404 Error Pages

From Smashing Magazine here are over 40 working examples of user-friendly, creative and outstanding 404 error pages.
404 Error Pages

The King: Dead and Well on Ask.com

Yesterday marked the 30th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and while we don't normally commemorate the anniversary of someone's death…well, he's the king. If you want to remember him today from your desk, here's a little help courtesy of Ask 3D.
The King: Dead and Well on Ask.com

Elvis Presley And The Events Of 1977

Elvis Presley & the events of 1977 as we remember Elvis on the 30th anniversary of his tragic death.
Elvis Presley And The Events Of 1977

Bad Habits to Stop Now

Here are nine stressful and common habits that entrepreneurs and office workers should strive to eliminate. Focus on one or two at a time, just as you would with high-priority to-do items.
The Not-To-Do List: Bad Habits to Stop Now

Free your music from iTunes with iTunes Export

Out of the box, iTunes can't transfer the song files of individual playlists out of your library for playing anywhere other than your iPod. But an open source Windows utility, iTunes Export, can do just that.
Free your music from iTunes with iTunes Export

8 Surprising Household Deodorizers

When smells turn a room sour, it may be time for an intervention. Try these gentle home remedies for the most off-putting odours.
8 Surprising Household Deodorizers

How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

Foods don't stay fresh in the fridge forever, and the day will come when you take something out and wonder if it's still good to eat or has gone bad.
How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge

21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload

The problem with being constantly bombarded by information, as we web workers are, is not so much that we can’t deal with it, or that it distracts us from our work, or that it shortens our attention spans or stresses us out.
It’s that we have allowed that information to control our lives.
21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload

10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Aspirin is an excellent painkiller and anti-inflammatory, but it also has many other household uses.
10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin

Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

In the wake of nearly 200 passenger deaths in a Brazilian airliner accident, we take an exclusive look at 36 years’ worth of NTSB reports and seating charts. The best way to live through a disaster in the sky? Move to the back of the Airbus.
Airplane Crash - Safest Seat

Worst Slogan Translations Ever

1) The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth." etc
Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Ten Free Security Utilities

Here's a list of ten free security tools you can and should be using to help protect, disinfect and manage your Windows computer.
Ten free security utilities you should already be using

9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

If you take enough photos of people, eventually you’ll photograph someone who is either a little heavier or thinks that they are. This is especially true for those of us in the U.S., where obesity rates are sky high. The good news for you is that there are a few tricks you can add to your bag to help make your subject look thinner. You’ll get the photo, your subject will be happy with it, and everyone wins.
9 Ways To Make Your Portrait Subjects Look Thinner

Best of July 2007

Every month Smashing Magazine takes a look around and selects some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. They read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles they’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in July.
Best of July 2007

100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Most of us are interested in improving something about ourselves: our productivity, our sanity, our organization, our happiness, our effectiveness, our impact on the environment, our minds, our dreams.
And you can spend hundreds of dollars on books and thousands of hours on websites looking for your answers.
Or you can look no further.
100 Great Tips to Improve Your Life

Top 10 PDF Tricks - Lifehacker

Top 10 list of techniques for converting, exchanging, sharing, managing and editing PDF documents.
Top 10 PDF Tricks

Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

This publication contains quarterly estimates of average weekly earnings based on information obtained from a sample survey of employers.
Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, May 2007

Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Most celebrities are not known for their intellectual prowess, but they have provided words that wowed us, from insight or sheer audacity. The USA TODAY People staff picks some stunning sound bites from stars over the past 25 years.
Straight from the Celeb's Mouth

Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare — some are on the verge of extinction.
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures

History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

10. Considered the other "Easter Island mystery," Rongorongo is the hieroglyphic script used by the region's early inhabitants. Read on...
History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The internet revolution was supposed to be about universalizing computing. So why is it that despite the fact that you can do virtually anything from anywhere through the Net, most of us are still tethered to our computer because of the need for access to basic desktop software?
No More Hard Drive! 100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only

The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Want to do your body a world of good? It's as easy as expanding your grocery list.
The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating

