WolframAlpha Coming May 2009

WoframAlpha, the computational knowledge engine is slated to go online in May 2009. This enhanced search engine, the brainchild of physicist Stephen Wolfram will not just deliver documents like Google but will answer questions that users submit.
WolfmanAlpha is being touted as revolutionary as Google was when it first emerged.

Other sites about WolframAlpha:
Wolfram Blog
A sneak preview of WolframAlpha (video)
Stephen Wolfram discusses WolframAlpha (video)
Review of WolframAlpha by Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land)

The Commons on Flickr

The key goal of The Commons on Flickr is to allow public access to the world's greatest photographic collections. Participating institutions include: The Library of Congress, Powerhouse Museum Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque de Toulouse, George Eastman House, The Field Museum, and many more.

Get help with shopping

IMshopping presents itself as the first human-assisted shopping site on the internet. Ask a question about a product, etc and they will answer you via email. The site will also display previous answers to similar questions. Check it out.

Copyright Basics: The Video

A good video produced by the Copyright Clearance Center explaining the basics of copyright law.

Map My Run

Plot your running routes over mountains (view elevation), through the woods (topo maps), and speeding through the city (street level views) with just a few mouse clicks. Once your running map is complete you can quickly view it in 3D, satellite maps, or share it with friends. Check out the running maps for Pensacola.

Also check out:
Map My Ride for cyclists
Map My Walk for walkers
Map My Tri for triatheletes
Map My Hike for hikers

Know Your Disease Risk

The Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Siteman Cancer Center operates this web site where you can find out your risk of developing five of the most important diseases in the United States and get personalized tips for preventing them. Check out your risk level for various types of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, and stroke.

Know What You Eat

NutritionData.com lets you see the nutritional values of foods that you consume. It also offers a variety of nutritional services such as recipe analysis which allows you to enter your personal recipes and receive a nutritional analysis of it. A great source for nutritional information.

Manage Your Family's Health Online

Mayo Clinic Health Manager is an online tool that helps you organize health information for you and your family. While it can't replace the care you receive from a physician or other health care provider, Mayo Clinic Health Manager can provide personalized health guidance for every member of your family based on their specific life stage and health status.

Mayo Clinic Health Manager's health guidance is designed by a team of Mayo experts and reflects Mayo Clinic's model of care.

e-Books for e-Kids

The New York Public Library's animated e-book site for children. Requires the free Adobe Flash player.

View Government Printing Office videos on You Tube

You can watch U. S. Government Printing Office videos on the GPO You Tube Channel.

Find local public libraries via text message

You can located the address/phone number of local public libraries using the text messaging feature on your cell phone.

Text the word library and a zip code to 41411

Example: "Library 32501" brings up the Pensacola Public Library in Pensacola Florida.

Frontera Collection of Mexican-American Music

The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings (the Frontera Collection) is the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence. To preserve this unique heritage, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is now digitizing the first section of the collection, consisting of 78 rpm phonograph recordings. Once in digital format, this vast collection of approximately 30,000 performances, primarily in Spanish, recorded during the first half of the twentieth century, predominantly in the United States and Mexico, will be available to researchers and the general public.

YouTube EDU

More than 100 colleges and universities have set up channels on YouTube and beginning this week they are all available on the new YouTube EDU. Lectures for more than 200 college courses are available. Subjects range from computer science to literature, biology to philosophy, history, political science, psychology, law and much more.

Top 10 Surf Colleges

Check it out dude! Surfline ranks the top 10 surf colleges.

Internet Explorer 8 Released

Internet Explorer 8 has been released in 25 languages. It contains many new enhancements and additions including more privacy protection with InPrivate Searching, faster net access from within web pages with Accelerators, and more.

Download the new Internet Explorer 8.