New Thesaurus

Wordnik has a new thesaurus.Wordnik offers a few extra features not traditionally found in a dictionary or thesaurus. It gives Flickr images that are tagged with the searched word, Twitter tweets that use the word, statistics on how many times it has been searched, and a chart of "occurrences of the word, per million words". There are also nerdy extras, such as the Scrabble score of the word. Do you know how many times the word "kitten" has been looked up? I do. (628 as of this writing).

Weird Books!

I thoroughly enjoy lists of strange titles, odd book covers, and hilariously out-of-date volumes. Therefore, when a friend sent me a link to Abe Books' Weird Book Room. Oh my, these books are funny. Here's a list of some of my favorites:
Fantasy: The Incredible Cabbage Patch Phenomenon
Cadaver Dog Handbook
Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire
Hanging Out the Upside Down Exercise Book
50 Sad Chairs

Take a look at this list. I'm sure you'll find something unusual.

Archive o-rama

The Internet Archive has a subscription-based service called Archive-It. It's a place where organizations can keep their "born digital" content. It looks like a range of k-12 schools, small government offices, and universities are choosing to archive their digital content here. I searched through the public collections. It seems to me that organizations are still getting a handle on what they want to store in Archive-It. A lot of the pages I ended up on didn't have much content or were unclear. In any case, this fee-based service might be a great place to store content. It's worth keeping an eye on.