Daily Writing Tips has created Spelling Test 1. I tried it and got 95%, I am pleased with that since English is my second language.
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Definr fast dictionary
In a post at dailybits.com I found Definr, ‘definr – incredibly fast dictionary’. Definr is a neat and fast way to find out what words mean.
There is also a search extension to Firefox, that makes it even easier to use Definr.
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous…
I just got Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox and went to the useit.com website. The website looks bare and oldfashioned but it is packed with useful information.
The current Alertbox is titled Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous… and starts like this:
Summary:
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they’re worth. They also [...]
The Last Supper in detail
The Last Supper is the painting by Leonardo da Vinci shown in amazing detail. The computer image is 16.118.035.591 pixel (172181 x 93611) and you can click on it to get closer and closer.
They have some other work as well, check their Portfolio.
Love Earth
A friend of mine has seen the movie Earth and strongly recommend it. There is a website at love earth that has information about the movie but also fantastic photos. The earth is beautiful. There is also a blog.
Green fuel
A link to Green Fuel, Literally turned up in one of the mailing lists I belong to. It is an interesting post giving hope for the future.
Most of us think of solar power as coming from glass panels on rooftops, and increasingly large arrays in the middle of some sun-drenched desert. Now it can come [...]
Read New York Times for free
New York Times used to charge for access to parts of its content. I found that annoying and stopped going there, there are many other sources for news. Now they have changed their mind, Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site which I think is great.
TechCrunch writes The End Of The Pay [...]
Contagious yawning indicates empathy
BBC writes that Contagious yawn ’sign of empathy’.
Yawning may reveal more about a person than their boredom threshold, according to research. A susceptibility to contagious yawning may actually be a sign of a high-level of social empathy.
“We believe that contagious yawning indicates empathy. It indicates an appreciation of other people’s behavioural and physiological state,” she [...]
Using Google as dictionary
I often use Google as an English-English dictionary, there is an easy way to search dictionaries. Simply type
define: thewordyoulookfor
then click and you get a list of text from dictionaries.
New seven wonders of the world
The voting for THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD is closed and the result has been announced. The winners are:
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India
An impressive list created after millions of people voted.
A site with a related topic is the UNESCO’s World Heritage [...]
