All My Faves | Why Search?

All My Faves | Why Search?:
if you have time""

15 Ridiculously Useful Websites

15 Ridiculously Useful Websites

OK, we have different understandings of useful"!
But I did find this one of the 15 to be fun and interesting.

1. Quote: "Musicovery

   Seriously, the coolest music-related site I've seen. You choose the mood, intensity, and genres of the music you would like to hear and the site will provide you with a virtual web of music to explore. The web evolves with each choice you make. You can click on any song in the web at anytime."

THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on today

THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on today
top items from wide range of sources

THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on today

THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on today
top items from wide range of sources

Dylan Dream Concert

BBC Radio Player
good to use for LKate Junction etc., but this week try
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/event_bobdylan.shtml
"an hour of Bob Dylan's greatest hits, compiled from over 40 years of concerts. Dream Dylan Live features four performances direct from Dylan's own archives, which have never been heard since they were originally performed. Of special interest to Dylan fans is a November 1980 performance of Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar, which features the last public performance of guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who died three months after making this final appearance.

Songs featured in the 'concert' are:
* Blowing In The Wind
* Only A Pawn In Their Game
* Lovesick
* Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
* Times They Are A Changin'
* Mr Tambourine Man
* Like A Rolling Stone
* Maggie's Farm
* All Along The Watchtower
* To Make You Feel My Love
* Things Have Changed"

Acorn Adventure Holidays

Acorn Adventure Holidays

and we had great time again this year with these guys, canoeing the Ardeche, white water rafting, caving, abseiling and gorge walking. Perfect for 10-16 year olds and parent/guardians (there are also activities for youngers) Some pix on Flickr

Welcome to the Crocky Trail 2007

the Crocky Trail

its near Chester, our kids love it, and we had a great afternoon today for arrun's birthday trip with five 11-12 year olds.

You might want to know that some people regard it as a health and safety nightmare, while many share my view that this is exactly the sort of activity that kids of my generation regarded as normal fun, and which is squeezed out in risk society. Anyway, see reviews here: http://www.childfriendly.net/view/place/375

Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool

Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool
promising firefox extension

wikis

chaoszone PBwiki looks v friendly.

PBwiki - looks v friendly, student is using just to keep his notebook available anywhere.

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Edinburgh - Art Galleries

Free Albums Galore

Free Albums Galore
wide range of genres!

interesting (popular) websites

Periodic Table of the Internet

Lots to disagree with here, but there are several sites I didnt know that look worth exploring.

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Useful Firefox Add-ons (an occasional series)

OpenURL Referrer
if you use Firefox , you might find the OpenURL Referrer add-on useful.  It adds a link to web pages that feature bibliographic references which allows you to search for the full document. It works with Google scholar or any page that includes COinS data (as does Jason Rutter's Digiplay bibliography).

Other extensions I find invaluable are DOWNTHEMALL and SCRIBEFIRE.

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The Heat Warps

The Heat Warps

a trawl around the archives of this blog has links to amazing material such as the fondly remembered Soft machine's Prom Concert; Dylan's New York studio version of Blood on the Tracks; lost albums from Byrds, Neil Young; and masses of material from Miles Davis and colleagues.

John Cale live

continuing the ramble through music blogs:

Not Rock On: John Cale live 1983

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braziliana psychedelia

Brazilian Nuggets

Esse
é um blog dedicado à pouco conhecida psicodelia brasileira. Pretendo
postar com freqüência alguns álbuns relevantes e raros dos anos 60 e
70, bem como resenhas, históricos e curiosidades.

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Music you'd forgotten

Lost-In-Tyme

blog with links to a host of obscure psychedelia, incHapshash, Crosby out-takes, Sunfighter, Fever Tree... and other stuff like early Fairports.  Links to other sites.

yoono

Yoono, People Powered

handy tools for annotating, capturing, saving, blogging and the like

MMSD downloads

The SDP Multimedia website for ASF download and MMS protocol specification

download mms files, including from asf pointers.

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Scribd

Scribd

this is a flickr or youtube for documents.

a lot of trivia, but there are gems like Tynfdall centre work.

Open Source source

720 manually selected sites about Open Source:
720 Open Source Computer technology sites, last updated on 16 March 2007"

Fort Belan - Wales

Fort Belan - Wales
spoent a good weekend here with a Chorlton group. see pix on Flickr.

