Surprising Expiration Dates

Certain items in your house practically scream “toss me” when their prime has passed. That mysterious extra white layer on the Cheddar? A sure sign it needs to be put out of its misery. Chunky milk? Down the drain it goes.
Surprising Expiration Dates

How to Remember Dreams

Theories abound as to why we dream, how we dream, and what meaning we can assign to our dreams. Many people believe that dreams can provide insights into our lives and feelings, but for most of us, it's notoriously difficult to remember our dreams. With conscious effort, however, you can remember more of your dreams and recall them in greater detail. How to Remember Dreams

Photographs: February 20, 2008 total lunar eclipse

The total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008 seems to have been successful. Collected photographs taken by backyard and professional astronomers.
Photographs: February 20, 2008 total lunar eclipse

Going Up

The structural engineers over at Hyder Consulting have announced that they are planning what will be, by an overwhelming margin, the world's tallest skyscraper, coming in at double the height of the Burj Dubai – or very nearly one vertical mile.
Going Up

Deciphering Food Expiration Dates

Apart from giving everything the sniff test before venturing a sip or a nibble, how do you know what's truly out of date and what's ok? This calls for some definitions.
Deciphering Food Expiration Dates

12 Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word

Despite the availability of many excellent, free word processors many of us still spend most of our writing time in Microsoft Word. It tends to be the most compatible tool you can choose to exchange documents with others, and lots of people are even forced to use it by dictatorial IT departments.
12 Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word

How Australians Use Their Time

We're spending less time playing, sleeping and eating but working longer.
How Australians Use Their Time

A Consumer's Cheat Sheet to HD DVD's Death and Blu-ray's Victory

HD DVD is dead. Officially. That may mean a whole bunch for the early-adopter tech geek crowd that's been wading in the kiddie pool of technological bickering and backhandedness for years, but what does it mean for the average consumer with only a cursory interest in high-def DVDs? Here's our cheat sheet Q&A for you to whip out if you ever have to explain the high-def format wars to your parents.
A Consumer's Cheat Sheet to HD DVD's Death and Blu-ray's Victory

The answer to the toughest interview question

There’s a lot of advice on this blog about how to interview: Tell good stories, ask good questions, be a closer. But here’s only one most important thing to remember: when it comes to discussing your potential salary, never give the number first.
The answer to the toughest interview question

40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes Ever

1. Britney Spears: "I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't really like eating fish, and I know that's very popular out there in Africa"
etc
40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes Ever

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file.
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

Goldfish memory longer than ‘3 seconds’? It’s old news

Rory Stokes, 15 year old student of the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide, Australia, and a finalist in the 2008 BHP Billiton Science awards, has proven that goldfish have a memory span far greater than 3 seconds – but he was far from the first to do so.
Goldfish memory longer than ‘3 seconds’? It’s old news

Lost and Found via Google

According to a Google search for “I lost all my” and variants, people are currently looking for the following things:
Lost and Found via Google

12 Things to Do with Coca Cola

Coca Cola (the real one) is not only great to drink, it also has many uses around the home.
This list of uses was tested on ordinary, original Coca Cola, not the diet kind, or any of the variations there are available.
12 Things to Do with Coca Cola

Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

Ok, you’ve got loads of music on your computer - but is that all cluttered, unorganized, unmanaged and simply not easy to access? May be you need to do something. Literally hundreds of free software let you play, organize, burn and do lots more with your digital MP3 music collection. Have a well tagged, sortable music collection that you can be proud of!
Here comes a carefully chosen list of free programs that might help you squeeze the best out of your MP3 collection.
Top 10 Free Programs to make the most out of your MP3 Collection

50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities

Factoids hardly anybody knows, about pretty much anything that might turn up as subject matter in a rousing championship match of Trivial Pursuit down at the pub on Thursday night. Some of these are real crowd-pleasers sure to draw spontaneous applause, stunned gasps, and plenty of free beers from admirers.
50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities

20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends

Best-selling author Tim Ferriss offers digital minimalism tips to reduce the amount of time you spend in your email inbox.
How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends

20 Things that culturally define Australia

(from Greg Davies)
Living in the United States is an interesting experience for someone who was born and raised in Australia. Quite often, I get asked a lot of questions about what it is like back home. Sometimes I even get questions such as, "Do you know Crocodile Dundee?" - To which I reply a line made famous by Kevin Bloody Wilson: "Know him? Mate, he's my brother!"
20 Things that culturally define Australia

