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Many apologies for the lameness of our posting – we have both been beset on all sides with many many things to do, keeping us from the blog. As some small means of recompense I present you with this, pretty much entirely un-library related, list of interesting links. I don’t remember where most of these came from – they are the result of clearing out a backlog of two months worth of saved interesting links.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension: Awesome visualisation of string theory and dimensions. Makes my brain hurt a bit, but very interesting.

The Crossing: Beautiful flash game by Orsinal (actually, all of their flash games are beautiful, but this one has little deer! What is there not to like?)

blawg.com list of lawlib blogs: Loooooong list of law library blogs. If I wasn’t so information overloaded already, I might even give looking at it it some thought.

Slacker: More internet radio! I don’t think this is new, I just think I missed it, but as the first track it played on the Alternative station was The Decemberists, it’s already won me over :)

iTunes Autorate: An autorater for iTunes that makes me wish I had a Mac. I never remember to rate tracks in iTunes, and having it auto rate things according to how often I skip/play tracks would be kinda cool. Not terribly useful, but still kinda cool.

Five Ways to Mark Up the Web: A Techcrunch post talking about different tools that let you post-its or notes or other bits and pieces on webpages.

Screengrab: A Firefox extension that lets you take screengrabs of the entire length of a webpage, and save it in a variety of different formats. Handy tool.

Boomshine: Incredibly simple and incredibly addictive little online game. Soothing music too. I’ve wasted far too much time playing this.

listeningtowards: Lectures available for download. Amongst the most popular are Kurt Vonnegut and Bill Bryson – there are over 1000 on there, so there’s bound to be something to slip into the mp3 player for those long dull commutes.

Lumosity: Brain training games to improve memory and processing speed – it makes me feel a bit like a computer in need of an upgrade, but it’s interesting to do.

You Don’t Know Jack: has reinvented itself as a web game! C’mon – you all remember it don’t you? And now it’s snarky trivia-tastic-ness is right there in my browser!

The essential guide to piracy: Remember kids, piracy is wrong. But if you’re going to pirate, pirate safe, kay? No one wants the RIAA (or their international counterparts) on their tail.

46 essential KM blogs: Being up to my ears in knowledge management recently has made me check out all the KM blogs around. (Repeat after me – I don’t need another blogging scene to get involved in. I don’t, I don’t)

Entropia Universe: not!Second Life. I haven’t downloaded this yet, nor do I use Second Life, so I’m not really in a position to make comparisons. It’s setting itself up as a competitor though, so it’ll be one to watch out for.

and now, time for sleep. I promise we’ll try and by more regular with the posts now though, really.