Thursday, January 29, 2009

Neat sites

Guide to sports statistics sites

OAIster seems like a neat digital archives search engines (via Neat New)

More Thursday lists

8 Springtime travel bargains (via Consumerist)

10 web sites to make you a Photoshop ninja

6 ways to boost brainpower

11 tried and true tips to get things free (via Delicious)

I like food

Fine Chocolate Industry Association excellence award winners

This Black & White cookie recipe looks good

I want to try Guittard Chocolate

games

Classic Mines. Like Minesweeper

Carnival Star. Shoot out the star

RingShot. Knock the puck into the ring

T2B Escape 4. Point and click game (via Jay Is Games)

quizzes

Name the 100 most common English words (via I Am Bored)





Your 80s Song is "Walk Like an Egyptian"



If you were transported back to the 80s, your life would be all about having fun.

You love the wackiness that the 80s represented. Everything back then seemed a lot more colorful!



You'd peg your jeans, get a "totally tubular" hair cut, and even wear one sequined glove.

You would skateboard, play Pac-Man, and hang out at the mall. And of course, you would walk like an egyptian.

Thursday lists

100 most beautiful words in the English language

6 most pathetic attempts get Super Bowl tickets

10 most extravagant dinner parties in history (via Presurfer)

15 cheap Valentine's Day dates (via Linkfilter)

10 most easily averted mad science disasters

15 worst construction mistakes

Top 10 strangest how to books

10 seriously useful Photoshop tutorials (via Delicious)

10 dirtiest hotels in the U.S.

30 movies that are being released in 3D (via Delicious)

Top 10 jury verdicts of 2008
(via ResourceShelf)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Neat sites

NameTrends. See popularity trends for any name. Very neat (via Linkfilter)

The True Cost of Credit. See how much it costs retailers when you use your credit card (via Freakonomics Blog)

Soap shaped like a donut and waffles

AirlineMeals has tons of photos of plane food (via Presurfer)

Don't want to watch the Super Bowl? Here's what else is on

More Wednesday lists

10 best Super Bowl halftime shows

10 marvelous means of animal movement

4 extensions to search and organize your Firefox browsing history

8 amazing bridges from around the World

10 diamond-encrusted things you don't need

9 companies that have never had a layoff (via Consumerist)

Top 10 books in which things end badly

10 foods you don't need to buy organic (via Consumerist)

Top 10 fast food chains in customer satisfaction

7 unique airport hotels

I like food

I like Cadbury's chocolate bars

This Whole Wheat Cinnamon Chip Pecan cookie recipe looks tasty

Who makes the best frozen pie and frozen pie crust? See the results of one frozen pie taste test (via Heat Eat Review)

Book Review: The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joël Glenn Brenner




Book
: The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joël Glenn Brenner

About: Brenner focuses on the tale of the cutthroat competition between the Mars and Hershey candy companies (who control 75% of the U.S. candy market) as well as provides an overview of this delicious industry and the history of chocolate.

Pros: Fascinating, well-written and has lots of great information such as:

  • 90% of candy purchases are unplanned
  • Mars only has one peanut butter product (peanut butter M&Ms) because the Mars brothers hate peanut butter
  • The chocolate in M&Ms is designed so you'll eat lots of them at a time
  • 3 Musketeers used to consist of 3 bars, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla but was changed to one chocolate bar after strawberry prices rose
  • Different cultures prefer different qualities in their chocolate. Britons think that Hersheys is gritty and awful compared to their smoother Cadbury brand.
  • Dove solid dark chocolate bars are made from a secret type of cocoa bean that Mars won't divulge
  • Hershey has pretty much zero international presence. Someone from another country probably would have no idea about the brand
  • Fittingly, candy corn was once called chicken feed

Will create a trip down memory lane with all the old candies brought up, like my missed favorite PBMax. I had no clue the candy business was so competitive and secretive.

Cons: Unsatisfying conclusion. Those looking for a book on candy will probably be disappointed as it is really a book about business.

