one of my short stories (Feathers) was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest

http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/finalists.asp?id=74

automatic web page plagiarism checker

http://www.copyscape.com/?results

newspaper front pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
mouse over any location to see the front page of the newspaper for that area

Klingon Night School

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/learn-klingon-the-easy-way-with-this-nice-old-lady-with-a-mean-batleth.php

free career education tools from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/allcompetencies.mspx
developing career skills

visualization tools

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php
visualize social networks, music, videos, digg stories, the internet, amazon, thesaurus, twitter, searches, news, data, and so forth

my new favorite keyboard

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/yhinne_snapshot/emoticons.jpg