Uncyclopedia - The Content-Free Encyclopedia

Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies.
It is a project like Wikipedia, hosted by the Uncyclomedia Foundation, a non-profitable organization that also hosts a range of other projects.

Effectively its an encyclopaedia written by apes. The unfortunate thing is that its articles rarely go any further than this description did.

Its a great way to waste time though!!

First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley

The original reactant molecule that is resting on a flat silver surface is imaged both before and after the reaction, which occurs when the temperature > 90° Celsius. 
The two most common final products of the reaction are shown. The three-angstrom scale bars (an angstrom is a ten-billionth of a meter) indicate that the reactant and product molecules are about a billionth of a meter across...

>>Continue reading the article at phys.org<<

Ideone.com - Online Compiler and IDE

Ideone is an online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages. Ideone uses their Sphere Engine™ API to execute code on a remote server within a complete & secure runtime environment and to retrieve results of the execution. You can also create your own account to save, review and share your code.

Languages supported by Ideone-

Here are some samples provided by Ideone in different languages.

English For Students

This site provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse all the pages and find useful links and plenty of information.

This website provides a variety of helpful information- from info about tests like TOEFL, GRE, GMAT to having collection of the most famous Nursery Rhymes.
Some of the Topics this website covers are-
 

LinkedLists- Most Popular StackOverflow links

The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow.

It started as an exploration of what kinds of links people shared on Stack Overflow and grew from there.

All the links are mined from the Stack Overflow data dumps (March 2013). The link descriptions are mined by crawling the web and using Duck-Duck-Go which publishes a great free website summary API.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock – play live!

Play Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock with a friend or enemy live over the web to break a tie, resolve a ‘debate’, or kill time before Game of Thrones comes on.

Why?

Online dispute resolution used to be tedious, so I made this.

How to play

1. Send the link above to your frenemy.
2. Wait here for them to show up.
3. The game begins automatically when your friend arrives.

Your World of Text

Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse.
Put any letters at the end of the URL to go to a new world. For example, http://yourworldoftext.com/forexample. They all start off blank. You can also create a custom world for you and your friends.

my page on YWoT

Declassified: America's Secret Flying Saucer - Popular Mechanics

In the 1950s, a small team of engineers set to work on a secret program called Project 1794—a supersonic craft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. Now a trove of declassified documents reveals the audacious mission to build a flying saucer.

Read more!

Your beautiful eyes on Photography Served

I can bet none of you have ever seen something so awesome before.
Here are some of the Extreme Close-ups of a Human Eye!
Just look at them... spongy, velvety things, and get lost in them!

Who wrote the 'Death Note' script?

Beginning in May 2009 and up to October 2009, there appeared online a PDF file (mirror) claiming to be a script for the Hollywood remake of the Death Note anime (see Wikipedia or my own little Death Note Ending essay for a general description). Such a leak inevitably raises the question: is it genuine? Of course the studio had no comment.

see the full blog Post here 

HackerRank

Solve fun programming challenges

HackerRank is an expanding set of programming challenges in various domains of Computer Science. Code in any language you prefer, optimize your algorithm and learn as you go. It is a site for hackers from all over to solve programming problems in many different domains, from algorithms to artificial intelligence.

HackerRank can be used-

• For Fun. What can be more exciting than solving challenging problems? We also add helpful features to make it more enjoyable, such as providing boilerplate code and displaying animations of your code running.

• Glory. As you solve more challenges, you will earn points and move up in the Hacker Leaderboard. Many challenges will involve code-to-code competitions, so may the best hacker win!

• Community. We are building a community of hackers who will be able to discuss problems, learn, compete and collaborate together.

• Learn new Topics. You will be able to learn new programming topics and techniques by going through the challenges on HackerRank. We believe the way to learn something is by doing it.

 Languages supported by HackerRank-

• C
• C++
• JAVA
• C#
• PHP
• Ruby
• Python
• Perl
• Haskell
• Clojure
• Scala
• Erlang
• Lisp
• Lua

Git - Getting Started

Git-scm - We have all seen those pages in github, where you can download the source codes of various projects, or scripts to do various things.. But what is that? What are versions, cloning, How do we contribute to a project?
What's all the hype about git and opensource..
Well you can get all your answers here.

Some features of using Git-

1. Branching and Merging
2. Small and Fast
3. Distributed
4. Data Assurance
5. Staging Area
6. Free and Open Source

Doodle: easy scheduling

Doodle

Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, whether they’re board or team meetings, dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips, or anything else.

This smart assistant saves time for millions of people worldwide, and in the end, it brings people together.

Doodle is free and doesn’t require registration by either the initiator or the participants of a meeting poll.

Flavors.me : The Digital You

Flavors allows you to create a gorgeous website in minutes, bringing together social media updates, photos, videos and more into a unified web presence. 

Population Pyramids

Population Pyramids of the Whole World from 1950 to 2100

SAT : Getting the lowest score possible

Getting the lowest score possible

This document describes author's effort to get the lowest score possible on the SAT exam.

Its a humorous and in-depht analysis of SAT Exams, and how he took his!

Superman-strength bacteria produce 24-karat gold

Superman-strength bacteria produce 24-karat gold

At a time when the value of gold has reached an all-time high, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium's ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold.

An alternate universe

An alternate universe
Its a Technological writer's point of view who was going to buy AppleCare+ at an Apple Store, but passed the new Microsoft Store built next to it!
He went in to try the new Surface tablet, and here's the last para he wrote regarding the experience-

"it’s not for me at all. Not even for testing, experimenting, or curiosity. It feels too much like using a Windows PC, which was exactly Microsoft’s intention, and it will appeal to people who want that. But that’s a world I fled 8 years ago with no intention of returning."

Top 10 technologies of the past 45 years

Top 10 technologies of the past 45 year

The products that helped push rapid change in the IT industry over the past few decades

99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!
Awesome Pictorial way to represent simple things we can do in a particular sitiation to make it easily manageable!!