found this via lifehacker. it's a really nice wake up call when you need motivation to get something done or deal with a personality flaw. quite inspiring and just the right tone to work for me. go read it: hackyourself.org
serendipity is one of my favourite words. apparently i'm not alone, as it scored in the top ten of various versions of 'Britain's favourite words' type lists, so prevalent at the end of the year. but anyway. serendipity in my life comes along most often thanks to the wonders of the world wide web. not least because that's how i met YummyHubby (tm), which has got to be the best thing to ever happen to me...
sorry about that, got distracted.
so, from hack yourself i jumped onto one of the social bookmarking links in the sidebar and ended up at a wordnerd's ideal shoot em up :) you have to type the word you see in order to destroy the oncoming tanks and save your skin. good typing and spelling are essential. i thought it was fun for a few minutes then i looked at the high scores list and was utterly shocked that people must have been bashing their keyboards for hours on end to get those kind of points... scary.
go have some fun, wordnerd style: cognitivelabs.com/word_shoot.htm
and more fun for wordnerds to be found thanks to this rather cool interpretation of a thesaurus: www.visualthesaurus.com. cool as a concept from a linguistics-semantics standpoint, how the brain works, serendipitous word-surfing and so on, but also the technology involved in presenting words in this way.
