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100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.

8 Reasons Why You Should Marry The Complicated Girl “Why wasn’t it me?” Carrie asked the love of her life right before he married another woman. “No, seriously. I really need to hear you say it. “I don’t know. “Yeah.” I know it’s clichéd to quote “Sex and the City,” but it’s still so relevant. This episode revealed to girls like me what we’ve subconsciously known for a long time: We are the type of girls you should be with, but you don’t want to be with. Mr. She nods and laughs and is always comfortable. Carrie is complicated. Not that Natasha doesn’t care. I am not simple. I only want the best for myself and for my partner, so I will never just go along with some semblance of a mediocre, passionless relationship. An unevolved man or a boy will always want the simple girl. But, a real man knows that by being with a complicated girl, he will be better for it. This is the type of girl you should marry. Even stubborn Mr. Complicated girls are creative and, at times, emotional. No one will encourage you to follow your dreams.

Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more About the MusicBrainz tagging applications Overview The MusicBrainz Classic Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn't recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM IDs) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done. As the community uses the Tagger application, more and more files will be automatically recognized. Does it still work? As of the next-scheduled major release of the MusicBrainz Server (scheduled for beta at the end of August 2009), the Classic Tagger will cease to function, after more than 3 years in a "deprecated" status. Next Steps If you'd like to download the tagger or find out more about how to use it, try the following links.

Home | Popdex Warning: "Hanging in there" is destroying your health Sucking it up is highly overrated. We operate in a society where it seems as if there is some secret committee that hands out awards for people who work through any sickness, embrace sleep depravation or race through the work day without eating. It took me over 36 years to be able to admit to myself that no one was going to give me a gold star for constantly pushing myself forward. I started asking others why they felt compelled to soldier on, and there seemed to be a few common themes: parents’ expectations growing up, needing to prove oneself and fear of rejection or loss. Regardless of the cause, most people who struggle with easing up on themselves also wrestle with admitting weakness. When I look back on the years that I refused to admit weakness of any kind, I don’t think anyone could have convinced me to ease up. The only reason I finally changed my pace was a health issue that brought me to a grinding halt. The problem is that no one sees it coming. Adrenal fatigue is a real thing

Weather for your Life™ AccuWeather.com Local & International Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Wales told us about Wikipedia’s history, technology, and culture, but one thing he said stands out. “The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia,” he noted, “is that it’s some emergent phenomenon — the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing — thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a coherent body of work.”† But, he insisted, the truth was rather different: Wikipedia was actually written by “a community … a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers” where “I know all of them and they all know each other”. Really, “it’s much like any traditional organization.” The difference, of course, is crucial. So did the Gang of 500 actually write Wikipedia? Stanford wasn’t the only place he’s made such a claim; it’s part of the standard talk he gives all over the world. At Stanford the students were skeptical. Excellent article.

Top Ten Lists at TheTopTens 16 Avatar Generators for Profile Pictures and more If you are blogging with students – it’s recommended that you don’t use real photographs of the students. A fun alternative is to create a cartoon avatar instead. This lets the students have a visual representation of themselves, but without using their real image. You could also use these as characters in your lesson resources – add them to your interactive whiteboard presentations with speech bubbles to give lesson objectvies or to ask questions. Here are 16 websites that you can use to create fun avatars. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.Mii Avatar Generator – create a Mii in the style of the characters found on the Wii computer console. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. If you want more of these sites, the full list can be found on my Delicious list here: Got any others you’d like to add?

del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of the year by MIT Technology Review Magazine. Tagging is one example of an innovation that del.icio.us pioneered (at least in its current form). Joshua told me that "del.icio.us was the first app to showcase tagging" and that now "practically everyone uses tags in the [del.icio.us] system in some form." But Joshua has bigger plans for del.icio.us - it will essentially turn into a social network, with more focus on people instead of data. I learned this when I asked Joshua what kind of new functionality we can expect to see from delicious over the coming 6-12 months? "One of the amazing things about our users is how smart and far-reaching their interests are. Comparing del.icio.us to StumbleUpon "Delicious is about extending memory and saving things for yourselves and others.