...if you buy, for example, a set of Canon BJC-8 cartridges, it will cost you around £50. The printer that they use can be had, with a complete set of cartridges, for £62; so I reckon that the printer, on its own, should cost around £12. But you can't, of course, buy the printer on its own. It exists solely to make you go on buying cartridges...
Full article by Andrew Brown in the Technobile section can be found here.
Source: Technology Guardian
...if you buy, for example, a set of Canon BJC-8 cartridges, it will cost you around £50. The printer that they use can be had, with a complete set of cartridges, for £62; so I reckon that the printer, on its own, should cost around £12. But you can't, of course, buy the printer on its own. It exists solely to make you go on buying cartridges...
Full article by Andrew Brown in the Technobile section can be found here.
Source: Technology Guardian
VideoJug. Life explained. On film.
VideoJug is a new website which can show you how to change a tyre, tie a full-windsor-knot or make Pilau rice using video tutorials. This new venture is the latest attempt to cash in on the boom in online video in the wake of American sites such as You Tube but, hey, give them a break.
http://www.videojug.com/
http://www.videojug.com/
Computer games are dumb...
...well, not necessarily (I'm an old Spyro hand myself).
The following games are part of what seems to be global trend of games that make you think. That's think as in think about big, real-life subjects, not think as in how to kill the goons in Ultimate Doom Fantasy VIII.
Manage McDonalds
McDonald's of golden arch fame gets a bad press. See how hard it is to run a multinational dead-meat franchise @ http://www.mcvideogame.com/
Sweatshop
At http://www.simsweatshop.com you are invited to enter the world of the sweatshop and become a factory worker. Do you accept the challenge? Can you tirelessly make sports shoes for less than a dollar an hour as you struggle to support your family.
Operation: Cure The Cabinet
At http://www.trumajorityaction.org, you can play the classic Operation game (remember that?) on an ailing & naked George Bush.
Source: The Guardian Guide
The following games are part of what seems to be global trend of games that make you think. That's think as in think about big, real-life subjects, not think as in how to kill the goons in Ultimate Doom Fantasy VIII.
Manage McDonalds
McDonald's of golden arch fame gets a bad press. See how hard it is to run a multinational dead-meat franchise @ http://www.mcvideogame.com/
Sweatshop
At http://www.simsweatshop.com you are invited to enter the world of the sweatshop and become a factory worker. Do you accept the challenge? Can you tirelessly make sports shoes for less than a dollar an hour as you struggle to support your family.
Operation: Cure The Cabinet
At http://www.trumajorityaction.org, you can play the classic Operation game (remember that?) on an ailing & naked George Bush.
Source: The Guardian Guide
Computer Room (Off The Library) Paper Regulations (Scotland) Act 2006
The above document was published today and comes into immediate effect.
Inasmuch that a humble librarian can even attempt to precis the word-weaving of higher intelligences I suspect that the conclusions can be encapsulated something like:
Inasmuch that a humble librarian can even attempt to precis the word-weaving of higher intelligences I suspect that the conclusions can be encapsulated something like:
- There is a printer in the computer room;
- This printer consumes paper;
- Eventually the paper is all-consumed;
- The Print Room (see separate regulations) supplies paper;
- Go to the Print Room;
- Bring some paper back to the Computer Room;
- Fill paper tray.
My simple prose does not do justice to the poetry of the original but should our maisters be after requiring some skivvy to fulfil these fuctions for them, I should be only to glad to...
Privacy or paranoia?
There have been a fair number of posts here recently re Google's (and others'), predilection for recording everyone's search history. An easy solution, of course, is to manually delete the cookie that Google uses to identify the searcher. Yeah, fine, but a pain. Enter G-Zapper, a free utility which might help.
"G-Zapper helps you protect your identity and valuable attention data. G-Zapper will read the Google cookie(s) installed on your PC, display the date it was installed, and determine how long your searches have been tracked. G-Zapper allows you to delete or entirely block the Google search cookie from future installation".
Download the software at http://www.dummysoftware.com/gzapper.html
Source: Guardian Technology
"G-Zapper helps you protect your identity and valuable attention data. G-Zapper will read the Google cookie(s) installed on your PC, display the date it was installed, and determine how long your searches have been tracked. G-Zapper allows you to delete or entirely block the Google search cookie from future installation".
Download the software at http://www.dummysoftware.com/gzapper.html
Source: Guardian Technology
Is there a doctor in the web?
Today's Guardian Unlimited Technology section contains an article on Search Medica, a GP-moderated, UK, medical search engine. 'Course this information was brought to you 10 days ago by your Phantom Engineer. Anyway, read Jack Schofield's article here, the Arkive post here.
Other sites worthy of a mention are the Swiss-based MedHunt, the US government's Medline Plus and WebMD. All worth a look, all written by health professionals & not by, well, slightly misinformed idiots.
http://www.searchmedica.co.uk
http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
http://www.medlineplus.gov
http://www.webmd.com/
Source: Guardian Technology
Other sites worthy of a mention are the Swiss-based MedHunt, the US government's Medline Plus and WebMD. All worth a look, all written by health professionals & not by, well, slightly misinformed idiots.
http://www.searchmedica.co.uk
http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
http://www.medlineplus.gov
http://www.webmd.com/
Source: Guardian Technology
Goodbye EMOL, Hello Film & Sound Online
As was previously posted, the Education Media OnLine service (EMOL) has now become Film & Sound Online.
Film & Sound Online not only has a new, updated user interface but also
has important new functionality. The key improvement is that users of
Film & Sound Online are now able to browse by subject, as all the
service content is classified through the UNESCO thesaurus.
Other new features include a "Lucky Dip", which offers users a random
selection of the service content, a "Showcase", which gives a brief,
visual demonstration of the range of content available in the service,
and a "View or create learning materials" page, which enables users both
to view case studies and reviews and to offer to create learning materials.
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
Source: EDINA
Film & Sound Online not only has a new, updated user interface but also
has important new functionality. The key improvement is that users of
Film & Sound Online are now able to browse by subject, as all the
service content is classified through the UNESCO thesaurus.
Other new features include a "Lucky Dip", which offers users a random
selection of the service content, a "Showcase", which gives a brief,
visual demonstration of the range of content available in the service,
and a "View or create learning materials" page, which enables users both
to view case studies and reviews and to offer to create learning materials.
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
Source: EDINA
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