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This is an interesting site with “A weekly start for a healthier America” (though I see no reason why the rest of the world can’t participate).  Anyway, Meatless Monday is a national campaign to help people eat better by eating less red meat, pork, and poultry. You may not be vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean [...]

If you like listening to music online, check out Pandora. You tell it what songs and/or bands you like, and it analyzes them according to the Music Genome Project, then suggests new ones. You can give each song a thumb’s up or down to further refine your custom radio station. It’s pretty cool – check [...]

Eh List? is a nifty little tool for tracking your websites, including links in search engines, links from blogs, and back links. My thanks to Randy Morin for letting me know about it. Other website tools I like are Technorati (tracks links to your blog) and Digital Point’s keyword tracker.

Yesterday, I featured a French listening exercise about the Centre Pompidou being built in Metz. I think this “franchizing” of museums in different cities is fantastic. I visited the Bilbao Guggenheim several years ago, and I can’t wait to see the new Metz Centre Pompidou. But I do wonder whether it’s really necessary to attach [...]

I finally saw the movie Crash this weekend. Wow. What an amazing mix of horrible and heart-warming stories, and unexpected switches between the two extremes. At one point, I was crying so hard that I nearly started hyperventilating. The only other movies that have moved me quite like that were Requiem for a Dream and [...]

At long last, the answer to a question that has boggled humankind: Chicken and egg debate unscrambled (CNN) Can anyone else think of, oh, about ten million better uses for the time (and probably money) spent on this research?

Just found this site and I think it’s a brilliant concept. CouchSurfing is a community of tens of thousands of people in 200 countries who like to travel and to meet people. If you’re going to, say, Barcelona, you do a search to find people who live there and are willing to meet or even [...]

I love the idea of Wikipedia, but the reality is less interesting. For some reason, the editors of the French language page have a vendetta against external links. I honestly believe that Learn French at About is one of the best French sites on the internet, but every time I add it to Wikipedia, someone [...]

So far, I’ve been to 11 countries: Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, England, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, and Morocco. My favorite is France (of course), but I also love Costa Rica (for the natural beauty) and Italy (for the food and architecture). At the top of my list of places I’d like to see [...]

Have you ever noticed that quite a lot of people say “bemused” when they really mean “amused”? My theory on why this happens is in my article amused vs bemused; what are your thoughts?