How Haggling Taught Me About Life

I used to be afraid of bargaining. The thought of haggling over a price, or even asking for a discount, was embarrassing. Then I began visiting countries in which haggling is expected. I was forced to adapt. At first it was frustrating, then tiresome, but eventually I learned to embrace the process of bargaining. Once I did, I realized that haggling had taught me a lot.
How Haggling Taught Me About Life

Retrain Your Brain: Give Your Brain a Boost

Can't remember where you put your glasses? Blanked on your new colleague's name? "Forgetting these types of things is a sign of how busy we are," says Zaldy S. Tan, MD, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "When we're not paying good attention, the memories we form aren't very robust, and we have a problem retrieving the information later."
Retrain Your Brain: Give Your Brain a Boost

Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps

We’ve helped you find online word processors and spreadsheet apps, now it’s time for presentations. We’ve gathered up 13 online presentation creators to make it even easier for you to forget about doing anything offline ever again!
Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps

John Cleese’s “Letter to America”

Dear Citizens of America,
In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy), as from Monday next. etc
John Cleese’s “Letter to America”

7 Food Hacks to Stay Alert Without Caffeine

Are you a zombie without your morning cup of coffee? Instead of using caffeine to stay awake, you can tweak the food you eat to get more energy. By making small changes to your eating patterns you can prevent morning grogginess and mid-afternoon slumps.
7 Food Hacks to Stay Alert Without Caffeine

10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access

Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet but can send or receive email messages? With email and no Internet, how do you read websites and blogs or check the current stock prices, etc
10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access

Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

Could we hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology? Could we use plate tectonics to re-direct whole island chains, color rocks, print cities out of magma, and build mountains where mountains have no right to be? Here are the Entropist's top five ways to change the surface of the earth.
Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

10 Tips for Life’s Greatest Challenge

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
10 Tips for Life’s Greatest Challenge

8 Highly Effective Cold Prevention Strategies

Drink fluids and get rest. Those two simple actions will speed-up your recovery.
8 Highly Effective Cold Prevention Strategies

weird science

Science is weird. It’s also cool, interesting and fun. Don’t believe me? Keep reading weird science and you’ll see that the stuff you have to swallow during hour (or more) long classes in school is not the only thing that science is about. It’s one part. An important and necessary but not always fun part.
weird science

5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

Bad grammar - it's the intellectual equivalent of spinach in your teeth, especially when you're at work or looking for a better job. With that in mind, here are five errors that are easy to prevent. Think of them as mental floss.
5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

35 Things To Avoid At Your Job Interview

As with everything in life, it can be very helpful to know NOT what to do just as much as what to do! If you’re new to job hunting, you've probably been reading about how to act during a job interview. You should also be studying how not to act.
35 Things To Avoid At Your Job Interview

50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily

We all want to get stuff done, whether it’s the work we have to do so we can get on with what we want to do, or indeed, the projects we feel are our purpose in life. To that end, here’s a collection of 50 hacks, tips, tricks, and mnemonic devices.
50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily

20 Extraordinary Uses for Old Pantyhose

When your pantyhose have runs and tears in them, don't throw them away. Someone somewhere will have a use for them. Here are twenty useful ways to recycle them.
20 Extraordinary Uses for Old Pantyhose

Reduce Screen Time with 52 Nights Unplugged

Writer and self-described internet addict Ariel Meadow Stallings wants to be "more present in the present," and for her that means reducing the amount of time she spends in front of the computer/TV/phone screen. To do just that, she's started a new, year-long project called 52 Nights Unplugged. The rule is simple: once a week, for one night, she doesn't do anything involving a screen.
Reduce Screen Time with 52 Nights Unplugged

The 13 best Travel Scams

Ever had your holiday ruined by a con artist? Been ripped off by a faker posing as a travel agent?
The 13 best travel scams

Best flat Panel TV Buying Guide

Discover the Best Flat Panel TV with our complete and up-to-date tv buying guides with advise, tips, checklists and more... We have reviewed all major flat panel tvs and made a tv buying guide for each one. Now you can make a choice with confidence.
Best flat Panel TV Buying Guide