Grade: B+

Wednesday lists

50 greatest movie deaths (via I Am Bored)

5 bizarre ways video games are screwing up your health

20 baffling foreign movie posters

100 people most likely to die in 2009 (via Look At This)

Top 10 bizarre or frivolous lawsuits

15 most bizarre X-rays

15 spectacular lightening images (via Presurfer)

20 wildest reactions to Obama's victory (via Presurfer)

Top 10 unlikely Super Bowl MVPs

50 most loathsome people in America 2008 (via J-Walk Blog)

10 crazy NASCAR wrecks where drivers walked away safe

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

neat sites

What the web knows about you. Has some cool links to some specialized sites and search engines (via AQFL)

The expert's guide to napping (via Neatorama)

Academic Earth. Watch university lectures online (via MakeUseOf)

Yes, you can really break your penis

More Tuesday lists

5 how-video sites that don't suck

10 famous people and what they did before they hit the big time

Top 100+ funniest movies of all time

8 biggest days for consuming beer

3 ways to read the news a little differently

10 best history books

List of peanut butter products that don't contain salmonella (via Consumerist)

8 people search engines

4 weird things found in bogs

games

Bubblequod. Go through the levels and pop your bubble (via I Am Bored)

Jack and the Beanstalk 3. Point and click game (via bontegames)

I like food

Awesome looking Super Mario cupcakes

Snickers Rockin' Nut Road candy bar looks yummy

I like Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme
candy bar

This Streusel Scone recipe looks tasty

quiz




Your Ideal Vacation is Prince Edward Island



On an island vacation, you'd really like to immerse yourself and get to know the locals.

You enjoy the idea of spending time in a small, remote locale... especially a beautiful one.



Whether you're sipping tea or enjoying the beautiful countryside, Prince Edward Island is perfect for you.

It's so authentic and homey, you won't mind that you're not in the tropics.

Tuesday lists

8 worst Mario games of all time

Top 10 Super Bowl ads (via I Am Bored)

8 customers everyone hates

12 strangest neckties

5 best business video games of all time (via Linkfilter)

15 great disco tunes

4 music recommendation sites

Top 5 ways to get rid of video game gods

25 Notable Book Award winners of 2008

5 celebrities with depression

15 most eccentric and innovative electric vehicles

Monday, January 26, 2009

Neat sites

This shark fin ice tray looks neat

How police tell folks a loved one has been killed

More Monday lists

Most anticipated movies of 2009 (via El Dorado County Library)

Top 10 food trends for 2009

5 ugliest eco-cars (via Neatorama)

25 great Blogger templates

10 places you've heard the Wilhelm scream

12 courses we wish our college had offered

5 of the most hated people on the internet

Top selling musical acts of 2008

9 most hilariously awkward Letterman interviews

quizzes

Extremely Difficult Quiz 2. Answer the sometimes strange questions





You Are a Rat Catcher



Not the most glamorous job in the world, but the Middle Ages weren't exactly glamourous!

You have the skills, intelligence, and craftiness to be a successful rat catcher.



You are willing to take risks and go to some pretty sketchy places in the name of your career.

In modern times, you would make a good detective, pilot, or firefighter.

Monday lists

5 horrific serial killers who are free right now

10 most awesomely bizarre Lego sets ever built

6 pop songs that rip off classical music

Top 50 detective blogs (via ResourceShelf)

10 common myths about cannibis

20 most bizarre houses from around the World

55 really strong beers (via Delicious)

9 most extreme places on the planet (via Presurfer)

10 most popular dog breeds in the World (via Presurfer)

Friday, January 23, 2009

Neat sites

Funny cake wreck

Yotify will track your search terms on several sites and notify you when they show up (via MakeUseOf)

Print blank sheet music online (via MakeUseOf)

Make Beliefs Comix. Create your own comic online (via MakeUseOf)

Food does not cause acne

Download the audiobook of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People from Audible for free

I like food

Kernel Encore Sticky Buns Gourmet Popcorn looks tasty

So does Immaculate Baking's Better Bakes cookie dough

I like the 100 Grand bar

More Friday lists

Top 10 money saving ingredients (via Slashfood)

100 best companies to work for (via ResourceShelf)

50+ new tools for torrenting

100 best films of the 20th century (via Scout Report)

25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media (via ResourceShelf)

185 Beatles' songs ranked (via J-Walk Blog)

3 cool science experiments you can do at home

10 stories behind Dr. Seuss books

50 sites to find free stock images (via Delicious)

games

Kersplat. Collect the items and don't get crushed (via Look At This)

Fastone Pyramid. Put the stones into a pyramid

Super Stacker. Stack the blocks

Cake Shop. Serve cakes to customers

D-Blocks 2. Clear all the blocks (via Jay Is Games)

Marbyl. Collect blocks of the same color (via Jay Is Games)

Bubble Bot. Be the best robot you can be (via bontegames)

quiz




You Are Somewhat Assertive



You are as assertive as you're comfortable with - which ends up being not that assertive.

You will tell people what you want, but only in so many words. You're not very direct.



Try being a little more straightforward, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable.

