How To Learn Something New Every Day

There are several sites out there that give you tips and tricks for just about everything... such as Lifehacker, or Tricks of the Trade.

One of my favorite sites is WikiHow. This site contains over 10,000 wiki-based how-to instructions for just about everything.

Since that site uses the MediaWiki software, you can use the same Special: tags that you use on Wikipedia. For example, to browse a random how-to page, use this URL:

http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Random

That will take you to a random how-to page, which probably contains something very, very interesting... like how to run a poker tournament, or common phrases in Esperanto, or how to ride a horse.

To learn something new every day, just make a bookmark of that URL. You could even set it as the home page for your browser.

To see what new tips they have added in the past few days, try one of these links:

http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Recentchanges
http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Newpages

I'm not sure why WikiHow does not expose those links... but thankfully other sites can.