(Thanks to Kerry M. for the timely tip that allows me to do a post relevant to both babies and libraries!)
Oh yeah, and it's Friday so time for the weekly FFL (I almost forgot!) Tag-clouds for the first debates of the Democratic and Republican primaries. (via MetaFilter)
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. What he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. […]
Britain’s biggest specialist book chain, Waterstone’s, asked its 5,000 staff to name their favourite five books written since 1982, the date Waterstone’s opened its first store. The list features the cream, both male and female, of the modern international literary world of the last quarter of a century – from Umberto Eco and Bill Bryson […]
A fitting list for Friday the 13th – “13 Lucky Tips For Activists“. What’s #1? “Have a sense of humour.”
I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again. My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta. When I […]
There’s nothing fun about this week’s post but it’ll likely get your blood boiling. A recent MetaFilter post explained how Circuit City was losing too much money so their brilliant idea to improve the bottom line was to fire their top earning employees (3400 of them) and then offer to re-hire them at a lower […]
LoudIt.org offers free MP3 audio books of classic works that you can download or read long with onscreen. (via MetaFilter)
I was recently forwarded an e-mail that mentioned how MIT is offering a variety of free University courses that cover almost their entire curriculum. This e-mail reminded me of a MetaFilter thread I saw a few weeks ago (and I think had even bookmarked into my “Potential FFL’s” folder) that mentions not only the MIT […]
Scribd is a new site attempting to be the “YouTube of documents.” It currently accepts .doc, .ppt, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .ps, .lit, .cia and .nhl file formats (just seeing if you’re paying attention on those last two!) Right now, the site seems to be a mix of pirated e-books (there’s that YouTube connection!) and documents […]
