Who Pooped?

The Minnesota Zoo has created this fun website that teaches kids about animal digestive habits. Fun and informative!

http://whopooped.org

Steve Martin's First Film: The Absent-Minded Waiter

He wrote it and starred in it. Buck Henry and Teri Garr also act in it. It was nominated by the Academy Awards as best short film in 1977.

Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain

LibriVox: free audiobooks

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

http://librivox.org/

Many languages.
Not the most flexible search tool, but for free....

Volunteer to record if your language or preferred genre of literature is underrepresented.

All in the Family

Interesting tidbit I learned recently. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, and Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United Sates, are half cousins. Both of them are sixth cousins to Elvis Presley.

We are, truly, all interconnected...

Comparisons to 1930

This blogger is summarizing the Wall Street Journal each day for the corresponding day in 1930.
You may draw from it what you will, and learn some history in the process...

(this is a new blog so it is only one day so far)

http://newsfrom1930.com/