Problems with Firefox 2 and Acrobat Reader

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client

be careful about upgrading to Firefox 2, lots of extensions do not (yet I hope) work, and I found biug problems in opening PDFS.
worse, when I installed the upgrade to Acrobat Reader, it somehow wiped my version of Acrobat Professional (on site license) off my PC, and I now have to wait to have this installed.
"Blog this!" is disabled, but I can blog using the more cumbersom (? more powerful??) Performancing.

U B U W E B

U B U W E B
the films are described as the YouTube of the avant garde.
also:
Poetry, music (e.g. a major Terrr Riley), text and more.

Whitney Museum

Whitney Museum
Steve Reich celebration. "Its Gonna Rain"... process music, minimalism and beyond.

Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

since we will soon be wiki-ing, here is a starter introduction

tela.sugarmegs.org - /darkstar/

tela.sugarmegs.org - /darkstar/

new location for vast range of concert performances: only accessible out of US E Coast office hours!

spamgourmet - free disposable email addresses, spam blocker

spamgourmet - free disposable email addresses, spam blocker

good way of reducing spam, if you are giving your email to businesses and various commercial sites.

BBC - Music - Bob Dylan - Video and Audio Clips

BBC - Music - Bob Dylan - Video and Audio Clips Yes, that just about sdums it up? When are they going to release/screen the great concert from the earlier 60s? and what about that TV drama with a Dylan score (and maybe appearance)... Jack of Diamonds??

BBC - Painting the Weather

BBC - Painting the Weather
100+ paintings from 50 UK galleries: lots of rain!

30 Freeware Essentials at Happy Dave - Words, Images, Wonder

30 Freeware Essentials
most standard applications, e.g. a good photo editor.

haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine

haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine: "Strange statues around the world" is just one of the diversions here.

The Hindu : Metro Plus Bangalore / Music : A dead-ringer for Ringo

The Hindu : Metro Plus Bangalore / Music : A dead-ringer for Ringo HUGO DEGENHARDT: look for his Grolsch advert at http://myspace.com/arrun (and no doubt many other places.

BBC World Home Page

BBC World Home Page www.bbcworld.com/click was what the lady oin TV said; the weekly programme has among other things a review of interesting webpages, clickable of course.

TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook

TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook

Wiki made easy, it seems.... I will definitely be trying this!

TRI PLOT

Loughborough University - Physical Geography Research - Resources Gateway
Tri-plot lets you create a ternary graphic from Excel data on three variables (providing they add to 100%). I've tried several other programs and this is the easiest. Like so much Excel, you still have to label points individually.

viamichelin

ViaMichelin: street map, maps, route finder, route planner
Using this to plot European journey - c'est magnifique!

Whiskycats

Whiskycats - Official Website
great jazzy tracks from Arrun's guitar teacher's band.

Jacob Cordingley

Jacob Cordingley : Music, lyrics, downloads @ BandSpace.com
our friend Jacob's myspace page with nice tracks
Jacob didnt get much of a hearing at WOMAD, so appreciate at your leisure.
(The Rivertribe - see earlier post -begins to pall after you've heard it a few times... the captured sounds are good though)

Defence Internet | Freedom of Information | Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the UK Air Defence Region

Defence Internet | Freedom of Information | Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the UK Air Defence Region: "Defenc"

climateprediction.net - BBC Climate Change Experiment

climateprediction.net - BBC Climate Change Experiment use spare computer resources to model climate change in distributed computing.

Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software

Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software what it says on the label!

Funky Do Morro

Funky Do Morro
Tons of brasiliana , favela flavour mp3s

U B U W E B

U B U W E B
Music (eg Terry Riley)
Plays (eg Harold Pinter)
Seminars and lectures (eg Lacan)
Interviews (err... lots of people)
and more

PHILOSOPHY COMIX

PHILOSOPHY COMIX
does what it says on the label

The Brick Testament

The Brick Testament
and there I was earlier today, on my bike, speculating like a liberal about how all those homophobic (etc) orders in the Bible were probably conditional ones obviously aimed at specific groups and needlessly being generalised along the lines of "St Paul said put your raincoat on! We must all wear raincoats all the time!!".
But here is the horse's mouth (if the horse is called Lego).
can't wait for the apocalypso.

