Answer some questions to see if you have a drinking problem
If you hate when lists have items on multiple pages, try Pagezipper, it will put all the items on a single page (via Webware)
Which is healthier: Raw or cooked veggies?
How to search the social web (via Delicious)
Free Birthday Treats links you to stuff you can get for free on your birthday (via Free Shipping)
Amusing pictures of construction mistakes (via Presurfer)
Small Blue Printer lets you create your own house plan online (via MakeUseOf)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Neat sites
I like food
Laica Caffarel Chocolate Eggs look yummy
Garden Harvest Cake and Lava Cookies look tasty too
More Tuesday lists
24 sites to help you find the right used car
29 best cities for guys to live in (each item is on a separate page. Try Pagezipper to fix this)(via Neatorama)
Top 5 good news web sites
9 stunning images of herds from above
10 broadway musicals based on books
12 cliche dorm room furnishings
5 strange animal attacks
25 unbelievable pictures (via Popcorn Trick)
games
Red Hood. Point and click game (via bontegames)
Puzzle Dungeon. Neat little adventure game (via Jay Is Games)
Artic Boot Camp Blitz. Play fun penguin games
Shotgun Fun 2. Shoot the targets
quiz
You Are a Convertible |
 You're playful and carefree. You are lighthearted in all aspects of your life. Life is short and you act accordingly. You don't worry, and you try to bring fun into other people's lives. You love feeling free, and you don't do well with rules or restrictions. You need to be able to do your own thing. You feel more alive than most people. You can really savor the little things in life, like feeling the wind in your hair. |
Tuesday lists
11 more awesome songs from geek movie soundtracks
10 real life mad scientists (via Neatorama)
5 revolutionary sports techniques
6 most depressing IMDB pages
10 fascinating talking points about cockroaches
List of web sites that do only one thing
4 companies putting droids to work in their warehouses
10 most outrageous tax expenditures (via Presurfer)
10 literary one hit wonders (via Presurfer)
100 ways to kill a Peep (via Neatorama)
15 most creative beds
Monday, March 30, 2009
neat sites
Create Dunkin Donuts' next donut (via Neatorama)
Large collection of student loan resources
How laughter works (via El Dorado County Library)
Reading is a great stress cure
Simply Noise is an online white noise generator (via J-Walk Blog)
I like food
Bequet Gourmet Caramels look tasty
So do Special K Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
I like bialys
More Monday lists
12 sites to find cool daily gadgets
10 time-lapse nature videos (via Linkfilter)
1,001 rules for my unborn son (he's up to 354 at the moment) (via J-Walk Blog)
100 greatest indie rock albums of all time (via Fimoculous)
8 facts about Wallace & Gromit
10 facts about donuts
5 most incredible lava lakes
6 strange insomnia "cures"
8 regional foods you hate to love (via Neatorama)
12 coolest geeky shoes (via Neatorama)
11 sites that will help students find the right college
100 typography resources (via Delicious)
quiz
You Are Pause |
 Compared to most people, you are reflective and thoughtful. You're always willing to take a break and digest everything that's happened. You are patient with life. You are happy to sit back and let things unfold. You're not in a hurry. You're content to take things at someone else's pace. |
Monday lists
7 most horrifying parasites on the planet
10 awesomest obscure 1980s fantasy movie heroes
10 commandments of driving
30 beautiful pictures of animal photography (via Presurfer)
Top 10 smartest animals
10 craziest diets in history
Top 10 ancient inventions you think are modern
10 incredible edible works of architecture
10+ interesting state symbols
5 best mind mapping applications
7 things not worth your money
20 ways to share a great blog post
Sunday, March 29, 2009
neat sites
SiftIn is a classifieds search engine (via AltSearchEngines)
How Marshmallow Peeps are made (via Linkfilter)
Eplans lets you search for house plans (via AltSearchEngines)
The best airport and travel sites (via Internet News)
Sunday lists
Top 10 tips for creating your own new alternative medicine
5 men who built their careers on plagiarism
Top 10 chick flicks
Top 10 feel-good movies
13 things your pizza guy won't tell you
17 more things your pizza guy won't tell you
35 interesting and fun alcohol facts (via Presurfer)
20 fascinating ice and snow sculptures
5 movies about underhanded financial shenanigans
