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More rubbish from my bookmarks

Music lists, helped me find some old songs I hadn’t heard for a good while
90’s music

lyrics plugin for winamp (and others), very useful if you like a sing-along
Evil Lyrics

A “Pot Black” quiz from my old uni, it’s very hard btw
Uni Snooker Quiz

Find out how much your neighbour’s house is worth
Net House Prices

Free ancestry information (very useful)
FreeBMD

I’d like to know people’s scores for the quiz My average is about 8.

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud “… shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD.”

Interesting to see how the topics of the day have changed. I wonder how this approach might work for UK Parliamentary speeches. I suspect that the current top tag word will be the same as the US version, no shock there!

Have a guess on the top word before you view the link

get your tongue around this collection of Tongue Twisters.

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

fnarr fnarr

1. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink.

2. Green Catastrophe: If you stare at the black in the center, the moving dot turns to green.

3. Reality Shatter: Now, concentrate on the black in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, many if not all of the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you may only see a green dot rotating.

tip: The Official Reality Dot Appreciation Page

It’s not very often that I do spend the time to sit and read and article thoroughly. 37 Steps to Perfect Markup is one of those that made me stop and spend the time!

Some very interesting and useful tips and explanations, I do recommend you read it, pro and novice alike, there is something for everyone. The discussion of unicode was very informative and this time interesting, every other time i’ve tried with unicode explanations i’ve just been bogged down in the details.

Ever wondered how stuff gets manufactured? Lots of How it’s made videos. Quite interesting really, sometimes you just take all those products for granted and don’t really appreciate how they got here.