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An excellent article on disk bottlenecks in Oracle databases and how to pinpoint performance problems

http://www.dbazine.com/burleson19.shtml

And there really is a BAARF (as mentioned in the article above)

http://www.baarf.com/ (Battle Against Any RAID Five)

Neat Origami Models

http://www.keconnect.co.uk/~rglynn/diags.htm

While we're putting Bioinformatics on hold theres a little known G5 cluster solution from Apple designed to do computations in this area

http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/wgcluster.html

Popular guide to Unix pronounciations (the etymology of some of the words towards the end is pretty interesting)

http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.faq/.unix/.pronun.html

Have 3000000UKP burning a hole in your Pocket (small change for Sales people I'm sure . . .)

http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/sales_islands/sites/02_eilean.html

Power miniature devices via Vibrations

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/prototype80204.asp

In the wake of recent viruses there is increasing anger at Joe Averages lack of basic IT skills

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076047250.html

For people who enjoy the outdoors (or camping in their backyard) Camp stove from a Pepsi can

http://www.pcthiker.com/pages/gear/pepsiGstoveinstruct.shtml Finger Light

http://www.s-lite.com/FingerLite.htm

And of course 20 years on from 1984 we should all be doubleplus thankful for Big Brother

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/

http://www.studentsfororwell.org/

Amusing Short Film (featured at the Sundance Film Festival) that puts lunch and wanting to get fired into an innovative new light (be sure to turn sound down!) :

http://www.eggwork.com/lunch/lunchpost.htm

Control electrical equipment in someone elses house and watch the results via webcam (slow but it works)

http://drivemeinsane.com/

Was on slashdot but if you missed it - run Linux as a cooperative task beside Windows

http://www.colinux.org/

Internet Maps

http://www.opte.org/maps/

Help find related artists with this music mapping tool

http://www.musicplasma.com/

Longish video stream of the Phillips rollable LCD (ie digital paper) in action

mms://Ntstream2.ddns.ehv.campus.philips.com/efi/86090/rollable_display/rollable_display_interv_long.wmv

Not quite as useful as fixing the f%#king product in the first place but still . . .

http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=SecurityPosters

Two useful Public Service tools

View website logins (eg for New York Times) for registered accounts so you don't have to

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Use once instant mail accounts to thwart spammers

http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/Welcome.do

Mix up content of two different websites

http://www.topfx.com/cgi-bin/mixmaster.cgi

Like this

http://www.topfx.com/cgi-bin/mixmaster.cgi?layouturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accelrys.com&contenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dilbert.com

Movies of the Honda Asimo robot in motion

http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/movies/

Virtual CD/DVD Emulator

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5

Or a Microsoft gadget for XP to mount ISO's (its beta so be careful)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe

Does what is says - enhance your corporate lingo -

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html

Nice Flash Art

http://www.thethirdplace.com/espace/module8/

http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/

Almost there with electronic paper

http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000515.html#more

A dock for PocketPC's and Palms to allow USB/Ethernet and Video Out - use your PDA as a desktop

http://www.synosphere.com/gallery.htm

The System Is Down - why this excuse is unacceptable

http://www.darwinmag.com/read/010104/down.html

On the same site - metrics for storage technology

http://guide.darwinmag.com/technology/infrastructure/storage/index.html#metrics