As long as you're polite and honest, being more assertive will improve your relationships... and your life.

Friday lists

5 worst sources of advice on TV

10+ ways to protect images from being stolen (via Delicious)

Most dangerous places in the U.S.

10 worst celebrity albums (via I Am Bored)

Top 10 movie nerds (via I Am Bored)

9 least rocking items of KISS merchandise

5 clifftop towns

100 abandoned houses (via Presurfer)

9 minimalist Japanese homes (via Presurfer)

Top 10 major league pitchers

Top 10 sexiest politicians

Most and least caffeinated U.S. cities

8 unusual college scholarship


America's most wired cities
(via Docuticker)

10 undignified death

10 web sites that will matter in 2009
(via Delicious)

5 healthy snacks that aren't

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

neat sites

Enter where and what you're shopping for and Yokel will find the best price. The Find and ShopLocal will do the same thing

Barack Obama's favorite books (via American Libraries Direct)

Tons of Obama newspaper front pages (via Delicious)

What to get in shape? It takes a minimum of six months

How fire eaters eat fire

Number Gossip lets you enter a number and learn all about it (via Number A Day)

What a trustworthy face looks like (via J-Walk Blog)

Religion does not reduce aggressive behavior

More Wednesday lists

Most popular dog breeds (via ResourceShelf)

Top 10 most popular dog breeds by city (via ResourceShelf)

2 very useful web apps to get the most out of Netflix

8 funny Google suggestions

10 not famous twins of famous people

Top 10 Star Wars and sports crossovers (via Neatorama)

3 Hells on Earth

27 indispensable resources for graphic designers (via Delicious)

quiz

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm an
Organized Tree Hugging Builder

game

Grid. Get power to the pieces

Wednesday lists

20 worst foods in America 2009 (via Lifehacker)

21 free and paid alternatives to Adobe Photoshop (Thanks Andy!)

10 fascinating meetings in modern history

Most disturbing animals on Earth part 2 (via I Am Bored)

15 ridiculous rocket and jet powered vehicle designs (via Presurfer)

16 more images you won't believe aren't photoshopped

Monday, January 19, 2009

A few more neat sites

Font Picker. Type a few words and see what the text looks like in all the fonts on your computer. Very cool (via Delicious)

How to safely vent about your job or boss online

Neat sites

iBrain. An aid for searching the web (via Internet Resources Newsletter)

TribeSmart. A social shopping site (via Internet Resources Newsletter)

This chocolate bar brownie pan looks neat

Does eye color have an effect on vision?

MelZoo. A search engine (via Phil Bradley's Blog)

Cool Scrabble keyboard (via Neatorama)

The origins of salt, pepper and other popular spices

I like food

Koeze Cream-Nut Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Clusters look tasty

Nice picture of a dotted cupcake

Oatmeal Streusel Cookies
look yummy too

More Monday lists

6 people for whom winning the lottery was actually a curse

10 First Ladies who never wanted the job

6 least necessary Weird Al Yankovic parodies

Top 10 online tools to connect with the Obama administration

15 more bizarre statues

8 racist words you didn't know were racist

8 best animal tools (via Neatorama)

quiz




You Are Traditional and Dependable



You tend conform with the rest of society, even if you aren't trying to. No one would accuse you of being a freak!



You are a natural communicator and facilitator of harmony. You value peace above everything else.



You're sweet and easy to please. You seek out comfort in your life.



You seek security in your life. Feeling safe is important to you.

games

Hotcorn. Pop the kernels (via AQFL)

Forty Thieves Solitaire. Get the cards up in order

Monday lists

20 healthiest foods for under $1 (via Delicious)

15 surprisingly super smart celebrities

8 actors who died on movie sets

List of celebrities who took roles that made them not look like themselves (via Presurfer)

Top 10 outrageous comic book advertisements

Top 10 scams from 2008 (via Consumer World)

100 tips to help you save in 2009 (via Consumer World)

10 most awesomely insane arcade games of the 1980s

1,000 novels everyone must read (via Library Stuff)

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Neat sites

What do to when the driver of a car you're riding in becomes incapacitated

Theme Cruise Finder
. There seems to be a cruise for everyone
American Tap Room

Some sites I thought were especially neat from 13 alternative search engines that find what Google can't:

TuneFind. Find songs you've heard on TV and in movies

Muvibee. Listen to music and watch videos from your favorite artists

File Snatcher and Rapidshare. Search file sharing networks for music, movies, documents, software, photos etc

Mp3Realm. MP3 search engine

Tickex. Ticket search engine

More Sunday lists

5 best portable applications

10 best green jobs for the next decade (via Linkfilter)

10 more monuments people just have to touch (Thanks Andi!)

