Reporters Desktop
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/
Direct forms for searching a variety of search engines, databases, dictionaries, and free news archives. Especially check out his guide to public records searching, "Who Is John Doe and Where To Get the Paper on Him."

[Neat New Stuff]

9:51:53 AM    

Translation Wizard - Fagan Finder
http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/
"a tool which connects you directly to online translation tools. Fagan Finder itself does not contain these translation tools. Instead, it includes a listing of many translation tools, each of which has different language and translation capabilities. It matches up the translation you want with a tool that can handle it." Type in a URL or copy and paste a block of text to be translated, specify from which language into which language, and voila, you'll get a fairly passable machine translation.

[Neat New Stuff]

9:49:04 AM    

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/
Creating clear instructions and self-evident diagrams is an art not yet mastered by many manufacturers, as evidenced here by examples that are "inexplicable, strange, and surreal."

[Neat New Stuff]

9:46:52 AM    

Create My Own Commission Junction Links? [WebmasterWorld]

9:26:54 AM    

Beginner's mind.

Beginner's mind. "I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes or of appearing naive."

- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

[Seb's Open Research]

Sage advice. For extra credit, try making interesting mistakes.

[McGee's Musings]

9:24:36 AM