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I can never find these when I want them.
Dictionaries and English Tools
An historical syntax of the English language, Visser (various digitized parts)
ESL: List of free online journals from talktotheclouds
Learner’s Dictionaries (ESL): Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Longman English Dictionary Online, Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (also Learner’s, AmE, idioms, phrasal verbs, English-Turkish), Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
Memidex dictionary and thesaurus
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English Usage
Mythology – Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
OneLook (1024 dictionaries) (use help file to add to search bar)
ODLIS — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
Philosophy meta-encyclopedia | Dictionary of Philosophy (Ancient – Medieval – Modern) Dagobert D. Runes
Rhyme generators: Write Express, Rhyme Brain
Style Manuals-Online Stylebooks–search 43 manuals of style
Unicode-Alt keyboard sequences for special characters, alt codes
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
Webster’s New World College Dictionary
TV shows (and radio) Firefly (a space western) wikipedia|episodes (often broken)|Chinese language phrases (mostly Mandarin) (incomprehensible by real Chinese people)
Fireflyfirst five episodes (HULU)(now they have five rotating episodes)
Fireflyfrom sling.com beta (same episodes as HULU, with smoother display) on sling.com
Fireflyepisode guide. Maybe can download some episodes.
La Femme Nikita episodes (starring Peta Wilson)
Naruto (Japanese manga cartoons, English subtitles)
The Prisoner free online (Patrick McGoohan)
Bible portals
New Revised Standard Version: Oremus with Godweb browser and OBB browser, Bible studytools (with commentary and parallel translations)
Today’s New International Version
Arabic translation (Bible Gateway)
Parallel translations (commentary and cross references)
Codex Sinaiticus (earliest known Bible–in Greek)
Roman Catholic Bible in French, key documents of the Catholic faith: Magisterium (in Latin), Liturgy and the Fathers of the Church, saints and their writings, created from CD-ROM Ictus 3.
Koran portals
Yusuf Ali, Pickthal, Shakir (U. of Southern California)
Online Quran Project (60 trans. + Arabic)
Ayat al-Kursi (Throne Verse) [2:255] Tutorial
Open Quran (9 reciters + Arabic text)
(For prayer times)
mosque: Bridgeview
mosque: Adams (DC)
Language Dictionaries
University of Texas archaic languages: Old Norse, Armenian, Baltic, Old English, Old French, Gothic, Classical Greek, N.T. Greek, Hittite, Old Iranian, Old Irish, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit, Tocharian [Asia silk road])
Ultralingua: English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Klingon, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dictionaries, Spelling & Grammar Checkers, Audio Learning Tools
Your dictionary–Online dictionaries for 300 languages
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Akkadian: Klinopsis (Old Babylonian Text Corpus by Cuneiform Circle)
Amharic: Dictionary of the Amharic Language by Charles William Isenberg (1841), Basic Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English, English-Amharic. Leslau, Wolf (1970) (Free download.) , Online Amharic-English dictionary with search box, A small Amharic glossary
Anglo-Saxon: Anglo-Saxon Dictionary of Bosworth/Toller 1898, consistent alphabetic index to An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Bosworth and Toller)-Univ of Texas
Arabic: Edward William Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon and Koran indexed by roots, new library (so far several translations of Koran and a users dictionary), Andras Rajki’s Arabic Etymological Dictionary (transliteration), database query semitic etymology (Russian website), M. Piamenta’s Dictionary of Post Classical Yemeni Arabic (Gbooks searchable but not online)
Catalan: Enciclopedia (with etymology)
Cornish: Warlinnen lexicon
Danish: modern Danish dictionary, pronunciation guide, historical dictionary of Danish
English: Middle English, Dictionary of Old English-University of Toronto, dictionary of slang, jargon & cant: embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker’s jargon and other irregular phraseology, Volume 1(google books full text)
French Dictionnaire Français (Encarta), Orthonet [French lexicon proposed by the Conseil International de la Langue Française (www.cilf.org)], Le Tresor de la Langue Francaise Informatise (etymology)
Gaelic: Gaelic – English Dictionary by Malcolm MacFarlane, dictionary in Gaelic, medieval old and middle Irish glossary by Dennis King, Lexicons–MacFarlane, Gramadach
Georgian: Georgian/German dictionary, Georgian/English site down but try http://sisauri.tripod.com/lexicon/INDEX3.htm on the wayback machine http://web.archive.org
German: LEO Deutsch-EnglischWörterbuch
German: English/German dictionary, user sourced, also Italian/German, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian, Danish, Esperanto, Norwegian
German: Das Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (German OED), Beta–completion date 2012, Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm (etymology)
Greek: (etymology)
Hindi/Urdu: from Slovarus.info, Platts (some etymology)
Irish: dictionary online
Italian: Dizionario Etimologico
Lakota: Lakota lexicon;Lakota translation (short dictionary); Lakota language, keyboard, fonts, grammar, Bible translation in Lakhota and Dakhota, translation of texts;Lakota-Useful phrases from Omniglot; Lakota Grammar +; Lakhota letters (alphabet) and sounds; Wikipedia: Lakota language with grammar; Smithsonian winter count calendars with pronunciation of tribal group names in Lakota.
