Several have suggested Hot for Words as a TOTD. Mainly, I’m told, because it’s a good example of making ‘academic’ things fun. So here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO72SYKcTZ8 how could any word lover not like it! Hot for Words has covered …
Quirky, funny, surreal or just plain odd? Is this how you’d like a tour of the University Library on YouTube to look? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS28qydjfsg Comments please!
A few days ago TOTD included a page from this site, but on further inspection the whole site ought to get a mention. For all things “European”: http://www.eupedia.com/
[This was one of the more amusing humour/junk? emails that have arrived recently. Think before you “forward”!] I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat droppings in the glue on envelopes because I now have to …
Here’s a site which lets you ‘review’ your university. There are various categories – some less serious than others. http://www.whatuni.com UoP gets an overall rating of 95% from 41 reviews and the Library comes out of it very well with …
No word lover will want to miss this: http://www.eupedia.com/europe/missing_words_english.shtml
Yes, this is a commercial site, but you can listen all you want before you buy. And if you’re really want free music (legally!), you can sign up for a ‘song of the day’. Produces an eclectic music collection – …
No doubt there’s lots of these kinds of sites (feel free to comment with their details), but this is the one that’s been brought to TOTD’s attention: http://www.revish.com/ a site for book reviews. Obviously Amazon and LibraryThing hold reviews, but …
Many of us are keen on collecting things – no more so than those who collect collective nouns. Those words for groups of things – like a parliament of owls. Here are just a few: http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term http://www.herbweb.org/animals-collective-nouns.html and so …
If you’ve not come across Julian Beever’s artwork before, they’re worth checking out. In particular his anamorphic illusions which regularly do rounds of the web: www.julianbeever.net And to think it’s so ephemeral (photographs aside)… till the next rain or pedestrian …
