Site of the Week (June 20-26):
Modern Language Association
Census Maps of Languages Spoken in the US
http://www.mla.org/census_map
Fun link: UWM English dialect survey (long!)
Political fun link: Bushgame (contains vulgarity)


Site of the Week (June 27-July 3)
Logos Wordtheque
Downloadable original texts of great literature
in dozens of languages, some with audio files
http://www.wordtheque.com/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.main?lang=en&source=search
Fun link: Bizarre cornstarch


Site of the Week (July 4-10):
Han Dynasty Tombs and Culture 漢代墓葬與文化 (in Chinese)
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~hantomb/index3.html
Fun link: Hot lnks at del.icio.us


Site of the Week (July 11-17):
All about Orchid Island 蘭嶼專題 (in Chinese)
English intro
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/%7Edlproj/
Fun link: Optical illusions from the BBC


Site of the Week (July 18-24):
Delta Campus Moviefest
Student-made movies
http://www.campusmoviefest.com/
Fun link: Eric Conveys An Emotion


Site of the Week (July 25-31):
Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
Everything about herbs and spices
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/%7Ekatzer/engl/
Fun link: Japanese name generator


Site of the Week (August 1-7):
Xlation.com: More than words
Media tidbits and lots of language resources
http://xlation.com/
Fun link: Alanis: We're with the band


Site of the Week (August 8-14):
Microfilm Gallery
Old ads rescued from a doomed medium
http://www.lileks.com/oldads/
Fun link: 25 Signs You're Hearing a Lie


Site of the Week (August 15-21):
Philosophy: Ideas, Intuitions, and Images
Lots of stuff to think about from Peter Shea's blog
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shea0017/philosophy/
Fun link: Paper Napkin pick-up rejection service

(Site of the Week was on holiday from August 22-September 11)

Site of the Week (September 12-18):
The CIA World Factbook: Andorra
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/an.html more Andorra links
Fun link: Weird things you did as a kid


Site of the Week: (September 19-25):
ChannelOne.com
K-12 programming; lots of links
http://www.channelone.com/
Fun link: Bubble wrap


Site of the Week: (September 26-October 2):
Chicago Public Radio
Third Coast International Audio Festival
Archived features  Audio links
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/
Fun links: WNYC's Five sounds in search of an author 1 2 3 4 5 a judging more


Site of the Week (October 3-9):
Fluent French
Experiences of an English speaker
http://www.signiform.com/french/
Fun link: Rhino comedy listening party  Webpage


Site of the Week (October 10-16):
The Larry Elder Show
Archives
http://larryelder.warnerbros.com/recapArchive.html
Fun link: Boogle


Site of the Week (October 17-23):
Baby Names of Ireland.com
Pronunciations of Irish names with audio files
http://www.babynamesofireland.com/index.html
Fun link: Origins of Taiwan place names (Chinese)


Site of the Week (October 24-30):
The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Hurricane Research Division
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html
Fun link: Google fight


Site of the Week (October 31-November 6):
The Engines of Our Ingenuity
How our culture is formed by human creativity (Radio archives)
http://www.uh.edu/engines/engines.htm
Fun link: TV-B-Gone  article


Site of the Week (November 7-13):
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
Embarrassing link: Give Bush a brain


Site of the Week (November 14-20):
LSA: Linguistics videos on the Web
http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Archive.html
Fun link: Shoecabbage


Site of the Week (November 21-27):
Voice of America: Wordmaster
Text and audio reports on language-related topics
http://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/index.html
Fun link: How to build the best paper airplane in the world


Site of the Week (November 28-December 4):
Squashed Philosophers
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
Beautiful link: Taiwan will touch your heart (wmv)


Site of the Week (December 5-11):
Decameron Web
A growing hypermedia archive of materials
dedicated to Boccaccio's masterpiece
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
Fun link: Lacquer: Drive a convertible from LA to NY in 4 minutes


Site of the Week (December 12-18):
The Essays of Francis Bacon
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mike_donnelly/bacon.htm
Fun link: Tom Lehrer's Elements


Site of the Week (December 19-25):
The Classical Music Archives
(free registration required)
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
Fun link: I jumped from the 11th floor... (in Chinese)


Site of the Week (December 26-January 1):
Arts & Letters Daily
http://www.aldaily.com/
Fun link: BBC 2004 World News Quiz