Audacity: About Audacity

sound and recording editor: edit MP3 and Wav, lots of effects and features.

etree.org | the leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the internet

etree.org | the leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the internet
These wonderful people have a plugin for playing SHN files (as in Archive.org live music archive) in WINAMP.
and also a utility to comnvfert SHN to WAV, WAV to MP3 and lots more.
Thanks guys!

AdCritic Interactive

AdCritic Interactive Dramatisation of pizza ordering process in a surveillance society... for ACLU

Google Image Result for http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/images/why.jpg

nice cartoons discovered during
(a) a conference (sitting at the back)
(b) searching for images to accompany a lecture.
These are not suitable, but enjoyable.

NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!

NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!: "    
"

This generates nice maps for cross-country comparisons, on a reasonable range of data.

Online Encyclopedia - LoveToKnow

this is a 1911 edition of Britannica. Lack of illustrations and figures, some text garbled, but a treat.

starship in concert

Jefferson Starship 21st century concerts:
Current incarnation of starship in concert again and again - some excellent material

WOW

the war of the worlds braodacst is at: WOW

Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra

the website for this is http://www.planetearthrockandrollradio.com/

Planet Earth Rock and Roll Radio

Streaming video and audio of "Jefferson Quick Dead" in concert Feb 2005

WOW

Real audio streaming the Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds". No Tom Cruise anyway!
Recently the late Warren Wagar's book on HG Wells has been published.

Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead Internet radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio

Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead Internet radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio I've just picked up and enjpyed the CD of David Crosby, IF ONLY I COULD REMEMBER MY NAME. Its long been rumoured that this is extracted from about 4 hours of material that has been circulating on CDRs and tapes since 1970. On this site is an hour long jamming session from this material, which features PERRO, the Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra, featuring Kantner, Garcia and other luminaries. Unlike most of the tracks featured on the Jeruyy Radio front page, the PERRO session will not play. However, I've found how to get it. Click onto "listener comments". Then when the music player bar appears above the track listing and reviewer comments, right click your mouse button, select "play in realplayer", and you're away. Features "Mountain Song" (3 versions) and "Wooden Ships" and other nice stuff.

Patently Absurd Archive

Patently Absurd Archive the inventions we need today!

BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time

BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time Britain's favourtie philosopher - Marx gets 28% of the vote. Hear about the competition and competitors, Hobsbawm reflections. etc.

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC INSPECTOR File Recoverythis german site has what looks to be great freeware for file recovery and management. Just rescued someone's lost files from their camera memory stick. If only I had the file recovery programe a month ago, when I did some foolish updating (=overwriting) of my laptop files.

Bloglines | Most Popular Feeds

Bloglines | Most Popular Feeds:
Just after Jack Scofield's piece in today's Guardian Online about keeping up with the ever expanding world of blogs, here's a guide.

Cartoonbank.com - Search Results

Cartoonbank.com - Search Results
Cartoons on technology - of course using these to liven up a presentation would create all sorts of copyright problems.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:Down Them All - All Releases

Down Them All :
This is a brilliant extension for FIREFOX, which in turn is a brilliant browser. I've just used "down them all" to get all of the working papers from a series linked to a single web page - it took less than 2 seconds to get them all.

autistici : abstract ambience : broken space

autistici : abstract ambience : broken space: "" Lots of sound to download or stream: including the notorious "HIPPOCAMP RUINS PET SOUNDS" plus its cover

Welcome to Flickr!

Flickr Photos; tags; searchability; shareability... its a bit slow, but the hype seems justified

Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio

Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio also historic and studio out takes, other bands and performers.

Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery

Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery
Sceptical view of the affair mentioned in the previous blog, attributing it to multiple sources but especially "contagion" - a milder form of "mass hysteria", leading to people seeing the same unnatural phenomenon in a wide range of different events (cats' paw-prints, partly melted; hoaxers at work; many other causes). Certainly people are inclined to search out common patterns. But can this explain the speed of diffusion of the view that exceptional forces were at work?

BBC - Devon Features

BBC - Devon Features Mysterious and surprisingly overlooked anniversary this week.

Drug Trade

Drug Trade

Pharmacy, medicine and commerce in early modern Europe - much on early herbals etc - large gallery

BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy

BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy

Tristram Shandy is currently being draatised on BBC radio 4, in 15 minutes chunkc. Its a brilliant inroduction for anyone who has trocuble getting into the book, that makes IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER look old hat... This is the TS page with a compettion.

