Awareness tools

Awareness tools provide you with a number of ways of finding useful, thought-provoking, humorous, or interesting content you may not normally find. Before the Internet came along, people mostly got their news from a handful of sources - newspapers, radio, television, friends and family, etc. But awareness tools allow you to find a wide variety of content on a scale like never before; you can still find traditional news articles from major newspapers, but now you can also find global news articles, local news articles, web-based games, movie reviews, blog posts, photos or photo collections, cartoons, and the list goes on and on. In fact, perhaps the biggest appeal of these types of tools is that they allow you to find and filter information from virtually anywhere on the web.
Awareness tools - IPL Wiki

The Ask-Our-Computer Service (from 1967)

This snippet is from Popular Science, May 1967.
The Ask-Our-Computer Service (from 1967)

How to Remove Stains from Tea Cups

Drinking tea and coffee in cups results in a residue build-up over time. There's no need to use harsh chemicals to remove it; follow this method for ease of removal and mere baking soda will do the trick.
How to Remove Stains from Tea Cups

Run a Total Background Check on Yourself with Free Online Tools

Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He's tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-checking tools is worth a look.
Run a Total Background Check on Yourself with Free Online Tools

Parking Strategies

I’m amazed at how much time people are willing to spend driving around a parking lot looking for a space to park. I’m not talking about places where it is snowing and there are only limited slots in covered parking. I’m talking about the people who will drive around the lot for 15 minutes trying to avoid a 2 minute walk from the empty spaces just beyond the spots everyone is fighting for.
Parking Strategies

What The Numbers On Your Credit Card Mean

The string of numbers on you credit card houses a batch of information. For instance, the first number tells you what kind of card it is — 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard, and so on. Visa cards are always 16 digits long and have other identifying characteristics.
What The Numbers On Your Credit Card Mean

What's the Registry, Should I Clean It, and What's the Point?

There's nothing more mysterious on a Windows PC than the Registry, and today we'll explain exactly what it is, how it works, and whether you should bother cleaning it. We'll also go about debunking a few widespread registry myths along the way.
What's the Registry, Should I Clean It, and What's the Point?

Women’s History Month Begins Today

Here are a few resources that might be value to you for Women’s History Month that begins today.
Collection of Web Resources: Women’s History Month Begins Today

Tsunami reaches Australia after Chile quake

Australian officials have recorded the first effects of a wide-ranging tsunami generated by the Chile earthquake, reporting a rise in sea levels but no major waves. Water levels surged by a few centimetres off Tasmania, with waves expected to increase in size over the next few hours.
Tsunami reaches Australia after Chile quake

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2010 - March 1, 2010

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2010 - March 1, 2010

Chile Earthquake/Pacific Tsunami Resources

Chile Earthquake/Pacific Tsunami Resources From Google & Others, Including Several Twitter Feeds.
Chile Earthquake/Pacific Tsunami Resources

Chile Earthquake Pictures: Twitter Photos Tell the Story [PHOTOS]

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked Chile early this morning was similar to many breaking-news events in that images from the disaster began spreading over social networks at lightning speed.
Chile Earthquake Pictures: Twitter Photos Tell the Story [PHOTOS]

Google Person Finder: Chile Earthquake

What is your situation?
- I'm looking for someone
- I have information about someone
Google Person Finder: Chile Earthquake

Tracking Tsunami Warnings Online

A major earthquake of magnitude-8.8 struck Chile early Saturday, causing extensive damage. As a result, a tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii, Polynesia and Tonga, with waves expected to reach Hawaii at 11:19 a.m. local time (4:19 p.m. EST). A tsunami advisory has been issued for California, while tsunami warnings have been issued for 53 countries in total, including Australia and New Zealand
Tracking Tsunami Warnings Online

Australia's chief censor redacts official website to downplay his role in censorship

Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy -- who has been responsible for pushing through Australia's national Internet censorship program -- has been caught censoring his own website: the script that creates a tag cloud of topics covered on his site had been modified to ignore any references to his censorship initiatives. This means that visitors to his site would not have an easy means of reading the Minister's statements in support of censorship, and anyone who relied on the tag-cloud to understand the Minister's agenda would have no way of knowing he'd been involved in the censorship initiative.
Australia's chief censor redacts official website to downplay his role in censorship

Random Viral Whatsit of the Day: My Little Pony Musical [VIDEO]

Often, whilst trolling through the feeds, we come across viral sensations that don’t really fit anywhere — aside from lodged in the pleasure center of our fevered brains. Today, that odd puzzle piece something is this video, depicting live-action My Little Ponies singing show tunes.
Random Viral Whatsit of the Day: My Little Pony Musical [VIDEO]

This You????: Yet Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter [WARNING]

In the last couple of weeks, Twitter users have been the target of several large-scale phishing attacks, and according to security experts over at Sophos, the latest one is no different.
This You????: Yet Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter [WARNING]

A Celebration of Duct Tape: Our Favorite Duct Tape DIYs

If the DIY community had a universal symbol, it most certainly would be a roll of duct tape. Inexpensive, abundant, strong, and ready to stick to nearly anything, this versatile DIY companion is a must in your DIY toolkit.
A Celebration of Duct Tape: Our Favorite Duct Tape DIYs

8 Significant Developments in Social Media You Should Watch

While I don’t have a crystal ball, here are some developments that I think are worthy of our attention and will affect how we do things in the social mediasphere over the next few years. Many of the things on this list will not be news to the very well-informed social media consultant types who live and breathe this stuff. But for the rest of us, there are seeds of opportunity here that should not be missed.
8 Significant Developments in Social Media You Should Watch

From ocean to ozone: Earth's nine life-support systems

Up to now, the Earth has been very kind to us. Most of our achievements in the past 10,000 years - farming, culture, cities, industrialisation and the raising of our numbers from a million or so to almost 7 billion - happened during an unusually benign period when Earth's natural regulatory systems kept everything from the climate to the supply of fresh water inside narrow, comfortable boundaries.
From ocean to ozone: Earth's nine life-support systems