13 alternative search engines that find what Google can't

game

Magnet Towers. Create towers from the same color magnets

Sunday lists

5 world leaders who were accused of being the Antichrist

Top 50 albums, artists and songs of 2008 (via Linkfilter)

Top 10 worst plagues in history

Top 10 most beautiful blogs of 2008 (via Delicious)

3 cheap recipes for do it yourself windshield de-icers

17 quality free fonts for your inner designer (via Delicious)

Top 10 ways to save money in a recession

Friday, January 16, 2009

Neat sites

Collection of great web sites for kids

HearWhere. Find concerts near you (via MakeUseOf)

Cool knitted font

Periodic table of texting

Ultimate monster figure set

Winnie the Pooh guide to blogging (via Library Stuff)

Deezer. Search and listen to music online (via Marcus Zillman)

More Friday lists

Top 10 viral ads of 2008 (via Delicious)

Top 10 most memorable Oscar speeches

12 most god-awful tribute albums ever recorded

100+ Blogger themes and tools

games

Burger Island 2. Serve burgers to the customers

Star Survival. Avoid the circles

Dropple. Collect all the coins (via Jay Is Games)

Ninja Or Nun. Find the ninja (via Jay Is Games)

Alphabreakical. Breakout-type game (via Jay Is Games)

Katuke. Click the right symbols (via Jay Is Games)

Ski Chalet Escape. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)

Friday lists

10 Japanese fast food joints that should be expanded immediately

10 big ideas that started in college (via I Am Bored)

10 lesser known serial killers

20 breathtaking satellite images of Earth

10 bestselling video games of 2008

Top 10 ways to tick off your waiter

3 plane crashes and amazing survival stories

10 things every journalist should know in 2009 (via Delicious)

10 lasting Hollywood marriages

20 objects devoured by the jungle

5 mistakes I made in my first semester of college

Top 10 funniest Super Bowl commercials

13 greatest wrestling finishers of all time

4 undiscovered sites to use when investing

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Neat sites

DineSite and Restaurant Row. Find reviews of restaurants across the U.S.

Buzzcal. Cool sports calendar (via ResourceShelf)

Clerk Dogs. Enter a movie you love and get recommendations for other films you might enjoy

More Wednesday lists

7 disturbingly pornographic Wikipedia pages

10 amazing free stock photography sites (via Delicious)

10 times the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted

5 famous bowling alleys

7 fake movies we wish were real

5 classic cartoons they don't want you see

20 celebrity lives in flowchart form

5 real ways to get high straight out of science fiction

games

Time Escape. Point and click game (via Jay Is Games)

Jabo. Swing the frog to the gold star

Ninja. Get the ninja to the exit

Monolist. Shoot the blocks with your spaceship (via Jay Is Games)

Griswold the Goblin Chapter 1: Islands of Fire. Point and click game (via bontegames)

I like food

Kellogg's is hiking the price of Po-Tarts and cereals

This cake looks yummy

Maple Cream Cheese Frosted Sweet Potato Bars
look tasty too

Wednesday lists

50 incredible film posters from Poland (via Linkfilter)

10 most unnecessarily horrible and horribly unnecessary cartoon sidekicks

Top 100 anthropology blogs (via Delicious)

10 fascinating facts about slavery

12 strangest handbags and purses

Top 10 rags to riches stories

Best movies of 2008 (via Delicious)

10 incredible Indian beards and mustaches

6 most insane intersections in the World

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Neat sites

Guide to the best ride on vehicle toys for kids (via El Dorado Public Library)

Suggestions for replacements of standard, everyday household items that are far superior in terms of usefulness, luxuriousness and quality (via Delicious)

The menu for the inauguration lunch

How to find U.S. government blogs

Why your voice sounds different when recorded and played back

Map of U.S. states by driving with cell phone bans (via ResourceShelf)

Eating chocolate can keep you up at night

More Tuesday lists

49 amazing social media web 2.0 internet numbers and stats (via iLibrarian)

8 ways to make mac and cheese

3 simple ways to send huge files over the web

10 reasons to be thankful

5 sites that will change the way you work with digital photos

8 most common food allergies

10 coldest days in the continental U.S.

quiz




You Are "alt"



Some people might find you to be strange, mysterious, and even a bit off putting.

You tend to be drawn to and influenced by alternative lifestyles. You're definitely not normal.



