Saturday, July 15, 2006

Webwatch

Blog improvement

http://pkblogs.com/vaspersthegrate/2005/03/how-to-improve-your-blog.html
When it comes to blogs, most people are still clueless as to what really makes them different from mainstream websites. In this blog, Vaspers the Grate has featured some helpful hints and tricks as to how one can improve his/her blog. His conclusions are based on the observation of about 250 blogs.


Safety first

http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/
Science students often get irked when their teachers and laboratory assistants get too strict about wearing a lab coat. But are they really as paranoid as they seem? This website presents the fundamental safety rules that science people should be observing while working in laboratories.


Proverbs engineered

http://www.multicians.org/thvv/proverbs.html
At first sight, this may seem like an odd combination. What do proverbs have to do with engineering? However, this hilarious website has some of the answers. Given here are quite a few proverbs which can easily be related to software engineering. Those who are actually in the field will be able to enjoy the wit of these proverbs more.


Still sceptical?

http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/
This website features a “Sceptic’s Guide to Physics”. It offers a collection of articles on interesting themes like “science and arts, not science versus arts”. Comparison has also been made between the poetry of physics and doing physics. Despite its technical nature, the articles will be of great interest to many.

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