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Tweak Your Daily Searching With These Browser Bookmarklets - (USA)
A bookmarklet is a small piece of JavaScript code saved as bookmarks in your browser. Every time you open such a bookmark it executes its function. A bookmarklet can be a good alternative to a FireFox addon as it is easier to organize and backup (as a usual bookmark), faster to install (all you need is just grab a link and drag it into your bookmarks toolbar) and usually compatible with multiple browsers. As one who searches daily (and I’d even say constantly), I am mostly interested in vario
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Dictionary - MSN Encarta - (USA)
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online - (USA)
Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.
http://www.m-w.com/
It’s official…again…App Store app reviewers suck at their job [Epic Fail] - (USA)
By now, daily stories of Apple’s incompitent app store employees (specifcally the ones responsible for using 4th grade judgement to deem an app acceptable/unacceptable for mass public consumption) making completley incompetent decisions regarding apps are nothing. It seems they strive to entertain us and give us something to talk about. Apparently, these morons, fools, idiots, *insert insulting name here* are completely incapable of doing that very task. The latest blunder involves your typic
http://gadgetsteria.com/2009/08/05/its-official-again-app-store-app-reviewers-suck-at-their-job-epic-fail/
WordWeb Online Dictionary and Thesaurus - (USA)
http://www.wordwebonline.com/
English to French, Italian & Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com - (USA)
Free Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionaries
http://wordreference.com/
Pharmaceutical drug targets identification & validation glossary - (USA)
http://www.genomicglossaries.com/CONTENT/Targets.asp
Book : Languages and Education in Africa - (USA)
Languages and Education in Africaa comparative and transdisciplinary analysisEdited by BIRGIT BROCK-UTNE & INGSE SKATTUM2009 paperback 356 pages US$64.00 ISBN 978-1-873927-17-5 Click here to view further information and to order this bookThe theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume a
http://sociolingo.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/book-languages-and-education-in-africa/
Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization: En'owkin Center and the University of Vic - (USA)
A partnership program of the En'owkin Centre and the University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics and Division of Continuing Studies Join us for Summer 2009 Courses at the En'owkin Centre, Penticton, BC and at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC Build your understanding of language revitalization issues and challenges while developing practical strategies that strengthen your capacity to preserve and revitalize threatened languages. This program is designed to honour traditional know
http://indigenousissuestoday.blogspot.com/2009/04/certificate-program-in-aboriginal.html
Apple's new low: censoring a dictionary - (USA)
You know guys, you're not really doing yourself any favors at this point. We've seen plenty of stories thus far detailing the company's absurd , reactionary , and typically confusing application rejections or changes for its App Store , but the treatment given to dictionary app Ninjawords seems particularly telling. In essence, the program, a simple and fast reference tool -- a straight-up dictionary -- has omitted a handful of common words seen as objectionable by the Star Chamber of app
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/apples-new-low-censoring-a-dictionary/
ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science - (USA)
http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_u.cfm
OneLook Dictionary Search - (USA)
http://www.onelook.com/
The Office Professional’s Guide: US Dictionaries Group, Edward P. Jr. Bailey, Erin McKean - (USA)
Editorial Reviews When do you address correspondents by their first names over email? Need a refresher on the proper format for a business letter? Or perhaps a cram-course on how business is conducted in a particular foreign country? Now, all your workplace questions can be found in one convenient source from the most trusted name in reference. The Office Professional’s Guide takes you through office basics (frequently misspelled words; proper telephone, fax, and email etiquette; common fili
http://makemoneymyself.com/the-office-professionals-guide-us-dictionaries-group-edward-p-jr-bailey-erin-mckean/
New Campaign: Buy a Dem a Dictionary - (USA)
It’s not their fault, they just don’t understand what they’re saying. But you can help, and here’s how! First we had the original Conjugator-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, who attempted to weasel his way out of saying he lied under oath by trying to re-define the words he used. “”It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the–if he–if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not–that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement…” If he’d h
http://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/new-campaign-buy-a-dem-a-dictionary/