Latin: Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, L. Favre, 1883-1887 (annotated), Wordsonline dictionary, translation assistant, grammar aid
Mongolian: from Slovarus.info (via LH)
Mongolian: (from read)
Norse/Icelandic: Ross Arthur’s English-Old Norse glossary, Old Norse lexicon, Freelang English/Old Norse, Northvegr Old Icelandic (Geir T. Zoëga’s 1910 dictionary of Old Norse), Wiki English glossary, Old IcelandicAn Icelandic-English Dictionary Cleasby and Vigfusson 1874, J. Frizners ordbok (The standard dictionary of Old Norse,in Norwegian) Univ. of Oslo., Modern IcelandicÍslensk-ensk orðabók / Concise Icelandic-English Dictionary 1989
Norwegian-Bokmåls: og nynorskordboka i felles søkevindu
Norwegian-Nynorsk: Grunnmanuskriptet, based on field work in the early 20th century (the book was never published, maybe because of the great depression, maybe because of a political backlash, I don’t really know), but intended to finally be printed on paper for the national jubilee in 2014.
Portuguese: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (with etymology)
Sanskrit: from Slovarus.info
Spanish: Real Academia Española diccionario
Scots: Dictionary of the Scots language: (not Gaelic), Scots-Online dictionary (not Gaelic)
Turkish: Cambridge Dictionary Online includes English-Turkish translation
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia:
The English one is the Hobson-Jobson Anglo-Indian dictionary; “comparative” is A Dravidian etymological dictionary and A comparative dictionary of Indo-Aryan languages.
Urdu/Hindi: from Slovarus.info, Platts (some etymology)
Welsh: Univ of Wales online dictionary, Mark Nodine’s lexicon,
Language tools (translation, tutorials, and grammars)
General:
Classical languages: The Stoa Consortium-links to texts, blogs, Athens archeology…
Dicts.info-English lookup to 105 languages
*Foreign Services Institute Language Courses U.S. government – public domain. Audio and text. The site is back up as of April 13, 2013, and has posted a dozen new texts.
Mirror/alternative sites at:
- FSI Foreign Languages Courses
- Public-Domain Language Courses from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute
Forvo All the words in the world. Pronounced.
Lexicity Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gothic, Greek Hebrew, Hittite, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Irish, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Sumerian, Syriac, Ugaritic. Comprehensive index for ancient language resources, including dictionaries, grammars, charts and aids, and biblical and non-biblical texts.
Mojibake online decoder (for non-standard character sets in Cyrillic, etc.–then put result into Google Translate)
Master list of free language learning resources (including Arabic)
The Open University (podcasts) (British) French, German, Spanish, business English
Online dictionaries: English/Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Online Verb Conjugator 66 languages, modern and archaic: Catalan, runic Old Swedish, Old English, vulgar Latin, Welsh…
YouTube: Learn a language on YouTube (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Maori, Old English, Portuguese, Sign language, Swedish, Welsh) Languages.
