Most Tech-Advanced Community Colleges

The Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine have selected 31 community colleges as outstanding examples of technology delivery in higher education.

The fourth annual Digital Community Colleges Survey identifies and spotlights colleges that provide a high level of service to their students and faculty through information technology. Schools were placed in three categories based on size of enrollment, with college officials providing information from the 2007 school year.

At the survey's conclusion, the top 10 in each of the three categories were named. The survey examined areas of technology ranging from online admissions, student access to transcripts and grades, information security and infrastructure, to weather and campus security alerts and online library capabilities.

MTV Launches Video Website

All music video website: a very clean, very simple, good looking site full of music videos and only music videos.

Cool Clock Screensavers

A variety of Flash Clock Screensavers free to download.

A good hurricane and tropical storm website.

TerraDaily: News About Planet Earth

An online newspaper centered around ecology and environmental issues and happenings.

Drought.org

The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) website is updated weekly. It provides detailed information about drought conditions state by state.

English Pronouncing Dictionary

Howjsay.com is an English pronouncing dictionary that uses "Instant Sound" to pronounce words. If you need to hear how a word is pronounced this is a good resource.

Green Wiki

Wikia Green's website states that "Green Wikia strives to become a trusted central place to share our growing and evolving body of knowledge about environmental topics and issues with people who want to inform themselves and live in a more sustainable way."
To this end Wikia Green views content from the Green perspective and is a good place to look for materials from an environmentalist point of view.

Le Clezio wins 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. The academy called Le Clezio an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."

A complete list of Nobel Prize winners in all fields by year can be found at NobelPrize.org

The Top 10 Best Paid Authors

While the publishing industry has struggled to come up with a "Happily Ever After" storyline in recent years, there's still plenty of money to be made in the business of books. See Forbes.com's list of the 10 top selling authors.

The list in pictures.

100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites

PC World magazine list of the top 100 most useful web sites.

Public.Resource.Org

PublicResource.Org purchases expensive government documents and makes them available for free on the internet.