Apple censors the dictionary - (USA)
Once again, a software company reveals its power over our access to information by making a dumb decision. This time, Apple rejected a dictionary application, Ninjawords , because it included words Apple deemed inappropriate. According to an interview by John Gruber with Ninjawords developer Phil Crosby, Apple refused to upload Ninjawords to the iTunes store until a number of “objectionable” words had been removed. Besides “fuck,” “shit,” and various other four-letter ones, words that A
http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/apple-censors-the-dictionary/
Apple censors iPhone dictionary app - (USA)
In another fascinating move by the App Store acceptance team (Motto: Lunch is tasty! Is that a butterfly? We like cake.) the Ninjawords pocket dictionary, a $2 app , has been given an 17+ rating after being censored by Apple. This ensures that tittering schoolboys won’t scroll through the app and discover bad words like “tits,” “micturition,” and “enough with this wanton disregard for your customer’s intelligence, Apple. Do you only hire barely literate, rule-cleaving sub-morons with no judge
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/05/apple-censors-iphone-dictionary-app/
new page - (USA)
I have been collecting websites and reference material as I work on my City & Guilds course and I wondered, What If I start to compile a reference page, entitled Source material-click the tab at the top of the blog. It’s not a blog list, but the beginnings of an information archive. In it I have included links to Museums and Galleries where there are inspirational collections I have used so far; Stitch dictionaries; old and out of print books available in full or part through the Gutenburg proje
http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/new-page/
iTools - (USA)
http://www.itools.com/
Google Books: Thai Learning Resources - (USA)
Thai resources on Google Books… As what usually happens when blogging, one subject leads to another. For instance, this week I posted about Mary Haas Thai-English Student’s Dictionary in Bangkok . And then, after a suggestion made in the comments (thanks Aksara Anwa Akson Thai ), I was led to create a post on Thai learning resources found at Google Books. Google Books opens up Thai reading resources for those who prefer to dig into the contents before purchasing. And if you do a little res
http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/google-books-thai-learning-resources/
Glossaries and Dictionaries by Encyberpedia - (USA)
Encyberpedia - The most complete summary of Encyclopedia reference information on the Internet---A 5 Star Site. !
http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm
dude - podictionary 61 - (USA)
The word dude first appeared in English in 1883. SPONSOR: Try GotoMeeting free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcasts Wait a minute, almost all the quotations for dude in The Oxford English Dictionary are dated 1883. This is because dude appears to be a word that sprung from the pages of a newspaper one day and then was almost instantly adopted by everybody. The OED ’s first reference is from the last day of March 1883, but I found a websit
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Dictionary & Thesaurus - YourDictionary - (USA)
YourDictionary is a free online dictionary that offers definition search from Webster's dictionary for word meanings and thesaurus. Use this dictionary search as a crossword or scrabble dictionary. Also find legal dictionary, technical words, glossary, foreign language translation, medical dictionary, and rhyming dictionary lists.
http://yourdictionary.com/
The Honor of the Mascot, Or A Team By Any Other Name - (USA)
By Jay Adler A lot of sports fans sighed the usual big one recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, on a technicality, upheld a lower court decision in favor of the Washington Redskins, against plaintiff’s suit to force the team to change its name. Some of the Native plaintiffs are now considering taking the case to the Supreme Court. At just about the same time, Nazune Menka, a graduate student in environmental science participating in the Native American Poli
http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/08/the-honor-of-the-mascot-or-a-team-by-any-other-name/
Today we censor the dictionary, tomorrow we will burn books - (USA)
Ninjawords , an iPhone dictionary app, has apparently been censored by Apple, who have removed words that they feel are “objectionable” . But Ninjawords for iPhone suffers one humiliating flaw: it omits all the words deemed “objectionable” by Apple’s App Store reviewers, despite the fact that Ninjawords carries a 17+ rating. Apple censored an English dictionary. A dictionary. A reference book. For words contained in all reasonable dictionaries. For words contained in dictionaries that are us
http://www.disassociated.com/2009/08/07/today-we-censor-the-dictionary-tomorrow-we-will-burn-books/
Dictionary.com - (USA)
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Glossaries & Dictionaries on all subjects from Glossarist.com. - (USA)
Searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
http://www.glossarist.com/
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