2005

Site of the Week (January 2-8):
The Luminous Landscape
Learn digital photography
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/learning-to-see.shtml
Fun link: MBTI Personality Test


Site of the Week (January 9-15):
ACTFL videoconference
2005: The Year of Languages
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3509
Fun link: Soople


Site of the Week (January 16-22):
Backyard Nature
http://www.backyardnature.net/
Fun link: How to change a habit


Site of the Week (January 23-29):
PBS Frontline: Watch online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
Fun link: Numanuma


Site of the Week (January 30-February 5):
English-trailers.com
ESL exercises for movie trailers
http://www.english-trailers.com/
Fun link: Mix of 22 whistled songs (8MB MP3; source page)


Site of the Week (February 6-12):
Oneword radio
Serializations of bestselling books, from Jane Austen
to Nick Hornby, read by the greatest actors
http://www.oneword.co.uk/
Fun link: PBS: Online thumb piano


Site of the Week (February 13-19):
FlashFiction.net
http://audiohouse.com/flashfiction.htm
Fun link: Overheard in New York 1 2


Site of the Week (February 20-26):
Old Poetry
"We are the premier interactive community
exploring the old poets."
http://oldpoetry.com/
Fun link: The 48 Rules of Power


Site of the Week (February 27-March 5):
Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Fun link: West African music


Site of the Week (March 6-12):
How to cut vegetables
http://www.hertzmann.com/articles/2005/fables/
Fun link: A phrase a day


Site of the Week (March 13-19):
Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/
Fun link: 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work


Site of the Week (March 20-26):
Improv Encyclopedia
Tons of stuff related to improvisation theatre
http://www.humanpingpongball.com/index.html
Fun link: Let them sing it for you


Site of the Week (March 27-April 2):
The Forbidden Library
Banned and challenged books
http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/
Fun link: Overheard on the London tube
Web radio: Acoustic café: try Leo Kottke


Site of the Week (April 3-9):
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
Fun link: Indian vegetarian cooking
Web radio: kbcs 91.3fm Bellevue WA: "a world of music and ideas"


Site of the Week (April 10-16):
Find Articles
"5,000,000 articles - not found on any other search engine"
http://www.findarticles.com/
Fun link: PBS: Compare US dialects
Web radio: WXPN 88.5 University of Pennsylvania


Site of the Week (April 17-23):
Guitar Primer
An adult guitar instruction methodology
http://www.guitar-primer.com/
Fun link: BBC: 100 things we didn't know this time last year
Web radio: classical guitar.cc (on Live 365, requires free registration)


Site of the Week (April 24-30):
Free Piano Lessons Online
http://playpiano.com/101-tips/IndexOfThe101WeekCourseInChordsChordProgressions.htm
Fun link: Run, run, run
Web radio: ABC RN


Site of the Week (May 1-7):
Podscope beta by TVEyes
Podcast search engine
http://www.podscope.com/
Also: podcast alley podcast.net iPodder
MP3 podcasting tools
Fun ink: A sad song by Fredo Viola (this is cool!)
Web radio: Flamenco from Jerez (on Live 365; requires free registration)


Site of the Week (May 8-14):
A botanical pioneer in South West China
Experiences and impressions of an Austrian botanist
during the First World War: Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti
http://www.paeo.de/h1/hand_maz/pioneer/buch.html
Fun link: Someone keeps stealing my letters...
Web radio: PBI Sound and Spirit


Site of the Week (May 15-21):
Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/home.html
Fun link: Google tools you may have missed
Web radio: Acoustic Pie (on Live 365, requires free registration)


Site of the Week (May 22-28):
Exploratorium
The museum of science, art, and human perception
http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html
Fun link: Zawaj.com's Best Middle Eastern Recipes
Web radio: MPR: A Prairie Home Companion


Site of the Week (May 29-June 4):
Koday's Kids Amazing Insects!
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/bugmenu.html
Fun link: The Many Voices of Rich Little
Web radio: Bluegrass Overnight


Site of the Week (June 5-11):
The Mathematical Atlas
A gateway to modern mathematics
http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/
Fun link: Shakespearean insults
Web radio: WNYC 93.9: New sounds
Extra: Why it's smart to disobey officials in emergencies


Site of the Week (June 12-18):
The Georgian Language
An outline grammatical summary
http://www.armazi.com/georgian
Georgian/Kartuli
Very silly link: The llama song
Web radio: Harmonia: Early Music on Public Radio - Archived Programs
Web TV: Rustavi 2 TV


