Sometimes you just want to spend a few hours whiling away the hours with fun little online tools. Well, here are a few sites to keep your hours occupied.
Personas is a project of the MIT Media Lab. Set up to visualize the data mining process, Personas presents you with an online portrait of yourself, or rather, your name. Read their background information to get full understanding of the project. Fun, funny, and a little bit scary.
Are you a fan of contemporary poetry? Try Swindle, a tool which collects poetry from sites onlines and posts the poems on the site. A great way to get your daily dose of poetry.
Quick! Who sang the song with the lyrics, "...If you turn me down once more, I'll join the French foreign legion..?" LyricRat has the answer! Just type in your lyric and LyricRat will supply you not only with the song title, and artist name as well as an audio sample. And, if you are a Tweeter, you can use LyricRat on the go!
And finally, Boggle fiends take note, WordSplay is your answer to the doldrums. Using only your email address to register, you can play this Boggle-like word-building game to your hearts content (or as long as your eyes can take it).
Have fun!--BES
