100 sites that will make you brighter

So much to learn, so little time.

Quite a list here of 100 places online to get smarter.

A now some words from McCain

A word cloud from Wordle.net of John McCain's acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican Convention (see Barack Obama's a few entries before). "Country" was the word of the night.

Online storage for those big files to send or share

Using one of these types of sites - list from smashingapps.com - is so much better than sending someone a massive audio or video file by e-mail.

I've used mediafire.com with no problems, and yousendit.com many times, but you have to register.

Here's another list of file storage sites.

And another.

How to do more with your pictures at Flickr

Lots of tips on how you can get more out of Flickr, or get started, with this from ReadWriteWeb.

Word clouds - easy to make at wordle.net

I've seen word clouds around for awhile, but wordle.net sure makes them easy to create. To get a grasp of what Barack Obama said in his Democratic Convention acceptance speech, I made one of his prepared text. "Promise" looms large, but it looks like if "America" and "American" were combined, that would have been the most used word. Click on the image to see it better (wordle.net lets you use their images in about any way as long as you give their site attribution).

PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites - Info, Search, and Reference - Reviews by PC Magazine

How cool will Cuil be?

Maybe really cool, since it's a new search engine built by ex-Google engineers.

8/13/08 - or, maybe not so cool at all...

HTML Code Tutorial

That's the name of the site: HTML Code Tutorial. Looks like a handy reference (I needed to check how to strike out text). Do you have another favorite HTML reference site?