7 types of searchers
10+ sites to add awesome effects to your photos
Top 10 tools for a free online education
Saturday, March 28, 2009
neat sites
Bullshit Detector. Enter the URL of a web site and it fill bullshit terms (via Presurfer)
Wikirank. See what articles are the most popular on Wikipedia (via MakeUseOf)
How to fake a clean house (via Lifehacker)
MonkeySee. Online videos that show you how to do tons of things
7 sites to help you find something to do nearby
HealthClubs.com. Find a gym
Festivals.com. Find a festival
Food Reference. Find a food show or food festival
Factory Tours USA. Find a factory tour
Local Hikes. Find a hike
Pick Your Own. Find a pick-your-own farm
Wildlife Viewing Areas. Find a wildlife viewing area
Saturday lists
10 most perverted old school video games
7 best cities to drink coffee (via Presurfer)
25 businessmen who broke rules and some laws (via Presurfer)
Top 10 most useful web sites in the world part 2
10 excruciating medical treatments from the Middle Ages
10 incredibly bizarre and awful cakes
20 leading occupations of employed women
Top 30 alternative search engines by market share
10 most insidious and destructive pollutants
15 tools for the Gmail addict
10 classic toys and how they were invented
10 websites for a daily fix of sayings and quotations
Friday, March 27, 2009
Neat sites
Test your risk of five diseases (via NYT)
Rayogram is a cool way to see front pages of several newspapers (via AltSearchEngines)
Caffeine boosts your performance
Field guide to the pack rat
Guide to health and fitness slang
games
Power Golf. Get the ball in the hole (via Look At This)
PongOutAE. Play Pong and Breakout at the same time (via Jay Is Games)
Gawpsters. Collect gawpsters of the same color (via Jay Is Games)
Black White Car. Collect cash, power ups and stars. (via Jay Is Games)
Snake Runner. Get the snake to the red block (via Jay Is Games)
quiz
Your Name's Power is Creativity |
 Your name's power is that it helps you be creative. Your name conveys both purity and skill. People who meet you can't help but think you are charming. You try to live your life with people you trust, surrounded by nature. |
Friday lists
10 saddest Happy Meal toys
5 country stars who got fried in the food business
10 geological wonders you didn't know
50 animals who hates baths (via Mental Floss Blog)
50 beautiful long exposure photos (via Presurfer)
9 of the most memorable mascots of professional wrestling (via Presurfer)
List of programs you can launch from the Windows "Run" box (via Daily Cup of Tech)
Top 10 utterly pointless USB devices
7 best fictional fast food franchises
Top 10 comedic science fiction novels
7 ridiculous products licensed by Major League Baseball
5 great alternatives to Google Documents
Thursday, March 26, 2009
A few more neat sites
Geography World Online is quite an extensive site for all thing geography related (via Delicious)
Ebooks Directory. Lots of free ebooks, documents and lecture notes (via Delicious)
AllInOneNews is a very large news search engine (via AltSearchEngines)
Neat sites
Guide to free and low cost legal research on the web (via Law Librarian Blog)
PDFfiller. Upload a PDF form and you'll be able to fill it out (via MakeUseOf)
Picture of a bullet going through M&Ms (via Candy Dish Blog)
More Thursday lists
15 vintage household ads (via Neatorama)
30 simple tricks that make you look smart (via Neatorama)
25 ways to stave off hospital superbugs and other germs
25 books that caused a commotion (via Bookninja)
3 classic April Fool's pranks
5 technologies that turn handicaps into super powers
12 great mysteries and the truth behind them
8 beer blogs
Book Review: Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles by Keith Black and Arnold Mann
Book: Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles by Keith Black and Arnold Mann
About: Black tells tales of his remarkable life as a neurosurgeon and lets the reader follow along as he treats a few patients.
Pros: Written for the layperson and doesn't get too technical.
Cons: Black is not modest at all and obviously thinks quite highly of himself. He comes off as God's gift to brain surgery, even though he says he doesn't like when patient calls him "God". Drops names, "my friend Forest Whitaker" etc. Only gives us case studies where the surgery went perfectly. Describes the case of a singer that was his patient and uses her real name but makes no indication that she gave her consent for her name to be used. What ever happened to doctor-patient confidentiality?