Australian Social Trends, 2007

Australian Social Trends 2007 is the 14th edition of an annual series that presents information on contemporary social issues and areas of public policy concern. By drawing primarily on a wide range of ABS statistics, and statistics from other official sources, Australian Social Trends describes aspects of Australian society, and how these are changing over time.
Australian Social Trends, 2007

7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

Whether you’re sentenced to use Word all day by a dictatorial IT department, or it’s simply your word processor of choice, you can save time and have more options by mastering a few easy shortcuts.
7 Tips to Get the Most Out of MS Word

World's Hairiest Man

World's hairiest man has a receding hairline

Exercise-Rest-Exercise: For extra weight loss

Japanese researchers found that if you exercise, rest, and then exercise some more, you actually burn more stored fat in your body than if you just exercise without any rest in between.
Exercise-Rest-Exercise: Possible formula for extra weight loss

Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

An Indian thief forced to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative to yield a gold necklace he had swallowed produced the booty on Sunday - but only after he was fed chicken, rice and bread, police said.
Indian police get to bottom of Necklace Case

Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs

If your scratches are very deep you're probably out of luck. But if a few scratches are giving you some skipping or the CD/DVD is unreadable, this may save you a trip.
Quickly removing scratches from CDs and DVDs

Old Creepy Ads

Weirdomatic - Amazing Pictures: Old Creepy Ads

Where's is All the Water Going?

Dumb Questions: If Earth is a Closed System and We're Running Out of Water, Where's it All Going?

When Insults had Class

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend… if you have one.” –
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.” –
Winston Churchill, in response

When insults had class

Windows XP won't Boot

Takeaway: If your computer powers up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly, you have some troubleshooting ahead of you. Here's a look at the likely culprits and what you can do to fix the problem.
10 things you can do when Windows XP won't boot

6 Superfoods That Prevent Disease

Simplify your life-and boost your health-with these basic foods that really work You can nibble on goji berries, whip up noni juice smoothies and stock your shelves with antioxidants. But if you're looking for what really works for optimal health and disease prevention, the best approach is to focus on foods that are rich in disease-fighting phytochemicals.
6 Superfoods That Prevent Disease

Minneapolis bridge collapse: Blog Roundup

Minneapolis bridge collapse: Blog Roundup

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

All four lanes of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge near University Avenue have collapsed into the river and onto businesses underneath the highway at 6:05 p.m. Wednesday.
According to reports from the scene, crews on the Mississippi River are no longer in rescue mode but recovery mode.
Cars are still on the bridge.
At Least 7 Dead In I-35W Bridge Collapse

The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice

By Scott Adams
Last night I met a script supervisor. She works with directors to make sure a movie has the right continuity, and one scene fits the next. It’s a fascinating job, hobnobbing with top directors, writers, and celebrities. No two assignments are the same. How do you get that kind of career? She earned a degree in anthropology and just “fell into it” through a series of events.
Career Advice

Suicide rate rises in Hot Weather

Analysis of more than 50,000 suicides in England and Wales between 1993 and 2003 showed the suicide rate rose when average daily temperatures topped 18C.
Suicide rate rises in hot Weather

Why Should I Hire You?

IT managers share their favorite interview questions and the thinking behind them.
Favorite Interview Questions

Australian Economic Indicators, Aug 2007

A monthly compendium of economic statistics, presenting comprehensive tables, graphs, commentaries, feature articles and technical notes. Primarily a reference document, the publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy and includes statistics that can be applied to both macro-economic and sectoral analyses. The publication contains statistics under the following headings: national accounts, international accounts, consumption and investment, production, prices, labour force and demography, incomes and labour costs, financial markets, state comparisons and international comparisons.
Australian Economic Indicators, Aug 2007

Unusual Hotels of the World

Online Guide of the World's most Unusual & Unique Hotels!
Unusual Hotels of the World

Internet Archive: Movies

Watch full-length feature films, classic shorts, world culture documentaries, World War II propaganda, movie trailers, and films created in just ten hours: These options are all featured in this diverse library! Many of these videos are available for free download.
Internet Archive: Movies

