DailyLit: Bite-sized literature in your inbox, daily
Posted Sep 14th 2006 2:10PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Fun, E-mail, Web services

Not enough time for reading? Want to catch up on the classics?
DailyLit might be just what you've been looking for. It's a simple
service that will email you classic literature a few pages at a time,
so you can split up your reading over the course of a few weeks or
months. How long it will take you depends on how long the work is and
how often you receive it. You can set the delivery frequency to every
day, every weekday, or every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You can
also tell DailyLit it to send you the next part as soon as you've
finished the previous. There's dozens of novels of various lengths
available, most of them by familiar authors ranging from Homer to
Lewis Carroll, plus nonfiction works by Marx, Descartes, and many
others. If you're looking for a little culture, delivered daily,
DailyLit is definitely worth checking out.
http://tinyurl.com/gcknx
(crime and punishment can be read in 245 parts!)
GOOD STORY ON THE MYTHBUSTERS BACKGROUND:
Backstory: The mismatched 'Mythbusters'
An Oscar and Felix with a welder's torch, this duo tests the veracity
of pervasive myths.
By Carolyn Abate | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
SAN FRANCISCO – In a small warehouse here, two men stand behind a
Plexiglas shield, waiting for a disposable lighter to burst into
flames. A golf club attached to a pneumatic arm swings down at 85
miles per hour and slams into a piece of wood where the lighter is
perched. With a loud snap, the wood and lighter fly across the room
and hit a wall.
http://tinyurl.com/hnwdz
PLEASE NOTE..... THIS FEEDS INTO A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF I WANT TO DO
OR PREDICTED PEOPLE WILL DO.....
Gene secrets of the tree revealed
Poplars have become an important forestry resource
The first tree to have its full DNA code unravelled is a poplar.
The genome of the black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) was
sequenced in a four-year international project led by US institutions.
The work, reported in Science journal, shows the poplar tree has far
less DNA in its cells than humans or other mammals, but twice the
number of genes. Researchers say the new information will be a boon
to the understanding of plant biology and evolution.
The forestry industry also expects the genomic data to help it
improve the yield and quality of its products, such as bioethanol.
http://tinyurl.com/r59ak
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