- Pew Research Center: A Fast Look at How Impressions of Barack Obama Have Changed – Interactive display, showing what went up, and what went down.
- 10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company – ReadWriteStart – 1. Is this your first venture? 2. Are you really an entrepreneur? 3. Does your venture involve something you understand really well? 4. Can your mother understand the value proposition? 5. Can you see the right wave? 6. What does your startup want to be when it grows up? 7. Starting a company is hard and uncertain. 8. Get a partner or fly solo? 9. Would you refuse a well-paying job to do this? 10. Can you raise appropriate financing?
- Facebook Mutual Friend Network Visualization in Flash – The interface lets you see which of your friends know each other. At any given time it will show one of your friends as the selected node (in bold), and any mutual friends as additional nodes. Lines between nodes represent friendships. Clicking a node will select it and you and the new person's mutual friends will appear. Finally, the colour of the circles represents gender for now: red is female, blue is male, and green is unknown.
- Top excuses and tactics: Why haven’t you started your own business? « I Will Teach You To Be Rich – What are the reasons that we don’t follow through? Maybe it’s a genuine lack of technical skill, or we don’t know where to get started, or our friends around us talk us down. More commonly, we talk ourselves out of it.
- 65 Indispensable Websites for Business Owners – Entrepreneur.com – Get your business going, keep it going strong or take it in a new direction with this compilation of web sites for entrepreneurs.
- VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus – VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
- The List : CJR::What the business press did (and didn’t do) while the financial crisis was brewing – Warnings come in many forms, of course. In our search, we came across plenty of stories that were useful to readers in all sorts of ways, even if they weren’t investigations (e.g. “Blacks Are Much More Likely To Get Subprime Mortgages,” WSJ, 4/11/05; “Clouds sighted off CDO asset pool,” FT, 4/18/05) and added them. We also found stories that covered lending and Wall Street in depth, and may have been fine stories in other ways, but weren’t really warnings (e.g. “Battle Ready: In Morgan Stanley Rebellion, Purcell Puts Up Tough Fight…,” WSJ4/4/05). We included those, too, to give a sense of what Wall Street coverage during the period actually looked like. We also included bits of context to give a sense of what was happening on the finance beat at the time. As we went, we saw that stories fell into identifiable types (e.g. “consumer stories” about bad mortgages, “investor stories” about a housing bubble, etc.) and so placed them into seven categories.
- Beware of Snarlin’ Arlen: The Daily Beast – And then, less attractively, there’s his brazenly calculating opportunism that consistently has placed his narrow self-interests over every other consideration, prompting columnist David Broder to write the other day that “he will stick with you only as long as it serves his own interests—and not a day longer.” Add to that an insatiable vanity that, by most accounts, has driven him to get more than one facelift, a deep desire for flattery (not, by any means, unique among senators), and the need to be treated like a raja. (“Where are your bearers?” fellow Sen. Joe Biden teased when they met on the track at Union Station.) And, just below the surface, a simmering rage that occasionally manifests itself in brutal abuse of underlings. Why so mad? I wouldn’t presume to psychoanalyze the man, but it’s not for nothing that he’s called Snarlin’ Arlen.
- Amazon.com: Star Trek: Countdown TPB: J. J. Abrams, Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Tim Jones, Mike Johnson, David Messina: Books – The countdown to the motion picture event of 2009 begins here, in the exclusive graphic novel prequel to Star Trek, the upcoming blockbuster film from Paramount Pictures! JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman present the origin of Nero, the mysterious Romulan who will ultimately threaten the survival of the entire universe. Don't miss this story that brings STAR TREK back to the big screen!
- Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery – PCSTATS.com – Killed a hard drive without backing up? Deleted your babies first photo and already emptied the recycling bin? Not to worry, you can probably recover your data with the help of this guide from PCSTATS. – Version 2.1.0
- How to Make hard drive recover – Instructables search Instructables – Video and text tutorials for "hard drive recover" from Instructables.com.
- Presentations & Information | My Hard Drive Died! | Scott A. Moulton – You will find video presentations where Scott A. Moulton has appeared at many conferences as well as additional information about hard drives, serial numbers, clean rooms and even a 21 page white-paper on the "click of death."
- Hard Drive Data Recovery – Hard Drive Recovery Software – How to Fix a Hard Drive – Popular Mechanics –
- 13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux –
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