The Dirty Secrets of Your Trade

A mixed bag of links.

LibriVox. Volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Japan in a Nutshell. Free PDF.

The Visible Pinball Machine

Browsers compared :)

History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Thanks Mikolka.

Top Sci-Fi Fashion Clothing of 2007

Yes Way on Flickr

How Adidas makes Footballs. Photo series.

Swastika, Ontario
(via)

Best Science Images of 2007 Honoured

Conservatives cock-up over pound again. Brilliant.

b3ta's question of the week - The Dirty Secrets of Your Trade. Some great stuff here and NSFW obviously!

Sister locked up for 70 years and forgotten

I'm having a bit of a problem with my back at the moment making it very difficult to sit in my chair so that may be all the links that I can manage today. Check back later there may be more.

Space 2

Spectacular Mars images reveal evidence of ancient lakes

New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Counting down to who will land a retired shuttle

What Drugs Are Our Astronauts On?

Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight

Centuries-Old Planetary Mystery Solved With Data From Cassini

Commercial space travel: Who's competing against Richard Branson?

UK to have dedicated space agency

Ten Ways Space Travel Isn’t Like Television or the Movies

Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009

Our Solar System May Have Millions of "Twins"

Yuri Gagarin death mystery solved after 40 years

Subway Map of the Milky Way Galaxy

Pluto: A Complex and Changing World : Big Pic

Astronaut Tweets Beautiful Earth Images From Space

We are insignificant

Space rock of doom attacks doctor

15 Fascinating Planets Outside Our Solar System

Astronauts finally get Internet access in space

NASA budget for 2011 eliminates funds for manned lunar missions

Iran launches rocket carrying animals into orbit

Has the Hubble Space Telescope spied asteroid-on-asteroid collision debris?

Tiny Galaxies Reveal How First Stars Formed

Has the Hubble Space Telescope spied asteroid-on-asteroid collision debris?

Why Do Stars Twinkle?

Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion

Mars Had Liquid Water in Recent Past, Rover Finds

Shrink-to-fit spacesuit eases astronauts' workload

Forget Earth - let's move to Mars!

The amazing images from the Space Shuttle's seven-day stint at the International Space Station

Monster Waves on the Sun are Real (w/ Video)

First Commercial Spaceship Debuts

Top Ten Space Finds of 2009: Nat Geo News's Most Viewed

Large moon of Uranus may explain odd tilt

Top 10 Moments in Space Bathroom History

On Alien World, It Rains Rocks

It's Official: Water Found on the Moon

Space images by Astronomy Photographer of the Year Martin Pugh

Stephen Hawking Is Making His Comeback

Pics of Previously Unseen Parts of Mercury

50 Years of Space Exploration(PIC)

First clown in space hosts show to save Earth's water

NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts

NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn

Nasa's LCROSS mission proves once and for all there is water on the Moon

Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning

First thermal pictures of dark side of the moon

Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life

5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories

Martian landscapes

Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life

Mysterious supernova in a class of its own

Mercury probe fly-by maps mysterious inner planet

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Blue Sun Bristling

Highway in the sky: The gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system

Space Junk Problem Visualized

Astronauts are all smiles on spacewalk but budget cuts could end Nasa's hope of returning to the Moon

HiRISE | PDS Release: September 2009. 1,512 high-resolution images of Mars.

Photo: Docked Space Shuttle and Station Cross the Sun

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Eclipses

NASA photos: Cities at night

Top 10 cool satellite projects

Moon landings:1959-2009 (Graphic)

A 17th century mission to the Moon

Astronomy Picture of the Day - From the Moon to the Earth

Never-before-seen photo shows Neil Armstrong's face as he first walks across the moon

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit

NASA finds missing moon landing tapes

Recent scenes from the ISS

NASA to Take Photos of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories

Forty years ago Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. He was there for two and a half hours, but the breakdown which followed lasted a decade. He tells Stephen Moss how he has finally managed to fill the space left by space

Moon Landing Factoids

Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans

Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

Space Station Flare Captured On Film

NASA's early lunar images, in a new light

The Top 10 Telescopes of All Time

What Voyager's golden record tells ET about Earth

How Houston rehearsed its worst ever problem

Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet

The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?

