Here we go reinventing the white pages, except now you have to pay to get listed. For a moment I thought a .tel domain would open up lots of creative URLs, like "drugcar.tel" and other strange uses - But you can't do that, it only works as a data storage, it doesn't work as a ...
Trying out an automated rewriting service that uses the Amazon Mechanical Turk as a back-end. This system can create “spinner” seed articles and really fast rewrites of anything.
Watch over my shoulder as I build this blog using Headway 1.5 in 78 minutes from scratch.
Nifty system at eMusic.com, no DRM (Digital Rights Merde) on the files, nice selection. Clearly not as large as Audible.com but definitely worth a look, especially since there is no crazy protections on it that might prevent you from playing it on different places or devices.
The Stuff of Thought - Just finished it. Excellent work, however extremely abstract. It helps balance practical knowledge with scientific understanding of how the mind's lingua franca expresses itself. Still, do not enter without a dictionary or a 50,000 word vocabulary - words such as milleu, juxtapose, recapitulate, and abjure are all here, used properly ...
The Language Instinct - Pretty good, informative and approachable. However, somewhat abstract and of limited practical use outside of academia or scientific curiosity. I constantly try to bring whatever I read into practical use in my daily life and work, from family life to social life, organizational behavior and marketing. Could make very ...