Once people get to know you, they realize you're interesting, intriguing, and very intelligent.

You have a lot of knowledge stored in that big brain of yours. Most of it is useless knowledge, but some of it is very useful.

games

Pingball. Like Plinko, get the ball into high point value baskets

Operation Big Bang Puzzle. Connect the pipes from start to finish

Death Trap Mansion. Survive the mansion (via I Am Bored)

Scriball. Get the ball to the goal

I like food

These Swag Bars and Total Chocolate Chunk Cookies recipes looks yummy

Tuesday lists

List of video sharing and video search sites (via Phil Bradley's Blog)

12 pairs of celebrity roommates

5 facts about Little House on the Prairie

10 most worthless Tiger electronic handheld games

6 job blogs you should be reading

8 ways to access YouTube when it's blocked (via Phil Bradley's Blog)

10 things science says will make you happy (via Delicious)

Top 10 incredible early firsts in photography

12 most bizarre ID and passport photos

10 trends to watch in packaged foods 2009

7 celebrity cats (via Neatorama)

10 worthwhile electives students wish they took

10 highest lakes on Earth

Book Review: Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion by Amy S. Wilensky




Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion by Amy S. Wilensky

About: A biography of a woman with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome.

Pros: Interesting, quick read

Cons: Wilensky tries for the typical inspirational ending, but it feels very out of place with the rest of the book.

Grade: B+

Monday, January 12, 2009

Neat sites

How to locate / identify a book you've forgotten most of the details about (includes some of the same resources I point to in my post resources to help you find the title of a book)

Net2FTP. Online FTP service. Upload your files from a browser (via AppScout)

SpotCrime. Large collection of links to crime maps and statistics (via ResourceShelf)

Recipe Key. Search for recipes (via ResourceShelf)

Measure of America gives you statistical maps of the U.S. (via ResourceShelf)

Get state health facts (via ResourceShelf)

Why do people start smoking?

How travel veterans pack for a trip

JustHearIt. Type in a song and listen to it (via ReadWriteWeb)

Coda.fm. Download torrents of albums (via MakeUseOf)

Sling alphabetical list of TV shows you can watch online (via Delicious)

More Monday lists

Top 10 excuses when accused of spending too much on books

Celebrities who need to stop being on TV

Top 10 countries by robot density

17 political jokes to celebrate Inauguration Day

World's most dangerous roads part 6 (via Neatorama)

10 librarian blogs to read in 2009

Top 10 sandwiches (via Popcorn Trick)

10 leaders under the influence

50+ more ways to track web site traffic

quiz




You Attract an Aquarius



When wacky, eccentric, independent Aquarius meet you, they've met their match.

You're just as unique and outspoken as any Aquarius, and as a result, they feel instantly connected to you.



And while you know you and your Aquarius are meant to be, you always allow for space in your relationship.

The last thing your Aquarius wants is to feel fenced in. You know that in this case, absence really does make the heart grow fonder.

Monday lists

10 most reliable car brands and what people thought were the most reliable brands

6 most sadistic dishes from around World

10 most unfairly toyless women

8 worst performances by rappers in movies (via I Am Bored)

18 weird things people eat around the World (via I Am Bored)

25 classic monologues in cinema (via Cynical-C)

52 stupid things said on resumes

Top 10 most amazing streets in the World

17 uncommon uses for cotton swabs

9 life changing inventions the experts said would never work (via Neatorama)

15 more funny church signs

Best undiscovered PS2 games (via Delicious)

4 presidential in-laws who made the trip to DC

12 great ways of spicing up your Windows desktop

44 places to go in 2009 (via Delicious)

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

quiz

What Animal are You?

Sheep

You are a sheep. You're more of a follower than a leader, and prefer a more peaceful day than a busy one. You're very compassionate and like to help those in need. You make time for plans and are true to your word.

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(via I Am Bored)

Saturday lists

25 strange throw pillows (via Neatorama)

20 hilarious newspaper clippings (via I Am Bored)

10 least funny comedians of all time

10 books that absolutely prove that humans are irrational creatures

Top 10 worst products ever

32 reasons to drink

10 controversial stamps

games

Ef. Eat creatures and evolve

Pixel Pop. Beat the minigames (via Jay Is Games)

Cow's New Year. Point and click games (via bontegames)

Friday, January 09, 2009

Neat sites

KidsMealDeals lets you find cheap meals for the kiddies (via MakeUseOf)

Biggest full moon of 2009 is this Saturday night, the 10th. (via Mental Floss Blogs)

Very cool food timeline (via Scout Report)

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