there is always MagicJack. $20/year for a phone number that you choose where you want it from.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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omnis_audis - Dec 04, 2009 9:23:30 am PST #11885 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 10:26:36 am PST #11886 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The missus is looking for a wiki to host the goings-on of an international scholarly committee. She's looking for a hosted service, not just the software. And it should be free. Does such a service exist and are they any good?
Ideally, the college that hosts the organization of which the committee is a part will let them glom onto whatever they use for courses; this is in case a Plan B is needed.
amych - Dec 04, 2009 10:45:34 am PST #11887 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wikispaces: [link] (my go-to option, good solid basic wiki tools without a lot of fuss)
pbworks: [link] (lots of different price points/options; a fair bit of upgrade-hints, but note free option cleverly hidden on the "academic pricing" page)
wikia: [link] (but this one always seems more oriented towards big public projects on a particular subject, rather than project wikis for a specific group, conference, etc.)
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 11:13:15 am PST #11888 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, amych!
amych - Dec 04, 2009 11:24:28 am PST #11889 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
you're welcome -- it's always nice when stuff I know off the top of my head can be, you know, actually useful.
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2009 11:25:05 am PST #11890 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I love it when that happens. Win-win!
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2009 11:39:51 am PST #11891 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
MoinMoin has a free desktop wiki program: [link] which intrigues me. I could annotate EVERYTHING!
DCJensen - Dec 05, 2009 7:29:01 pm PST #11892 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Milliways: the unreleased Infocom sequel to HHGG
The saga:
the game itself, playable online:
DebetEsse - Dec 06, 2009 1:30:05 pm PST #11893 of 25501
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I had a very similar question to Jon's. I tried to find an answer on my own (ended up at google sites. We'll see.), but I'll take a look at those, as well.
Thanks, amy
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2009 2:58:18 pm PST #11894 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I also saw wikidot.com as a free and paid hosting site.
I used to like ComputerWorld's Shark Tank as a place to read about stupid and hopefully funny things that happen in the IT world, but recently it's been pretty lame itself. I also stumbled upon The daily WTF which is simpler and less corporate, but not quite it. Does anyone know of anything similar that might satisfy that particular jones?
Huh. The Opera spell-checker suggests RTFM as an alternative for WTF. Nice to know they're profane.