Become an MP3 master with Audacity

With professional music software selling for hundreds of dollars, finding a comparable freeware program is no small potatoes. Audacity is an impressive open-source audio editor that has upped its own ante in the new beta version, Audacity 1.3. If you're attuned to the basics of fading and trimming, this guide urges you on the next step of your journey, mastering MP3 files for Web publishing, cell phone ringtones, and podcasts. Here are a few pointers.

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Outlook healthy for health care Web sites, but use caution

Although you can't singlehandedly fix the woes of national health care that are spotlighted in the movie Sicko, many free Web sites at least put a bit more power in your hands to manage personal wellness or a medical crisis. Just share your data wisely.
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Confessions of a Linux Fan: 10 Things You Might Want To Know Before Switching Over To Linux

Linux fans (myself included) love to argue to Windows users how much better the Linuxes are than Microsoft Windows. Now don't get me wrong, I am not posting this to disprove that Linuxes, BSD's, or any of the *nixes are better than Windows, they really are. However (and there's always a however) we tend to be very selective on what we tell you when it comes to the minor details. Take this as a confession, as an admission of those details you might not necessarily like about Linux.

http://thinkthick.blogspot.com/2007/07/confessions-of-linux-fan-10-things-you.html

Does Europe owe its institutional development to Ottoman Turkey?

Every Turkish schoolboy grows up learning about the multitudes of contributions Turkey has made to Western civilization. My favorite one, not in the textbooks strangely enough, is the croissant. The story goes that the croissant was first concocted by Viennese pastry chefs in celebration of the collapse of the Viennese siege by the Ottomans in 1683, with the crescent on the Ottoman flags serving as the inspiration for the design. Well maybe it is just a legend, but it sounds too good to reject outright ...