IUMA: Discover unsigned artists, independent bands, local talent - new free mp3 music files, mp3 downloads, mp3 tracks, mp3 players, search engine, cd

IUMA: Discover unsigned artists, independent bands, local talent - new free mp3 music files, mp3 downloads, mp3 tracks, mp3 players, search engine, cds, software and hardware at IUMA 'nuff said!

PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software

PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software:
"PopupTest.com provides a simple and independent source for popup window testing. Whether you are developing a popup killer software or you are thinking about purchasing one, you can use our sample popups to test the effectiveness of the application. We are providing samples of the most common popup styles, as well as some not so common ones (as indicated)."
free downloads of blockers here.

Dee, Manchester, Necronomicon

Following up the Manchester-Dee connection:

From Chapter 21 - Manchester
"The Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of Manchester, was founded about 1420 in this already ancient town by Thomas de la Warre, baron and priest, rector or parson of St. Mary's, Manchester, and lord of the manor. The flourishing town of woollen industries, introduced by the Flemings a hundred or more years earlier, demanded a new and more capacious church; and De la Warre, the last of his noble house, determined to provide buildings in which a Warden, priests or Fellows, and choristers, should be continually resident, as well as to found a new church. He gained the consent of his parishioners to the appropriation of estates belonging to the existing rectory, as an income for the college, and supplemented it from his own lands in the district. He also obtained a charter of foundation from Henry V., dated May 9. The college was dissolved by Edward VI. and refounded by Henry VIII.; but by the time of Elizabeth its lands had been plundered, sold or leased, she herself becoming a sharer in the profits of spoliation until there was hardly any clear property left. At the instance of Dean Nowell, an inquiry was instituted, with the result that the college was granted a new charter in 1578, as Christ's College, to consist of a Warden, four Fellows, and two chaplains, with choristers. Nowell and Oliver Carter were two of the first Fellows. The second Warden was Dr. Chadderton, who had been Leicester's chaplain, and was Bishop of Chester. Under him the Catholics were relentlessly persecuted, Manchester prisons were filled, and the famous Marprelate printing press was discovered and seized. Chadderton's promotion to the see of Lincoln in 1595 made an opening for our persistent place-beggar to be disposed of at last.

"Dee arrived in Manchester on Monday afternoon, February 15, 1596, and took up his abode in the college. On the following Saturday he was installed inthe Wardenship, between nine and eleven o'clock, as he tells us...."
and so on with considerable detail and mentions of familiar places like Ardwick, Newton Heath and so on.

Handled much more briefly in Wilkipedia:
"Dee returned to Mortlake after six years to find his library ruined and many of his prized books and instruments stolen. He sought support from Elizabeth, who finally made him warden of Christ's College in Manchester in 1592. However, he was by now widely reviled as an evil magician and could not exert much control over the Fellows, who despised him. He left Manchester in 1605. By that time Elizabeth was dead, and James I, unsympathetic to anything related to the supernatural, provided no help. Dee spent his final years in poverty at Mortlake, where he died in late 1608 or early 1609. "

John Aubreyb (in BRIEF LIVES?) describes Dee in his later years thus: "a beaten old man with 'a long beard as white as milke, tall and slender, who wore a gowne with hanging sleves' . He earned a pittance telling fortunes and even sold his beloved books, one by one, in order to eat."



And believe it or not (I'm not saying), the Necronomicon makes an exntrance: Necronomicon FAQ: "The Necronomicon appears to have had a marked influence on Kelly; the character of his scrying changed, and he produced an extraordinary communication which struck horror into the Dee household; Crowley interpeted it as the abortive first attempt of an extra-human entity to communicate the Thelemic 'Book of the Law'. Kelly left Dee shortly afterwards. Dee translated the Necronomicon into English while warden of Christ's College, Manchester, but contrary to Lovecraft, this translation was never printed - the manuscript passed into the collection of the great collector Elias Ashmole, and hence to the Bodleian Library in Oxford."

Search Results

British Museum - Joh Dee
Found this almost by chance - a spirit led me to be honest - I recalled looking at Dee's mirror years ago, amazed that such a thing should be on display! Anyway, the info here lets on the interesting fact that Dee was a Warden of Christ's College, Manchester in the 16th century. Est 1824 indeed: I will have to investigate further.

