Brain Games (Prevention.com) via MrLibrarian.com
How Well Does Google Translator Cope With Idioms? From Google Blogoscoped
What Happened To The Personal Web Site via BiblioTechWeb
Two from Phil Bradley’s I Want To – Clutterme and Disposable Web Page
Feedbooks via Librarian in Black
Real life plot twists of famous authors vis LisNews
LawBore redesign
Plus – The New York Times has moved to free content, the Financial Times avoids fully free, but offers 30 day access*- and it looks like the Wall Street Journal may go free too. With the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph and the Times already wholly or partly available for free, it may mean current awareness can, in the not too distant future, be done via RSS feeds, or Google News searches (or both), ending our dependency on certain paid-for services!
*not quite sure what impact this will have on the FT’s embargo on Lexis.
LoreLibrarian, FT access via LexisNexis will be even more expensive as you will require a licence direct with the FT!
Aaagh! And various unprintable things…