Category:Media and Gatherings

Instructables – how to do anything

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Check out this great site www.instructables.com.  It offers instructions on how to do or build useful things.  It’ll be enjoyed by “boys”, but also craftspeople, DIYers, people on a budget, people who can’t get cool stuff in their neighbourhood and people who are trying to reuse and recycle or just live with less.  Examples include …
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Charles Darwin on-line

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Some of the notes of Charles Darwin were first put on-line in October 2006. Today they become more complete with the addition of the first draft of the book which changed the world’s attitude to evolution.   The draft notes are among 20,000 archive items created by the 19th Century naturalist during his lifetime, which include …
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Check out the BBC website

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It looks as though the BBC website has been revamped recently.  And its even better.  (No we don’t get commissions.)  The main pages have better summaries.  There is more audio and video.  The navigation is easier.  It looks good.  Maybe even make it your home page (if astraea.net isn’t 🙂 ) – its not a …
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Dealpedia – business deal info …

Posted on Updated on by astraeaCategories:Business, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Media and Gatherings

Michael Rbertson, founder of Linspire (formerly Lindows 🙂 ), has just launched Dealipedia – a business wiki for mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, IPO and other deals. Launching with nearly 20,000 deals, but also never before revealed info like how much Yahoo paid for Flickr, how much Google paid for Grandcentral and how much the founders …
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