Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Google Books offers Tools for Learning Klingon and Elvish
If you're hankering to learn a more, shall we say exotic, language...
Google Chrome Ad on the It Gets Better Project
As part of a campaign on how the Internet helps people, Google created an ad highlighting the It Gets Better Project started by Dan Savage, aimed at gay teens at risk of suicide. It is a well done ad, and brought a few tears to my eyes:
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Quote of the Day
Found through Ed Brayton:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Gay Girl in Damascus
This post is from a gay woman in Syria, whose life was just threatened and whose father protected her. It is very moving.
The Atlantic: Dead Authors on Twitter
Who knew you could tweet from the hereafter? A list of writers as varied as Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and Douglas Adams, among others.