MailWasher- You preview your email headers through mailwasher, and you can delete and/or bounce back the spam, so that the spammer (or undesirable lunatic) will get a message back indicating that they have emailed an invalid email address!

A big problem stemming from the music industry’s attempt to regulate music file sharing is the introduction of copy-protected cds into the market. The purpose of the copy-protection is to prevent digital copying of the files fromlegally purchased cds(not even backups). However, in those attempts they often keep people from even listening to the cds [...]

All of the viruses and hacking going around can make you nervous. Especially if you have public computers where you can’t control what all the users are going to do. Below are free (and paid) services that can help you protect yourself a little more.

Zone Labs: ZoneAlarm Pro download, trusted Internet security, small business security, [...]

Spyware is software downloaded to your computer, usually without your knowledge, that “watches” what you do on the Internet and then transmits the information back to its makers.

SimplytheBest Spyware information- A great deal of information and resources about spyware.
Counterexploitation [cexx.org]- A site devoted to fighting Spam and adware. Has step-by-step instructions for finding and deleting [...]

Digital copyright is a big story right now but to the uninvolved the unfamiliar terms make it hard to understand. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions has a great explanation on how the new copyright rules will hurt libraries and The Shifted Librarian has a very nice summary.

I’ve posted tutorials on my other site dealing with how to create websites using only a text editor. “XHTML and CSS for Newbies” can be found at theImaginaryWorld Tutorials section. More advice can be found through my Weblink Index.

Apple has made a deal with the five biggest music labels to allow iTunes users to download songs at $.99/each. This is a big deal as the first and so far best service for buying the most popular music digitally.

Apple unveils music store – article from C|Net.
iTunes Music Store-Response from a Mac user on the [...]

OpenOffice.org is a suite of applications built to work with MS Office files but their own formats are XML-based. Open-source means that anyone with the ability can add to the program or make adjustments to fit their needs. It is free to download and use.

War on internet piracy suffers setback is an article in the Financial Times covering a federal court’s ruling that file-sharing services could not be held accountable for what their users did with them.

Why bother with a tutorial for Google? You just type in you topic and go, right?

The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is “A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.” The site’s purpose is to educate non-legal professionals on their rights under the First Amendment and intellectual property laws as they apply to the Internet. The [...]

The Medical Library Association
SLA – Special Libraries Association
American Library Association
Libraries for the Future

LibrarySpot -A directory of reference sites in many areas targeted at librarians.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
UsefulBookmarks- A librarian’s directory of links.

The Laughing Librarian-Library humor
The Lipstick Librarian!- Must be read to understand.
Overdue Media, home of Unshelved- A comic for librarians set in a public library.
Why You Should Fall to Your Knees and Worship a Librarian. Just read it. And buy th t-shirt.
Biblia’s Warrior Librarian Weekly: Original Library Humor by Biblia, the Warrior Librarian

LISHost.com- “LISHost, non-profit, low cost Web hosting and design for the entire library world.” Librarians sharing the work and cost of maintaining a server to keep it lower for all.
oss4lib — Open Source Systems for Libraries A community to encourage the use of open-source software by libraries. Open source means that it can be legally [...]

LISFeeds.com is a website that displays the RSS feeds of several library weblogs. One stop shopping for industry news.
LISNews is a newspaper type website targeted to information workers. Comments are allowed to encourage discussion.
Weblogs are good places to find the latest and the most concentrated stories about their subject. Library Weblogs is site that [...]

Bean Books publishes a lot of science fiction and fantasy works. Since 2000, they’ve had the Baen Free Library up where they post electronic versions of some of their books for free in text, html, and pda formats. It’s not unknowns, either. They have stuff by:

Lois McMaster Bujold
Mercedes Lackey
Holly Lisle
and David Weber

The introduction by [...]

There isn’t much here yet because the site is still under construction but I have a lot of ideas I hope to get up quickly once the design is finalized.
So far, I’m planning on sections for:

copyright issues
useful web resources
and a Google searching tutorial

I expect much more to be added in time. If you have [...]