By language:
Akkadian: cunieform from Knowledge and Power in the neo-Assyrian Empire website
Amharic: Amharic keyboard and font to download (scroll down for font), Senamirmir fonts, (to start using font, close the browser and open again; this website has an Amharic “welcome” message you will be able to see if your font is working); Road to Ethiopia, blog written by a student of Amharic language
Anglo-Saxon: consistent alphabetic index to An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Bosworth and Toller)-Univ of Texas
Arabic: list of proto-Semitic roots, Foreign Services Institute Arabic free downloads
Chinese: language phrases (mostly Mandarin) from Firefly TV series (it is said that real Chinese people cannot understand these)
Chinese: grammar sample (from Bathrobe)
Darija (Moroccan Arabic): Speak Moroccan Arabic (French version available)
English: (15th to 19th c), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU: The Canterbury Tales Prologue in Middle English
Georgian: alphabet and grammar, pronunciation of letters (in German)
Greek (classical): Getting started tutorial, British Museum digitized manuscripts Greek (Homeric): Clyde Pharr’s Homeric Greek – A Book For Beginners, starts with alphabet then read Iliad in original
Greek (just added): , Stoa Consortium, Univ of Texas (classical and N.T.)
Univ of Frankfort index (also Hittite, Lydian, Tocharian, Old Indic (Vedic?], Old, Middle, Modern Iranian/Persian/Avestan, Armenian, Italic/Old Latin/ Umbrian/Oscan/Picenian, Celtic/Gaulish/Celtibarian/Ogham/Old and Middle Irish/Middle Welsh):
- Griechische Alphabete (Karte) / Ancient Greek alphabets (Map)
- Mykenisches und kyprisches Syllabar / Mycenian and Cyprian Syllabaries
- Antike griechische Dialekte (Karte) / Ancient Greek Dialects (Map)
- Antike griechische Dialekte und ihre Verteilung / Ancient Greek dialects and their distribution
- Mykenisch: Schrift und Textbeispiele / Mycenian: Script and Sample texts
- Beispiele aus Herodot und Homer / Sample texts from Herodotus and Homer
- Die Inschrift von Gortyn / The Gortyn inscription
Hebrew: Balashon — Hebrew Detective (etymology), dictionary with 2 hour reading tutorial, dictionary, keyboard, and translate tool, Animated Hebrew games and tutorials website, Hebrew “coal mine letters” tutorial video, Hebrew resources post
Latin: St. Louis Univ materials, immersion course with podcasts, Babylon lookup, Ohio State grammar, Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar online, Perseus library Greek and Latin texts, U of Tartu links (including obscenities), wikibook Latin textbook, links to list of Greek and Latin roots, Latin on Youtube
Latin (classical): Getting started, Stoa Consortium
Norse: Old Norse for Beginnners, Yahoo Norse course group, Peter Pettersson’s Old Norse Language
Proto-Indo European (PIE): online books by Winfred P. Lehmann et al. about Indo-European languages and historical linguistics
Proto-Semitic: list of proto-Semitic roots
Scot: Scottish Gaelic sounds, Scots-Online (lowland Germanic, not Celtic Gaelic)
Spanish: Effective Swearing in DF (Mexico), Antonio de Nebrija’s Gramática de la lengua castellana (1492), Old Spanish readings (and history-google books full text)
Thai: mp3 downloads (webmaster in jail, download fast?)
Computer downloads for new computer setup
Portable Firefox (for flash drives)
100 plugins from Mycroft Project (Urban Dictionary)
American English spellcheck dictionary
Zoombrowser EX (But where’s the install file? Can’t find it on Vista.) Sure Canon gives you a disk, and they are said to be very proprietary about their software, but what are you supposed to do if you have a netbook with no CD player? Do they really think someone would want to use the program if they didn’t already have a Canon camera? Something to think about when it comes time to upgrade the camera.
