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As you are traveling around the world, knowing a bit about your host country can be valuable. It can help you avoid embarrassing situations or it can help you close that business deal.
This is where websites like Travel Etiquette (via Lifehacker) or Buzzle come in handy. The descriptions for the countries and cultures I personally [...]

The Copy Paste Character website (via Lifehacker) makes it easy to copy and paste special characters. The website is very simple: It presents you with a set of a hundred or so of the most common special characters written in a large font. The set includes accented letters, various quotes, math and numbers, and signs. [...]

The web is buzzing with the news that Google is coming out with Google Wave:

Google Wave: A Complete Guide by Mashable
Google Wave “Is What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today” by Lifehacker
Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication? by Mashable
Google Wave: Google Tries to Reinvent Email by Read Write Web
Google Waves [...]

SmashingMagazine (via Lifehacker) has collected 70 beautiful wallpapers for dual-screen desktops. The wallpapers are from a variety of places. If you use a dual-monitor desktop, then this is a good place to start looking for stunning wallpapers.

Instacalc is a web application that gives you a fully functional calculator right in your browser. It supports unit and currency conversions, and it can do trig and log functions.
You can embed live calculations in a website. For example, I have embedded some simple calculations below, and you can modify them as you wish. The [...]

The free online HTML-PDF Converter converts web pages to PDF. Enter the URL of the web page you want converted, and then save the resulting PDF file. It is very easy to use.
The HTML-PDF Converter is powered by Free PDF Converter. It converts an impressive 67 different file formats to PDF. It will also convert [...]

The new company Cc:Betty presented their system for organizing your email. It is as simple as cc’ing betty@ccbetty.com, and Betty will organize your message and it’s contents for you.
Cc:Betty was presented today at DEMO. It has gotten a lot of press on the blogosphere:

Web Worker Daily: Cc:Betty Offers Your Own Personal Email Assistant
Lifehacker: Cc:Betty Organizes [...]

On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon titled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. Despite being diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, Randy gave an amazingly upbeat and inspiring lecture. He described his childhood dreams including being in zero gravity and playing in the NFL, and then proceeds [...]

HTML Playground is a website for testing xhtml and css. You select an html or css tag and modify any attributes that may be associated with it. HTML Playground gives you a description of the tag, and you can then see an example of how the tag is used — shown both as html code [...]

Whspr lets you receive email from anyone without revealing your email address. Whspr sets up a contact web page for you. It is valid for up to a year, and you can delete it at any time. Simply give out the URL for the contact page instead of your email. This can be very useful [...]