HOT SITES
Fun
If you can’t remember much of your dreams, this site might be able to help. It creates trippy visual representations from keywords that you supply.
www.solaas.com.ar/ dreamlines/index.htm
Folks used to say if you dug deep enough, you would end up in China. Using the power of Google Maps, find out where you would end up if you tunneled through the center of the planet from any point on the globe.
Books
Download free audio books, such as Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” or Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” and listen to them on your Apple iPod or other digital music player. If you like to read aloud, volunteer to make some recordings for this volunteer site.
http://librivox.org
Voicemail
Tired of wading through endless streams of voice mail prompts to speak with a human customer service representative? This site lists the fastest way to reach a human at dozens of airline, technology, finance, insurance and other major companies.
http://paulenglish.com/ivr
Wouldn’t it be fun to paint with a brush that picks up the colors and textures of objects it touches? Soon you might be able to with technologies such as the I/O Brush, developed by researchers at MIT’s Media Lab. Find out more about in text and videos.
http://web.media.mit.edu/ TILDE)kimiko/iobrush