11 Blogging Books to Help Inspire You

Here is a list of 11 hand picked books that will help you build your blog and inspire you to get more out of yourself and your blog.
My number 1 pick would be ProBlogger’s book. It is number 1 on this list and highly recommended by many of the best bloggers on the web.























Add Flickr Photos to Your Wordpress Blog

How cool is this? PhotoDropper is an awesome Wordpress Plugin that lets you easily add Flickr photos to your post qucikly and easily. It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos (images that are licensed for shared use) and lets you drop them into your posts - right from your dashboard with just 1 click. For example, I could do a search on ‘pizza’, Photodropper will search Flcikr for me, then I click insert to add the pizza photo.

photo credit: Many Cats 4 Me Or I could search for ‘farting dog’ and I get this…
photo credit: tifotter This really is a cool tool for all Wordpress users out there. Head over to PhotoDropper to check it out!

Star Trek and Nine Inch Nails Video Clip

This is one of the best mashup videos I have ever seen.

Google Health is Here

Google Health is finally available to all now that it is out of BETA. Google opened the service today and you can log in using your current Google account details. (ie the same logon for Adwords, Adsense, Analytics etc). If you dont have a sign on, they are free.

So what is Google Health?

Basically, you can store all of your medical history online and anyone that you authorise can access it. This extremely helpful if you have moved to a new doctor or if you are taken to hospital. Using Google Health, doctors can view your details and get an accurate understanding of your condition quicker.

Its is private, safe and secure. What could be better when it comes to your own health and safety?

Reserve a spot in Heaven or Hell

Talk about wierd. Or call it a waste of money, but you can now buy your own ticket to heaven or hell.

Reserve a spot in heaven offers you the opportunity to ‘book’ your ticket into heaven. They guarantee that you will get in. If you dont get in, they give you your money back. No questions asked!

Reserve a spot in Hell offers the exact same thing. A guaranteed spot in hell, or you money back.

If you have loads of cash to waste and you are worried about where you may actually end up, then I think you should buy yourself a ticket before they all go!

101 Fantastic Free Fonts

Grunge

1. Guilty: Guilty is a grunged-out typewriter style face.
2. Tiza: This font has a nice rubbed-out effect.
3. Print Error: Print Error has lots of background, resembling exactly what it sounds like-a print error.
4. El&Font Gohtic!: This font has lots of scratches, X accents, and angel wings.
5. Dirty Uncle: In true dirty fashion, this font’s outlines give way to scribbles at the bottom.
6. Astonished: Underneath Astonished’s thin, clean look is a bit of grunge.
7. Bleeding Cowboys: Last Soundtrack’s Bleeding Cowboys font offers a bit of swirly flair for an otherwise tough western font.
8. Memory Lapses: This font seems to have gotten a little overzealous with ink.
9. Pirates: Pirates looks quite a bit like a ransom note.
10. Dirty Ego: This caps font offers a little bit of wear and smudge.
11. Grunja: This upper-case font has a bit of a saturated look.
12. Broken15: Broken 15 offers another ransom-style font.

Handwriting

13. Journal: Journal has the sort of handwriting you only wish you had.
14. Disgusting Behavior: Disgusting Behavior is like chicken scratch, but on the neat side.
15. Hill House: Hill House is much cleaner than most handwriting fonts, but it’s inspired by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s distinctive handwriting.
16. Nail Scratch: Nail Scratch is thin and messy.
17. Daub: This simple font has a colored-in feel.
18. Max Rhodes: This aptly-named font is based on the handwriting of Max Rhodes.
19. Iron Mathbook: Here you’ll find a font modeled after Iron Maiden.
20. Barnes Erc: You’ll enjoy this font’s 3-D sketch design.
21. Pointy: Pointy looks like handwriting that you might find on the cover of your old high school notebook.

Familiar

22. Sega Genesis: Sega Genesis’ font is bold and fun.
23. Poker Party: Poker Party incorporates hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades into its style.
24. Halo 2: Halo addicts will be sure to appreciate this font.
25. Marcelle: Marcelle looks like it belongs on the front of an old softball league T-shirt.
26. Schwing Shift: This font is inspired by classic lettering of the art deco style.
27. Varsity: This sporty font is straight off of a letter jacket.
28. The New York Times: This font bears a remarkable resemblance to the font used by The New York Times.
29. Roadgeek: Roadgeek features fonts that you’ll find on road signs across the US and a few other countries.
30. Komikandy: Komikandy has a blobby comic book style.
31. Sonic: You’ll recognize this font from Sonic 2.
32. Snowcaps: In this font, you’ll find an icy look.
33. Sega: Feel nostalgic with this Sega font.
34. Major League: This game font is straight out of the 80s.

