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The Elements of
Style - Free online version of the classic book
that makes grammar interesting and writing seem like doing
mathematics. I'm gonna go read it now...
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Taiwan - UN exile state
Gio Web Site
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Links from the Taiwan Government,
which is the world's most wired government according to
Brown University. It is led by President Chen Shui-Bian
- nickname A-Bian - whom I think is a cool dude doing a
fine job. His job is nearly impossible, because of that
law of nature that ensures a minimum level of stupidity
must prevail in the world at all times.
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Why do you use Microsoft Internet Explorer
when you don't have to? Try out Opera,
the smarter browser. It is way cooler than you'll ever learn
to use. But don't use it for email. |
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Use The
Bat instead. And certainly don't use Microsoft
Outlook, or Outlook Express. (Can you say, virus?) The Bat is
really simple to use without any dumb wizards or crap. And besides,
it comes from the Republic of Moldova (vampires?), and is one
of their star export products. Really. Look. |
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And if you still think you need MS IE, try
Maxthon,
which runs on the IE core but actually uses less memory and
gives you a tabbed interface and mouse gestures just like Opera
does. It displays every page exactly as IE would. It's still
freeware. Get it now. (Formerly known as MyIE2 browser.) |
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Online Ouija board. Wanna
speak to something? |
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The gobbledygook generator
- Brilliant! From the seraphical Plain
English Campaign Web site. |
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Plain
English Free Guides |
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My favourite EFL/ESL expert
shares his vast knowledge freely on the Internet. If you teach
English, you should read some of the stuff on this site! |
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Translate anything here.
Well, try anyway. |
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Accept Jesus and get a
free Playstation! (I'm not sure if it's true.) |
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America's BEST Christian
- Betty Bowers can help you learn the secrets of salvation.
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Googlism - This is so Zen.
Type in some keyword you want the true essence of. Be amazed
at the profound results. Runs on Google, of course. |
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Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Heard something strange in an email or from someone's lips?
Check it out here. |
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Oxymorons! - Fun to browse.
The parent site, Wordexplorations.com,
is difficult to browse, but full of linguistic treasures such
as Pleonasms
(tautological redundancies). Don't ask, just look. |
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Online Chinese Tools -
You can find flashcards, dictionaries and more on this site.
A good starting point if you want to use your computer to improve
your Chinese. |
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Free Talking Chinese Dictionary
- Put this on your computer! It's free and very useful. |
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Chinese flashcards - Learn
your characters with online flashcards. Uses Javascript. Great
for beginners! |
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More Chinese flashcards
- These ones use Java. There is also a character recognition
test. |
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A cute little flashcard program
to download and run. No installation necessary; Just run the
executable. You may need to play with the font setting to get
your Chinese fonts displaying right in the program.Mine works
with MingLiU 18 point font. |
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Translation with characters and
pinyin - Great for vocabulary work. Free registration
after 5 trial uses. |
