Anyhoo, this post is all about fun things I've found on the Internet. As the title states. Let's begin.
SurLaLune Fairytales.com
Perhaps you can surmise from the title that this site focuses on fairytales. You are right! I've always been a sucker for fairytales. They have all sorts of fun stuff on this site to support that suckerness. Here they have the original fairy tale, annotated, the history of the tale, a list of modern adaptations (my favorite), and other things. If you loved reading Grimm's Fairy tales or anything similar as a kid, check this site out.
Anke Eissmann
Ok, this is a person, but it's her website. She's an artist from Germany and I love her stuff. Granted, that's probably because she does a bunch of Lord of the Rings art, but it's so pretty! She is also working on illustrations for the Temeraire series (an alternate historical fiction series which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, but with dragons!) which are so beautiful.
You Suck at Photoshop
Most hilarious Photoshop tutorial ever. This guy takes you through all the basics, like merging pictures, cutting out images and sticking them in new pictures, etc., but the examples he uses are quite funny and sometimes irreverent. I like the one where he photoshops the picture of his girlfriend's cat. He adds some extras, like a stain on the carpet, and the cat suffocating in a plastic bag.
They didn't Study
Ok, you may have seen a bunch of these before, but check out the essay on El Nino. (Yes, there should a squiggly over the second n, but I haven't bothered to figure out how to do that on Blogger. Peter, maybe you could enlighten me?)
How I Got a Word in the Oxford English Dictionary
Read it. It's a cool story. And it makes me want to get a word in the OED.
Phonetics
I know. It sounds like a horribly boring website. But there are cool animations and sounds! It's quite interesting to see how your throat opens and your tongue moves when you say certain sounds. I'm a nerd.
The Language Accent Game
I got a less than desirable score the first time I played it. But some accents I got dead on. I really am a nerd.
Allen Smith Quotes
He's a LIS professor. His quotes make me half scared to be going into the profession.
10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
And that's why libraries will never go away. I really think librarians could take over the world. If they wanted to.
If Real Life Were a Musical
You may have seen this, too, but I think it's the best. So creative and awesome.
Well, I hope that someone gets some amount of amusement out of these. I certainly did. But then, as I've said, I'm a nerd.
2 comments:
Those sites really were hilarious. By the way, you can type an ñ by holding down alt and typing 0241. It's a lot easier than what I used to do, which was open up a word processor and insert the ñ symbol and then copy and paste it into the browser window.
Brilliant! I think I'm going to have to plagiarize some of your website links and put them on my blog. So stinkin' funny!
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