I just found Earth & Sky Kids while perusing various NPR podcasts.  It’s a nice kid-oriented science site, and I can see it being pretty useful for answering the inevitable questions about how things work in nature.  I’ve got my fingers crossed that we have a cloud-free night for the lunar eclipse this week

dianovo is a relatively new site for green-minded social networking. For Valentine’s Day, they are planting one tree for every ‘eco-valentine’ sent from their site from now until Valentine’s Day. There is a small catch – basically site membership. You have to be a member to send and the e-card needs to result in a new member, but I think the few minutes it takes to sign up are worth getting a tree planted. And by ‘few minutes’ I do mean that – their sign-up involves …

Just ’cause something is called a children’s movie doesn’t make it automatically appropriate in my book. There’s a big difference between something like Finding Nemo and Robots, between something that is wholesome entertainment and one that is a needlessly crass. kids-in-mind can help decide whether a movie is appropriate for your kids or not.

I just came across this today and had to share it – a super-fast, no frills online dictionary called Ninjawords. Lately I’d been using The Free Dictionary, which loads pretty slowly but gives a ginormous plethora of info like a long list of synonyms with definitions. Ninjawords is WAY different – the page loads in a split second, and the definition appears a split second after you start looking for it (either by hitting Enter after typing the word or by clicking ‘Look Up’). Most of the …