research must-have

yeah, i've been posting lots lately.......i'm going through a internet-research phase, and it's better to share all this stuff than keep it locked in my head.........and anyway, that's mostly what this blog is about anyways............
so...........
my latest must-have website on anyone's research list.................

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

it's a translation site (as i'm sure the words babel fish should imply), and it's the best one i have come up with. literally, you type or cut and paste what you don't understand in a box, select the from and to languages (i've been with mostly from german to english, as i'll explain), hit the translate button, and your translated text pops up quickly. not too many ads, nothing that takes forever to load with dial-up, nothing distracting...........

i love this thing.

the reason i found it is the ever-present wiki. i've been using wikimedia commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) which is all media files.........i tend to browse through miniatures...........sometimes getting the right words in the search engine is interesting, but hey, it's a computer thing............
the amusement with all of this, is that items get posted from all over the world........which means (in my case) i've been looking up art of india, and i'm getting back things that have been posted by a german. which means all the labels (title, artist, etc) are in german.
i don't speak/read/anything german.
thus, to the babelfish.
thankfully, this is giving me the opportunity to label my files in something i can understand.
thank the gods.

hope this helps!!