Links For 22 September 2007

MySQL cheat sheet
Basic syntax for common commands.
Bacon salt
It's salt, it's bacon-flavored. Best of all, it's kosher!
Japanese manhole covers
Japanese manhole covers, which come in a variety of designs depending on locality, utility type and the manufacturer of the manhole cover, have caught the imagination of a growing number of drainspotters from around the world.
Dreamstime
Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images. Free photos added weekly.

Links For 23 September 2007

Cook's thesaurus
A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Includes pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
CSS drop column layout
Fixed width columns drop down as the browser width is decreased; no javascript required.
Bookfactory
Archival case-bound laboratory notebooks and log books, standard and made-to-order.

Cheap Knock-offs

My math class is doing derivatives via basic differentiation rules after suffering through doing them "the long way" (the limit process that apparently produces many groans and bad test grades).

So Mr. Riley taught us a cute math rhyme for doing the derivative of (u/v):

Lo-dee-hi minus hi-dee-lo,
Over the square of what goes below.

derivative formula for u/v

So totally awesome.