Nine Tactics for a Frugal Valentine’s Day

Many of you out there are thinking about plans for Valentine’s Day - it’s just nine days away, after all. Many people spend hundreds of dollars on this day to make it very special, but in truth, what makes it special is the interactions themselves, not the things you bought. Here are nine tactics to make Valentine’s Day special without tearing your wallet to shreds.
Nine Tactics for a Frugal Valentine’s Day

The ABCs of Remaining Cool in a Crazy World

Emotional intelligence and mastery skills are not just a benefit these days; they’ve become a necessity. This post aims to address that need. It aims to provide psychologically tested methods, with a touch of Zen, to handle anything that happens in a mature and powerful manner.
The ABCs of Remaining Cool in a Crazy World

How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal

One of Google’s goals is that you should be able to throw just about anything into a search box (package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers, etc.) and Google will try to do something reasonable, such as return the status of a flight.
How to use Google’s calculator: convert to hexadecimal, binary, and decimal

Sandcastles need water to stay upright

Building sandcastles is child's play, as any beach goer knows. Now scientists explain why. You just add water.
Sandcastles need water to stay upright

Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

It was a wonder in its time: A camera that spat out photos that developed themselves in a few minutes as you watched. You got to see them where and when you took them, not a week later when the prints came back from the drugstore.
But in a day when nearly every cellphone has a digital camera in it, “instant” photography long ago stopped being instant enough for most people. So today, the inevitable end of an era came: Polaroid is getting out of the Polaroid business.
Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

How to get over the flu faster

Every winter is flu season. How do you get rid of it once you've caught it? Read on for tips to get better faster.
How to get over the flu faster

Achieve a Deep , Uninterrupted Sleep

Blessed sleep -- the holy grail of health. Lack of sleep can send your blood sugar levels skyrocketing, contribute to weight gain, lead to depression, put you at risk for diabetes, and cause brain damage.
Achieve a Deep, Uninterrupted Sleep

How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot

Maybe you’ve never learned how to tie a tie. Maybe you’re just out of practice. Maybe you wear one to work each day, but want a fresh trick or two to upgrade your style. Where ever you are, I’m sure you can learn something today.
How To Tie A Tie: The Pursuit Of The Perfect Knot

17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape

While getting in shape has been a start-and-stop-and-start-again affair for me over the last couple years, over the long run, I’ve become fitter than ever.
17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape

Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

The Digital Inspiration blog offers up five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached. For mobile device users who can't read or open certain formats or desktop users who need a little audio formatting without downloading software. The full list of addresses, after the jump.
Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents

Australia at a Glance, 2008

Industry
Includes: Production, Agriculture, Building, Retail turnover, Tourism, Motor vehicles

Environment
Includes: Climate

Economy
Includes: National accounts, Consumer Price Index, Balance of payments, Finance, International trade, International investment

People
Includes: Demography, Population, Unemployment, Labour market, Education, Health
Australia at a Glance, 2008

Year Book Australia, 2008

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Year Book Australia is truly a remarkable series. Reaching its hundredth year in 2008, the Year Book has shone a light on the whole nation, communicating information which benefits all Australians in all aspects of their lives.
One hundred years ago the first Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia was published by the then Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. The preface notes that is was the first 'authoritative Year Book issued under the Federal Constitution'. The high value of the Year Book is attributable in no small degree to the reliability of the information it contains. Billy Hughes, Australian Prime Minister 1915-23, once said that 'There are only two people I trust - God and the Commonwealth Statistician'. The high quality of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) research has been well represented in its Year Books.
Year Book Australia, 2008

Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

11 Ways To Expand Your Mind And Recover From Brain Rot

Just to be clear on the Alex Shalman definition of brain rot: It’s when you forcefully stuff too much of the wrong information into your brain, to the point where both your thinking and behavioral patterns become highly disturbed.
11 Ways To Expand Your Mind And Recover From Brain Rot

Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications

The gap between online and offline is closing more each day, and working with your spreadsheets in a collaborative atmosphere is not a bad reason to try an online spreadsheet editing tool. We’ve got 14 choices for you for working with your spreadsheets online; most are free, a few aren’t, but there’s something here for everyone.
Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications

10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

In order to have a winning personality, it is of utmost importance to have everyone’s best interest in mind.
10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

Hide and Secure a Folder (For Real) in Windows

Windows only: My Lockbox isn't a full-featured encryption solution like TrueCrypt, but it is an easy and free way to hide a folder from all but the most technically savvy (and extremely prying) eyes. Install the program, choose a folder you want to hide (or let it create a "My Lockbox" in your My Documents folder) and then run the program to unlock and add files to it. Shutting down the program or even booting into safe mode won't reveal your folder, unlike many other "hiding" utilities, and even looking at folder sizes won't reveal your data. Somebody with a recovery disk and knowledge that you're hiding something might breach your data, but for most people's needs, My Lockbox gets the (secret) job done. My Lockbox is a free download for Windows 2000 and later.
Hide and Secure a Folder (For Real) in Windows

Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?