Sites of the Week (June 19-25):
FindSounds: Search the Web for sounds
http://www.findsounds.com/index.html
Creative Commons sound archive
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/whatIsFreesound.php
Fun link: Color palette generator
Web radio: Saint Paul Sunday: The Kronos Quartet


Site of the Week (June 26-July 2):
Memory Master
http://www.vlaardingen.net/~tom/Mainmenu.htm
Fun link: I'm not getting out of bed
Web radio: Brazil moods Requires free Live 365 registration


Site of the Week (July 3-9):
NewScientist.com: 11 steps to a better brain
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625011.900
Fun link: Bighappyfunhouse: Found photos
Web radio: Saint Paul Sunday: Imani Winds


Site of the Week (July 10-16):
Chaucer MetaPage
Online works and audio files
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/index.html
Fun link: Saturday morning breakfast cereal
Web radio: Guitarra del Sur Requires free Live 365 registration


Site of the Week (July 17-23):
How to Write More Clearly,
Think More Clearly, and
Learn Complex Material More Easily
http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/WriteThinkLearn_files/frame.htm
Fun link: Quiz: Everything was invented in China
Web radio: KCRW: Sounds Eclectic
Apologetic political link: Sorry, everybody, for electing Bush


Site of the Month (July 24-August 20):
Conversations with History
Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/alpha.htm
Fun link: Daily dose of imagery
Web radio: XJBS Radio Xinjiang, China


Sites of the Week (August 21-27):
Introductory Shona Language
http://www.shonalanguage.info/
Martin Shumba's Shona Language Pages
http://www14.brinkster.com/mshumba/
Fun link: Mayo Clinic: What a newborn really looks like
Music on the Web: Mbira music samples


Sites of the Week (August 28-September 3):
What Makes a Good Short Story?
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/
12 Exercises for Improving Dialogue
http://www.poewar.com/archives/2004/10/23/12-exercises-for-improving-dialogue/
Fun link: Grad school - some people never learn
Music on the Web: RootsWorld: Listening to the Planet
Bonus interview: NPR: Kayla Williams: 'Love My Rifle More Than You'


Site of the Week (September 4-10):
Inttranews
Links to language-related media reports
http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news.cgi?action=aff
Fun link: Mayo Clinic's 10 parenting truths
Music on the Web: BBC: Cambridge Folk Festival


Site of the Week (September 11-17):
The Internet Poetry Address Book
Links to over 3000 poems by 20th century authors
http://www.vulgarian.net/ipa/20th/index.htm
Fun link: Brian M. Murphy's Big list of clichés
Music on the Web: Contemporary Louisiana Cajun, Creole and Zydeco Musicians


Site of the Week (September 18-24):
The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/contents.htm
Fun link: Disgusting Food List
Music on the Web: Turkishmusic.org: Turkish music voice library 2 3


Site of the Week (September 25-October 1):
British Library: Turning the Pages: Alice in Wonderland
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/alice/alice_narrowband.htm
Fun link: Ordering a pizza in 2030
Music on the Web: Radio Gaita: Bagpipe Music from Around the World


Site of the Week (October 2-8):
Language portraits: Words and Images
Hear a poem by Elly Sherman read in 80 different languages
http://www.languageportraits.net/
Fun link: Viola jokes
Music on the Web: Aloha Joe Hawaiian music
Extra: The Washington Post on the @ sign


Site of the Week (October 9-15):
Learn English
Laura Lawless's new English learning site
http://englishlanguage.allinfoabout.com/esl/learnenglish.html
Fun link: Video: Pursuing a speeder
Music on the Web: CNet free music downloads
Extra: The Washington Post on the @ sign


Site of the Week (October 16-22):
Audio files for William A. Smalley's
Manual of Articulatory Phonetics
http://bach.arts.kuleuven.be/MOAP/
Fun link: The curious games genetics play
Music on the Web: Radio Atlantique, St. Pierre and Miquelon


Site of the Week (October 23-30):
Judy Vorfeld's Webgrammar
Editing, Writing, Webmastering & Web Development
http://www.webgrammar.com/
Fun but sad link: American People and Geography xD
Music on the Web: Radio Albmuzika: Albanian Radio


Site of the Week (October 31-November 5):
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics
from the Slovak Association for the Study of English
http://www.skase.sk/index.html
Another fun but sad link: Pat Oliphant
Music on the Web: Harpsichord pieces by Owen Daly


