paul reed

• Peaks With 5,000 Foot Vertical Climbs in the Lower 48
  Interesting list of the biggest vertical ascents in North America. A great site with lots of interesting facts about Big Hills.
  (tags: adventures travel hiking climbing)
• The problem of “county confusion” - and how to resolve it
  An interesting document explaining why there is so much confusion over the definition of a ‘county’ in England.
  (tags: uk)

• Top 10 Magic Trick Tutorial Videos
  Fun magic tricks to dazzle and impress!
  (tags: magic howto)
• The 15 tools every homeowner should own
  Enough said.
  (tags: howto life)

• Real Estate Bubble Map: Boston - Platial.com
  Mildly depressing view of property sales in Boston and how the prices are falling. Fast. On the bright side it’s a nice use of the technology to mash Google maps with the property sales data and some user comments.
  (tags: realestate)

• How to Run a Meeting Like Google
  Interesting how Google seem to approach everything like an engineering challenge, and then spice it up with a fun game element.
  (tags: google howto work)

• Online Education
  (tags: education training)

• AT&T- News Room
  This is hilarious. After holding out as an AT&T Wireless customer until just recently, despite it being sold to Cingular a few years ago, it looks like I will be becoming an AT&T customer again!
  (tags: mobilephone)

• Managing the Web
  “Handling a high-profile Web site can be a Webmaster’s nightmare. However, the Atlanta Olympics Web site at the 1996 summer games ran like a dream, handling nearly 200 million hits over the course of 17 days. It was created and managed using a new, evolvi
  (tags: web)

• 2007 Web Predictions
  Some interesting thoughts on what will happen this year on the web. Most of these seems like they’re sensible, and may actually play out.
  (tags: web2.0 2007)

• Antarctic climb feat
  Although Mount Vinson at 4,900m is lower than Everest basecamp at 5,300m, summiting from sea level is a major achievement requiring more altitude gain over the course of the trip than an Everest attempt (8,850m).
  (tags: travel adventures)

Since I was getting mountains of comment-spam, and nobody was actually making any comments anyway, I’ve removed/disabled the comments link. When I have a spare moment I’ll look into the various tools to reduce comment-spam and re-enable it using one of those.