Better navigation

The menus on both the US and UK sections of Half Price Bargains have been changed. They're more generic on the whole and have further sub categories at the top of most pages. Hopefully it makes navigating around the site a bit easier!

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Make money from taking photos

Rate yourself as a bit of a photographer and want some extra pocket money? You don't have to be a pro and work for a newspaper anymore. A couple of sites accept photos from Joe Public and will sell them for you for a fee. Check out iStockPhoto and CitizenImage.

iStockPhoto is the bigger of the two. My application is still being processed. This involves a little test to check that you've learnt their guidelines and a sample of three original 1600x1200 pixel resolution photos proving a modicum of ability.
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Related: photo, money, iStockPhoto, CitizenImage

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How accurate is Alexa?

Alexa.com, the "web information company" is designed to provide statistics on the popularity of websites on the internet - I just wonder how accurate it is at doing so.

Alexa gathers its statistics using the Alexa Toolbar which is an add-on to Internet Explorer. There's the first problem - there's no official Firefox version. (I say official because there is this Firefox extension, but I'm not convinced that it sends home browsing statistics). I think most would agree that the more savvy web user will tend to use Firefox in preference to IE... and they'll sift through more of the web than the average surfer. But, being affiliated to Amazon.com, you'd think it would have enough users to provide statistical reliability anyway. I guess the more popular you website is, the more reliable the figures are. (Other problems include extra browsing lag and occasional crashes.)
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Rugby World Cup wallchart

***Discount rugby kits and equipment***

The Cricket World Cup is over, but there's another one on the horizon - Rugby World Cup 2007. Get your wallchart (excel spreadsheet), check the fixtures and clear your diaries!
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Tags: rugby, World Cup, spreadsheet, wallchart

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Discover music

Need an online radio station that streams full length songs suited to your taste in music? Try Musicovery.

Related: music, Musicovery

Listen to a full length movie online

ListenToAMovie streams the entire audio track of a movie (and some tv shows) online. It is not a files sharing or file swapping site. And although the audio is mono and the encoding quality is intentionally set very low 24Kbs (less than AM radio quality) you can still get the gist of what's going on. They've got a fairly wide selection too.

Demographics prediction

From Microsoft adCenter labs is a potentially quite powerful tool that predicts the demographics for a particular search term.

"You can use adCenter technology to predict a customer's age, gender, and other demographic information according to his or her online behavior-that is, from search queries and webpage views. General Distribution is the breakdown by age of MSN Search users-based on a one-month MSN Search log-regardless of search query used. Predicted Distribution is the predicted breakdown by age of MSN Search users for a single search query, based on the adLabs predictive model."

Tags: Microsoft, adCenter, demographics, statistics

The Children of Hurin

It's finally out in the shops (UK and US)!

"Started somewhere around 1916 - 1918 by J.R.R. Tolkien, then revised several times, it has taken his son Christopher Tolkien 30 years to finally complete it and form the tale of Turin Turambar and the other offspring of Hurin of Hador for publication as an independent work. It is the first, full-length, cohesive Tolkien novel to be published since The Silmarillion of 1977."

Related: Tolkien, book

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