del.icio.us links for August 11, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Top 100 Tools for Learning – c4lpt.co.uk

   FireFox 1, del.icio.us 2, WordPress =5, Blogger =9, Facebook =25, IE7 =39, twitter =45, TypePad =52, Flock =63, PageFlakes =90. It’s funny that MySpace or Jaiku didn’t make the top 100 (actually 132 are listed)

2. Police to use terror laws on Heathrow climate protesters – Special Reports – Guardian.Co.UK

   Up to 1,800 extra officers will be drafted in to prevent an estimated 1,500 people disrupting the airport over the period of the camp for climate change, begin on Tuesday. Protesters pledged to take direct action on Aug 18-19 but not to endanger life.

3. Japanese Sewer System (Tokyo Flood Control System) – MegaBunny.Com

   Japan is a heavily-urbanized country. Over 35 million people live in the Greater Tokyo Area, making it the most populous metropolitan area in the world. As one can imagine, this huge concentration of people requires a massive amount of infrastructure.

4. G-Cans: massive underground water system in Japan – BoingBoing.Net

   The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface

5. Hybrid Lighting Applications – ornl.gov

   Each collector is mounted on a 4 inch schedule 40 pipe that penetrates the building roof, and is preferably centered above the 8 to 10 light fixtures to which it supplies light.

6. Full-time and freelance job opportunities for designers and developers – AuthenticJobs.Com

   Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them. Since 2005, qualified candidates have been applying for great opportunties.