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Via Lifehacker Google Books are now embeddable on websites, just like YouTube videos! You can view an example here on Google Operating System posting.

DailyLit, which offers up chunks of books on a daily basis, is now offering information from Wikipedia on various topics and bits of information.

No it’s not Friday, but didn’t think that I should hold onto this until then…

The comic strip “Rhymes with Orange” ran an interesting strip about a couple undergoing counseling and they use an interesting analogy, check it out.

Everyone loves Charlie Brown worldwide. Take a listen to this NPR weekend edition on just why people have fallen in love with lovable hero.

Spam e-mail turned 30 just a few days ago and this article tells us the history of spam. It’s an interesting read and well worth the time just to see who the 1st spammer was. Also check out this cool site of spam poetry, that’s right poems created from spam.

Today, May 3, is free

An interesting post from Webware on the use of tags with the Flickr/Library of Congress project. The post is on a presentation given at the Web 2.0 expo.

This is a podcast from the “Real Deal,” where they discuss copyright with Colette Vogele, attorney, Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. They discuss some of the concerns people have over copyright in today’s world with the internet, downloads, mashups, etc.

The state of New York has decided that there’s money to be made off this thing called the internet. Their going to start charging sales tax for online purchases. While consumers were supposed to report this on their taxes (yeah, like people are going to keep up with that), this law passes it onto the retailer. Its unclear yet (until the Gov. signs it) what affect this could fully have, but clearly Amazon will be impacted. Here’s the story for more details. And here’s last week’s report.

TwitLinks for Tech stories in Twitter! A lot of alliteration for such a simple thing. Wanna follow what some of the big names in Technology are saying in Twitter, but don’t have time to do so? Then you may want to take a look at Twitlinks. You can subscribe by RSS feed and it lays it out in an easy to read format. “Each article get a link, a first paragraph, and a link to the Twitter user who shared the link.”