Terra Galleria photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures

Terra Galleria photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures one thing I enjoyed is the opportunity to look through pictures of places I (may have) visited in the past. Plenty gorgeous pix here.

BBC - Radio 3 London Jazz Festival - Jan Garbarek

BBC - Radio 3 London Jazz Festival - Jan Garbarek two hour concert of gorgeous music - very little noodling!

Cameras canot let it lie

Inspirational Things to do with Photoshop (or any reasonable equivalent?)

Telegraph | Connected | Bootcamp 353: Cloning for beginners, part two

| Connected | Bootcamp
Telegraph's equivalent of Guardian Online - since I often use the latter, political balance heh heh says I should point to this. Bootcamp is an archive of computer tips and projects.

VPRO concerts

VPRO Concerts
Stream audio and video performances from cool Amsterdam music venues.

Music

brazilian Music only a few artistes I was familiar with!

April Winchell: Multimedia

April Winchell: Multimedia This offers a wonderful collection of bizarre music. Highly recommended covers of "Stairways to Heaven", awful coporate music, peple who should have been better advised trying to sing...
The homepages are pretty cool too.

Brian E Hodges' Health Career Model Course Notes: (c) 2000 All rights reserved world wide

Brian E Hodges' Health Career Model Course Notes: (c) 2000 All rights reserved world wide & ISS Despite the title, there are excellent links here to resources on visualisation.

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
This is not just fun - it can be a reesarch tool. For instance, you can look at historic versions of government websites, to get older policy formulations, etc. Try looking back at UK Foresight.

A death photographed: one patient's story -- O'Connor et al. 327 (7408): 233 -- BMJ

A death photographed: one patient's story -- O'Connor et al. 327 (7408): 233 -- BMJ
Michael Willson remembered.

anti-telemarketing script

anti-telemarketing script
brilliant script for discombobulating telesales people. But in the Uk we can register with a gvt site to have calls blocked: telling the (now very few) cold-callers who still hit on us that they are infringing this always makes them back off. So I'm unlikely to need to use this.

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine all our yesterdays

Webjay - Playlist Community

Webjay - Playlist Community
play or download the mp3s! Some weird, some v nice (eg hour long ambience culminating in Arvo Part), Beatles Xmas messages to fans....

blinkx

blinkx: "Get blinkx desktop 2.0 with Smart Folders" New version - this has immediately proved useful for me in searching for errant files, and I can see real potential as an engine to searchh large archives.

Error Messages as Poetry

Error Messages as Poetry haiku? tao?? true!

Museum of Hoaxes

Museum of Hoaxes
nicely organised into user-friendly categories - but is it all one big hoax? Hmm - Grauniad is spelled wrongly.

NMAI - Indian Humor - Table of Contents

NMAI - Indian Humor - Table of Contents
Native American humour - illustrations and sculptures. Strange, almost all make political statements!

Firesign Theatre on the web

Firesign Theatre on the web Lots more Firesign, incl some video and animations

Fourmilab

Fourmilab
There are many interesting things on this site - earth from spce, an original theory of UFOs, downloadable classic SF novels and more recent material, hints on making your DVD multiregional under Win98.... lots of good science and computing...

Black People Love Us!

Black People Love Us!
Irony not dead. Read the letters though.

NPR : Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR

NPR : Firesign Theatre, Now Playing on NPR
A series of new performances: great stuff!

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
This seems to work really well. I tested by putting in my name, very modestly. It came up with books and papers in order of citation, one click to find who cites.
There are some anomalies. Often a book/article appears under several variant headings. A working paper that came up in ISI/World of Science as my most cited publication didnt appear - maybe its listed as "I Miles" not "Ian Miles".
But this is quibbling. Its a great resource!

BTW, new versions of Firefox (excellent browser) and Thunderbird (email) are now downloadable from Mozilla. Try them!!

Supervolcano conspiracy theories
While looking for information on supervolcanos (don't ask) I cam upon this smashing site - it has secret societies, government conspiracies against patriotic Americans, the Russians beaming Tesla rays, and everything execpt UFOs (aah). The author claims to have been asked for help by the BBC! and seems to think that a "volatile area" will be affected (as opposed to most of the planet getting devasted when it blows).

Two motifs in the style of Arvo Part

Two motifs in the style of Arvo Part
well, not quite - Part never has such a beat! Rather like Michael Nyman does the Partsman Contract. I like it.