China has launched a new Web site offering free materials and lessons for learning Chinese. Only English and Chinese versions are available at the moment, but Japanese and Korean versions are being planned. Details: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060708/wr_nm/china_language_website_dc.

Firefox usage surpasses 15 percent in the US! Whoopee!

NEH and NSF provide money to save dying languages.

It’s official: duct tape goes anywhere.

SearchforVideo is about to launch a video podcast directory: a few details.

About.com adds a bunch of guides: press release.

Texas A&M University Historic Images Collection now available online, includes over 5500 images and photographs of the Texas A&M community. http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/.