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Buzzword Blends

Coworkers afflicted with BBS? "You've seen it in meetings. Someone who's addicted to incorrectly using business jargon. It's known as Buzzword Blending Syndrome, or BBS," explains a cheeky website from Babson College. Click here to help decipher those buzzword blends -- or let the website create new ones for you!
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Aesop's Fables Online

"Nearly as old as the Olympics, bigger than the dinosaur, older than the Titanic, more complex than Pokemon and more of them than Beanie Babies are Aesop's Fables." Whew! How's that for a build-up? Aesop's Fables, the complete online collection, lists classic fables like "The Seagull and the Kite," "The Scorpion and the Frog" and on and on -- plus the accompanying morals of the story. Perfect for teachers, parents or anyone hankering for a timeless life lesson!

Poetry a Day

"Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives," The Library of Congress's Poetry 180 website proclaims. It's designed to for students to read a poem a day for every one of the 180 school days of a year. But you don't have to be a student to enjoy this selection of poems, of course. Click here to see the complete list of poems.

"Our Friend, the Semicolon"

... and other nifty PowerPoint presentations on English usage are available for free from a website called the Guide to Grammar and Writing. If you or your students are interested in learning about "The English House of Commas" or "The Mighty Apostrophe" please click here.

I Could Care Less

Wait! If you do care if "I could care less" is a phrase misused -- or not -- then check out the Grammarphobia Blog. The site is run by a couple of authors who were once newspaper editors and who now weigh in on "hang" verses "hung," "one fell swoop," another grammatical conundrums. Care to check it out? Please click here.

Mastering the Long Sentence

Writing Tools is a must-read blog for any writer striving to write better (Ahem, that means all of us!). Produced by author, teacher and scholar Roy Peter Clark (read our interview here), it covers a wide range of writing-related topics. Roy's posts typically feature great examples of the writing he's talking about, like this entry on mastering the long sentence.

Get to Work!

Jason Fried, director of software innovator 37 Signals, asks on the website Vitamin: "When you're in 'the zone' you get your best work done. But how do you get in that 'zone' when colleagues, e-mails and IM are vying for your attention?" Read Jason's answer here.

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