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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 17, 2014 |
| | OBlog: Design Observer | | People who love design, typography, and architecture will find the Design Observer's blog (OBlog) to be a slice of heaven. | |  |
| | | | | Doodles | | Explore Google's doodles dating all the way back to 1998. | | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 17, 2014 |
| | Wildfinder | Find out where more than 26,000 species live on Earth.
WWF’s Wildfinder is an interactive tool that visualizes the global distribution of thousands of species that roam the Earth. Ever wonder exactly where tigers roam or vultures fly? Widlfinder shows you. | | |
| |  | | | Digital Public Library of America | | The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. T | | | |
| |  | | | 7 ways to ditch old tech gadgets - Cool Sites from The Kim Komando Radio Show? & Web site | | The Kim Komando Show: America’s top weekend talk radio program about all things digital! Free tips, downloads, software, newsletters, advice and more about the home electronics, iPods, digital cameras, photography, TVs, online security, gadgets and more. | | |
| | | | | Sky Map | Our on-line system is a detailed sky map. We generate the map
automatically using our database with the positions and basic
characteristics of space objects. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 03, 2014 |
| | A Short History of the Highrise | | “A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues of social equality in an increasingly urbanized world. | | |
| |  | | | 23 Amazing Labyrinths To Get Lost In | | What is it about humans that make us love–and hate–being lost? Since the time of ancient Greece, we've been figuring out ways to entertain ourselves within extraordinarily confusing structures. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jan 02, 2014 |
| | 17 High-Tech Gizmos From 1927's Version of CES | | Back in the 1920s, the New York Electrical Show was a bit like the Consumer Electronics Show of its day. New Yorkers could head down to Grand Central Palace to check out the latest in high-tech gadgets -- gadgets that were becoming increasingly popular as more and more Americans got electricity at home. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 31, 2013 |
| | Today on CNET--most Beautiful Gadgets | The most beautiful gadgets of 2013
Design is back in fashion. Here are CNET's top picks for the most beautiful products of the year, ranging from wearable doo-dads to an electric tiltrotor aircraft to a lowly keyboard. READ MORE » | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 21, 2013 |
| | OED birthday word generator: which words originated in your birth year? | OxfordWords blog | | Do you know which words entered the English language around the same time you entered the world? Use our OED birthday word generator to find out! We’ve scoured the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to find words with a first known usage for each year from 1900 to 2004. Simply select the relevant decade and click on your birth year to discover a word which entered the English language that year. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Dec 20, 2013 |
| | 2013: The Year in 365 Pictures - LightBox | | Looking back, 2013 has proven to be a turbulent, unsettling year. Here, for the third year in a row, TIME has picked a photograph for each day, compiling a yearbook of the highs and lows. | PATRICIA
Toby, this one is good for this weekend since there are 265 photos. |
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| |  | | | Amazing Aerials of Beaches Around the World (PHOTOS) - weather.com | | Get the latest vacation travel news and headline from weather.com. To capture these beautiful aerial photos of beaches from around the world, photographer Gray Malin relies heavily on an accurate weather forecast. He needs to, especially since he shoots from a door-less helicopter flying over the ocean. | | |
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