A hodgepodge of links for ye, some useful, some, well, are undeniably links.

Susan Kirkland pointed me to the Resources for Writers site at George Mason University. Some of the stuff is for GMU students only but there are a few references on there that might be useful.

The home of the American Dialect Society: URL: find the hot words and phrases in the ever-changing English language, and the reference section lists resources for fiction writers working on regional dialogue.

A few few tips from Sree:

A useful list of media-beat reporters and producers from Animal New York.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting. The Popularity Dialer!

And a few from Lifehacker:

"Web site Scrape Torrent is a bittorrent search aggregator that scours the most popular torrent sites to find you the best download available." Like they say, for your favorite legal downloads.

And, Lifehacker readers' best ideas for keeping their search engine histories private. Because we all love keeping our jobs. Some of us do anyway.

Finally, this reminder was brought to you courtesy of the folks at Writer's Market: "Now would probably be a good time to mention that the new 2007 editions of Writer's Market are now available wherever books are sold.