Archive for the 'Reference' Category

Wikipedia Links Now Highlighted

Monday, December 18th, 2006

I admit it: I’m addicted to Google and Wikipedia. In fact, my writing is pretty much littered with references to Wikipedia articles. So I’ve added a special highlighting to links to Wikipedia articles:

A Regular link
A Wikipedia link

So whether you want to read them or avoid them— now it’s easy to spot them coming!
Note: You will [...]

Me, According to Wikipedia

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Every Wikipedia user has a page devoted to them: their User Page. Tonight I discovered User Boxes, and decided to adorn my user page with user boxes on everything you never wanted to know about me. Enjoy!

Favorite References

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

A few of my current favorite reference web pages:

Google (of course)

Google Images

Google Maps (awesome!)

Everything (great for cultural esoterica)

Wikipedia (great for pretty much everything)

Song Meanings (little authoritative, but interesting discussion)

Urban Dictionary (street slang)

Investopedia (financial definitions and articles)

Sigalert (metropolitan traffic maps)

Idiomsite (English idioms)

AltaVista BabelFish (translations)

WordNet (extensively cross-referenced Dictionary)

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus (classic authority, and has audio [...]