What is the favorite April Fools Joke you have performed or have heard of? One of my favorites was when I was a music student in college and we were really bored in the practice rooms. We took a 16 foot bulletin board and completely inverted the contents of it! It […]

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lifehacker.com had a good post on finding free Books on Saturday. It was sharing a post from FriedBeef.com, Top 10 Best Places to Get Free Books. The comments to the lifehacker post are as good as either of the actual posts. There are lots of ideas here! DailyLit.com even emails […]

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The Associated Press via The Wall Street Journal reported that ‘The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online.’   The Adobe.com site says,
‘Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to […]

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TeacherTube.com is a great video resource for teachers and classrooms.  Then comes along SchoolTube.com!  With the discovery of SchoolTube.com even I am being tempted  to join the ‘video crowd’!  LOL.  What is SchoolTube?  I’ll let the site tell you itself…
‘A Few Words About SchoolTube
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media […]

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There is much more to Amazon.com than just books! Amazon Web Services “provides developers with direct access to Amazon’s robust technology platform. Build on Amazon’s suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications.” I discovered these services from ‘Woman’s World’ (no Website ?) magazine who mentioned Amazon Mechanical Turk.  […]

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Melissa Kelly of About.com’s Secondary Education does it again! Check out the resources she provides here.

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I rec’d KimKomando.com’s Cool Site of the Day and I was interested but not near as much as most people probably are. You see, I’m not really that into online videos. I’ve seen some really good ones but I just don’t spend a lot of time looking for them.  I confess […]

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An interesting article appeared in The Washington Post entitled, ‘Question for the Ages: What Books When?‘ The article was written by Valerie Strauss of the ‘Post’. After giving a few examples of parents being upset about books their children were reading or being read to at school she says,
‘The episodes illustrate […]

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World Almanac’s Blog today said:
“I’m slightly embarrassed that I didn’t catch this earlier. ‘Sports Illustrated‘ has opened up their entire back catalogue, or “vault,” for free; more than 50 years of covers, articles, photos, and videos. The articles are available as searchable html or bundled up by the issue. The full issues, ad placement […]

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Just received this email from Real Eyes Bookstore:
Dear Literary Family,
We hope you have already marked your calendars for September 6, 2008! The CLF committee has been working hard to bring great authors, awesome bands, and speakers that will bring awareness to the community. As I stated before we are excited to announce Family Dollar as […]

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