NASA may abandon plans for moon base

This Just in: Mercury More Exciting Than Mars

The Big Picture - Hubble's final servicing mission

Repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope

17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot

How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks

Lunar Leftovers: How the Moon Became a Trash Can

How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks

Hubble Photographs Giant Eye in Space

Stacy Conradt The Quick 10: Pluto, We Never Knew Ye

Largest Space Telescope Ever Launched Will Study Big Bang Theory

Images from Mars and Moon to be Available on Internet

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past

Internet-Observatory to Provide Movie-like Window on Universe

The evolution of the spacesuit

NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft

Buzz Aldrin's freaky space travel story

Google Mars

The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space

Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of debris

Spot five naked-eye planets – but not all at once

Guide to Black Holes

Asteroid bound for Earth! Warn your grandchildren

Students call space station with home-built radio

Why We Shouldn’t End Our Manned Space Program

Odd Planet Reaches Searing 1,200 Degrees

The six biggest mysteries of our solar system

Methane discovery could mean life on Mars

Top 10 Modern Space Videos

The Many Faces of our Amazing Moon

Space Spotlight: stars, Venus and a blue sun

Supersonic plumes of water erupt from Saturn's moon raising hopes of micro life under surface

Bachelor Pads of the International Space Station

Stunning images as astronauts complete DIY repairs on space station 225 miles above Earth

Lost NASA tool bag found! But by amateur astronomers

Astronauts tinker with urine-to-water machine

Science could soar with world's most powerful rocket

Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup

The International Space Station turns 10

Images: Mysterious aurora, mighty storms on Saturn

Photo Gallery: International Space Station

Unusual Red Spiral Galaxies "Strangled"

Space Hair

Most Planets May Be Seeded With Life

NASA Moonstream: Exploratory Vehicle for the Moon

Space station junk burns up over ocean

Magnetic shield for spacefarers

Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007

NASA Mercury Photos: Never-Before-Seen Images From Spacecraft MESSENGER

Hottest ever planet is discovered - at a sizzling 2250c it's half as hot as the Sun!

Space tourist and Russian cosmonauts return to Earth in 'flawless' landing

Ten asteroid encounters that almost got us (and still could)

Top 10 strangest things in space

Pictured: Our Milky Way like you've never seen it before

Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

NASA’s Dirty Secret: Moon Dust

5 Retarded Space Travel Ideas (That Might Actually Work)

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled

Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos

NASA's Most Embarrassing Goofs

How Mars and Alaska Are Alike

Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens HAVE made contact - but it has been covered up for 60 years. Hmm.

Rocket successfully launched from South Pacific

Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion

10 Greatest Major-Impact Craters on Earth

Encyclopedia Astronautica

Man to live on the moon

All Wet? Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet

NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket

Logarithmic Star Maps

Astronomers Discover the First Ring Around a Moon

Police say UFO was just the Moon

Man on the Moon, Future and Past

Voyager pictures reveal Solar System is egg-shaped

The Planetary Society

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home

NASA Spacecraft Ready to Dig on Mars

Space station struggles with balky toilet

Why Do Astronauts Suffer From Space Sickness?

100 Explosions on the Moon

Cassini's Saturn Shots

What was it like to walk on the Moon?

Hard drive data recovered from Columbia disaster

Did Earth once have multiple moons?

International Space Station. Animation sequence detailing the construction of the International Space Station.

