UK Library To Archive Every British Web Page On The Internet

The British Library plans to record every single British web page on the internet. Over 4.8 million websites will be committed to paper and ink in order to preserve the nation's "digital memory" for future historians.

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The Untraceable Dealer: $2 Million Exchanged On Underground Drug Site Every Month

 

A comprehensive analysis of underground trade website Silk Road has uncovered it is accounting for nearly $2 million worth of drug sales every month of operation. Nicknamed the 'anonymous marketplace', Silk Road is the place for suppliers of illegal drugs and other black-market goods. In operation largely under the radar of your average peruser of the Internet, its a digital black market common to all kinds of illegal trade.

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From The Guys Who Brought You 'Date A Gamer' Comes Shag A Gamer.com!

From everyone's favourite gamer dating site (not entirely verifiable) Date A Gamer comes a new match-up website dedicated to just one thing: bringing together geek gamer boys and girls for, in their own words, a “quick shag”. Chivalry really might be dead...

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Virgin Media Using 'Success Kid' Meme For Marketing

Meme's have become commonplace for the viral spread of messages; but there has always seemed to be a distinct gap between this form of communication and the 'upper echelon' of marketing, until now.  Virgin Media have begun to use the famous 'Success Kid' meme in their promotional material, including their website and billboards all over UK.

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The Upstart Website Designed To Sell On Unwanted Gifts From Broken Relationships

Relationship break-ups are never a nice thing. A list of duties following a split ranges from everything to closing down shared bank accounts to informing relatives, friends and other parties. But when it comes to disposing of unwanted gifts from past relationships, website NeverLikedItAnyway.com aims to make it as smooth as possible.

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Relive computer OS history with The Restart Page

Out of all the computer innovations that remain temporarily, only to be superseded by what's 'new,' one implementation remains: the restart screen.

Burnt permanently into our retinas as an experience of both explicit annoyance and implicit pride as it becomes our one drawing connecton to our machines of old.  It's something you don't quite recognise the connotations of, until you experience The Restart Page, and take a journey through the history of computer OS reset sequences.

Best enjoyed full-screen.

Source: The Restart Page

NASA unveils hub for open source projects

Continuing with the initiatives NASA has been making to generate an open plain of communication and discussion surrounding scientific research, they have announced code.NASA: a central portal to "continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities."

After just turning Alpha, some of the features are not present yet; but as is there's still much to be done.  You can access information and resources from other users looking to make it big via the NASA open source route.

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BBC leaks external prototype of responsive news page

The BBC News developers have created a fascinating blog about the new trend of responsive web design and furthermore, have leaked an external prototype of the BBC News site with the concept implemented.

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Stumbleupon

Spin the wheel, or click the Stumble button, and see what you find on the world wide web. It's not as broad as it sounds, don't worry, you simply choose some interests you are interested in and StumbleUpon will generate a website or photo relative to your interests. 

It's very rare, in the month I've been addicted to it, that this website brings forth bad results. This is primarily because StumbleUpon learns your favourite interests, through straight forward 'Thumbs up' and 'Thumbs down' buttons. An effortlessly easy to use website which helps you discover the areas of the internet you're interested in, and didn't know existed. 

http://www.stumbleupon.com

The Sixty One

TheSixtyOne is a web based musical journey for users to discover singer/songwriters. The simple web page is a background image, chosen by the artist, a control panel for musical directions (play, pause, volume, skip, add to playlist), a panel to discover new types of songs, for example you can choose a song set to a mood you're in, and a panel to share, comment, download or 'heart' a track. 

This simple site is a gold mine of passionate artists who leave little messages, a mini bio, over their background image for users to read whilst listening and discover more about the artist and the song. If you haven't signed up already, do so now, it's free and it's a musical adventure not to be missed. 

http://www.thesixtyone.com