Zookoda allows bloggers to easily create an email newsletter of the latest posts on their blog to share with others. We are looking at doing more email communication with our patrons and this may be a way to quickly use our blogs for content. Interesting!
British Airways has an online guide on minimizing jet lag. Answer questions about your own sleep habits and the time difference between where you are visiting and your home, and you will get customized advice on what to do. It usually involves avoiding light for a few hours a day or two before you leave.
Babble is a very, very addictive game. I say this upfront to warn you. Babble is like Boggle but each game lasts 24 hours. So you have time to think about the puzzle and chat with other players. Have fun!
Dead or Alive is a site that lets you know if a famous person is alive or dead. Very handy for those reference questions that ask exactly that or to settle an argument. The site lists over 7300 people.
BluePlateSpecial.net has a great post that lists the top blogging newspapers in the United States. The list is:
3. USA Today
FeedYes is a service that creates RSS feeds for sites that don’t offer any. You can also use the service to create a feed for your own site that you can then offer. Sweet!
101 Cookbooks is one of the best cooking blogs that I have found. It has a great mix of recipes, announcements of new cookbook releases, articles on kitchens and cooking, and active forums where you can discuss things.
Librarians across Britain were asked “Which book should every adult read before they die?” Harper Lee tops librarians’ must-read list and here is the entire list:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D’urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
Earth: a Graphic Look at the State of the World is a site that offers graphical information on the environment around the world. Specific topics include ecology, fresh water, energy, food production, polution, and wealth.
US Newspaper List offers a collection of newspapers that have websites. Organized by state, the list provides links to the site as well as to any RSS feeds the paper offers.
