In my usual explorations of the internet, I found LyricWiki! This looks like a great project. It is, as the name suggests, a wiki for lyrics. From the front page:LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads.

I think wikis are a marvellous concept. They appeal to my idealistic, warm and fuzzy notion of people openly contributing to help themselves and others (i.e. "by the people for the people"). This is yet another example of such an effort. Unfortunately, lyrics for much of the music I listen to are not available, mostly due to the alternative nature of said music, though it seems that all of the Dream Theater lyrics are there, which is fantastic. I guess I'll have to start contributing when I can find time!

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Oh dear. I've found yet another site to fuel my infamously renowned tendency towards procrastination: Boing Boing! The articles cover an abundance of topics, though from what I have read, they appear to lean towards interesting technological developments, absurd and/or humourous happenings, individual rights and ridiculous current affairs. The fact that I have spent almost an hour reading the latest items is a bad sign. I initially found it by following a link in a forum thread about whether receiving radio without dedicated hardware was possible: GNU Radio: the universal, software-defined radio. Other articles that have caught my interest during this initial perusal include:

• RyanAir: Airport security is like a strip-search
• Flame throwing trampoline
• Blog about end times
• British air travelers kick brown "terrorists" off their planes
• Dalai Lama issues support for Tibetan WiFi summit in India

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