Serendipity on the Net

All the Things you wanted to do

2006-07-24T03:13:00.000-07:00

43things.com

INTP community forum

2006-07-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

This site is a good community forum for INTPs.
Refer keirsey.com for further info on INTPs.

Psychology Links

2006-07-21T01:17:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychology_topic_lists

Most Excellent Collection of Biological Animations

2006-07-09T06:21:00.000-07:00

The Most Excellent Collection of Animations/Videos on all aspects of Biology.
Biology Animations , DNA, Genes, PhotoSynthesis, Chemical Reactions the whole shebang!!.

I Wish that I had access to this Treasure House of stuff. Most probably I'd have gone into Microbiology or something similar and loved it too. Hope the kids of today can dig into this.
Even I might have a go into BioTech sometime :-) Who Knows!!

Nice articles on free Encyclopaedia.

2006-05-26T05:26:00.000-07:00

Free online dictionary cum encyclopaedia :
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Liked the Match the Word Pairs game.

Biology Comes Alive :-)

2006-05-26T02:16:00.000-07:00

Want to see Animations, Movies make Biology come alive? This is a good place to find a huge collection of such links http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/bio1int.htm

3Dvideo from The Human Genome Project (started by James Watson among others)http://www.genome.gov/Pages/EducationKit/download.html#3dvid This one video says more than a 1000 pages. If I'd seen this video in college I'd have gone for MicroBiology. No doubt!! Well there's always BioTech.. :-)

I searched for 'animation genes' and found this awesome site containing links to animations, videos and interactive tutorials on all things biological.
I was inspired by the book 'DNA the secret of life' by James Watson.
I felt the book was too wordy and a few animations or videos would have made things litterally come alive.

The Art of Searching

2006-05-12T02:09:00.000-07:00

The Art of Searching
http://fravia.com or searchlores.org

This site explains what 'The Art of Searching' is all about.
It talks about the Internet and how its structure and design enable you to search for anything on it even if has been removed from the original site.
[Things explained]
Robots - Writing automated scripts to do your searching for you.
Search Engines - How to make the best use of Search Engines for your search.
Time travel - Travel back in time to see pages long "gone" from the internet.
Undeletable - explains how 'if anything enters the Net it'll never vanish'
Databases - searching inside databases and not just websites.
Finding what you want - Power Searching...
Essays on Seeking - A collection of articles from various Seekers.
Essay on how to select a solid book for authoritative reference.

The GenoGraphic Project (Journey of Your Genes)

2006-05-09T22:01:00.000-07:00

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
A five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today (through our Genes).

See Also :
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/overview.html
National Geographic Flash presentation on Intro to Genetics with pictures

National Geographic Offbeat News

2006-05-09T21:50:00.000-07:00

Ranging from the Interesting, Offbeat, to the downright weird news from different areas of interest :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/offbeat.html

Sample news :
Family walking on all fours may explain evolution to BiPedal walking
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0308_060308_all_fours_2.html

Encyclopedia contributed by its users

2006-04-15T06:48:00.000-07:00

Link : en.wikipedia.org
Comment : Wikipedia - your doorway to the world
Uses a collaborative form of message editing by which people set up stubs and posts
which the whole community helps in editing and maintaining. Works on the principle of 'do what you can'. Since the whole community is pitching in small efforts are enough to get huge tasks done.

Chain Mails, Hoaxes, Scams and Spam

2006-04-15T02:13:00.000-07:00

Links :
www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
www.urbanlegends.about.com/
www.truthorfiction.com/
www.hoax-slayer.com/

Info:
http://diamond-back.com/emailhoaxes.html
http://web.mit.edu/ist/isnews/v19/n04/190404.html (how to handle email)

Comment:
Do you get loads of email
a)Giving a sob story about people in trouble etc. "Forward this or else..."
b)Rumours about strange (bad) things that happened to someone (scare tactics)
Check that rumour, hoax, chain-mail at your inbox.
Internet anti-hoax sites or informative sites about email hoaxes etc.

Wikipedia on Acupuncture

2006-04-15T02:12:00.000-07:00

Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture
Comment : Great info on Acupuncture

Secure Programming

2006-04-15T02:09:00.000-07:00

Links :
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/secure-programming/
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Intrusion-INTRO/

Comment: Interesting stuff, esp. the links/bibliography section of the FAQ.

The Art of Learning (and by extension The Art of Teaching)

2006-04-15T02:06:00.000-07:00

Link : http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html

Comment : I found a good blog on Learning How to Teach for Maximum Retention by Students.... You may want to go through this blog on "Crash Course in Learning Theory"
This blog is written by the authors and explains the philosophy behind the writing of "Head First Design Patterns" and Cognitive Science & Learning Theory in general.

Common models of Quantum Physics

2006-04-15T02:02:00.000-07:00

Link : http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_3/chpt_2/2.html
Comment : A great link on some common models of Quantum physics and why they don't explain things properly.

Jumping Interests

2006-04-15T01:57:00.000-07:00

Link : http://archives.betterhumans.com/Forums/tabid/55/forumid/9/postid/2408/view/topic/Default.aspx
Comment : Ever feel that you jump from one interest to another? Well read this....

Life in the Future, Written in the Past

2006-04-15T01:54:00.000-07:00

Link : http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue113/p20_21st_CENTURY_COMPUTING.php
Comment : Interesting Read.
21st century life from Comput! Magazine as seen from 1989
COMPUTE! ISSUE 113 / OCTOBER 1989 / PAGE 20
Got here from slashdot.org

Great Audio Wiki - All things Audio

2006-04-15T01:50:00.000-07:00

Link : http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Download_page#Tagging_Utilities
Comment : Excellent user community wiki on All things Audio. Ripping, tagging, different filetypes specific stuff.