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Project Tuva enhanced video player (left) showing Feynman speaking about Kepler’s three laws, along with the related extras on the right side of the page. When you click an extra, the related content, in this case the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project, appears in a new window (right).

[From: About Project Tuva - Microsoft Research]

As is often the case, intrepid app aficionados have jumped into the fray and given us some help in finding just the right app:

[From: Finding an app in a haystack]

Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more.

We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s.

[From: Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 | Webdesigner Depot]

This phrase is used in a sketch about a badly translated English-Hungarian phrasebook from the British TV comedy show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. There’s a video of the sketch on youtube and a transcript on this site.

[From: Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages]

It’s a pain to link to a specific product on Amazon if you have to use their UI to build an affiliate link. It’s good to have nice, clean and short affiliate links. This post gives you the details and also a bookmarklet to built the links by visiting the product page you want to link to.

[From: Short Amazon affiliate links - a bookmarklet / phpied.com]

Welcome to World Wants to Know, a data visualization suite of questions being asked by rural populations around the globe. Note: This application is currently in early beta (v.0.5), thus the realtime questions and charts may not always load correctly, or at all.

[From: World Wants to Know]