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June 16 - Technology

Think Mobile.com

"Portal for the mobile community."

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June 16 - Reference

Gray's Anatomy

"The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn."

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June 16 - Reference

Stammtisch Beau Fleuv Glossary

"We define or expand over 17600 terms (that's more than 263), often with relevant hyperlinks to external sites or cross-references (there are over 19600 links)."

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June 15 - Searching

Denmark Search Conference

I don't often feature my own web site, but I just updated the conference section with the links visited and downloadable documentation from the recent search workshops in Sweden and Denmark. Here is the English version from the Copenhagen workshops, and the Swedish version will hopefully follow soon.

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June 15 - Searching

Search Stamps: Philatelic and Rare Stamp Directory

You never know... "Search Stamps is the one-stop resource for locating Stamp web sites, articles, products and services for the Philatelic Collector and Investor."

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June 15 - Translation

Translation

Worth a read; topics include translation principles, training, tools.

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June 14 - TITLE

Links to patent and other intellectual property information resources

"This site is a guide to patent, and to some extent other intellectual property, information resources on the Internet. It is hosted by the Patents Information service of STB, the science, technology and business wing of the British Library."

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June 14 - Quality

Quality Function Deployment

Something tells me we will need to know this before long... "Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a set of powerful product development tools that were developed in Japan to transfer the concepts of quality control from the manufacturing process into the new product development process."

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June 14 - Writing

The Times Online Style Guide

"The Times Style Guide aims to provide a quick reference to contentious points of grammar and spelling and to guide through specialised areas where confusions have arisen in the past. The alphabetical list covers the main points from previous style guides as well as recurring problems experienced by editorial staff."

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June 13 - EU

The abc of the European Union

"This page provides basic information about the European Union and contains links to more detailed information."

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June 13 - TITLE

Green Engineering Glossary

"The Internet-based Global Green Engineering initiative of Vanderbilt University is geared towards making available a set of resources for evaluating product designs and manufacturing processes for greenness." Here is the site's glossary.

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June 13 - Writing

Press Release Writing Tips

Title says it: tips for writing effective press releases.

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June 12 - Environment

Environment

The University of Buffalo has collected "selected information resources for research in environmental science and engineering organized by type and by topic."

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June 12 - Legal

Privacy International

"Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems, and medical privacy."

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June 12 - Environment

International Institute for Sustainable Development

There can hardly be a translator who has not worked with "sustainable development" and this is the ideal site for word grazing – glossaries, definitions, jargon, and just plain information.

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