It seems to me that there are a lot of really nifty nodes hanging around the Monastery that don't get a lot of press, because they aren't mentioned in any of the nodelets or menus (that I can find...). For instance:

Now, my questions (er, "discussion points") are two:

  1. What other cool but obscure "utility" nodes are lurking out there?
  2. What (including, but not limited to, nothing) can we do to make these nodes more accessible?
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Re: Useful, but difficult to find, nodes
by larsen (Parson) on Nov 29, 2001 at 15:50 UTC
    A good way to find interesting nodes is lurking in the homenodes of other users, and in their scratchpad: collecting a list of good nodes it's a common practice in the Monastery.
    However, I think the problem does exist. In Lack of structure. Channeling structure I've pointed out it, and I've proposed a possible solution. Tell me what you think about it.
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Re: Useful, but difficult to find, nodes
by Masem (Monsignor) on Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08 UTC
    Pretty much, if you turn on all the nodelet/boxes in your user preferences, all of these nodes are in these (many in Leftovers). But this certainly doesn't fully enumerate them at this point.

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    Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain
    "I can see my house from here!"
    It's not what you know, but knowing how to find it if you don't know that's important

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Re: Useful, but difficult to find, nodes
by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Nov 29, 2001 at 05:22 UTC
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Re: Useful, but difficult to find, nodes
by petral (Curate) on Nov 30, 2001 at 00:05 UTC
    Well, I turned on all nodelets and couldn't find these:

    Most Visited Nodes (I only found 2 that were actually articles!)
    borg's belly (more strange than nifty)

    (BTW, Nodes to consider, I would think, is only above a certain level.)

    ALSO, while we're on a similar subject, what happenned to the CPAN nodelet? Did it die because of connection difficulties hanging up page loads?

      p
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