Grade: D
games
Scramball 2. Collect the gems
Did You Know? Test your knowledge
Crow In Hell 2. Collect keys and don't fly into walls
Assembler 3. Get the green crate into the green square (via Jay Is Games)
Pool Master. Play pool
quiz
You Are The Brain |
 You're the type of person who's always on, always churning. You are alert and quick to react. You like to stay busy. You are responsible but also demanding. You take up a lot of energy. You are someone of deep mystery. There's a lot below the surface that's hard to figure out. |
Thursday lists
2009 National Magazine Awards finalists (via Neat New)
7 questions to ask about any scientific claims (via Neat New)
7 fascinating local characters
10 odd superstitions about food
10 cases of extreme weather (via Presurfer)
8 inspirational older people
6 classic TV shows and what they were almost called
5 free temporary email services to avoid spam
Best cookbooks of 2008
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
neat sites
A contest where you can win 11+ young adult books
Fizy lets you search for and listen to songs of your choice (via Lifehacker)
Surname Database. Look up what your last name means (via Linkfilter)
Academic Info is a reference site search engine (via Delicious)
How and why athletes go broke (via Cynical-C Blog)
Still Tasty. See the shelf life for thousands of foods and drinks (via Lifehacker)
How to find free stuff (via Delicious)
I like food
Try to win a Turkey Hill Ice Cream Cake
Starbucks' 4 new ice cream flavors and Nabisco Classics French Vanilla Creme Cookies look yummy
So do Homemade Chocolate Wafers + Icebox Cupcakes and Cadbury Easter Mallow
Book review: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
Book: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
About: Roose heads from Brown University to Jerry Falwell's ultra-Christian Liberty University where the Bible is the infallible word of God. Obviously, Liberty is a unique place. It has single-sex dorms, a three-second maximum on hugs and classes that includes Creationism and Evangelism. Weekends are spent playing video games or cards, homophobia is rampant and swearing consists of tame euphemisms like "son of a biscuit"or "bump you!" and. Roose takes it seriously though and throws himself into Liberty life. He joins the choir, asks a few girls out, goes to Daytona on spring break to try and convert people and even attends a prayer group for guys struggling with resisting masturbating. Even with their different ideology and stricter rules, he sees that Liberty students are very friendly and quite like students at other colleges. Roose's most notable achievement was scoring an interview for the school newspaper with Jerry Falwell himself. While Roose hates some aspects of Falwell's ideology, such as homophobia, he finds that he likes the man's compassion and the fact that he was forced to question his previous assumptions. The interview would turn out to be Falwell's last print interview before his death just two weeks later.
Pros: Well written. Roose gets huge points for his compassion and keeping an open mind. Good wrap-up and conclusion. Selected bibliography was a nice surprise.
Cons: A.J Jacobs, who Roose describes as his "boss" has a blurb on the cover and I prefer more neutral kudos. Doesn't explain Liberty's "demerit" system. I would've liked to know more about the food at Liberty.
Grade: B+
quiz
You Are an Acai Berry |
 You are an intense, fascinating person with a very strong personality. You don't shy away from controversy, and you're incredibly independent. You are cultured, knowledgeable, and worldly. You have a deep understanding of things. You are lively and healthy. You believe your body is a temple, and you treat it as such. |
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Neat sites
GovEngine is the "The premier federal, state and local directory of official government and court web sites. Includes links to all branches of federal and state government, including counties, municipalities, cities, and townships." (via El Dorado County Library)
RerunCheck will tell you if your favorite TV show is a repeat or not (via Linkfilter)
Read meat may contribute to an early death
Flash Card Flash searches 6 flash card sites at once (via MakeUseOf)
Clipart ETC. Over 44,000 free clipart images (via MakeUseOf)
I like food
Russell Stover Marshmallow Rabbits look yummy
Check out the new 2009 Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors (select "New" in the "Our Flavors" box)
More Monday lists
10 search engines to help the environment
Top 10 eccentric buildings
19 ways to hide things ranging from kitchen mishaps to personal data
20+ tips to speed up Firefox and decrease memory usage
4 alternative uses for your Gmail inbox
John Grisham's 5 favorite books
30 useful web design books for 2009 (via Delicious)
5 most epic Japanese tea houses
10 most horrific Russian torture devices
12 famous video game characters with undiagnosed severe mental disorders
8 awesome cases of internet vigilantism
games
Blackboard Squash. Avoid the falling objects
Way of the Tangram. Organize the shapes to make the figure
Sunday, March 22, 2009
13 things that can get a player or coach ejected from a baseball game
The 13 grounds for automatic ejection from a Major League Baseball game:
- Spitting at the umpires
- Kicking or throwing dirt at the umpires
- Flagrantly throwing equipment in obvious protest of a call
- Questioning the honesty or integrity of the umpires
- Drawing a line in the dirt (likely to show the path of the ball) in an attempt to show up the umpires
- Throwing objects from the dugout onto the field
- Leaving a field position to argue balls and strikes
- Doctoring the baseball
- Using a doctored bat
- Intentionally throwing at a hitter
- Charging the mound and getting as far as the dirt circle
- Directing profane language at the umpires
- Making physical contact with the umpires
Neat sites
Death Chill is an ice cube tray that makes cubes in the shape of a skull with an attached spinal cord.
