Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Free books online

In case anyone was not aware of Project Gutenburg I wanted to bring it to your attention. Project Gutenburg is where you can find over 18,000 ebooks that are free to read. Any books that were written before 1923 have expired copyrights and are considered public domain, which means they are available for public use. So any classics that you have been considering buying can be previewed online for free; assuming that they have been added to the archives of Project Gutenburg. So lets say that you wanted to read something from Jonathan Swift's - Modest Proposal. Well you can go here and read it online. If you desired to download the book to your computer you could click here for the main page of this book.
This is a great way to preview classics before you buy them or perhaps you would just prefer to download the book instead of buying it. For anyone who has not had the pleasure of reading the above mentioned book I highly recommend it. Keep in mind that this is a satirical piece.
Enjoy

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Dani California sound familiar?

If you have heard the new single from Red Hot Chili Peppers, it might sound familiar. The single called Dani California has a similar sound to Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker's song called "Mary Jane's Last Dance". If you happen to own legal copies of both of these songs I would really recommend comparing them and seeing what you think. I was listening to the radio this morning and was able to hear a comparison. They sound very close to the same chords with Dani California being played slightly faster. Plagiarism? I don't know. There is a wikipedia entry about this issue which can be found here.

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Business Writing

I was browsing the web recently and found an interesting article on english grammar. The article can be found here.
With a quick peek at Business Writing, I was able to find other posts of interest. Maybe if I visit this site enough my blog will become easier to read.

Also while on the subject of grammar, (which I would still like to spell grammer!) another site I recently found is Grammar Hell.com.

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What does all of this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence. The psychological scars they acquire in the process are incalculable. But they struggle as best they can to preserve their capacity to think, sensing dimly that the essence of the torture is an assault on their mind. And what they feel toward their school ranges from mistrust to resentment to contempt to hatred – intertwined with a sense of exhaustion and excruciating boredom.

--Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal