It’s funny how blogging is the first casualty when I’m up to my eyeballs in work. In the meantime, here are a few diversions:
- “Insanely interesting facts” from the Mental Floss “amazing fact generator”: http://www.mentalfloss.com/amazingfactgenerator/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2008-06-20&utm_content=Amazing-Fact-Generator. For example, every year since 1971, Nova Scotia has sent a giant evergreen to Massachusetts as thanks for sending aid after the devastating 1917 Halifax explosion. It’s the Boston Common Christmas tree.
- For the word that’s been on the tip of your tongue that you just can’t remember: http://chir.ag/phernalia/tip-of-my-tongue/.
- Find out what the heck that acronym, abbreviation or initialism means, so you can spell it out: http://www.acronymfinder.com/. Why, GUI could be Graphical User Interface, or Golfing Union of Ireland, or 58 other possible definitions; don’t keep your readers guessing!
- Create a pretty word cloud from a specific URL or a bunch of text: http://wordle.net/create. (This may only work with PCs and Explorer.)
Back to regularly scheduled blogging when the immediate panic is over.
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Fun stuff! I live near Boston and have seen the Nova Scotia trees many times. Beautiful as they are, though, I’m always a little sorry that living things that took 100 years to grow are cut down.
I know what you mean! Let’s hope that the tree selection is a culling process that strengthens the forest, and after Christmas is over, the tree is recycled into wood chips for use as mulch in city parks.