Image and Backup Logical Drives and Paritions

DriveImage XML is an free, easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.

docstoc: Find and Share Professional Documents

docstoc is a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents.

The 82 Most Fuel Efficient Cars for 2008

Sometimes, it just isn't easy trying to figure out which car to buy. If fuel economy is one of your primary selling points, then you should head on over to the fueleconomy.gov website to get the latest fuel economy (and emissions) from the EPA.

Unfortunately the EPA assumes people come into the site looking to purchase a particular type of car, whether SUV, small car, family sedan or hatchback. Not everyone thinks that way. So I looked through and located every 2008 model year car that gets over 25 mpg and sorted them by their fuel economy.

Who Says Teens Don't Read

"Despite the Internet, video games and technological pastimes, teens are still reading. In fact, from 1999 to 2005, teen book sales increased 23 percent..."

Disney's Small World Ride Revamped for Fatter Americans

In the original Anaheim Disneyland it may be a Small World after all, but that world’s inhabitants are and heavier almost by the day, so much so that some of the rides may have to be re-engineered. This has already been scheduled for the Small World ride, which will be closed for almost a year beginning in January for retooling.

How Parents Can Block Certain Websites from Children at Home

For non-techie parents who have a computer at home and are worried about their kids safety online.

Research Paper Help with Carmun

"carmun connects students who need advice, guidance, help with sources and ideas (and who doesn’t?) with those who’ve been down the same paths.

carmun helps students easily organize their research. It also expands the boundaries of universities by creating a database of rated and reviewed sources. Imagine a community where you can tap into the combined experience and intelligence of students around the country or even the world."

View the carmun video.

The Information Revolution

An interesting video demonstrating how the the changes in information technology have affected libraries.

Dumbledore is Gay!

J.K. Rowling has outed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, telling fans in New York that the wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay.

Lost, Downtrodden and Drunk in Pensacola

"Pensacola" is a featured song on Tom Bustine's debut album:
"Waltzes and Pleas".

Listen to the song Pensacola.

Anatomy of a Black Hole

Good graphic explanation of Black Holes.

Ms Dewey: Flash-based Search Engine

My favorite search engine. Be sure to check out the Best of Ms Dewey for some entertaining search examples.

MIT Open Courseware

OpenCourseWare shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1700 courses spanning MIT's entire curriculum.

Scratch: imagine, program, share

"Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web."

"Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design."

Historical Voices

A substantial portion of our cultural heritage from the 20th century is recorded in enormous collections of spoken-word materials. Yet much of it may be lost or remain hidden away in archives and private collections, making the voices inaccessible to students, teachers, scholars, and the general public. The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.

Talking History: Aural History

"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."

Stanford on iTunes U

Courses, faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports from Stanford University on iTunes.

Webcast.Berkeley

View Podcasts and Webcasts of UC Berkeley current and archived courses as well as special events.

Berkeley on YouTube

University of California Berkeley's YouTube Site. View streaming video lectures from UC Berkeley.

PathWeb

Pathweb, the virtual Pathology Museum, is sponsored by the Virtual Pathology Facility of the Pathology Department of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Go Ask Alice!

Columbia University's Go Ask Alice! is a health Q&A Internet service. It works to provide readers with reliable, accurate, accessible, culturally competent information and a range of thoughtful perspectives so that they can make responsible decisions concerning their health and well-being.

On-Line Picasso Project

Texas A&M Picasso art site. Excellent site for research on Picasso.

The Art History Research Centre

Excellent site for art history research.

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page

University of Michigan's art links page. Includes online access to large collections of art and art history information.

Yale Art Gallery Online

View the collections of the Yale Art Gallery online.

Tribute to the Boss

There are very few musicians around today that are legends in their own time and still continue to contribute top notch music. Bruce Springsteen is one of them. In celebration of his new CD Magic, is a retrospective of music videos to inspire and educate future legends.

Also, check out Bruce Springsteens' official site.

"Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here."

Internet Dress Code Guide

Make sure that you are wearing the appropriate attire for that next event.

UCan: University and College Accountability Network

The NAICU consumer-information initiative -- the University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN) -- is designed to give, in a common format, prospective students and their families concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on individual private colleges and universities.

U-CAN consists of hundreds of institutional profiles that contain comparable data and links to qualitative campus information. The profiles are displayed in a common template that was developed by NAICU based on consumer feedback. Click here to download a sample profile.

Bloggers Risk All to Reveal Burma Crackdown

"Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafés across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause." -- Kenneth Denby (Times Online)

A good list of Burma blogs can be found at Mike Ion's blog.

Broadcast Your Cause: The YouTube Non-Profit Program

Does your organization have a compelling story to tell? Do you want to connect with your supporters, volunteers, and donors but don't have the funds to launch expensive outreach campaigns?

YouTube can help. Video is a powerful way to show your organization's impact and needs, and with a designated "Nonprofit" channel on YouTube, you can deliver your message to the world's largest online video community.

The first 300 non-profits to sign up will receive a free video camera.

DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.

Sony PRS-505 eBook Reader to Ship This Month

Sony will ship it's new slimmed-down and upgraded eBook reader this month. See the details at Infosync.

Starbucks iTune WiFi Music Store Reviewed

Gear Live reviews the new Starbucks iTune WiFi music store in Seattle.

Banned Book Week: Sept. 29 -- Oct. 6, 2007

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2007, marks BBW's 26th anniversary (September 29 through October 6).