Zoombrowser Canon A560 (and others) update from Canon (must have EX installed first)
Foxit fast PDF reader free download
Viruses and malware:
~Ad-awareSpybot Search and Destroy
~(AVG now with annoying popups and demands for system restarts)
~*****Microsoft one time scan (IE), malware info page with definition updates for 32-bit and 64-bit systems
How to enable Arabic on Vista: Start button->Control Panel->Classic View; select Regional and Language Options->Formats tab (set format to language i.e. “Arabic Egypt”); Location Tab (make location match setting for current format “Egypt”); go to Keyboards and Languages tab-> click on “Change Keyboards”
Picasa 3 Image editor for photos
Jordan
Middle East
Search for world newspapers by country
James Zogby on Huffington Post (archives on Washington Watch)
Audio (see also Language)
music:
Cohen, Leonard: Official YouTube channel, 2009 Tour (albertnoonan’s high quality YouTube), DrHGuy blog, Speaking Cohen link page
Gaida Hinawwi–from Chicago Music Festival
Lo Cor de la Plana, Spain, a capella male voices-from Chicago Music Festival
Mor Karbasi–, oh, yes!-from Chicago Music Festival
NPR Music (click live concerts for Neko Case)
Leonard Cohen
Blogs:
HeckOfaGuy (DrHGuy)
Leonard Cohen official website
Leonard Cohen Photo Blog (haunting images from someone in Iran)
The Leonard Cohen files (I get quoted here for the Chicago concert–in windows use edit, then find for “camel”)
VIDEOS:
Music (Cohen)
- Official Leonard Cohen YouTube channel: First We Take Manhattan, Democracy, Closing Time, In My Secret Life, Dance me to the end of Love, Because of, One of Us Can’t be Wrong-Live at the Isle of Wight,
- Official Leonard Cohen website high quality sound videos: Hallelujah, First We Take Manhattan, Democracy, Closing Time, In My Secret Life, Because of, Live at the Isle of Wight (not downloadable)
- “The Darkness” new song video, Nashville Nov.5
- “Feels so good” new song video, Chicago Oct.29; San Jose Nov. 13; Las Vegas Nov. 12 (Thank you, thank you, Albert Noonan); lyrics and more video links from Drheck
- “Hallelujah”, Leonard Cohen in Dublin July 23, 2009 (thanks, Albert Noonan)
Covers of Cohen music
Cohen’s “Hallelujah”:
- Leonard Cohen in Dublin July 23, 2009 (thanks, Albert Noonan)
- cover: Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris for 2010 Haiti fundraiser
- cover: KD Lang at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This is easily her best rendition, from the official Olympics website with high sound quality.
- cover: Jeff Buckley
- cover: four Norwegians–Espen Lind(on guitar), Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes, Kurt Nilsen(World Idol)
Interviews and art videos:
Leonard Cohen At Mt Baldy Zen Center, interview with Armelle Brusq, 1996 (thanks, DrHGuy) 1/6, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6.
Miami Vice cameo, speaking French as Francois Zolan in the episode, “French Twist”.
Language and International blogs
(amateur and professional)
Bulbolovo (bulbul in Slavakia) (alt URL?)
Desbladet (tracking Dutch Snökaos and Gavle goat burnings)
Filius Lunae Romance languages: Spanish, Catalan, French, Galician, Latin, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian
Idiocentrism (Emerson in Oregon), Trollblog (NSFW), Haquelebac
Martian Spoken Here (French) (Siganus in Mauritius)
The Old Hack (Paul in France)
Poemas del Rio Wang (Spanish, sometimes) (Studiolum, a Hungarian)
John Cowan: minimalist home page | Recycled Knowledge blog
CJVLang (Bathrobe’s days of the week in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese), Sibagu (Bathrobe’s Bird Names in Oriental Languages-Mongolia, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam)
Tetradki: A Russian review of Books (Sashura)
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Endangered Languages and Cultures (by and for Australian linguists)
Fully (sic) (Crikey‘s language blog by linguists, for the public–Oz)
Language Johnson (The Economist‘s language blog)
On language (Ben Zimmer NYT), Visual Thesaurus, Facebook, Twitter
Speculative Grammarian (Satirical Linguistics)
Throw Grammar from the Train (Jan Freeman– Boston Globe The Word)
Photography
FlorealMente on Facebook
The Kingston Lounge. Urban archeology.
Loic Brohard Photography (places and travel)
Arabia blogs
Maybe this is a good place to post a list of proxy servers by country and to mention Tor (oops, blocked in most of these blogs).
Sand Gets in my Eyes (blocked in Saudi Arabia)
misc:
Saudi TV ch1 official website streaming
South Shore commuter train schedule
Camel's Nose 
