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		<title>GlassDoor.com &#8211; See What Others Get Paid</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/glassdoorcom-see-what-others-get-paid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how much people get paid at small, medium or large companies then this is the site for you and it&#8217;s completely free. You can view companies (over 11,000) generally or enter your own and see a lot more. What is quite surprising for example that at JP Morgan Chase a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Noun Project</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-noun-project/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/the-noun-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting site, it&#8217;s collecting public domain symbols to create a universal pictorial language. They all have to be free, easy to understand and cross culture. You see similar symbols at airports, ports, anywhere that the public visits. This is expanding on the set that&#8217;s currently in use. If you&#8217;re interested in symbols [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[iPhone App Review]Tube Status &#8211; Free</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/iphone-app-reviewtube-status-free/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/iphone-app-reviewtube-status-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought an iPhone six days ago and this was one of the first applications to go on it. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;d call a &#8220;Does what it says on the tin&#8221; application. If you travel on the London Underground (The Tube as we call it) and have an iPhone this is a must. It shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualising the 100 Most Viewed Pages on Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/visualising-the-100-most-viewed-pages-on-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/visualising-the-100-most-viewed-pages-on-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/24/visualising-the-100-most-viewed-pages-on-wikipedia/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an article that compares the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages for the period of September 2006 to January 2007. A software package called searchCrystal is used to visualize the overlap between the five monthly Top 100 lists to show which pages are highly visited in all five months; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GodChecker &#8211; Your Guide to the Gods&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/godwatch-your-guide-to-the-gods/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/godwatch-your-guide-to-the-gods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lego]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/25/godwatch-your-guide-to-the-gods/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a website to recommend to those of a monotheistic outlook on life (&#8220;One God&#8221;). But if you&#8217;re into pantheism or just interested this has lots of information on Gods from many cultures- American Indian, Chinese and many more, 154 gods in total, 316 with their alternative names. There&#8217;s also a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning about Dodgy Websites &#8211; Mywot.com</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/warning-about-dodgy-websites-mywotcom/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/warning-about-dodgy-websites-mywotcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of dodgy websites out there. Not dodgy as in my spelling but sites that are likely to try and infect your computer. This site (mywot.com) provides a browser plug-in for Firefox that shows a green or yellow circle against websites found in searches. Wot is short for Web of Trust. Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Work For You- Find out what your MP is up to!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/they-work-for-you-find-out-what-your-mp-is-up-to/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/they-work-for-you-find-out-what-your-mp-is-up-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it doesn&#39;t seem it, but Members of Parliament are elected to do your bidding. Theyworkforyou is a website that lets you check up on your MP, find out how they&#39;re voting or whatever. The site has been doing that for the last 5 years and has recently added an API so external developers can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Street Map &#8211; Mapping the World</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/open-street-map-mapping-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/open-street-map-mapping-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2008/01/01/open-street-map-mapping-the-world/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maps, especially online have always been restrictive in what you can do with them due to copyright etc. But there has been an international movement dedicated to providing unrestricted alternatives and as you can see, this map of my part of London is pretty good. I&#8217;ve put a blue rectangle around the area in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Salary as a Money Clock</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/your-salary-as-a-money-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/your-salary-as-a-money-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/11/11/your-salary-as-a-money-clock/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a gimmick and it shows in Dollars or Euros only (what about £ Sterling!). Enter your salary in and it shows how much you earn each second or minute etc. Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
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		<title>Highlighting Book Tours For Authors</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/11/highlighting-book-tours-for-authors/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting idea. Authors (in the UK, USA, Australian and Canada) who are doing a book tour to promote their books can connect with audiences via this free site. Likewise the audiences can find out- it&#8217;s not the easiest thing to find out- where do you look for information about forth coming book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Engineer &#8211; Not a web Comic</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/citizen-engineer-not-a-web-comic/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/citizen-engineer-not-a-web-comic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hacking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the web-comic approach, this is a website for those who want to understand how things work. In this case it&#8217;s making a reader/write for sim cards and also how to wire up a pay-phone so you can use it for VOIP type calls. there&#8217;s plenty of such information on the web but the web-comic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vehicle Recalls Database (UK)</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/vehicle-recalls-database-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/vehicle-recalls-database-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vehicles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vehicle recalls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/29/vehicle-recalls-database-uk/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Government websites don&#8217;t usually show up here but I think this one on vehicle recalls warrants coverage. (It&#8217;s UK) &#8211; a database of all vehicle recalls that you can query to see if your vehicle has had anything wrong with it. It used to be you had to phone or call in a dealer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SizEasy &#8211; Visually Comparing Objects by Size</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/sizeasy-visually-comparing-objects-by-size/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/sizeasy-visually-comparing-objects-by-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 06:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not linking to a very dodgy porn site! (Oh dear, I bet I&#8217;ve started a new meme!). Siz&#124;Easy lets you enter the dimensions of common objects and then shows them rendered using Flash with multiple views. In the example show the objects are mobile phones and a pack of playing cards. The purple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YR.NO &#8211; A Decent Weather Site</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/yr-no-a-decent-weather-site/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/yr-no-a-decent-weather-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 03:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geographical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[www.yr.no]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian Met Office has been in business for 70 years and have produced an excellent website in English as well as Norwegian that gives weather forecasts for seven million places around the world. They even provide the weather data free in XML. However they are Norwegian tax payer funded so they&#8217;re hoping not too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging into your Name on the web</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/digging-into-your-name-on-the-web/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/digging-into-your-name-on-the-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unknown for people to put their name into Google and to search on it; nothing like vanity and a touch of narcism. This isn&#8217;t the first site to do it, googlism has been around for donkeys years. This though, originally was an art project and has become a website. It generates a sort [...]]]></description>
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