A Website of Websites

A great website of websites arranged by category. Also has a really good blog.

Shmoop: Literature Guide

Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature and history). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.

Shmoop content is written primarily by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale. We source our work (see "Citations") and set rigorous academic standards. Teachers and students should feel confident to cite Shmoop as a source in essays and papers.

Google Online Dictionary

Google maintains a multilingual dictionary online which also lets you hear the pronunciation of words.

2009 Grammy Nominations Released

The Recording Academy has released it's list of nominations for the 2009 Grammy Awards. This is the 51st annual grammy awards nominations list.

The 51st Grammy Awards ceremony is set for February 8, 2009.

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008

The NYT has released it's list of the 10 best Books of 2008. This list includes fiction and nonfiction and is taken from the NYT's 100 Notable Books of 2008.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations.

Read FBI Holiday CyberCrime warning.

Gmail Offers VideoChat

Since sometimes reading "lol" doesn't deliver the same punch as actually hearing your friend laugh at your jokes, you can now use voice and video capabilities in your Gmail chat. From within Gmail, you can have an actual conversation with someone (seriously, out loud), or even chat face to face over video.

Human Caused Global Warming Questioned in Global Warming Petition Project

The purpose of the Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climatological damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.