Space Telescopes on Google Earth

NASA - Crew Earth Observations 'Top Ten' Photos

Greatest Moon Photos Ever

Stephen Hawking calls for Moon and Mars colonies

Duct tape saved Apollo 17 moonbuggy, while on the moon

America in Space: NASA's First 50 Years

NASA Broadcasts Earth Views in High Definition

Astronauts rescued as capsule lands off-target

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Spiral Galaxies in Collision

Spacejunk in Earth's atmosphere revealed

Sky Delights Over Sweden

Happy Earth Day: Beautiful Pictures of Our Planet From Space

Solar System's 'look-alike' found

Space Cadets, Grab Your Sunscreen: Space Tourism Set for Liftoff

Japan space agency searches for new astronauts

Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public

Map of the First Moonwalk

NASA's New Radiation Shielding First Proposed By John W. Campbell In 1936

Who's Orbiting the Moon?

Life on Mars: Stunning 3D photos show the Red Planet's mountain ranges for the first time

Universe's most powerful blast visible to the naked eye

Boomerang works in space: Japanese astronaut

Excellent spacewalk pictures from last summer's Endeavour mission

What You Don't Know About Living in Space

Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy

Antarctica's unique space rocks

New Radar Maps of the Moon

Moon in Stunning Detail

Ulysses solar spacecraft freezing to death

Life Without the Moon

A map of all the debris and trash that is orbiting the earth

Solar Eclipse from the Moon

How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus

NASA's Messenger Probe Shows Hundred-Mile Cliffs on Mercury

Have a happy day on Mars

First Ever High Resolution Photo of Mercury. More info.

Hubble finds double Einstein ring

Russian Space Chief Says Mars Mission Is Realistic

Japanese South Korea's first satellite: lost in space

The Enduring Mysteries of the Outer Solar System

Astronomical Wallpapers

Rare & Beautiful Vintage Visions of the Future

HobbySpace - Home. Space hobbies and activities.

Top 10 coolest facts about space missions

107 Space Wallpapers

Comet Holmes Bigger Than The Sun

Moon in HDTV

Hotel Biz Zillionaire's Next Venture? Inflatable Space Pods.

If We Had No Moon

In event of moon disaster. The presidential speechwriter William Safire drafted this speech, intended to be read if astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were stranded on the moon.

Second Earth found, 20 light years away

ISS from Space Shuttle Endeavour

Astronomy Picture of the Day September 16 2007 - To Fly Free in Space and September 18 2007 - Tungurahua Erupts

Impact craters on Earth

Rarely Seen Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities

Planetary Imagery: 30 Years From Voyager Spacecraft

'Star Wars' lightsaber will fly aboard shuttle

Mars Rover Photographed From Space

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

Hello Earth

Cassini-Huygens: 10 Years and Going Strong

Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2007 October 13 - Enceladus Ice Geysers. Ice geysers erupt on Enceladus, bright and shiny inner moon of Saturn.

NASA is Building the Third Tallest Roller Coaster in the World, as an Escape System

New currency for space travellers. Scientists have come up with a new currency designed to be used by inter-planetary travellers called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid. Is it April the 1st yet?

The First Photo From Space

Germs taken into space return meaner than before

Moon in Stunning Detail

Full Scale Apollo Lunar Module for sale.

Cat Vs. Scorpion

YouTube - Funny Dog Compilation

YouTube - Really funny cat

YouTube - Cat Vs. Scorpion

YouTube - Bramble goes swimming. Bramble is a hedgehog!

YouTube - Huge Spider Web Spun in Texas

YouTube - Puppy vs Kitty

YouTube - Got Your Tongue

YouTube - Kittens and Dogs

YouTube - Funny cats

YouTube - Seagull Goes Shoplifting. Seagull Sam causes a flap by pinching bags of his favourite Doritos snack.

Friday Games

Friday games time again. Feel free to submit any good games that you find on the net for inclusion in next weeks post.


Ren & Stimpy's Crazy Cannon

Blast Em

Sky Dive

Reaction Time Trainer Game 0.186 for me.

Sky Chopper

Smashing

Adrenaline

Urban Stickman Sniper 2: Vengeance

Nacreous Clouds

An amazing close up of a Snowflake.