Free Movie Catalog

Select from hundreds of free movies. Since these movies are in the public domain, they can be downloaded to play on computers and transfered to mobile devices like MP3 players and cell phones.
Free Movie Catalog

Lo-Glycemic Index diets help Obese lose Weight

Overweight adults who would like to shed some pounds may want to replace their white bread with a serving of beans, a research review suggests.
Lo-glycemic index diets help obese lose weight

Petrol Price Movements

Australian petrol prices move in line with international prices and for Australia the current international benchmark is the spot price of Singapore Mogas 95 Unleaded, which is the price of refined petrol in Singapore, not crude oil.
Petrol Price Movements

Time May Not Exist

No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed.
Time May Not Exist

Google Earth Reveals Oddities and Secrets

The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights.
Google Earth Reveals Oddities and Secrets

50 Craziest Celebrity Baby Names

Jordan's baby daughter Princess Tiaamii joins a long list of children doomed to playground ridicule by their celebrity parents.
50 Craziest Celebrity Baby Names

Inbox Zero

“Clearly, the problem of email overload is taking a toll on all our time, productivity, and sanity, mainly because most of us lack a cohesive system for processing our messages and converting them into appropriate actions as quickly as possible.”
Inbox Zero

10 Ways to Instantly Build Self Confidence

Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits. Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you. Perception is reality — the more self confidence you have, the more likely it is you’ll succeed.
10 Ways to Instantly Build Self Confidence

1902 Encyclopedia (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th and 10th Editions)

The famous Ninth Edition (1875-89) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is widely known as the "Scholar's Edition" for its high intellectual standards.
The Tenth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1902-03) reprinted all the volumes of the Ninth Edition and added further volumes to update the encyclopedia to the early 20th century.
Taken together, the articles of these two editions of the Britannica (presented here by 1902 Encyclopedia) constitute a authoritative reference library on every aspect of human knowledge.
1902 Encyclopedia (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th and 10th Editions)

Regional Population Growth, Australia, 1996 to 2006

Includes: Population Change, Accuracy of Population Estimates, Capital City Growth, Growth along the Coast, Growth in Inland Regional Centres, Small Area Population Declines.
Regional Population Growth, Australia, 1996 to 2006

Population by Age and Sex, Australia, 2006

Includes: Total Population, Age Distribution, Median Age, Children (under 15 years of age), Working Population (aged 15-64 years), Older People (aged 65 years and over), Sex Ratio
Population by Age and Sex, Australia, 2006

The Least Developed Countries Report, 2007

The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries (presently 50 States) that have been officially identified by the United Nations as "least developed" in the light of their low income, weak human assets, and high economic vulnerability.
The Least Developed Countries Report, 2007

The New World's Tallest Building

On July 21, construction reached 1,680 feet on the 141st floor of the Burj Dubai tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, making it the largest building in the world.
Photos: The new world's tallest building

Mo' iPhone, Mo' Problems

No, I didn't stand in line for an iPhone. I wasn't sure it could stand up to my occasional fumble-n-drop method of phone usage and I didn't want to buy a cell phone with a battery I couldn't replace. Read on...
Mo' iPhone, Mo' Problems

10 Most Amazing Illusions

We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always altered by invisible biases. Illusions demonstrate this fact. So go ahead, get your own perception from 10 of the coolest illusions ever made.
10 Most Amazing Illusions

Chinook - World Man-Machine Checkers Champion

The Chinook project began in 1989 with the goal of developing a program capable of defeating the human World Checkers Champion. In 1990, Chinook became the first program in any game to win the right to play for a human World Championship. The program lost the Championship match in 1992, but became Champion in 1994. By 1996, it became clear that the program was much stronger than any human, and Chinook was retired.
Chinook

God Plays Dice

A look at daily life through the eyes of a mathematician.
God Plays Dice

Common spice may help Alzheimer's patients

Turmeric, the main spice found in curry, may boost the immune system of patients with Alzheimer's disease and, thereby, increase the clearance of amyloid plaques in the brain.
Common spice may help Alzheimer's patients