Site of the Week (November 6-12):
University of North Texas
General Linguistics online
http://workbench.webct.com:4040/SCRIPT/gen_linguistics2/scripts/serve_home
Fun link: Jokes for slightly twisted minds
Music on the Web: Best Georgian music


Site of the Week (November 13-19):
LibriVox: Free audiobooks
"Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain"
http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/
Fun link: Knock-knock jokes
Music on the Web: The Lithuanians Voice Internet radio


Site of the Week (November 20-26):
How language works
by Michael Gasser
http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/Introduction/intro.html
Fun link: Pretty Good Jokes
Music on the Web: The Unheard Beethoven


Site of the Week (November 27-December 3):
Concentric: Studies in Linguistics
Linguistics journal from National Taiwan Normal University
http://www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/concentric-linguistics/Index.htm
Fun link: Amazing composite iceberg photo
Music on the Web: Mouth Sounds


Site of the Week (December 4-10):
MRC Psycholinguistic Database
University of Western Australia, School of Psychology
Word, Number of letters, Age of acquisition rating,
Comprehensive syntactic category, Kucera-Francis written frequency, more
http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm
Fun link: Why? jokes
Music on the Web: MPR: Singing in the shadow of AIDS


Site of the Week (December 11-17):
Gather
High-quality writing community
http://www.gather.com/index.jsp
Fun link: Linguistischer Adventskalender
Music on the Web: The Internet Renaissance Band
European carols: Mediæval, Renaissance, and traditional


Site of the Week (December 18-24):
Free-Scores.com
The Sheet Music Directory
http://www.free-scores.com/free-sheet-music.php?CATEGORIE=70&compo=1&start=40
Fun holiday link: Decorate the house
Music on the Web: BBC: The complete works of J. S. Bach


Site of the Week (December 25-31):
ArtRage
Colorful, fun painting software
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
Fun link: State mottoes
Music on the Web: BBC: Discovering music


2006

Site of the Week (January 1-7):
Classic Poem Daily from Simran Khurana
Get a free classic poem by email every day
http://quotations.about.com/c/ec/1.htm
Fun link: Great quotes from athletes
Music on the Web: Czech Oldies


Site of the Week (January 8-14):
The History Channel: Speeches and Video
http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/home/index.jsp
Fun link: Weapons of math destruction
Music on the Web: MPR: A playground of sound


Site of the Week (January 15-21):
Hanzi Smatter: 一知半解
dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture
http://www.hanzismatter.com/
Fun link: 單兵基本教箠 (dealing with a nutcase)
Linguistics link: Survey on Use of Thematic Roles
Music on the Web: NPR: The Best Music of 2005 Countdown


Site of the Week (January 22-28)
NewScientist.com
Free podcast now available!
http://www.newscientist.com/podcast.ns
Also: Seed Magazine   PBS Nova   Science Friday   
The Naked Scientists   Science@NASA   Nature
Fun link: The Daily Buzz: A new photo and quote every weekday
Linguistics link: LSA Request For Proposals: eLanguage
Music on the Web: Liz Phair


Site of the Week (January 29-February 4):
Remembering Peter Ladefoged
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/remember/index.htm
Amazing fun sound link: The new Honda Civic ad (that's human voices you hear)
Music on the Web: Roseanne Cash
In memoriam: Peter Ladefoged
80th birthday 1 2 slide show homepage
Comment on: Stephen King's uvular nasal tap


Site of the Week (February 5-11):
TVEyes Video Search
lets you search the Internet for TV clips
http://tveyes.com/
Fun link: Dance, Monkeys, Dance
Linguistics links: Remembering Peter Ladefoged Uvular nasal tap
Music on the Web: BBC: Oboist Janet Craxton


Site of the Week (February 12-18):
Geology News
The latest and greatest news in geology, from around the world
http://geology.rockbandit.net/
Fun link: NPR: Amtrak Julie meets Airline Tom
Linguistics links: Remembering Peter Ladefoged Uvular nasal tap
Music on the Web: Henry Purcell al pianoforte


Site of the Week (February 19-25):
WorldAtlas.com
Find out about the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest,
deepest, oldest, youngest, richest, poorest places on the planet
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
Fun link: Poetry in motion: incredible juggling act
Linguistics links: Remembering Peter Ladefoged Uvular nasal tap
Music on the Web: Classical Music MP3 Webring