Extreme & Beautiful Weather

From the pig with six legs to the Starship Enterprise - the amazing shapes people see in the clouds

What Russian Autumn Is Really About? The comments on this site are usually just as entertaining as the articles.

Dramatic Photos from the 2007 Chinese Floods

No Rain Allowed

Greensburg, Kansas Two Aerial Photographs Before and After the May 2007 Tornado

The Sahara Desert - A Mother Gives Birth to a Hurricane

Nacreous Clouds

More Weather?

The 20 Craziest Musician Fights

The 20 Craziest Musician Fights

Everything I Need To Know, I've Learned From Iron Maiden!

23 Album Covers that Changed Everything!

A Gallery of Ghoulish Guitars



Pink Floyd's The Wall case mod

YouTube - Amy Winehouse secretly filmed in rehab

Which successful bands haven't been influential?

Top 10 Bizarre Musical Instruments

World's Largest Chocolate Fountain

The Top Ten Strange and Unusual Japanese Chewing Gums

The world's wildest delicacies

Ewwwwww... fried rats?

Flickr - Preppy sarnie hell

World's Largest Chocolate Fountain

The 7 Wonders of the Food Coloring World

Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods

6253 Menus for Manhattan New York City Restaurants (via)

Food artists create colorful animals from vegetables

Vending Machines Craze in Japan

New Orleans French Quarter

Photographs from Rangoon and more here Democratic Voice of Burma.

Linkinn - Nature's Best Photography

New Orleans French Quarter - a photoset on Flickr

Will Pearson - 360 panoramic photographer and virtual tours London

Tokyo in 1913: 22 Photographs

The Arctic - Photo Essays - TIME

In pictures: India: A Kite's Eye View

Vintage Children's Books 1854-1923

Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum

Old magazine articles

French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

Brain Maps

US Civil War envelopes

Vintage Tool Ads

Vintage Children's Books 1854-1923

Advertising Trade Cards

More Posters, Postcards and Scans? Page 1   Page 2   Page 3

More MP3 Blogs

Another handful of MP3 Blogs.





Dr Gittfinger's Vinyl Vault - Rare and out-of-print comedy gubbins

Indie/Live/Rare/downloads

freemusicandvideo.blogspot.com

Mussiqa Free MP3 Music Downloads

The Hot Sauce Lounge

80's Soundtracks & More

Want more MP3 Blogs?

How to Escape from a Sinking Car

How to Escape from a Sinking Car from the interesting Worst Case Scenarios.

How to kill a fly without a flyswatter

How to Sleep On a Plane

How to Make a Pop up Photograph

Stain Removal Guide for Carpets

How to draw cartoon characters digitally

How to Spot a Fake Rolex

How to make Rheopectic slime in less than 15 minutes! (It is not Oobleck)

DIY: Whiten your Teeth with Strawberries

Remove Vocals from MP3s using audacity

Build a Laser Spy Microphone On the Cheap

Write a perfect email / Wired How To's

Basic Instructions - Your all inclusive guide to a life well-lived

20 of the all-time best hints for making household repairs

More How To? Page 1   Page 2   Page 3

Pretty Vacant

Pretty Vacant

Jonesyb - Urban Exploration in the UK

RustInPeace.net : : UK Urban Exploration

dereliction.org

Forgotten Places - UE in Essex and Suffolk

Urban Exploration in East Anglia - derelicte UrbEx

Azubi's Adventures in Abandonment

Hawthorne & Leslie, Ship Builders, South Tyneside

More Abandoned/Urban Exploration? Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4

Unique USB Gadgets

Top ten laughably bad tech ads

Top 10 Most Weird keyboards

Unique USB Gadgets

1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now

The Power of 64k Memory

Two new Gmail features in the queue

Google Wants You To Share Stuff

How To Treat Your Employees By Google

10 Google Services That Get No Love

Google Planning Giant Undersea Cable?

Man from Pennsylvania Sues Google for $5 Billion

Microsoft quietly unveils Vista-to-XP downgrade