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a selcouth galimatias | MetaFilter

12 January 2009 » In reference

International House of Logorrhea, at The Phrontistry, a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words to help enhance your vocabulary.

a selcouth galimatias | MetaFilter

6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP | OStatic

21 December 2008 » In art, reference, tools

6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP | OStatic

cubismandabstractart.gif (GIF Image, 400×541 pixels)

23 November 2008 » In art, reference

cubismandabstractart.gif (GIF Image, 400×541 pixels)

2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools

23 November 2008 » In education, reference, tools

Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).

2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools

ZerocubeD: How To Make Stencil Image in Gimp

26 October 2008 » In art, reference

Poor use of the English language but excellent tutorial.

ZerocubeD: How To Make Stencil Image in Gimp

Pie bird – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

28 September 2008 » In food, reference

The Oxford English Dictionary comments that the word pie itself (in the culinary sense) may be connected with ‘pie’ as the name of a variety of birds, in particular the magpie, and also comments on a putative relationship between the similar terms haggis and haggess (another obsolete name for a magpie).

Pie bird – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Main Page – Deletionpedia

18 September 2008 » In reference

Deletionpedia is an archive of about 63,555 pages which have been deleted from the English-language Wikipedia.

Main Page – Deletionpedia

deleted thread

18 September 2008 » In blog, reference

Deleted Thread is a collection point for deleted threads from the front page of Metafilter.

deleted thread

Turn Photos of People into Line Art – Online Tutorial at Melissa Clifton page 1

15 September 2008 » In art, comics, reference

Turn Photos of People into Line Art – Online Tutorial at Melissa Clifton page 1

yahoo! vs. google

15 September 2008 » In reference

Enter a term, see how google and yahoo deliver it to you.

yahoo! vs. google

buckminster fuller – Google News Archive Search

10 September 2008 » In reference, synergetics

buckminster fuller – Google News Archive Search

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) – Web design tips & tricks

09 September 2008 » In reference

“browser safe fonts”

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) – Web design tips & tricks

Family Coat of arms and family crests

29 August 2008 » In reference

Aquila non captat muscas – The eagle does not catch flies. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam – I shall either find or make a path. Omni solum forti patria – Every land is a brave man’s country. Su se robore firmat – He strengthens himself by his own might. Latin sounds smart.

Family Coat of arms and family crests

Smugopedia – | Pretend you know better.

14 August 2008 » In biographic, reference

Smugopedia is a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects.

Smugopedia – | Pretend you know better.

Traditionalists.org

06 August 2008 » In reference

This website is devoted to academic research into Traditionalism and–especially–into the Traditionalists themselves.

Traditionalists.org

Knol: a unit of knowledge

24 July 2008 » In reference

A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.

Knol: a unit of knowledge

AncientWeb.org: The Ancient Worlds Great Civilizations

16 July 2008 » In reference

The Ancient web is an online resource for Students, Teachers, and anyone interested in the cultures of the ancient world.

AncientWeb.org: The Ancient Worlds Great Civilizations

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries

16 July 2008 » In reference, tools

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries

OpenOffice.org Off the Wall: Fonts of Wisdom

11 July 2008 » In reference, tools

in Writer, you can select the default, heading, list, caption and index fonts in Tools -> Options -> Text Documents -> Basic Fonts.

OpenOffice.org Off the Wall: Fonts of Wisdom

Vintage Electronics Have Soul – The Pocket Calculator Show Website

08 July 2008 » In reference

to collect and celebrate personal memories of all integrated circuit-based consumer products from the electronics revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Vintage Electronics Have Soul – The Pocket Calculator Show Website