Low glycemic index diets best for weight loss

Low glycemic index diets are more effective than other diet strategies for helping overweight or obese people lose weight and improve their cholesterol levels, a review of the medical literature shows.
Low Glycemic Index diets best for weight loss

Vitamin C useless for preventing or treating colds

For the average person, popping vitamin C pills is unlikely to ward off the common cold or shorten its length or severity. However, for people exposed to short bouts of extreme physical exercise or cold temperatures, vitamin C may markedly reduce their risk of catching a cold.
Vitamin C useless for preventing or treating colds

New test pinpoints deadliest Prostate Cancers

Scientists have found a new way to identify a particularly deadly form of prostate cancer in a breakthrough that could save tens of thousands of men from undergoing unnecessary surgery each year.
New test pinpoints deadliest Prostate Cancers

5 Simple Ways to Store Your Files Online

5 simple online backup services that just work.
5 Simple Ways to Store Your Files Online

Seven Blunders of the World

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination.
Seven Blunders of the World

4 Powerful Reasons to Meditate and How To Get Started

Meditation is the art of silencing the mind. When the mind is silent, concentration is increased and we experience inner peace in the midst of worldly turmoil. This elusive inner peace is what attracts so many people to meditation and is a quality everyone can benefit from.
4 Powerful Reasons to Meditate and How To Get Started

wikiHow - The How-To Manual

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your edits, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 22,162 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
wikiHow - The How-To Manual

10 virtually instant ways to improve your Life

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.
10 virtually instant ways to improve your Life

Good Math, Bad Math

Good Math, Bad Math is a blog which exists for two reasons:
1. For Mark Chu-Carroll to ramble about the beauty of mathematics, and try to share his enthusiasm for the subject.
2. To track down the bozos who use bad math to lie, distort reality, and in general support bad arguments; demonstrate their errors and their dishonesty; and generally mock them.
Good Math, Bad Math

Prime Minister of Australia Weekly Radio Message

Australia is continuing to address the global challenge of climate change through practical and balanced responses.
Prime Minister of Australia Weekly Radio Message

Turn of the Century Magazines

The late 1800s and early 1900s were an exciting time to be part of the magazine industry. Literary and pulp magazines began to flourish as the cost of chemical wood pulp dropped from $366 per metric tonne in 1866 to $36 in 1900. Magazines like Munsey’s and McClure’s dropped their prices to around 10 cents and began produced volumes with novel-sized proportions.
Turn of the Century Magazines

State of World Population 2007

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.
State of World Population 2007

100 Worst Cover Songs

Some of these covers were sincere attempts to make good songs, others are so inexplicably awful that you don't know what the hell they were thinking. Others are clearly meant to be jokes, but it doesn't make them sound any better, even so.
100 Worst Cover Songs

Travel: World's Longest Non-Stop Flights

You're traveling from Newark, NJ to Singapore... bring a book. You'll be in the air for almost 19 hours on the longest flight in the world, according to Forbes magazine.
Travel: World's Longest Non-Stop Flights

Lack of ability to smell may be early sign of Alzheimer’s

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) conclude that problems with smelling may indicate an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease.
Lack of ability to smell may be early sign of Alzheimer’s

How Long Do You Need To Boil Water?

The fact is, with a water temperature of 165 degrees F (74 C) it takes just half an hour for all disease causing organisms to be inactivated. At 185 degrees this is cut to just a few minutes. By the time water hits its boiling point of 212 F (100 C) the water is safe. Even at high altitudes the time it takes for the water to reach a rolling boil and then cool means you can safely drink it.
How Long Do You Need To Boil Water?

The Wealthiest Americans Ever

An interactive graphic showing the 30 all-time richest Americans.
The Wealthiest Americans Ever

Tour de France - Live Tracker 2007

Watch the exact position and additional data (heart rate, cadence, speed, power) of the racing cyclists on an interactive map.
Tour de France - Live Tracker 2007

Is Your Printer Spying On You?

