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This weather site is a bit messy in terms of advertisements flickering everywhere, but it provides you with the goods: accurate weather forecasts, radar, and an hour by hour outline of the forecast. It is this last feature that endears it to me most.

If you're planning on taking a run, you can check what time the rain is predicted to happen. If you want to go fly a kite, it lets you know what time the winds will be best.

In brief: design is a bit ugly, functionality is nice.

Oh yeah, they also show air quality and link to an allergy forecast as well.

Updated May 7, 2007

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Dafont: fonts

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Most font sites are replete with dead links and ugly derivative fonts. This one is live and has some wonderful stuff.

Updated Mar 10, 2007

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the World's Greatest Recipe Collection

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The recipe collection has a good search engine allowing you to find something to make with the half and half, the mustard and the green beans that are in your refrigerator, or figure out a meal for your vegan friend who is allergic to nuts, or make a brisket as good as your Aunt Betty used to.

There are a few sites that also do this, but the value added part of Epicurious is the reviews of the people who have tried the recipes. Have you tried a recipe from a magazine and had it come out too watery, or too spicy, or just bland? The reviewers will tell you to add 6 cups of water, not 8, one chili, not two and to drop in a teaspoon of cumin and some mushrooms.

If you register, you can keep a "recipe box" and collect recipes that sound good, or ones you've tried and want to make again.

The site also has forums for discussing restaurants, wine and so on, as well as feature articles from Conde Nast food magazines, and a pretty good food dictionary so you can figure out what the heck your snotty friend meant by Maldon salt, but I keep coming back for the recipe files.

Updated Dec 20, 2006

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The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator

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This website will take an uploaded image, blow it up, rasterize it and then turn it into a multiple page pdf. For some reason the first image I felt the need to rasterbate was a portrait photograph of Henry Kissinger. No, I don't know why. Just wanted to see enormous Kissinger.

A friend rasterbated a photograph from the recent BodyWorld exhibit and put it up on her bedroom wall, another friend rasterbated a picture of his nephew for the kids first birthday party, and I'm seriously thinking of rasterbating something to go on the wall above my bed. I just can't quite decide what - probably not Kissinger.

This is somewhat addictive and would be great for making banners for protests, or sporting events, or just paper your friend's bedroom with something strange. (via esh)

Updated Dec 21, 2006

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SMART: find protein domains

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You have a new protein you want to find out about, but no one has worked on it before. Do you use the Entrez conserved domains thing, or do a Blink or BLAST? Naah, you know that SMART (Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool) is way cooler and will give you the results in an easy to examine format. Just plug in your sequence, hit "Sequence SMART" and go. It will tell you that you have a DEAD box helicase or a SH3 domain and then you're on the road to success. Or something like that.

Updated Jan 17, 2007

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Pubmed: bookshelf

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This collection of online textbooks and science literature is an absolute gold mine for students and researchers alike. If your protein of interst turns out to be involved in patterning you can look up Wnt signalling in Developmental Biology. If you need to understand the basics of DNA repair you can see a good overview in Molecular Cell Biology. If you're giving a talk and need a pretty diagram to show how DNA is arranged into chromatin you can search the entire library until you find your favorite (which you will of course reference in your talk).

This collection is often forgotten by scientists because we tend to look in journal articles for our most up to date information. But when you need a refresher on organic chemistry or bacterial nomenclature, sometimes the books are the place to go.

Updated Jan 16, 2007

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Photojojo

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Photojojo has great photography ideas ranging from photo techniques to crafty projects to ways to get fun pictures of your friends and family to computer graphics techniques. You can sign up for their weekly email newsletter or choose to go to their website instead.

The suggestions are aimed at all levels of photographers, from people like me who think in terms of point and shoot to that guy you know who won't let you touch his cameras.

A very friendly site.

Updated May 7, 2007

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Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide

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If Heloise's helpful hints were run by a combination of crafty and slashdotty people, they would look a lot like Lifehacker.

I'd say about 20% of the things on here are relevant to me. I've followed their software advice fairly frequently and enjoyed some of their tips of organization as well.

I've shown the site to about ten people over the past couple of years and I think about half of them visit it frequently. That's a pretty good percentage.

Updated May 7, 2007

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Flickr Pro Account

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Easy to use photosharing site. The best part of this is the community (and the photographs).

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Craigslist

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If you need a: house, couch, job, significant other, babysitter, pet, roommate, free stuff, boat, you can find it on craigslist.

There are sections for most major US cities as well as some world cities.

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