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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Link of the Week # 11

Wow, is it Sunday already? It's been a busy few days.

This week's Link of the Week is the


http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form


So far, they're only up to words beginning with "cd", but there are over 30,000 definitions in limerick form.

Here's an example:

blog, blogosphere, blogger by Chris Doyle

With the web having millions of blogs,
It's a swamp filled with diarists' logs.
As the blogosphere grows
(Yeah, this metaphor blows),
Will the bloggers outnumber the frogs?

A blog (a contraction of web log) is an internet site set up and maintained by a blogger who keeps diaries, expresses opinions on current events or pretty much anything, or provides links to interesting web sites and to other blogs. Blogs first emerged from the swamp in the late 1990s. Today there are an estimated 50 million worldwide. I have no idea how many frogs there are in the world.




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