Sleep disorders such as sleepwalking arise when normal physiological systems are active at inappropriate times. We do not yet understand why the brain issues commands to the muscles during certain phases of sleep, but we do know that these commands are usually suppressed by other neurological mechanisms. At times this suppression can be incomplete—because of genetic or environmental factors or physical immaturity—and actions that normally occur during wakefulness emerge in sleep.
Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?

7 Freeware Resources For Your Windows Mobile Device

Windows Mobile, contrary to what some may believe, holds a huge portion of the mobile device market. Besides being installed on several phone models, there are still stand-alone Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that are being released into the marketplace (although smartphones are admittedly taking their place at a fast rate). We’ve gathered up seven freeware directories to help you get that Pocket PC doing everything but your laundry!
7 Freeware Resources For Your Windows Mobile Device

Police sketch: 'Faceless' bank robber (Thailand)

The Royal Thai Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of stealing 200,000 baht from the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok several weeks ago.
Police sketch: 'Faceless' bank robber (Thailand)

Creative thinking rules

From an NPR story about Sister Corita Kent. She was an art teacher who influenced many creatives, including Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, John Cage and Henry Miller, and is perhaps most famous for the 1985 love stamp.
Creative thinking rules

50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight

Besides looking great on the beach, commonsense tells us that one of the best things you can do for your overall health is to drop a few pounds. Or maybe more than a few pounds.
Being overweight significantly increases your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer ... the list seems almost endless. Plus, if you do get sick or need surgery, being overweight can make any treatments riskier.
50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight

11 Hot Tips To Increase Your Metabolism

It’s extremely common for people on diets to eat too little. You will lose weight to start, but your body is smarter than you. Way smarter. It will start thinking, “this crazy kid is simply not eating enough to survive, I’m going to drop his/her metabolism, so he/she doesn’t burn as much during the day and can survive off this ridiculously small amount he/she is eating”. Bottom line, starvation won’t work as a diet, your body will make sure you don’t burn too much and die. Cut down your calories a little, and exercise more. Also check out this post on cheat eating and how it can help you trick your metabolism.
Increase Your Metabolism: 11 Hot Tips To Get Your Furnace Burning

10 Ways to Make Someone Else's Day

Because of our modern busy lifestyles, it becomes easy to forget that we live alongside others who have needs just like we do. We treat people like props set up behind an orchestra which solely exist to play the background tunes to our lives.
10 Ways to Make Someone Else's Day

12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22

My, how time flies. Seems just like yesterday that I was a 12 year old kid, going for long bike rides in Sherwood Forrest, the subdivision just around the corner from where I lived. Playing with William, Edward, and my little brother, climbing in the tree house, looking forward to Brent coming over to visit. Those were all good times and my only dread was finding out that we were having liver for supper.
12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22

7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union

There are amazing abandonments in America but the former Soviet Union has some of the most interesting, unique and strange abandoned buildings. The complex political, military and social history of the country has led to everything from almost-finished buildings abandoned before actual use and entire abandoned cities to chilling gulags in which tens of millions of prisoners met their end.
7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union

Sleep no escape from a wired world

Your bedroom could be the next thing to be wired.
Meet the Starry Night Bed: it has sensors, temperature controls, internet connectivity and a home theatre option.
Sleep no escape from a wired world

Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss

Researchers are revealing hidden complexities behind the simple act of kissing, which relays powerful messages to your brain, body and partner.
Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss

Quick fixes for image problems

You know that people make snap judgments about you based on your appearance. But it turns out that most of those judgments are right. In a study where people viewed photos of CEOs, the people were able to guess the personalities of the CEOs accurately just by looking at their photo.
Quick fixes for image problems

10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

I have to admit, I'm as lazy as the next guy. I have my moments of productivity, where I'm cranking out the tasks and checking things off my to-do list like my life depended on it.
But for the most part, I just want to do a few things each day, and then take a nap.
10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today

