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What is the rate of survival for the average person in 50 degree water for 50 minutes? How can you predict weather based on the patterns of ant movement? All of these rules of thumb can be found at, shocker, RulesofThumb. You can figure out the rule for just about anything, so the next time you are designing a city street, make sure the height of the buildings and the width of the street are the same.

If you’ve got a pile of old electronics sitting around in your house, and pretty much everyone does these days, why throw it away and generate more ewaste when you could trade it in for cash? gazelle is a fantastic service that does just that. Just trade in your old gadgets, and get cash in return. The rates are great, and they’ve even got a fantastic referral program.

Ever visit a site where you just had to register to do anything? It’s irritating, and in general a bad move on the part of the webmaster. Bugmenot takes the hassle out of setting up an account just to visit a site. It provides a huge list of user submitted logins so you can skip registration. Plus Bugmenot also has a Firefox addon, so you don’t even need to visit the site.

Photosynth is one of the products of Microsoft’s Live Labs, a home for experimental projects. Photosynth is an amazing new service that completely changes the way you look at images. Photosynth creates a whole new way of looking at images that goes beyond panoramas. It allows you to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world.

By uploading groups of images, the software stitches them together into 3D “Synths” that you can explore in near virtual reality. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience. While the current release requires installation of a program, future releases may only require a Silverlight plugin. You can see it in action on an episode of CSI.