The Passivator

A bookmarklet that highlights adverbs and writing that could be in the passive voice. Given my predilection for weakly worded sentences this could be quite helpful. It has a number of caveats, but they could actually be useful as well. This bookmarklet is not compatible with Internet Explorer, but that's no big loss. (via Simon Wilson)

NakedText.com

unless they're getting a bunch of money for the special requests doesn't look like these are business majors. It must be costing them more than $5-7 a shot when you factor in overhead, the time it takes to run the website, and how long it takes to write on each other, take a picture, wash up and dry for the next picture, and process the pictures. But if their parents paid for the camera and computers and, being students, they've got free time anyway, it's a really cool concept and should be taken advantage of while it's still cheap.

Opera, IBM voice

Just the other day I suggested that Cybil upgrade her grandfather's browser to Opera, even though I rarely use it or even test for it, because he's running at 800x600 on a large monitor and can't see it well enough to read. Opera is the only browser I know of with screen zoom, not just text zoom, and now on top of that it's getting a built in text reader. Combine the accessibility support with the moves it's making on the mobile browsing market I'm no longer so supprised at the rumor I heard that they are going public. Only concern now is that they may be like a 3rd party candidate in a two party system. I'll have to think about it, is promoting Opera like throwing your vote away to Nadar? Might it be idiologically the best option, but wind up being just like you'd voted for bush/gates. Or is promoting absolutely anybody other than MS the best thing to do?

Combining BookCrossing and Geocaching

Two things that are on my "would like to do someday" list combined together, although I'd rather use a topo and maybe an altimeter instead of a GPS, seems like cheating somehow, though I guess they are finicky enough to be a challenge. Also of note to the web designers who read this, how cool is this link shortening technique? http://webpages.charter.net/---/caches.html. much sexier than using CSS overflow: hidden;

100 MOVIES THAT DESERVE MORE LOVE

Gotta pull this up next time we're on Netflix.