Google Experiments with New Search Tools, and You Can Too

Google is interested in alternative ways to search the web, and the company has announced an interesting set of new, experimental search tools. You can try them now.
Google Experiments with New Search Tools, and You Can Too

Stop the Annoying "There are unused icons on your desktop" Popup Balloon

One of the most irritating "features" in Windows XP is the popup balloon dialog that tells you to clean your desktop. I booted up an old virtual machine a few minutes ago and encountered it again, so I decided to write up how to turn it off.
Annoying…
Stop the Annoying "There are unused icons on your desktop" Popup Balloon

10 Morning Rituals For The Healthy Entrepreneur

Most personal development and productivity experts suggest mornings as the best time for clear and focused results-driven work. I’ve experienced the same and form my days around just a few hours of work in the morning between 10am and 1pm.
10 Morning Rituals For The Healthy Entrepreneur

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Digg and more.
50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

Everyday Environmentalist

Remember when "environmentalist" meant…recycling?
It's not so simple anymore. Being an environmentalist today calls for a whole new level of greener thinking — from what you choose at the grocery store to how you commute to work every day.
Everyday Environmentalist

11 Power Tips for Gmail

Considering that real Gmail users didn’t know about these options, I’m going to call them power tips.
11 Power Tips for Gmail

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst.
10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Consumer Hero Investigates Toilet Paper "Sheet Shorting" Conspiracy

Leo Hill figures that every single roll of toilet paper he's bought since 2006 has shorted him at least one "sitting," says the Denver Post.
Mr. Hill has been counting the sheets included in his rolls of toilet paper since his wife noticed something odd. The rolls in the 4-pack lasted longer than the ones in the 12-pack.
Consumer Hero Investigates Toilet Paper "Sheet Shorting" Conspiracy

6 Not-So-Secret Secret Societies

List of some of the most popular, and therefore not very secret, secret societies.
6 Not-So-Secret Secret Societies

Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2007

This publication presents a summary of statistics on grape and wine production and related activities collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and from other sources.
Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2007

Aussie cities among world's most livable

Melbourne - Number two in the world, number one in Oz....never been to Vancouver but it must be good....
Aussie cities among world's most livable: survey

Work It out: More Activity = Slower Aging

Warning, couch potatoes: resting on your laurels may be hazardous to your health, not to mention make you old before your time.
Work It out: More Activity = Slower Aging

50 things I've learned in 50 years

I’m (Eric Zorn) turning 50 next week. So I thought I’d take the opportunity here to list 50 things I’ve learned in 50 years—truths gleaned from experience and the words of others that guide, inspire and sometimes haunt me:
50 things I've learned in 50 years

Six Services to Send and Share Large Files

A common question sent to ResourceShelf, what tools or services can I use to send/share large files to others without having to use an FTP client?
Here are six of them. Most are free. Try them all and see which one(s) work best for you. Most should have you up and running in a matter of minutes.
Six Services to Send and Share Large Files

10 ways to make meetings more effective

"That meeting wasted my time." How often have you made this statement? Like you, I've attended many unproductive meetings, but a recent one topped them all. I had been talking about my consulting and training work with an employee of a company in central New Jersey. Things had gotten to the point that, after receiving information about me, the person suggested that I come to his New Jersey office for a meeting he would set up that would include him and his boss, the director of a training program for new professional hires.

10 ways to make meetings more effective

Consumer Price Index, Australia, Dec 2007

THE ALL GROUPS CPI rose 0.9% in the December quarter 2007, compared with a rise of 0.7% in the September quarter and rose 3.0% through the year to December quarter 2007.
Consumer Price Index, Australia, Dec 2007

How to Stay Awake at Work or School

Have you ever been so tired you almost fell asleep at work? Did you ever wish you could just crawl under your desk and take a nap like George Costanza?
Whether you were partying too hard the night before, up late feeding a newborn baby, or some other energy draining activity, you've got an emergency that needs to be addressed pronto!
How to Stay Awake at Work or School

Spectacular hidden treasures online for the first time

Five hidden treasures from public library collections across the UK are now accessible to an online audience of millions. Selected as the winning texts in a nationwide competition, pages of each have been digitised and transformed into Turning the Pages 2.0™ ‘virtual texts'. Visitors to the British Library's website can enjoy these magnificent items for free.