Tech

35. Spectrum Smudged: This font looks like your computer had a bit too much to drink.
36. Ollivette Elite: This typewriter font translates your typed text into leetspeak.
37. Atmosphere ‘88′: This font has lots of boxiness and clean lines.
38. Elektora: Elektora has a very simple, clean feel to it.
39. Republika: Republika strings together in a futuristic manner.
40. Atlantis: Atlantis has a very pixellated, boxy look.
41. Templo: Templo is extremely boxy and pixellated.

Unique

42. Starbat: Starbat runs together in a really attractive way.
43. Flubber: The Flubber font has a cartoony feel to it.
44. Horse Puke: Horse Puke has strategically placed white blobs.
45. Stiff Neck: This font’s uppercase letters are white within black, with a hand-drawn look.
46. Antlers: Antlers incorporates deer antler style into every letter.
47. Xanax: This font has a fiery lightning bolt style to it.
48. WC Wunderbach Weiss: Wunderbach has a stencil style with a gradient fade away.
49. Halcion: The Halcion font has lots of blurry lines.
50. Chrysler Electric: Be sure to check out this spaghetti noodle inspired font.
51. Cholo: Cholo has an uppercase style that features the occasional dash and X.
52. Ballers Delight: This font was created with bejeweled canvas boards.
53. Stencilul: Stencilul offers a font with stencil-style cutouts.
54. Carbolith: This upper-case font mimics a skull and crossbones font.
55. Tralfamadore: Tralfamadore has lots of keyhole cut outs and other attractive accents.

Fancy

56. The King and Queen: Give your site the royal touch with this frilly font.
57. Celexa 2: This font is a little evil and medieval.
58. Nasty: Nasty is straight out of an old-fashioned carnival.
59. Dickens McQueen: This font is what happens when you put Charles Dickens and Steve McQueen together in a font.
60. Chopin Script: Here you’ll find a nice calligraphy font.
61. Porcelain: Porceilain’s caps are overly frilly, and the font itself offers multiple layers.
62. Twigdancer: This font has a fun, woodsy design.
63. Selfish: Selfish looks a lot like Porcelain, with toned-town caps and a tighter style.

Bold

Make a statement using these big, bold fonts.

64. New Order Ceremony: New Order Ceremony is thin, but makes a statement.
65. Boogieman: Boogieman is based on ’50s comic book lettering, and looks a bit like the Misfits’ logo.
66. Kegger Collegiate: Kegger has a really bold, large athletic look.
67. Jefferson Gothic Oblique: Sign up for P22’s mailing list, and you’ll get a free download of this distinctive font.
68. Flutterby: Flutterby is a large, funky font best used in big sizes.
69. New Order ‘Brotherhood’: New Order ‘Brotherhood’ is a heavy, thick font.

Clean & Simple

70. Samba: Samba is thin, yet attractive.
71. Greyscale Basic: This font is boxy, clean and simple.
72. Marke Eigenbau: Check out this font if you want something really clean and simple.
73. Scriptina: Scriptina offers a simple and attractive calligraphy font.
74. Joy Division Closer: In this font, you’ll find a plain but attractive design.
75. Valium: Valium is a curvy, sharp font.
76. Karnivore: In Karnivore, you’ll find a broad upper-case font.
77. Museo: Museo’s signature features an uppercase U with both stems bent out.
78. Munica: Fans of simplicity will appreciate this diminuitive font.
79. Moby: Moby is a very round-looking font.
80. Semplice: Semplice is a very small, simple font.
81. Blown Deadline: Blown Deadline offers a casual serif look.
82. Tuffy: Tuffy is a really simple sans serif font.
83. Fertigo!: Fertigo is a simple font with a little bit of curve.
84. Blue Monday ‘88′: This font is all-caps and really clean.
85. Lido STF: Lido offers a good general typeface.
86. Diavlo: Diavlo comes in 5 different weights, all with a different feel.

Simple with a Twist

87. Hammerhead: Hammerhead is a plain, yet severe font.
88. Spectre Scratch: In this font, you’ll find a rather plain look accented with lots of scratches.
89. Hydrophilia: Hydrophilia offers a font with semi-sharp corners.
90. Aaahoj: This font combines lots of different styles together at once.
91. Ritalin: Ritalin has lots of sharp endings.
92. Sandra Oh: Sandra Oh is a slightly messy take on Clarendon.
93. Mary Jane II: Mary Jane II looks much like Times New Roman, except that it’s upper-case and has lots of cracks.
94. Orchidee: You’ll love this simple samurai-style font.
95. Neo Retro: Neo Retro looks like many other caps fonts, but it has a filled-in color.
96. Gros: This font looks like many others, except that it is very wide.
97. Diogenes: Diogenes has a very Greek look to it.
98. Diesel: Diesel has a pretty regular look to it, but offers just an outline.
99. Masque: Masque sets itself apart with italics and tasteful dashes.
100. Memoria: This plain font offers just a little bit more curve than others.
101. Bigfish: Bigfish is rather top-heavy.

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