Comments on: 10 Ways to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online

By: Elijah

Elijah — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:41:28 +0000

I used the elvish website, what I got was the same but then I found
http://tengwar.art.pl/tengwar/ott/start.php?l=en
That was a lot easier
P.S. make sure the output format is on PNG

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:51:28 +0000

At the risk of being labeled a nerd supreme, the elvish used in the sample above is based on Quenya. Sindarin elvish is different in the way it uses diacritics. I spent over a year learning to read and write Sindarin at speed. It’s great for journaling and keeping Christmas gift lists secret!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:56:55 +0000

I have spent many hours at work passing time on Free Rice!!!
thank you for this great post

By: Kirkland

Kirkland — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:55:21 +0000

In last month’s Fortune Magazine, that was an article aptly named “Bill’s Gates Favorite Teacher.”

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm

Sal Kahn, seeing that his children needed some help with theiry schoolwork, statrted a youtube channel called Kahn Academy. on the Channel, the former Hedge fund manager has simple lectures that he makes himself. Bill Gates himself found it on youtube, and he loves it.

Kahn Academy is now a non-profit organization providing educatonal addendums on MANY subjects.

Check it out!
http://www.khanacademy.org/

By: Tdave

Tdave — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:32:11 +0000

Someone translated Kennedy’s statement as, “I am an onion bagel” in that speech. (but) anyhow, everyone knew what he meant.

By: Andréa Fernandes

Andréa Fernandes — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:48:24 +0000

Sara in Al: It appears Triviazoids is no longer updated, but you can still peruse the archives at http://triviazoids.wordpress.com/

By: Sara in Al

Sara in Al — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:48:21 +0000

Triviazoids doesn’t work. And I am a big fan of freerice- I don’t know how many grains I’ve donated! Not trying to brag, though.

By: Kathye

Kathye — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:07:39 +0000

I learned binary counting when I was quite young – less than 10 years old, I believe. Still use it. (Both my parents are math people).

And, I’ve long been a fan of Free Rice – I must have donated close to a million grains already!

By: Tdl

Tdl — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:26:06 +0000

The numbers page doesn’t actually include every number from 0 to 9,999- it skips numbers here and there.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:39:23 +0000

Kennedy didn’t say he was a jelly doughnut. See Canoo Engineering AG. “Gebrauch des unbestimmten Artikels (German, “Use of the indefinite article”)”. And German wikipedia article on the speech in question