MIT"s Media Lab has started a website that helps consumers contact the manufacturer of their printer so they can request that "tracking dots" be eliminated from their machines.
Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Tallest and Shortest

The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun today shook hands with He Pingping who claims to be Earth's shortest.
Worlds apart: Tallest and Shortest

How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less

The name of the game in world travel is being “fashionably light.”
How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less

The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks

Here are the origins of several symbols we use in everyday life.
The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks

How to Actually Execute Your To-Do List

Getting things on your to-do list actually done is difficult because it’s really a collection of habits that most people don’t think about. Today, we’ll look at addressing those issues that stop you from doing things, and the habits needed to overcome those issues.
How to Actually Execute Your To-Do List

10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod

This overview details the features (with screenshots) of 10 different programs other than iTunes to manage your iPod. Tutorials are included for every program, and they’re all either free or Open Source.
10 Alternatives to iTunes for managing your iPod

Seven Wonders of the Tech World

Seven Wonders of the Tech World

50 Best Websites 2007 - TIME

50 Best Websites 2007

Voluntary Work, Australia, 2006

Contains information about participation in unpaid voluntary work through an organisation or group. This publication includes data about the types of organisation with which the voluntary work is associated, the types of activities carried out, time spent volunteering, the characteristics of the volunteer, and the reason for volunteering. Also includes information about givers of monetary donations to organisations.
Voluntary Work, Australia, 2006

How to use Winamp to manage your iPod

This brief tutorial will show you how to use Winamp to manage your iPod.
How to use Winamp to manage your iPod

101 Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things

In every part of your house, everyday items — from clothespins to cotton swabs — are simply waiting to do surprising new things.
101 Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things

Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth

1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth
etc
Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
etc
33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

Five Things that Are Worse than Global Warming

While public attention is focused on climate change, things elsewhere will continue much as always. During the 24 hours of Live Earth, 214,000 acres of tropical forest will disappear forever. Two billion gallons of human sewage will be dumped into the world's oceans. 10,800 children will die from drought or the lack of clean drinking water. And we'll be 85 million barrels closer to the end of the Petroleum Age.
Five Things that Are Worse than Global Warming

Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again

The true culprits are our everyday habits: what we eat, how we sleep, and how we cope emotionally. Read on for some simple, recharging changes that can help you tackle all of the energy stealers in your life.
Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again

Do you want a Fly with that?

In a fantastic bit of advertising by the largest supermarket chain in Australia, a proof reader allowed this clip into the Coles Catalogue to advertise their in-store bakery.
Do you want a fly with that?

A Bite of Chocolate a Day May Keep Blood Pressure at Bay

Chocolate lovers can rejoice again: More research has found that the antioxidants in dark chocolate can help slightly lower blood pressure.
A Bite of Chocolate a Day May Keep Blood Pressure at Bay

Procrastination: Ten Things To Know

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance.
Procrastination: Ten Things To Know

Protect Your Data: everything else is just Plumbing

Steve Riley on Security. Stuck somewhere between marketing and consulting, and not afraid of (his own) opinions.
Protect Your Data: everything else is just Plumbing

Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, May 2007

In trend terms, short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in May 2007 (480,200 movements) changed little compared with April 2007 (479,900 movements). Short-term visitor arrivals are currently 6.0% higher than when the series last troughed in July 2006 (453,100 movements) and 5.3% higher than in May 2006 (455,900 movements).
Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, May 2007

Australian Airspace Policy Statement

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Mark Vaile, said today he had issued the first Australian Airspace Policy Statement.
Australian Airspace Policy Statement

Drought Statement - Another Drier than average Month in Rainfall Deficient Areas

With the notable exceptions of Gippsland and southeast Queensland, June rainfall was mainly below to very much below average in the rainfall deficient areas of southwest WA, southern and southeastern Australia.
Drought Statement - Another drier than average month in rainfall deficient areas

iPhone Root Password cracked in Three Days

It's been out just three days, but already the Apple iPhone has been taken apart both literally and figuratively. The latest: inquisitive Apple fans have hacked into the firmware and discovered the master root password to the smart phone.
iPhone Root Password cracked in Three Days