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Custom Games: Call of Duty5 Custom Maps

Theres a mode in Call of Duty 5 (World at war) called “Nazi Zombies” – this epic game mode is extended in lifespan by people making custom maps. Custom Cod5 Nazi Zombie Maps

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Positive Ideas: TED Conferences

TED is advertised as “ideas worth spreading” and I think they are pretty close to that aim. From what I have seen so far they are showing open minded realistic views of big things – from povety to architecture. Go to TED

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Essential WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a superior blogging platform, mainly because it democratises the tools of personal/business/communicative online publication/communication. One of its winning factors is the ability to easily write/add custom plugins. I wouldn’t recommend all of the following plugins but a fair few are essentials. 21 WordPress Plugins / 9 SEO Plugins for WordPress

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Experimental Database Files for Download

Often its a pain to find good data to experiment with. Add Databases.Me to your feedreader and you’ll get drip fed downloadable databases.

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Time Sculpture.Art

Time sculpture is surely a sort of Art? Also worth a look: Boonika ShinyBinary Axel Peemoeller

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Google Insights – Rising Trends in UK

If you are looking for a more long term view of search queiries than trends/twitter then Insights is worth a look: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=GB&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=geo

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Whats hot on twitter?

Who needs google trends when you have Twitscoop? http://www.twitscoop.com

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WordPress mu plugins and theme packs

No doubt you have heard of WordPress, the HUGE free blogging platform. This in fact runs on it. If your upscaling wordpress mu is a great way of running multiple blogs on one box without the hassle of maintaining with updates across multiple blogs. Further to that WPMU is a great place to find plugins [...]

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Twitter Responisbly, who’s listening?

With new concepts such as twitter – who knows whos listening or reading what your typing? Twitter and the Technorati Worth a read.

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Opening Excel .xls files in PHP

If you have access to PHP DOM (You probably should do) then this works very well: read and write excel data with php If you just want a nice comprehensive class to do it then this is a very good open source solution to opening excel files in php. php excel reader

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