Words

Famous Quotes and Quotations at BrainyQuote

http://www.brainyquote.com Quotes from all sorts of people on all sorts of topics.

World Wide Words

http://www.worldwidewords.org/genindex.htm For those of us fascinated with the anfractuous and the sesquipedalian in English.

High Tech Quotes

http://www.sysprog.net/quotwrit.html A large collection of quotes, all dealing with some aspect of computers and high tech.

The (sort of) official Daniel Pinkwater Home Page!

http://pinkwater.com/pzone Daniel Pinkwater is one of the world's greatest authors of children's books. He's very strange. I am one of his millions of devoted fans.

Says You!

http://www.wgbh.org/radio/saysyou The website for the NPR radio quiz show for the frivolously overeducated.

Bookfinder

http://www.bookfinder.com The best online used bookstore in my opinion, Bookfinder combines listings for the inventories of over 60,000 booksellers and makes them searchable with a simple and effective interface. Everyone else you may have used online is already part of this list, so use just this one site for used books and be assimilated.

The Endeneu.com Filter Collection

http://www.endeneu.com/funstuff/miguel Enter text and translate it into various "dialects," including goth, superhero, and pirate. "Now be the time fer all hearrty corsairs ta come ta the aid o' their party! Arrrh!"

The Dialectizer

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect Like the Edeneu.com filter collection, but this has a completely different selection of filters, including redneck, Elmer Fudd, and Swedish Chef. You can translate a whole web page at a time.

The Zompist Phrasebook

http://www.zompist.com/phrases.html How to be snide in nine different languages.

Wordscapes® Interesting Assorted Sites

http://www.wordscapes.net/assorted-1-sites.htm A large collection of interesting sites in case you run out of things to look at from this list.

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com You know: "It was a dark and stormy night..." Check out the annual contest results here.