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		<title>Wikimapia- Wikipedia meets Google Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The picture shows London, where I live and I&#8217;ve highlighted the Old Essex Cricket ground (until 1977) as I live within a couple of hundred yards of it. WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev. 

Wikimapia combines Google Maps with Wikipedia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/wikimapia-wikipedia-meets-google-maps/</link>
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		<title>Warning about Dodgy Websites - Mywot.com</title>
		<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 are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/warning-about-dodgy-websites-mywotcom/</link>
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		<title>Images have becomed Web 2.0&#8242;d</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit gimmicky! Thanks to an add-in in WordPress, all the images show the bottom bit inverted as in a reflection in water.
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		<link>http://portent.org/images-have-becomed-web-20d/</link>
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		<title>30 seconds - 50 Unusual Buildings!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a website that has photos of unusual shaped buildings from around the world. You can vote on which are your favourites or suggest new ones.
http://unusual-architecture.com/Link
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		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-50-unusual-buildings/</link>
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		<title>Software - 3D Virtual World of the Forbidden City, Beijing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(from Wikipedia) The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum.
Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms[1] and covers 720,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/software-3d-virtual-world-of-the-forbidden-city-beijing/</link>
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		<title>Ringtones You Can&#8217;t Hear!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally frequent ring-tone websites but this was a bit more interesting as it has inaudible ones.
Well not entirely inaudible, just to anyone over 30. These are mosquito ring-tones at different frequencies. i can hear up to and including 12Khz which is spot on for my age. I can&#8217;t hear any of the other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/ringtones-you-cant-hear/</link>
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		<title>Rejected Valentines Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These reminded me of the Postsecret cards, not in appearance but in poignancy. There are 21 cards drawn by artist Ehdom. You can buy the complete set on Ebay. Possibly to send to anyone of the opposite sex who humiliated you or rejected your advances at school etc!
Link
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		<link>http://portent.org/rejected-valentines-cards/</link>
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		<title>iPhone App Review - All Shakespeare&#8217;s Works (Free)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
What can you say about the works of Shakespeare? I wasn&#8217;t that keen at school, having Macbeth and the Merchant of Venice forced down my throat but over time have come to appreciate the cultural contribution and story telling that his plays brought.
For instance these words were first seen in his plays, though that doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/iphone-app-review-all-shakespeares-works-free/</link>
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		<title>ShotCode - Free Graphical URL Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers can read text on pictures but it&#8217;s not easy so visual representations like QR Codes or Shotcodes (shown) are used instead. Shotcode generates a circular image encoding of a url and if you have the software running on your cell or mobile camera phone, you take a photo and the software extracts the url [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/shotcode-free-graphical-url-links/</link>
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		<title>SiteStuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aplogies for the last couple of weeks. Some of the side widgets seem to be stopping or badly delaying the main page being shown. Hopefully that&#8217;s now sorted.
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		<link>http://portent.org/sitestuff/</link>
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		<title>iPhone App Review - LootWars, a Multiplayer game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bigger review than usual, complete with animated gif which I&#8217;ve put together from screen dumps. I&#8217;ve been playing LootWars for a week or two now on my iPhone so feel qualified to give an in-depth review.
Its a Multi-player Mobile Game (MMG or MMO?) which is significant itself and not that expensive at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/iphone-app-review-lootwars-a-multiplayer-game/</link>
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		<title>UK Government Released UFO Files 86-92.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cue theme tune:doo doo dooo doo&#8230; nope no Sculley or Muldaur here, just the UK Government releasing UFO archives from  1986–1992. It&#8217;s a collection of PDF files.
While probably 95% of all reports can be explained away there are some that are intriguing eg this report from a retired US pilot who saw something very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/uk-government-released-ufo-files-86-92/</link>
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		<title>Imgfave - Easy Way to Save Images.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imgfave is a free service (registration required) that lets you save a copy of any image you find on the web so you can get it later. Technicall it&#8217;s an image bookmarking service. 
To make it easy to use they provide a bookmarklet, a small piece of JavaScript that you save on a toolbar. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/imgfave-easy-way-to-save-images/</link>
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		<title>The Spoof - Made Up News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sites like the Onion have been around for years but The Spoof is new to me. As something of a writer (not rich or award winning!) I am tempted to have a go myself
The site has a somewhat British flavour albeit with American spellings (e.g. humor) but that may just be the particular writer involved. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-spoof-made-up-news/</link>
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		<title>Global Map of Disease Outbreaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a hypochondriac then this is probably one to avoid! It uses Google Maps to plot disease outbreaks across the world over the last 30 days. 
You can zoom in by disease or affected country. for example though avian flu doesn&#8217;t make the news as much as a year or two back when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://portent.org/global-map-of-disease-outbreaks/</link>
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