Many TV channel feeds

currently Betty Boop cartoons on Free Cartoons TV (USA) - TV e Rádios Em Directo | Ao Vivo - TVtuga
go up a level for many more channels

WYATT variations

here is the set-list.
Set list
For German speakers and lovers of Robert Wyatt, Michael Mantler, Annie Whitehead, Sarah Jane Morris,   etc., I recommend pointing your browser at http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/RobertWyattVariations2008-10-31FrankfurtGermany.asx and letting Windows Media Player or whatever do its job.
Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt 2008 -  'The Wyatt Variations'
Or you can download the file and you can fast-forward past the announcements.  I am currently getting much pleasure from this - it helps to know the lyrics where there are instrumentals though, coz you can mentally sing along. 
Of course we all know the concise British alphabet.

Fractals!

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

wildlife finder

BBC - Wildlife Finder - Homepage

"...30 years of wildlife film making. Dive into the BBC's archive, explore the wealth of video, sound, stories and breaking news, and let the greatest show on Earth unfold..."

More free pix

American Road Free Pictures - FreeFoto.com
this just happens to be the page I'm on, there is lots more here.  I am looking for a spaghetti junction foto.

photos for presentations

Photos - EU  free photos for presentations

forbidden

The Forbidden Corner - The Strangest Place In The World
looks good, havent been,  need a young child prepared to travel!

Supposedly genuine workplace quotations - sound familiar?

Humorous Quotations and Sayings - Page 1

Dilbertian Quotes

A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the top 12 finalists:

1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This is the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, WA.)
2. What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. (Lykes Lines Shipping)
3. E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business. (Accounting manager, ElectricBoat Company)
4. This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it. (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)
5. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them. (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.)
6. My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and she couldn't edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected. (CIO of Dell Computers)
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, "That would be better for me." (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)
9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)
10. We recently received a memo from senior management saying: "This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject mentioned above." (Microsoft, Legal Affairs Division)
11. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!" (New business manager Hallmark Greeting Cards.)
12. As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo in one of the sentences I mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for perverts (paedophilia?) working in her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired - and the word "pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two days later, a memo to the entire staff came out directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. (Taco Bell Corporation).

ftp://ftp.qualisresearch.com/pub/qda.pdf

Weft QDA - a free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysis

I havent tried this free qualitative analysis software - but looks promising!
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Weft QDA is an easy-to-use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts, written texts and fieldnotes. It includes a number of fairly standard CAQDAS features (follow links to see screenshots):

• Import documents from plain text or PDF
• Character-level coding using categories organised in a tree structure
• Category and document memos
• Retrieval of coded text and "coding-on"
• Simple coding statistics
• Fast free-text search
• Combine coding and searches using boolean queries: AND, OR, AND NOT
• "Code Review" to compare the coding of multiple categories
• Export to HTML and CSV formats
• Single-file (*.qdp) project format
• Available FREE on Windows & Linux, under a public domain licence

more audiobooks

LibriVox: Search Results

audibooks!

Lit to Go: Browse by Author

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish - Anne-Wil Harzing

(quotes)

Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way.....

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:

• Total number of papers
• Total number of citations
• Average number of citations per paper
• Average number of citations per author
• Average number of papers per author
• Average number of citations per year
• Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
• Egghe's g-index
• The contemporary h-index
• The age-weighted citation rate
• Two variations of individual h-indices
• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a variety of output formats (for future reference or further analysis). Publish or Perish includes a detailed help file with search tips and additional information about the citation metrics

Great replacement for Windows Explorer

ExplorerXP - Freeware file manager for Win2K/XP
strangely my newish PC came without Winexplorer, and getting there through "Documents" is a pain.

But here is a real improvcement, not least since it hasd tabs (and you can save yiour favourites)
and it shows folder size.
and more.

BNP poster

A Tideswellmans' Weblog: BNP Flyer - Ammended Version
the BNP (fascist party hoping to do welll in the current political mess) issued posters and flyers featuring various nonBritish people (including a Spitfire piloted by a pole).

Oh gosh

Pathway To Unknown Worlds

education made easy
look at the links

SF Studies

Science Fiction Studies is published three times a year
many back issues and key artciles downloadable, together with timelines and other goodies

for example:
#5: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Full text) #7: The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Full text) #10: Science Fiction Before Wells (Full text) #55: Science Fiction and Postmodernism (Full text) #57: Special Section: Stanislaw Lem (Full text)
#77: Science Fiction and Queer Theory (Full text) #78: History of Science Fiction Criticism (Full text) #79: On Global Science Fiction - Part I (Full text) #80: On Global Science Fiction - Part II (Full text)
#95: A Jules Verne Centenary  (Edited by Arthur B. Evans) (Full text)

• Edward Bellamy. How I Came to Write Looking Backward (1889)
• Karel Capek. The Author of the Robots Defends Himself (1935)
• Hugo Gernsback. How to Write "Science" Stories (1930)
• "The Inhabitant." The Great Romance (edited with a foreword by Dominic Alessio) (1881)
• Edward Maitland. On and From By and By: An Historical Romance of the Future (1873)
• A Review and a Foreword by William Morris (1889; 1893)
• "John Quill."  The Women's Millenium (1867)
• Maurice Renard. On the Scientific-Marvellous Novel and Its Influence on the Understanding of Progress  (1909)
• Documents in the History of Science Fiction: REVIEWS (1873;1880)
• H.G. Wells. Utopias. (1939)
• H.G. Wells. Woman and Primitive Culture (1895)
• Raymond Williams. Science Fiction (1956)

Bruce Sterlings blog!

Beyond the Beyond - Wired Blogs

Mostly live

Music downloads

File conversion - plus digital audio capture and more

Audio Sound File Converter Software- Convert to wav, mp3, wma etc.