Acronyms can be fun and frustrating when you don't know them...

Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine
by Lore Sjöberg

Tired of practicing your blank stares for when someone says they need a TCP/IP-based LAN set up and a USB-to-SCSI adapter ASAP? Do you wish you could throw around acronyms with that same casual attitude that pisses you off so much? Here's your chance. With this tool, you can enter any combination of letters you like (from 2 to 6) and we'll expand them into a handy, technical-sounding, completely made-up phrase that borders on the plausible.

So invent your own. Go to: http://www.brunching.com/acronymer.html

Making sense of Twitter

When I first logged on to Twitter I failed to see the point. I was too busy to care who went where and who ate what. I had enough trouble keeping track of myself. Then I realized that the most important thing is not keeping tracking of who is doing what and when but what is going on in your field of endeavor. I then started to follow several people who I felt were knowledgeable in areas that I tried to keep current. In no time at all I found webinars of interest, very cool websites, ustream lectures to name just a few intriguing connections. Immediately my unbelievably crowded desktop expanded to classrooms in Asia, webinars in Kansas, video tutorials, splashups, mashups, and intercontinental free phone calls. You could say there was everything from analog mp3s to wikispaces by the zillions.
Here is an example of one of my finds. This google gadget allows you to send an SMS from your webpage.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghp&num=24&url=http://www.telemessage.com/qsms/qsms.xml