A new site, Brijit provides 100 word summaries of magazine articles in a number of categories. Sort of a MetaFilter for magazines and you guessed it…via MetaFilter.
Continuing my trend of posting contrarian viewpoints on major Christian holidays, here's a piece on why atheists get angry and frustrated with believers. (But I am glad to have a long weekend so thanks for that and the chocolate eggs, Jeebus! )
It threw me a bit to be typing a random list of common English words rather than the more usual sentences and paragraphs but I did okay on this site's typing test – one of many available online. When I've done other typing tests, both online and in the real world, I get anywhere from […]
You know it's a hard core list when the Library of Congress only ranks an “honourable mention”. Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries
Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of if:book, “bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of […]
I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that. But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the last twenty-four (I won't get too graphic about how I spent the other eight hours but you can imagine… …I'm feeling a bit better so I decided […]
Gives new meaning to the phrase “cook book“. And pretty much any site's even more fun when viewed with this.
One of the things I'm trying to do while on the road training branch librarians and the general public about the Internet and computers is to go beyond the usual suspects (Google, Wikipedia, Flickr and so on) to share some more obscure sites people might not have heard about but which are really interesting or […]
Word Sandwich is sort of like the old Mastermind game but with words instead of colours. Pick a five letter word and the game tells you if you're either “higher” or “lower” than the hidden word alphabetically starting with the first letter and winnowing it down with each succeeding one.
