January 2008
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Make your own Roll-Up Computer Keyboard. →
Pictures and instructions at Instructables, along with some creative ideas in the comments, such as using Scrabble tiles to identify the letters. Simple but satisfyingly geeky. (via Lifehacker)
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Make Your Own Stress Ball. →
Organic Health Blog offers up two great methods to make your own stress ball out of balloons and household ingredients. (via Lifehacker)
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Accents and dialects of the UK. →
From the British Library, a great site for any lover of language. It includes an interactive map with audio clips sampling accent and dialect around the UK, along with points of interest for each. Similarly, the BBC also offers a great interactive site, Voices, which includes audio clips, quizzes, and a “wordmap”.
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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Gandhi
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FreeRice:Expand your vocabulary and feed the... →
I love languages. I’m fascinated by etymology. This site prompts you to guess the meaning of a word, and for each correct word rice is donated through the United Nations. This can be very addictive (“I’ll just try one more word… just one more…”) and make you feel good at the same time.
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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search... →
Great tips and tricks for finding information quickly and easily - such as tracking flights, doing conversions, or just finding the local time anywhere in the world. The user comments add to the list, so there’s more than just ten ideas here.