Many have lamented the lost art of letter writing in the age of e-mail. Well, what about the legions that have lost the ability to spell since the advent of the ever-present automatic spell-check? SPIEGEL ONLINE has found a Web site where you can practice your ABCs on a virtual white board. You know the kind kids stick colorful magnetic letters to? Wannaspell.com  -- a name choice considered perhaps somewhat dubious by grammar mavens -- is according to its creators a "collective way of being creative" and a place to "practice patience and open-mindedness" as well as your spelling. The patience part comes from the fact other users will be constantly stealing your letters away from you as you try to spell a word. The site supports six different languages including English, German and even Russian and Hebrew.

Image searching

A new service called Retrievr , which uses the Flickr photo database and an experimental new technology, gives you a novel new way of searching for all those holiday pictures you've been uploading in batches to share with family and friends. Retrievr enables you to search for images by entering a rough sketch. So far, the technology is a bit rough -- quickly sketch a black car and you're more likely to get black and white portraits of people than a Peugeot. Still, the  so-called Multiresolution Image Querying  yields interesting results, and this is one of the cooler uses of Flickr we've yet seen.