Category: Web sightings
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Insects engravings
John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), after obtaining a law degree, fell in love with entomology and archeology. Thanks to the Oxford Digital Library, volumes 1 & 2 of his ‘Arcana Entomologica‘ are now witnesses of his passion-filled activity (both scientific and artistic). Source: BiblioOdyssey.
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Ashera, a domestic cat with leopard blood
We know that all cats (wild or tame) come from the same ancestor. You may not know that they can cross-breed more or less easily. This led LifestylePets to create Ashera a new kind of cat that is the result of cross-breeding Asian Leopard, African Serval and domestic cat. Unfortunately, you will have to give…
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Meaning and origin of phrases, sayings and idioms
It is often quite difficult to know where a language idiom is coming from (it is less etymology than social history). For English, I foudn the ideal web site: phrases.org.uk. In their own words: The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over…
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Fifty ways to track website traffic
You have a web site, you want to see its traffic growth (it appears that this is the number one way web site creators spend their time: They track each and every little traffic change with stat tools). I offer you here a frighteningly long list of ways to satisfy your worst statistical perversions. Fifty…
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What is RSS?
There are two ways to read this post, one is to go to the web site and to look at the pages; The other is to check the RSS news feed (). If the number of visits is the judge, there are only very slim chances that you know about the mere existence of the…
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Google and numbers
Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting: 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 2 : w3.org (Google search) 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search) 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search) 5 : five.tv TV…
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Fishbowl
Gold fishes are served with the fishbowls from Roger Arquer and their artsy approach to sending a message through glass an water.
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Craziest captchas on the web
We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…
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How to set RSS feeds as your desktop
Want the top news you’re interested in without opening up a browser? There is a way to do it in just six steps if you are willing to exploit the RSS feeds made available by most news web sites. Instructibles (via Download Squad).