Interesting things of the week #46

What Americans believe

If Google owned everything

Paul Lippe: An Opportunity Waiting to Happen - why lawyers should know about social networking sites

US Courts - Digital audio recordings

Bill Gates: the long farewell

Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation

Interesting Things of the Week #45

How to Nap

Leaping into the Dark: Web 2.0 and Law Firm Web Sites

British Pathe archive - view pictures and download free videos of old news stories.

I’ve come across a few plot generators this week, so thought I’d list my favourites:

CSI Plot Generator

Movie Plot Generator

The Point Horror plot generator

Plot Twist Generator

Plot Generator

Random Plot Generator for Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Seventh Sanctum Story Generator

Fill-in-the-blank Story Generator

Bonsai Story Generator - Creates not a story so much as nonsense, but you get some nice weird sentences - “He'd been shot in the morning, Tony was the lime in the coconut, you know why by now.”

Interesting Things of the Week #44

Your Life Work: The Librarian - US careers film

Britannica wiki

Mythic Creatures exhibition

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book - The Onion reports

Lego Photo-recreations

The BootLego Beatles

Impolite Club Billboard Illusions - from Mighty Optical Illusions - funny

British Town Name generator - “Shag on Heaving, Paisley”

Interesting Things of the Week #43

Wikipedia or Bust

What’s Your Problem? - generate your personality problem

Pirate Image Archive - archive of pirate images!

Goosh.org - the unofficial Google shell (text only google) - via Joho the Blog

Lego Factory