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A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff. That is what this is.
posted on Nov 30, 2007 - View this thread

Writer's Links. Write better, or at the very least, more authentically, with this list of hundreds of resources for writers of all shades. For example, writing a jazz age screenplay? This guide to 1920's slang will be handy. Need help getting your procedural legal drama accurate? Try the Jurisdictionary. Enjoy tormenting your readers? This list of Tom Swifties will do the trick nicely.
posted on Sep 9, 2007 - View this thread

So, does anyone have any suggestions on what to get this holiday season?
posted on Dec 9, 2005 - View this thread

NFT (not for tourists) has relaunched their web site. Their city guide books are excellent and they offer free city guides in PDF format (editorializing inside).
posted on Sep 20, 2005 - View this thread

Over 125 voter guides, sorted by city and written collaboratively by Indyvoter's network of members are now on-line. This is social software with a purpose - members of the network form voting blocs to swing close elections, from city council members up to the national level.
posted on Nov 1, 2004 - View this thread

CliffsNotes is now offering 180 literature guides available for free online viewing.
posted on Sep 13, 2004 - View this thread

Pen spinning is very cool. Have a look at Pentrix, with guides to help you learn, videos of some very nice looking variations, basic tricks and combinations. A word of warning though, trying these things in an open environment may well annoy your fellow humans; but this may be the only distraction for the bored and restricted office worker.
posted on Jul 2, 2004 - View this thread

WikiTravel: the Free Travel Guide [via Larry Lessig's weblog]
posted on Jan 27, 2004 - View this thread

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and its many guides and maps for hundreds of Greek archaeological sites, monuments and museums. Here's one of Herakleion, in Crete.
posted on Jun 7, 2003 - View this thread

Guide for Becoming a Modern Day Philosopher 12 essential techniques.
posted on Jan 4, 2003 - View this thread

Aren’t there some topics where the "E-Z", at-a-glance, bullet-point riddled, dummies/idiot's format seems terribly ironic, rather inappropriate, or fundamentally at odds with the subject matter? Not to mention random.
posted on Aug 31, 2001 - View this thread

Increasingly, London is its bars. Twenty-seven new drink portals open every week. Luckily Chris Morris has sorted through the chaff to give us the definitive London bar guide.
posted on Aug 27, 2001 - View this thread

People often mock the Simpsons überfans for thier painfully detailed episode guides, but now there's EPguides which allows for anyone to write an episode guide on anything currently on TV. This site will allow for geeky exchanges like "Did you see episode 108 of Freaks and Geeks last week? Do you have that Joan Jet album that has the fourth song they played that night?"
posted on Feb 20, 2000 - View this thread