(Almost) everyday the green peeps at Friends of the Earth give us a drop of enviro-wisdom. Most of them will save you cash too!
Dealing with disksA better way to dispose of CDs.
A better way to dispose of CDs.
In their weekly Manager Tools podcast, Mark and Mike give their (often highly opinionated!) thoughts on management:
Owning The Inputs - Part 2This cast concludes our conversation on handling a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.
Peter Day's World of Business podcast is a great way to keep with current trends in business.
GlobalBiz: Daniel Yergin: 09 Nov 09Peter Day talks to Daniel Yergin, one of the world’s great experts on oil and the energy industry. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books:
Faerie Queene Book 5, The by Spenser, EdmundThe Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which he believed she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remains one of the crowning poetic achievements of the Elizabethan period.
Coffee Break Collection 002 - Faith
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Multi-Faith in various genres.(Summary by BellonaTimes)
Leo over at Zen Habits is a simplicity guru. Sample some of his work below:
Low-Stress Ways To Move House and Declutter Your Life
Don't stress, declutter.A round up of the best of the week from the guys at Lifehacker.
There's nearly always a gem or two and this week is no different
This Week's Most Popular Posts
This week we showed you how to really browse without leaving a trace, rounded up a handful of media-center-boosting apps, uncorked a bottle of wine with nothing but a shoe, and oh so much more.
- How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace
Think that your browser's private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you're still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we'll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing. - Top 10 Apps that Boost Your Media Center
Streaming video, digital DVD backups, DVR recording—it's all possible from your TV-connected media center, and you don't need a system administrator to pull it off. - Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap
You won't find a better media center than the open-source XBMC, but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. - Five Best Application Docks
Remember the days of digging through folders of shortcuts and menus to launch applications? These days many users prefer customizable, attractive docks for launching and keeping track of their favorite apps. - Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being "faster." We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. - Eat a Chicken Wing with Little to No Mess
For some folks, gnawing between tiny bones for hard-to-get meat and getting sauce all over your face are a crucial part of the chicken wing experience. - Open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe
Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can't argue with the results. - Handcrafted and Free Floating: The Wraparound Workspace
We'll simply never get tired of diving into the Lifehacker Workspace pool and finding hand-crafted gems like today's featured workspace. - What's Your Main Operating System?
Windows 7 has only been out for about two weeks now, but statistics web site StatCounter reports that Windows 7's OS market share reached roughly three percent by the end of October. - The Illustrated Guide to the New Firefox 3.6 Windows 7 Integration
The latest Firefox beta integrates much more fully into Windows 7, adding support for Aero Peek-enabled tabs, an enhanced Ctrl+Tab, and more. We'll show you how they work, and how to enable or disable them.
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books:
Family Kitchen Gardener, The by Buist, RobertThe Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It includes the best mode of cultivating, propagating, and managing them in the garden or under glass, and a description of the best implements used in maintaining such gardens.(Summary by BellonaTimes)
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Jinder - Youth Blood - Free MP3Some Scandanavian synth joy to send you off spiralling into the weekend now, from 20 year old Stockholm girl Josefine Jinder. Her debut (this track) is out on Trouble & Bass on Nov 30th and she plays Fabric tonight (Nov 6th). We never thought vampires could sound so ethereal... [...] Read more!
The Simple Dollar is the result of one man's quest to put himself back on the financial straight and narrow. Catch up in full after the jump:
A Reflection of Your Closest FriendsIt’s often said that people are reflections of their five closest friends in many ways: behaviors, income levels, values, and so on. Five years ago, almost all of my closest friends spent money like it was water. They were constantly doing things like playing poker, pushing each other to “one up” the rest with better [...]
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time will bring out the autodidact in you as he explores the history of ideas covering the arts and sciences.
IOT: The Siege of Münster 5 Nov 09Melvyn Bragg discusses the Siege of Münster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific consequences. With Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen,and Lucy Wooding.
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books:
Family Kitchen Gardener, The by Buist, RobertThe Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It includes the best mode of cultivating, propagating, and managing them in the garden or under glass, and a description of the best implements used in maintaining such gardens.(Summary by BellonaTimes)
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Beat! Beat! Beat! - Fireworks - Free MP3Ever wondered what Germany's answer to Foals are like? Ever wished you had a song about fireworks given to you on bonfire night? Probably not on both counts but ho-hum, here you go anyway... [...] Read more!
A weekly reminder of the very cheap (and sometimes cheerful) DVDs on eBay UK. Or get the full feed. It's almost certainly cheaper than a trip to the cinema and it means you get to snuggle up to loved one on the sofa. Plus at these prices you can pass them onto a charity shop or friend after you've watched them and keep spreading the love.
LASSIE THE PAINTED HILLS NEW DVD | £1.92 End Date: Friday Dec-04-2009 22:13:58 GMT Buy It Now for only: £1.92 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
COLLATERAL DVD - TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION
 | £0.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Nov-11-2009 21:21:56 GMT Buy It Now for only: £2.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list |
Will & Grace DVD
 | £0.99 End Date: Sunday Nov-15-2009 3:19:11 GMT Buy It Now for only: £0.99 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
DVD: My Super Ex- Girlfriend. R2. Free P&P.
 | £1.99 End Date: Sunday Nov-15-2009 1:48:16 GMT Buy It Now for only: £1.99 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
DVD: Hostel Part 2. R2. Free P&P.
 | £1.99 End Date: Sunday Nov-15-2009 1:47:32 GMT Buy It Now for only: £1.99 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Shy Child - Criss Cross - Free MP3I've always had a thing for the hardest working drums 'n' keytar duo in showbusiness. Not only were they amazingly nice guys they also had tune after tune after tune up their sleeves. As for this track I remember the boss of Wall Of Sound taking me in to his office to blast it out at a billion decibels and it sounded amazing. Although it's only two years since their Klaxons tour it feels like a lifetime. Nice to have them back and still on form. Thoughts on this track? Download Shy Child's Criss Cross here (Right click and chose 'save as' if necessary. Please link-to don’t re-host) [Subscribe to The Daily Download] Go to Shy Child's website for more info.
(Almost) everyday the green peeps at Friends of the Earth give us a drop of enviro-wisdom. Most of them will save you cash too!
Breath easyHow plants in the home can boost health.
NME's latest free Daily Download is:
Portasound - Press Red For Burt Bacharach - Free MP3Firaz at NME Radio introduced me to this band, and if this first track he sent over is anything to go by they could be destined for pretty big things. It takes the twisted melodies of Gyratory System and affixes them onto a Bloc Party kind of song structure before sprinkling with Metronomy dust and mincing the whole thing through a digital wringer. Then it goes dubstep for a bit before ending with the sound of a diseased PC trying to connect to dial up internet over a disco beat. Nice title too. [...] Read more!
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