WordNet: “an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical
memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying
lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George
A. Miller (Principal Investigator).” You can use WordNet online or download your own copy.

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices — more than sixty, to improve the effectiveness and elegance of your writing, or to learn some obscure words that will help you solve erudite crossword puzzles. And a taxonomy of logical fallacies; recognizing and characterizing why someone’s argument does not make the point they claim it makes.

Center for Exorcistology “Never say the following: I rebuke you, I command you, or I adjure you. This will only make it personal and it may cause
you more attack. Try to leave the narcissism out of it. Don’t be lazy, learn this prayer of adjurement.” [via wood s lot]

Eyes wide apart: “Stare into Michelle Pfeiffer’s eyes, and other faces will
suffer by comparison…,” according to a paper recently published in Nature Neuroscience. The Guardian

FreeAnswers (“Ask a question just as if you were talking to a support technician”) is a natural-language search interface to the knowledge bases for Microsoft, Intuit and Adobe products. It does considerably better than, for example, Microsoft’s own front end to its knowledge bases at figuring out what it is you want to know. Brian Livingston reports on this in his Window Manager column in InfoWorld.