Site of the Week (February 26-March 4):
Oneaday.org
Learn one Chinese idiom a day
http://www.oneaday.org/trad/archives.html
Fun link: Pronunciation is important
Linguistic hoax link (in French): 6500-year-old voices recorded in pottery
Music on the Web: Magnatune classical MP3s


Site of the Week (March 5-11):
Candle: National e-learning project
Chinese-English bilingual concordancer (Total Recall),
collocation retrieval program (Tango)
http://candle.cs.nthu.edu.tw/newcandle/Home_C.asp
Fun link: Psychology cartoons
Food for thought link: Students e-mail professors
Music on the Web: SOMA FM


Site of the Week (March 12-18):
The New York Times: Podcasts
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html
Also: LA TImes   Washington Post
Linguistics fun link: At the Pearly Gates
Music on the Web: Grab the pancakes


Site of the Week (March 19-25):
Artnatomy
Anatomical basis of facial expression learning tool
Fun link (in Chinese): 砰砰劇場
Linguistics link: Oddcast.com text to speech
Music on the Web: Fado de Portugal


Site of the Week (March 26-April 1):
Google sets
Automatically generate semantically related sets of words
Fun link: Writer's Almanac podcast
Linguistics link: Radio host fired for 'slip of the tongue'
Music on the Web: Amal Murkus NPR


Site of the Week (April 2-8):
Mayo.com Symptom checker
A quick online first-stop reference
Fun link: ¡Escapa! game
Linguistics link: Isabella Massardo's blog (in Italian)
Music on the Web: Cristina Branco


Site of the Week (April 9-15):
World Language Phyla/Family Mapping
Fun link: Heineken ad
Linguistics link: First language acquisition
Music on the Web: Richard Thompson


Site of the Week (April 16-22):
The Wondering Minstrels
Archive of 1812 great English poems, with comments
Fun warning link: Profit cola
Linguistics fun link: Chinese menu
Music on the Web: Maude Maggart


Site of the Week (April 23-29):
EuroNews
With videos
Wake-up call link: Ugly Americans
Linguistics link: Language is for the birds
Music on the Web: Abigail Washburn


Site of the Week (April 30-May 6):
National Gallery of Art
Take a Web tour
Pathetic link: The Decider
Linguistics link: Linguist deciphers use of word 'dude'
Music on the Web: Uygur music


Site of the Week (May 7-13):
Language Miniatures
Toothsome linguistic snacks
Fun link: New Year Fireworks 101
Linguistics link: Amazing parrot
Music on the Web: Sherry Shieh


Site of the Week (May 14-20):
Laura Lawless's blog
Language, food, anecdotes
Fun link: I don't hate cilantro, but some people really do!
Linguistics link: New Language Has Surprising Structure
Sheet music on the Web: Beethoven Sonate per pianoforte


Site of the Week (May 21-27):
Linguistics Fieldwork/Language Documentation Sites
From Stanford University
Fun link: I can't draw: The Comic
Linguistics link: Schizophrenics Have Hard Time Discerning Body Language
Music on the Web: 10-string guitar


Site of the Week (May 28-June 3):
As Long As We Both Shall Live:
Long-Married Couples in America
Fun link: Driving in India
Linguistics link: English as a national language in the US
Music on the Web: NPR: Senegal's Cheikh Lo Brings 'Lamp Fall'


Site of the Week (June 4-10):
African Writing Systems
Syllographic, Alphabetic, Pictographic, Petrographic,
Chromatographic, Philosophical Systems
Fun link: It's a dog's world
Linguistics link: Fewer Chinese characters
Music on the Web: Surprising new music from Paul Simon


Site of the Week (June 11-17):
Mbira.org
Learn mbira this summer with Erica Azim in Berkeley
Fun link: Hong Kong bus uncle
Linguistics link: John Wells' phonetics blog
Music on the Web: Other Minds
Georgian bonus: SueAndNotU


Site of the Week (June 18-24):
Wandering in Wulai
Greg Talovich's blog
Fun link: Small ads from the UK
Linguistics link: Are women lowering their voices?
Controversial link: Tired black men
Music on the Web: 'Etran Finatawa' and the Music of Niger


Site of the Week (August 13-19):
Suggestions for a happier life
Fun link: Doggone entertaining video
Linguistics link: Nouns and Verbs Sound Different
Music on the Web: Georgian radio

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