Computers in the Humanities 220

Linguistic Computer Programming I

SECTION 001 'Website of The Day' Archives

Kill Clippy for those of you that don't like MS Agents

Price Comparison Engines: Froogle Fetchbook PriceGrabber PriceWatch Nextag MySimon  FatWallet

HomeStarRunner: Flash cartoon recently featured in the Daily Universe.  I like StrongBad's email about how it'd be if he were a Japanese anime and where he helps write an English paper (sometimes the system is down due to high demand.)

Optical Camouflage (from Mike's List of random internet discoveries) -- Here's a short CNN blurb about it

Microsoft's Terraserver, Mapquest, or SpaceImaging for overhead Satellite images

Despair.com has great "demotivational" posters for Apathy, Laziness, and Ineptitude for instance.

Microsoft Agents can be entertaining.  They're not all Clippy.

Two cool opensource programs (free software, free code) : Gimp 2.0 (compatible with Photoshop) and OpenOffice (compatible with MS Office)

Unicode Pages:  Anyone can be Provincial     I can Eat Glass Project     Unicode Consortium

Anagram Generators:   an Anagram Generator another Anagram Generator   another Anagram Generator

The LDS Church Website has some less known resources like Audio Scriptures, help for Employment, and foreign language Church broadcasts

Ever been sure that a webpage used to exist or said something different than it says now?  Well Google's cache often preserves recent stuff and the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine works for a lot of older stuff.

(Just in case the snow melts before you finish your homework.) You can always go Snow Bowling virtually.

Talmage Bulletin Board Quotes -- an FTP server to download Word document copies of the cool quotes that get posted by Dr. Shelley in the Talmage Building.  See Sunbeams for an example.

Did you ever wonder how a carburetor works?  Or the internet?  Or laughter?  Find out at HowStuffWorks.com.

Not sure what a carburetor is?  Or how to spell it even?  Here's the best dictionary gateway I've seen: OneLook.com

Trillian is a good, free instant messaging client that lets you use MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and mIRC in one program.

Garth Hill's Windows Shortcut Keys are often very useful

Random Site of the Day:  Are you good with legos?  This guy is better.  Among other things, he created a full-size (six foot by 3 foot) working harpsichord out of regular legos.

Do you have a friend or a grandparent on a foreign mission?  Cumorah.com has lots of interesting information on the International LDS Church

You've probably seen the commercials for Ready.gov, but have you visited ProvidentLiving.org? It's a practical site that the LDS Church has put together about emergency preparation, food storage, debt management, etc.