Well, not exactly, but I wanted to mention Electropedia, the "world’s most comprehensive online electrical and electronic terminology database containing more than 20 000 terms and definitions in English and French organized by subject area, with equivalent terms in various other languages: Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish".

Here is a sample entry (note that not all entries are available in every language):

EN
    printed circuit     
    this term is in common use with at least three meanings:
a) a generic term to describe a certain technique
b) circuit obtained by printing and comprising printed components, printed wiring, or a combination thereof, all formed in a predetermined design in, or attached to, a surface or surfaces of a common base
c) circuit obtained by printing and comprising printed wiring and conventional components, all arranged in a predetermined design in, or attached to, a surface or surfaces of a common base     
FR
    circuit imprimé     
    terme généralement utilisé avec trois significations possibles au moins:
a) terme générique pour décrire une certaine technique
b) circuit réalisé par impression, comprenant des composants imprimés, un câblage imprimé, ou une combinaison des deux, le tout formé selon un dessin préétabli ou rapporté sur la ou les surface(s) d’un support commun
c) circuit réalisé par impression, comprenant un câblage imprimé et des composants conventionnels, le tout disposé selon un dessin préétabli ou rapporté sur la ou les surface(s) d’un support commun     
DE
    gedruckte Schaltung    
ES
    circuito impreso     
IT
    Circuito stampato     
SV
    tryckta kretsar

Electropedia is published by the International Electrotechnical Commission.

Languagehat reports on the online availability of French lexicographic materials, including the Dictionnaire Littré de la langue francaise.

On the encyclopedia front, www.Larousse.fr has been revamped to allow contributions from readers, a la Wikipedia,but these are clearly identified by a different colour from the official contents of 150,000 articles and 10,000 illustrations or animations, which are verified and updated regularly.

UNESCO has just announced that its first update of the world translation bibliography of Index Translationum for the year 2008 is now online, featuring some 75,000 new entries from Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Finland, France, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain.

This edition of Index Translationum contains some 1,800,000 references (from 1979 to now) on all subjects. Offered are all manner of ways to sort the data—many of them surprising and, as often happens with data, difficult to interpret.

A new research report "The Price of Translation" reveals that pricing within the US$12 billion-plus global translation services industry has remained relatively stable in recent years.

For most languages, prices fluctuated by only 10% up or down over a four-year period, according to the report by Common Sense Advisory, Inc., an independent market research firm specializing in the language services industry. The findings came from a detailed online survey completed by nearly 300 language service providers (translation firms) about their pricing structures, processes, and customer bases.

The 112-page report includes average pricing data for the 10 languages with the greatest global economic impact (e.g., French and Chinese), as well as 23 "next-wave languages" used in rapidly developing markets or in countries important to the global supply chain (e.g., Arabic and languages of India).

Note: The full report is available to subscribers only.

Source: Multilingual News, May 28, 2008,

The website Safemanuals.com offers free downloads of thousands of manuals and users guides for domestic appliances, computer hardware, digital cameras, and more, including brands ranging from Acer to Zyxel. This is handy when you cannot find that paper copy of a manual you are sure you put somewhere, but it can also serve as a great resource for translators.

Take, for instance the multilingual manual for an Olivetti ECR 5300 cash register—nice for French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish or Swedish translators working on such a subject.

The files are in PDF format, and besides going through a pretty standard CAPTCHA routine, the download is easy. So far, the site has been translated into Spanish and French, with other languages coming "soon". The homepage claims that the site has over 800,000 documents, with more being uploaded.

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a rare Plantin Polyglot Bible, containing parallel texts in Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Aramaic with translations and commentary in Latin.

"The Plantin Polyglot Bible is the Ransom Center’s single most important rare book acquisition in the past two decades," said Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley.

It joins a sizable collection of Bibles at the Ransom Center, including one of the 48 surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible, a 1476 Jenson illuminated Bible on vellum, several copies of the original King James Version of the Bible, and two Coverdale Bibles, the first complete English translation of the Bible.

FCICE Written Test Prep Seminars are beginning in a city near you! These training seminars by the National Center for Interpretation have assisted up to 40% of participants in passing the written portion of the FCICE. Test Prep Seminars will be offered in Texas on these dates:
El Paso - May 31 and June 1, 2008
Houston - August 9 and 10, 2008

Cost: $375. For more information download the brochure.

If you cannot attend one of these seminars, take a look at the FCICE Written Sample Examinations so that you can practice at your convenience!

XE.com offers many online foreign exchange tools, including a convenient table of cross rates, e.g., the ratios of one currency to another, for frequently consulted currencies. Live mid-market rates are refreshed once a minute. You can also create cross rate tables based in currencies of your choice (even obsolete currencies) using current or historical rates.

The site has a quick currency converter, but you can access a "full" version of the Universal Currency Converter, which contains every known world currency: over 180 currencies in over 250 geographical locations.