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http://www.theworld.org/global-hit/

PRI’s The World presents the Global Hit, a daily spotlight on international musical artists or trends. Created by The World’s Marco Werman, the Global Hit features interviews with musicians, critics and deejays around the globe. He is also one of the curators of the South By Southwest Musical Festival (SXSW) – “All Music Is World Music.”

Anyone with an interest in design, illustration or digital art knows the Behance Network is the place to go to find all kinds of amazing artworks. This roundup pulls together a collection of the the site’s most popular and a few of my personal favourite artists and designers

www.instructables.com show realy cool stuff that you can make and have good tips on case modding.

xtranormal - text-to-speech cartoon generator

Compatible with all operating systems, you can create an interactive and visual timeline with Dipity and populate it with your photos. You will need to create an account to get started, but the basic version remains free.

http://www.dipity.com/

Geotagging photographs
http://www.google.com/earth/learn/advan ... ing-photos

uploading in the panoramio layer to show your favourite places. Organize your photos with tags.
http://www.panoramio.com/

An interesting site for disasters

http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/

Sharing is universal. We created Minus to make sharing pictures, documents, music, videos and files fast, easy, and fun. Minus lets you drag files from your desktop and folders directly to your browser to start sharing. For more information on using Minus, please see our FAQ.

http://min.us/

Just came across this nice site specifically aimed at being a buying guide for cars. Just short plain reviews with detailed features, specs and nice images. Happy Shopping

www.cardata.com

Jee, may you please list some text-based websites as well? In other words interesting websites that utilize absolutely no graphics such as http://johannesburg.en.craigslist.co.za/

senile, you are more than welcome to add new sites as well This is for everyone to add not just for me

jee

http://forums.pcformat.co.za

2 great sites on batteries

http://batteryuniversity.com
http://www.mpoweruk.com/index.htm

hyperboleandahalf - still one of the funniest blogs i've come across...

a new search engine where you use slash tags to limit your search using slash tags - you can also choose how you want to see your results - videos, maps etc . And a great way to stop spam in your searches.

http://blekko.com/

read all about blekko here

Not sure if this has been posted. Found a website that lets you listen to ATC live any where in the world.

Live ATC

Local ones I found:

Johannesburg Rand Tower: 118.700
Durban Approach: 125.750
Durban Area Control: 129.100
Durban Ground: 121.650
Durban Tower: 118.450

Very interesting if you into this kinda stuff

Bored and want to kill some time.

http://worldsbiggestpacman.com

The world biggest pacman maze made by user created mazes which are interlinked to each other.

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/titlepage.pl
NASA's SkyView is the Internet's virtual telescope, and "generat[es] images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray." Those individuals without much of an astronomy background need not fear, as NASA's got it covered with their "Non-Astronomers Page".
Watch out for their blog with its unusual stories

For some eye-candy just bounce the rings around. Pretty awesome.

http://wonderfl.net/c/4mly/fullscreen

We have all been in the situation where we have half-finished work due tomorrow. You can upload a unfinished word document and this tool will modify it so that it cannot be opened. You can send the corrupted file instead to buy yourself some extra time.

http://neddyy.net/docs/

yeah and then it gets to me.. and they want their document "saved" and I look the fool... erm... this one is NOT on my "lets-spread-the-love" list