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Nutrients and phytochemicals reference database
Information about the healing power of foods, searchable by nutrient or by condition.
(tags: eating food nutrition nutrients vitamins supplements health conditions)

The alternative dictionaries
Slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all the world, from Acadian to Zulu.
(tags: languages dictionaries funny profanities slang swearing)

TrackMeNot
Lightweight Firefox extension that interferes with data profiling and surveillance by [...]

Concert ticket generator
Just enter some text and click the 'Go' button. A picture of a concert ticket will be generated for you.
(tags: concerts gigs generators tickets fun)

The web developer's list of resources
Very extensive list of links, with the option to highlight interesting ones for future visits (if cookies are enabled).
(tags: ajax database design lists programming [...]

I rarely pick up memes, not by choice, but simply because I am too slow, and by the time I have gathered my thoughts The Internet has moved on and I end up looking so last week.
However, the quotes meme I saw at kottke.org is just too easy to pass. All you have to do [...]

Flicking through the Guardian yesterday I noticed an article entitled 'Costa del surgery'. Apparently these days it is a doddle to get some cosmetic work done in Spain, with five-year nip-and-tuck bank loans and repayments from as little as sixty euro per month.
The graphics next to the article listed the prices of the most sought-after [...]

Doctor Who spin-off 'cancelled'
Series producer and writer Russell T Davies decided the programme, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was "a spin-off too far" and called it off.
(tags: doctorwho drwho rosetyler billiepiper russelltdavies tv television scifi sciencefiction)

Last April and May, within under two months of each other, the three cats that were part of Dr B.'s family died. They were all between the age of fifteen and twenty as far as I can remember now - I'd ask Dr B. to confirm but he is still asleep.
Even though I only spent [...]

Farecast launches for 55 US cities
Price history, predictions and buy/wait recommendations for flights departing from 55 US cities. RSS feeds available.
(tags: aggregator airline bargains cheap search shopping travel web)

Michael Tolliver lives
The 'Tales of the City' character is now 52 and living with HIV. Armistead Maupin says this is not a sequel to 'Tales' or Book 7 in the series. Out Summer 2007.
(tags: literature talesofthecity michaeltolliver michaeltolliverlives armisteadmaupin books gay)

Absolut Cut
Pre-mixed bottled drink by Absolut: vodka, soda water and natural citrus juices. If it's [...]

Last April I gave Dr B. a flying lesson for his birthday. He booked it at an airfield near his parents, so we are now up in rural Staffordshire visiting them for the weekend and this morning we all drove to Tatenhill airfield.
I must admit that during the past few weeks I kept noticing stories [...]

Netvibes secures a USD15 million investment
Netvibes' online ajax desktop has made my life incredibly simpler, and I wish it the widespread mainstream success it deserves.
(tags: ajax desktop web2.0 netvibes homepage investments)

CSS3 preview
A showcase of new functions and features that are being thought up for CSS3.
(tags: browsers css web css3 stylesheets)

Phlash - universal cameraphone flash
12 times [...]

I do not like betting.
I have no strong feeling against it, I simply do not enjoy putting money on chance. If you told me right now 'I bet you a millimillion pounds you have *NOT* got a weblog called Bitful' I'd probably would would not take you on, you know, on the off chance that [...]

How not to give away personal data
Delete search engine cookies, search via an anonymous proxy or switch to search engines that claim not to record data such as www.ixquick.com and http://clusty.com.
(tags: searchengines search google ixquick clusty data personal)

Evaluating website accessibility
Series of articles intended to make it easier for non-experts to perform a basic website standards [...]

One of the friends who reads this blog keeps telling me to 'drop all that techie nonsense and dish some personal dirt instead'. So after looking at yesterday's half-baked and probably inaccurate review of Windows Live Writer I thought it is now time to update you on the status of my chest hair these days.
Fascinating [...]

Kate Bush to collaborate with OutKast
Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton of OutKast announced that he'd been invited by his musical heroine Kate Bush to 'camp out' at her house and collaborate on tracks for his forthcoming solo album.
(tags: katebust outkast music pop collaborations)

This post has been composed from a different interface than Movable Type.
After reading a surprisingly positive review of Windows Live Writer (written by someone who is not normally keen on Microsoft products, and found by following a link on #FF00AA), I have installed the beta version of this web authoring tool from Microsoft, and so far [...]

Over three and a half years ago, I decided to cook a Valentine Day dinner for Dr B.
We had just met and I was very keen to show him that I can cook and nurture like a true Italian. Little did he know that a short while afterwards I would show my true nature and [...]

Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story
Todd Haynes' cult-status short film about Carpenter told with Barbie dolls. Unsurprisingly sued by Mattel, A&M Records and the Carpenter family.
(tags: karencarpenter thecarpenters barbiedolls barbie music films cult toddhaynes)

Better Living Through Design
Links to unusual, modern, sustainable and (mostly) affordable design.
(tags: design architecture gadgets modern)

The Brit Pack
A bunch of designers and developers who share a passion for web standards and accessibility.
(tags: designers developers web standards accessibility)

Oxford Dictionaries FAQ on words
Answers to questions such as 'Is there an English word with two consecutive u's?' and [...]

One Sunday not very long ago I showed up at my gym at five to nine in the morning and found it closed.
Little did I know that my gym is open 24 hours a day only five days a week and not seven as I thought. Yes, I know, who would want to work out [...]

The Eggcorn Database
A site devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.
(tags: language eggcorns misspellings english databases)

AOL releases private data without users' permission
'The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box.'
(tags: data internet search privacy users aol)

blinkx.tv
'Search [...]

Google Research to share enormous dataset
Google Research will soon announce that they will make their trillion words available to the public in 6 DVDs.
(tags: google googleresearch dataset data n-gram public searchengines)

Flickr to offer drag and drop geotagging?
A new option briefly appeared, then was removed, that enables Flickr users to tag photos with their locations by [...]

Universal launches new CD packaging
Scissor Sisters' new album 'Ta-Dah!' will be among the first albums released on Sept. 18th in a new Super Jewel Box case (stronger and more durable).
(tags: scissorsisters ta-dah! universal cd jewelcase packaging music albums)

Google Accessible Search launches
Search tool designed to 'identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable [...]