Over the weekend I intended to post a few links to some wacky sites I came across but after spending a good full day looking up Chinese characters I had had enough of sitting in front of the computer and went home. Don't worry I kept the links just for you dear reader.
Over on
Worth 100 they have a great page of counterfeit/hacked art - quite fun to have a look at. As we are all now globe trotting it is important to keep an eye out for monsters and
monsterguide provides a very informative and helpful field guide to monsters of the world. While on the topic of monsters, should you come across any and feel your deep seated superhuman powers come to the fore, then
coolhunter reports that Bonds are now offering the opportunity to design your own superhero undies, now how groovy is that!
As you may have already seen I try and post up an interesting word for the day. Usually I just come across these words in my reading and when I don't know them, like any good scholar, I look them up. Yesterday I found and interesting article on the Latin roots of English words on
The Straight Dope. Who would have thought the word "boogie" comes saltatio Bogudis (dance of Bogud)! I just thought it was a more polite word for snot! ;) Another good site for learning languages and that provides a wealth of free materials is the
FSI. Another good language learning site is
How-to-learn-any-language.com. Lastly, while on language I will give you today's interesting word, that come from my room mate Michael. Numinous - an adjective meaning 1.) Of or relating to a numen; supernatural, 2.)
Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence:
a numinous place, 3) Spiritually elevated; sublime.
Monday morning and start up my trust machine and go through my regular round of websites. Today on
lifehacker I found a good number of fascinating links. One of the many dangers we face is aliens. Even my father-in-law had a run in with a UFO while living on the farm in Paraguay. In order to protect yourself you can't go past a good tin foil hat. On
ericisgrat.com he provides a very suave collection this seasons latest hats. No doubt we will see them on the catwalks very soon! Often while working on my PhD I find I have to send off a quick ransom note, usually to a librarian, and now
joshuary.com provides an on-line ransom note generator. How helpful is that! Coming from London, where it is obviously rather dangerous to sleep at night, comes a bedside self defence kit courtesy of
jamesmcadam.co.uk. And last but not least, a
fortune cookie site, this time though perhaps it should be called an "[un]fortunate cookie" or "[bad] fortune cookie".
That's all for now, back to the grind.... DHA
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