Astronomy with Google Earth

The latest version of Google Earth has a new feature which allows you to flip the default view (looking down upon satellite imagery of the earth) to looking up at imagery of the night sky gathered from telescopes.

No longer do you have to buy a telescope from ebay to do some star gazing (a bit pointless anyway if you live in an area with bad light pollution). Seeing all those billions of stars does make you feel pretty small though!

Tags: Google Earth, astronomy

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Twenty20 Cricket World Cup wall chart

The Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa will be upon us in a couple of weeks. Get your wall chart (excel spreadsheet), check the fixtures and support your team!

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Shops that accept Paypal

If you're a frequent eBay user like me, you probably have a Paypal account. And maybe having done a virtual car boot sale or two have found yourself in the fortunate position of having a small slush fund... The problem for me has always been that this money always seemed destined to go back into the purchase of some item on eBay. Sure, they, being the biggest online auction site, have a massive range of stuff. Still, it'd be nice to have some choice.

The good news is that online stores that accept Paypal are popping up all over the place. Some of the bigger ones are below:

Barnes & Noble
Buy.com
1-800-Flowers.com
www.GoDaddy.com

Of course we accept Paypal for the software on this website too!
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Premiership ticket prices

As if football tickets weren't expensive enough already, three teams in the English Premier League (Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham) have decided to raise their ticket prices still further this season. They deserve to be named and shamed! It's interesting to note that after this first weekend of action, all three are in the bottom half of the table. In fact, Spurs and West Ham are in the relegation zone!

Tags: football, ticket

Top commenters

The snippet you see at the bottom of the side column is a new feature that has just been added today. The "top commenters" list is there to encourage visitors to give their opinion on thoughts expressed on this website. The five commenters who contribute most will now not only be having their say about blog posts but also get links to their website or blog shown on most Nimisis.com pages.

By the way, as people do share the same names, the counting is done by looking at the email address given with the comment. (This address is never displayed or used to send unsolicited email.)

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XBox 360 Elites for pre order in UK

They're finally available in UK! (Well, for pre order... I'll start watching for its availability with the in-stock checker when we get to the official release date.)

Two degrees

You know Facebook is getting popular when your dad joins up...

I've made a web app that uses the Facebook API to find friends that aren't on your list but should be. It's called "Two Degrees" because of the Six Degrees of Separation idea.
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Tags: Facebook, mashup

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Rip Off Britain!

Long have UK consumers felt that products cost more in their shops than in those of certain members of the EU and United States. Is this feeling well founded? Well, using some data provided by PriceCutReview.com, I've matched up 8000+ identical products, taken off VAT for the UK items and applied an exchange rate of two dollars to the pound. The results are quite startling - it really is Rip Off Britain!

Related: half price, shopping

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