The winning treasures include:
a 12th century legal work from Medway, Kent, which contains the earliest record of the English language;
a fascinating first-hand account of life in mid 19th century rural Caernarfonshire, as experienced by an unusually observant 14-year-old;
a stunning 15th century illuminated missal from Renfrewshire, which features a blood-curdling rite of excommunication;
a beautifully illustrated war record book produced by the Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes, containing stories of evacuees, enemy airmen, the coming of the American army and even jam making!
Spectacular hidden treasures online for the first time

The Art of Verbal Intimidation : Learn it and fight back!

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, but I’d rather be blind than see a coward in the mirror. In our evolutionary history, intimidation was a direct result of physical size. One human being would be intimidated by a larger creature, and even a larger human being. This formula is still in play, you need look only to night-club bouncers, celebrity security guards and biker gangs. As the tolerance for physical violence in our community diminishes, verbal intimidation has found itself a new home in our lives.
The Art of Verbal Intimidation

5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed.

If you are so passionate about your work that you border on obsessed, you might find it near impossible to turn work off.
This is especially so in the web age, when you can stay connected no matter where you are, who you’re with, or what you’re doing. What do you do when suggestions like “work only during certain hours” and “don’t check email on evenings and weekends” just don’t seem to be enough?
Here are five more powerful tricks for keeping work in its place…
5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed

Keeping Children Safe Online

Children present unique security risks when they use a computer—not only do you have to keep them safe, you have to protect the data on your computer. By taking some simple steps, you can dramatically reduce the threats.
Keeping Children Safe Online

More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague

Last year, Judi Sohn did an excellent roundup of anti-spam solutions, breaking them down by web-based, client-side and server-side solutions. As she noted there, research shows that about 80 percent of e-mail is spam, and that number has not changed much. It’s a big problem. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with a couple of solutions in addition to the ones Judi cited.
More Ways to Fight the Spam Plague

Clean Like a Maid for Better Results

Ever get the feeling after an hour spent cleaning that your place still doesn't quite look spic and span? The Curbly blog uses a bit of wisdom from one writer's work as a housekeeper to offer a few methods of ensuring a room looks presentable and less cluttered.
Clean Like a Maid for Better Results

20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity

Most people eat to lose weight, get healthy and build muscle. There are some people, however, who snack correctly in order to enhance their productivity. The following is a list of 20 foods you can eat to improve your eye-sight, improve your performance, energize your brain and keep your day on track.
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity

Darkness At Noon And At All Other Times

People always try to learn the origin of things, but the world and even most human institutions arose so long ago that our reconstruction can seldom be secure. Language is also old, and we know next to nothing about the circumstances in which it arose.
Darkness At Noon And At All Other Times

A Positioning System That Goes Where GPS Can't

Indoor positioning system technology uses radio, ultrasound or infrared signals to more precisely track locations where GPS signals are blocked.
A Positioning System That Goes Where GPS Can't

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

Ever lose patience waiting for a bus and decided to walk instead? Next time, stick around, it's nearly always the best strategy.
Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

Five Essential Tools for Moving

There are little things you can do and tools you should have plenty of on hand to make things go smoothly. Boxing up every single one of your possessions and transporting them to your new residence to set them all up again is a huge pain. Here are a few items beyond your standard boxes, tape, and blankets that can streamline your move.
Five Essential Tools for Moving

Space Station Launches 10th Anniversary with 2008 Calendar

Space Station Launches 10th Anniversary with 2008 Calendar.
Calendar

10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

In order to have a winning personality, it is of utmost importance to have everyone’s best interest in mind.
10 Traits To Be Perceived As A Winner!

5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

The thing with bad grammar. It's the intellectual equivalent of spinach in your teeth, especially when you're at work or looking for a better job. With that in mind, here are five errors that are easy to prevent. Think of them as mental floss.

5 Embarrassing Grammatical Mistakes

5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities

Ever needed a pie chart for a report? Did you not feel like spending a couple of hours in Photoshop trying to make one? Look no further than the web for quick and simple pie chart makers.
5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities

What’s Stopping You from Getting Started

If you’re like most people, you have a lot of projects on your back burner that you hope to get to someday but aren’t quite ready for.
What’s Stopping You from Getting Started (and What to Do About It)

How to Find Work That You Love

Most of us spend 60-80% of our waking hours doing something work-related. If you don’t enjoy that work, then it means you’re unhappy 60-80% of the time. Logical, right?
How to Find Work That You Love — A Logical Guide