Here's something I bet you've been eagerly awaiting. This site has a collection of thrift store art that is clearly from another planet. If you visit no others, please find Sad Tiger and My Favorite Martian. If you have time, view them all. They are magnificent in their scary glory. It's a shame I didn't find this in time for Halloween.
Handmark's Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus is a nifty thing to have in your pocket if you use a handheld device with the Palm operating system. It's a hyperlinked dictionary and a fine substitute for places such as dictionary.com. It's useful if you spend some of your time untethered from the Web and can't spell to save your life. I found the interface to be fairly easy to use but annoying in that it doesn't look like a Palm application. It's not half bad for $29.99.
I like meat. Big slabs of chicken prepared via the most-heat method and a knife and fork are my idea of a culinary good time. But I wasn't aware of the use of antibiotics in raising chickens. This Flash-based cartoon parody of the Matrix trilogy got me on my research horse. If nothing else, this short cartoon might make you laugh. It's well produced and a quick view.
Europeans are hooked on sending text messages for a number of cultural reasons. One of the biggest is price. It's cheaper to send a short message because users still pay by the minute for local calls, certainly in the United Kingdom. And mobile phones are ubiquitous. But bluejacking is a fun way of sending a free text message at a very short range via cell phones equipped with the wireless Bluetooth technology. It's mostly for prank purposes, as this site details.
Who, when tethered to the Web, doesn't make a daily visit to worship the data tucked away at Google? But having to enter that pesky address www.google.com in the browser is such a pain. So the smart types at Google have come up with a way to shave a few milliseconds from your packed schedule by putting the search engine right on the desk bar. Mac types shouldn't feel left out even though there is no Mac version. I'm addicted to Ranchero's Huevos, which does something similar on the Mac. Both are free.
