Category Archives: Cloudeight Site Picks

8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks

Today’s site of the week is totally for smiles. You’ll wish these punctuation marks really existed, because, boy! would the come handy for this newsletter, and for our emails and yours. You’ll learn the new “I’m Not Angry” punctuation mark. You’ll discover the Sinceriod, the Sarcastises, The Hemi-Demi-Semi Colon, The Morgan Freemark, and four other useful punctuation marks… Read More »

This site is for the birds

Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library has over 175,000  sounds (8000 hours-worth) from 9,000 different animals—mostly  birds (hey! it’s an ornithology department. The library also contains almost 50,000 videos. Who doesn’t like birds and animals. The cow goes moo, the crow goes squawk, and so on. If you love animals and birds, and would like to explore the world of… Read More »

Sushi from words?

VocabSushi I really don’t like sushi, its taste reminds me of the smell of rotting carp floating on Sandusky Bay in the waning days of summer. I had enough rotting carp growing up, thank you. But his is not your standard seaweed saturated sushi — this is VocabSushi, no seaweed here, just words to learn and, better yet,… Read More »