Meryl's Notes Blog

• Small Business Administration Free Online Courses
• Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers.
• 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday
• SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event for bloggers held in Chicago. [Link: Starbucker]
• Create a free web site.
• Bad Pitch Blog: For many writers, it seems illogical that PR people would pitch something off topic for a resource — but they do all the time. I’m still receiving pitches for a defunct newsletter and they’re not even close to being on topic. You can get this and many more from PR and Blogging Wars list.
• 7 Reasons Odd Numbers Can Power Up Your Headlines.

And for fun because you’re allowed…

• Vanity Plates… that go hilariously wrong
• Creepy and kinky hotel rooms
• Sites that let you spy on friends: I don’t encourage it… just educatin’ ya.
• Create your own ceiling cat [Link: DeFillippo]
• 29 Ways to Carry Out Random Acts of Kindness Every Day: I believe in always doing something nice for others. My dad did this every morning when he walked. He’d carry a bag of dog bones and give them to all the neighbors’ dogs and he would move newspapers from the sidewalk to people’s doorsteps. I miss you, Dad.

And because we need to face reality… sorry.

• Portion sizes: Then and now