WORDY STUFF
AltaVista Translations
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
A Biographical
Dictionary
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. "Where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome."
Chiasmus is "a reversal in the order of words
in two otherwise parallel phrases." Like "A hangover is the wrath of grapes" and "Only the young die good."
Sometimes when you're writing, you just can't think of the best way to describe something. That's
when you need Cliche Finder.
A web of online
dictionaries
The
Dictionary
of Regional American English
The Poetry Archive has thousands
of full-text poems.
Pseudodictionary is awesome.
Rock Wisdom: Online reference book of over 9,000 rock quotes.
Search the
web for reference answers
Variety.com's online dictionary of
Slanguage
Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
The Word
of the Day
Word Play: Tons of word-related fun and games.
TECHY STUFF
1001 Free Fonts
CNet's Builder.com
Comstock has stock photos, as does Weststock
Free Web Building Tutorials
WhatIs?com: the mother of all tech dictionaries
LIBRARIAN-TYPE STUFF
The American Library Assocation, including ALSC, PLA, and YALSA.
Booklists for Young Adults on the web.
Nancy Keane has Booktalks.
Children's Picture Book Database
Children's Series Books
Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies
High Decibel Library
Looking for a job in the library world? Try the LibJobs list.
The Librarians' Index to the Internet is huge and utterly useful. You can also subscribe to the mailing list.
Library Juice is another great newsletter you need.
For those of you in Michigan, you should be subscribed to Michlib-L.
New Breed Librarian
Research Buzz is Internet research and news. Get this newsletter!
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
I am one of many Un-shy Librarians
OTHER STUFF
Area Code Info
WetCanvas: Arts School Online: Free art lessons, in drawing, painting,
sculpting, color, perspective, and lots more. Also available are lesson plans and a message forum.
Use Consumer Search when you
want to get the most for your money.
DIY Search is a search engine, but geared toward the DIY ethic and community
Guitar Notes may be helpful
if I ever decide to learn something on my own instead of asking Mike to teach me.
So You Wanna teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
I don't make time to cook very often, but when I do, I might feel like ripping off some
of these Top Secret Recipes. Or
I might look at All Recipes.
Tutorial Finder will help you get
instructions on how to do something.
