Showing posts with label Website Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Website Fun. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2012

Watch Worldwide Booksales, Live


The Book Depository is a British-based online bookseller that ships to countries around the world, for free. To bring that point home, it has built a map that shows who bought what, where, just now.

Check it out, here.

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Composites


What would police sketches look like of famous literary characters (like Humbert Humbert from Lolita above)?

Find out, here.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Sh#& My Students Write


Enjoy!

From the site...

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We were as close as two pees in a pot.


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The potato literally encouraged the Irish to overbreed.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bad Romance Novels


Bad excerpts from bad romance novels...every day.

An example...

His breath smelled of coffee, mint, and faintly of cheese, one of her favorite sinful pleasures.

“Star Bright” - Catherine Anderson (Submitted by Jane)

Friday, February 18, 2011

Monday, February 07, 2011

Baby Sloths and/or Classic Literature


The only way to maintain literacy on an Internet overrun with Bed Intruders, tub-related women and epic treadmill fails is with subliminal messages, suggests a post on Uproxx.

It continues...

The idea of subliminal messaging began when the director of Yale Psychology laboratory E.W. Scripture, PhD, published his description of the basic principles in The New Psychology in 1897. Back then, you had to sneak the subliminal messages in. That was the whole point. Today, the process is a little easier.

To prove my point, I present to you a gallery of baby sloth photos, accompanied by my thoughts on classic literature.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Your Birthday Books


What were the bestselling books the week you were born?

For me, titles like Jonathan Livingston Seagull, August 1914 and The Winds of War make the list.

What about you?