Ok peeps this is a good investment of 10 minutes of your time! go to http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/, enter the site, and click on create a character (turn off popup blockers if you want to save your character afterwards). Recreate yourself and post it in this thread..

I’m really struggling to find out the best way (softwarely speaking) to work with big amounts of flexibly structured data, mostly text and some images(sections, chapters, etc. but that are movable).

I have thousands of pages on acting techniques. Presently, they're all in a Word document (sometimes, I like having big files because otherwise, I tend to duplicate data and get lost if I have to many loose files on the very same subject)… But using MS Word for huge files is just not very convenient (if not downright dangerous — “corruptionly” speaking. Although I've never experienced that...).

What I need is to be able to have:

- a unified view of all the data (one reason for that is that I want to be able to zoom out and see a lot of material at once, I want to be able to jump from page 1 to page 1052 in a second, etc.).
- an outlined view of the chapters, parts, sections, etc., (MS Word does that : Outline View, and Document Map)
- a very easy way to reorganize the order of the different sections,
- a file format that’s indexable (or a database that’s indexable – X1, Archivarius are the Desktop Search solutions I use -- It's just not a good way to use an internal searching engine, separate from the rest of my files!!!),
- an editing solution which allows the same kind of formatting ability, Bold, Italic, bullets, cross referencing, etc. that MS word, OpenOffice or any advanced word processor will provide (to me, formatting is not just fuss : it gives the document a hierarchical outline, makes it easier to read, find info... to me it's not just a matter of content first, form after...),
- the ability to access my data and READ it on an other computer relatively easily. (I might be willing to cede on that one though...)

Looking for a nice small screensaver?

I know I'm late with my contribution to this discussion, but nobody mentioned in this thread the famous Flurry (http://www.maddogsw.com/flurry/). Runs on dual monitor setup as well. Simple and nice.

Here's another entry from the www.JayIsGames.com flash competition.. It's quite a brilliant concept.. You control a robot who can essentially duplicate himself and co-exist with previous instance in order to team up and solve puzzles.  Very clever..

http://mirror4.cgdc3...zlebot.com/?gameID=6

Whether you're a crosswords nut or just the occasional bored player, try this one.

http://militantplaty...e.php?game=crossword