International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)
Description: Home of the SI units, or as we learned in school, the Metric System. In 1960, the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the name Système International d'Unités (International System of Units) for the recommended practical system of units of measurement. It is officially known by its French name Le Bureau international des poids et mesures.
Added on: 15-Feb-2006 Hits: 1071
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Cryptome Eyeball Series
Description: I found this site because they had a series of maps and pictures of bridges on the Mississippi river in their Eyeball series. I suppose, to someone interested in aerial bombardment, it represents a collection of military targets. Cryptome is a controversial website, hosted in the United States by its owner John Young, that functions as a repository for information that is prohibited or suppressed by various governments. According to his website, John Young is a former architect from New York City.
It also contains obscure documents relating to freedom of speech, cryptography, surveillance, and so on. Although many of the files available are of little importance, Cryptome has caused a stir in the past with items such as:
The MI6 files - a list of MI6 agents published on May 13, 1999.
The Eyeball series - a series of detailed maps for sensitive government facilities and sites of significant public interest.
Pictures of dead U.S. soldiers from the 2003 invasion of Iraq that the Pentagon refused to release.
Added on: 07-Feb-2006 Hits: 1533
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World Wide Words
Description: Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Check out the Weird words section....
Added on: 17-Dec-2005 Hits: 1035
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Whatis - IT learning center and encyclopedia
Description: Keep up with the latest technologies and the quickly evolving terminologies that grow up around them at this superb reference site. (At least according to PC Magazine)
Added on: 15-Oct-2005 Hits: 1076
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Fontsite
Description: Very useful information about fonts and style
Added on: 08-Oct-2005 Hits: 1209
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Textkit - Greek and Latin learning tools
Description: Textkit was created to help learn Ancient Greek and Latin!
Textkit is the Internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from,
Added on: 04-Oct-2005 Hits: 1068
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Universal Product Code (UPC) database
Description: You can enter the all digits printed on the UPC bar code, including any numbers to the right or left of the bar code itself, even if they don't line up with the main row of numbers. It will return the product information associated with that bar code. Downloadable database too.
Added on: 19-Aug-2005 Hits: 1242
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Project Gutenberg - online eBooks
Description: Online ebooks freely available - Substantial catalog of out of copyright material
Added on: 25-Jul-2005 Hits: 1139
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Science, Optics and You (Powers Of 10 at FSU)
Description: View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Added on: 09-Jul-2005 Hits: 1101
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Library of Congress Map Collection
Description: United States Library Of Congress Map Collection
Added on: 30-May-2005 Hits: 1088
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