Excel shortcut keys

A pretty good list of all shortcuts in Microsoft Excel.

Link: Excel Keyboard Shortcut Keys. Hot keys shortcuts

The online museum of online museums

A site that lists all the museums that have an online presence.

Link: Coudal Partners

10 quotes by Winston Churchill

There are many more, but these 10 are my favourites:

1. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
   

2. Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you
   are drunk.”
   Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

3. "The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives."
   

4. "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

5. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has
   happened."

6. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” ( Reference to World War II
   )

7. "We are a small island but we are not a small people."

8. “Never, never, never, never give up.”

9. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

10. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Deadly Poisons, Ingested or Inhaled

A list of the top 10 poisons that work by ingestion or inhaling.

Note: just posting this as information. I am not responsible if some weirdo misuses this information.

Link: Wired 14.08: START

Performancing for Firefox

I use this, so I am advertising for it. Simple.

This is a great Firefox extension for bloggers. Makes blogging really easy. You can drag and drop elements from websites onto the blog entry as well. Works with multiple blogging sites (any site that supports the protocol).

Link: http://performancing.com/

Concentration

An article that explains many things regarding concentration such as:

1. Poor concentration
2. Your body / health and concentration
3. Maintaining concentration
4. Tips
   

Link: Concentration

How to Find What You Love to Do

How to Find What You Love to Do

A nice article that shows you the steps to change your job if you really are not meant to be in the one that you are currently in.

Link: How to Find What You Love to Do

Customizing Mozilla Firefox

Customizing Mozilla Firefox

Make Firefox do a lot of useful things by adding extensions that suit you.

Very nice article. Detailed list of useful extensions.

Link: Mozilla Firefox - Have it Your Way!

Biomotion lab

See the demo of a person walking under various conditions. Flash movie. Well done.

BioMotionLab1.8

Take your electronic goods apart

A site that shows you how to dissect electronic goods. They don't show how to put it back together, though.

Disclaimer: Don't blame me if you can't put your goods back together :-).



Link: Take It Apart dot net

Doctors' / Medical slang

A lot of terms collected from docs in the US and UK .. some are funny.

Doctors' Slang, Medical Slang and Medical Acronyms, Veterinary Slang, Veterinary Acronyms

95 Theses of Geek Activism

A list by a guy called Devanshu about what geeks should do ....

http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2006/07/23/95-theses-of-geek-activism/

Knowing where to tap ...

Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster.

He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do.
After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life.

He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!

A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer .. $ 1.00

Knowing where to tap...... $ 9999.00

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

India struggles to catch China

An article that shows how far we have to go before we catch up with China.  Sad but true.
God willing, we will get there. But there are many miles to go .....

BBC NEWS |  India struggles to catch China

How much caffeine is present in ... ?

A list of most commonly drunk caffeine products and the amount of caffeine therein.
Coffee, grande (16 oz.) Starbucks has 550 mg. WOW !! Might as well take caffeine intravenously  :-).

Nutrition Action Healthletter - Caffeine: The Caffeine Corner

Logarithmic image transformation

An algorithm to transform images. This can be used in a graphics program.

I don't understand the maths part behind it at all, but the effects look neat.

Link: Logarithmic Image Transformation

Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools

10 tools to make your life easier and more productive.

Top 10 free and cheap productivity tools

GUID Creation on Windows

GUID Creation on Windows

Information on how to create GUIDs on Windows, in case the need arises.

Functions:

1. UuidCreate() -->
MSDN link for UuidCreate()

2. UuidCreateSequential() -->

MSDN link for UuidCreateSequential()

3. CoCreateGuid() (COM) --> MSDN link for CoCreateGuid()

4. EXE to generate GUIDs : guidgen.exe. Microsoft link for downloading GUIDGen

5. Site that generates GUIDs for you: http://www.guidgen.com/

6. GUID structure explained: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.guid.aspx

Biomedical Image Awards 2006

Some beautiful snaps of microscopic structures of various living organisms.

Link: Biomedical Image Awards 2006 - Gallery

Science Facts that People Get Wrong

Some interesting facts that are misunderstood.

E.g.
Pressure cookers force heat* into the food, cooking it quicker.

Wrong --> Heating water under pressure raises its boiling point so that the
steam is at a temperature greater than 100C. It is the higher temperature that
causes the food to cook quicker.

Read on ...    Science Facts that People Get Wrong