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I was recently told about a great website called Librivox. This is a site where volunteers record themselves reading chapters of books in the public domain and post these recordings for others to enjoy, with the eventual goal “to record all books in the public domain.” While it is kind of a grab-bag of readers (some young, some old, some who do voices for characters, some who have monotone voices), it is great to be able to listen to classic literature for free. If you browse the catalog, you’ll see that they have a pretty large collection of works already, and their library is growing by the day.
Currently, I’m listening to The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, and it is making my slow days at work much more entertaining.
Please take some time to visit whatismae.com and support their current cause: The House That Fire Built.
This is the premise of what I believe is a really cool idea: each month this year, MAE will be releasing a new song to support a humanitarian effort or charitable organization. Each song requires a minimum donation of $1 to download, which will go towards that month’s cause. Even if you can only donate the minimum (or even if you can’t donate at all), help spread the word by embedding the widget (see my sidebar) in your blog, your myspace page, or your facebook profile.
These three guys are great people and make amazing music, so help them help others, and you can get some cool stuff from them in return.
Lately I’ve been playing poker online via Full Tilt, and let me say that I am enjoying myself. Whenever I’m at home and I have nothing to do, I just click that little icon and start playing (with play money, that is). It’s sweet. I think I’ll play some more right now.
Music of the moment:
Warehouse (Live)
Dave Matthews Band
This is a fresh installation of WordPress (a wonderful little content management system designed with blogging in mind). I decided that I don’t get enough use out of my website so that needs to change. Currently I have been browsing the WP themes pages looking for the perfect theme, but I can’t seem to find one that exactly meets my specifications. One might suggest that I simply design my own theme, which would be a valid argument; however, I am picky, and my tastes change frequently enough that by the time I get around to completing a theme that meets my standards, I might have changed them.
So for the time being, we’re sticking with this one.