How to use social media sites for travel research
More Sunday lists
game
Line Game Orange. Get the line through the maze
Escape Game 1. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Hansel & Gretel. Point and click game (via bontegames)
Book review: As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber
Book: As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber
About: Weber spends a year in the world of baseball umpires, attending umpire school (less than one-percent of umpire school students get to work in the major leagues,) umping games (including 3 innings behind home plate of a major league spring training intrasquad game) and conducting dozens of interviews.
Some Interesting Things I Learned:
- There are 13 reasons an umpire can eject someone from the game
- The rulebook has no guidelines for a check swing.
- As the rulebook defines it, if the ball and a runner's foot arrive on the base at the same time, tie goes to the defense.
- The "K-Zone" and other TV network strike zone representations are "for entertainment purposes only" and should not be used to accurately judge balls and strikes.
- Umpires get four weeks of vacation during the MLB season.
Cons: A tad bit long. Lots of people discussed at it can get confusing. Index would have been nice
Grade: B
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Neat sites
WebKruz is a search engine that shows you snapshots of the results it returns (via Phil Bradley's Blog)
Windows Live OneCare is a free online virus and spyware scanner for your Windows computer (via MakeUseOf)
Coda.fm is a torrent site for downloading music albums (via MakeUseOf)
Saturday lists
Friday, March 20, 2009
Neat sites
Breakdown of book costs. See where your $27.95 goes
PriceHub shows you what your car is worth (via MakeUseOf)
DocStoc. Find documents and templates such as cover letters, resumes and legal forms
Makeup Photo lets you edit your face photos by adding "makeup" (via MakeUseOf)
More Friday lists
20 post-apocalyptic novels
13 sites to help you know your neighborhood
Top 5 web design tools (via Delicious)
10 ways to celebrate the Vernal Equinox
5 fun personal web apps to track your life
10+ web sites for students
8 sister wikis from Wikipedia we should be aware about
Top 10 electronic reminder services (via ResourceShelf)
I like food
cream cheese pound cake + strawberry coulis looks delicious (with great pictures!)
Elmer's Heavenly Hash and Gold Brick Eggs look yummy too
How to make the dishes from a Chinese food buffet at home (via Delicious)
games
Black Knight. Maneuver the chess knight to the star
Planarity. Uncross the lines (via Look At This)
Binball Wizard. Throw the paper ball into the trash (via Look At This)
Insane Orb. Pong with shooting (via Look At This)
Bumper Ball. Use your bumper car to get the ball in the goal (via Look At This)
quiz
You Are Chirping Birds |
 You are a very caring person. You especially feel for innocent beings, like animals and children. You are keyed in to the world and very peaceful. You believe that everyone is connected. You remain focused and in the moment. You are not easily distracted. You have a good memory, especially for things that you hear. You listen carefully. |
Friday lists
Top 10 craziest sex laws in America (via I Am Bored)
20 best views in the world (via Delicious)
3 foods people die for (via I Am Bored)
7 most depressing songs ever sung by a muppet
6 evil henchmen who sucked at their job
15 embarrassing moments in sports
Top 10 sporting events decided by the officials
Top 10 funniest cameos in film or TV
10 things you can contribute to March Madness conversations
10 most common post-spring break academic pitfalls
Top 10 movie recommendation sites
9 memorable TV shows about TV (via BuzzSugar)
10 masterpieces of cardboard design
35 really stunning photos and pictures (via Delicious)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
A few more neat sites
How to spy on your spouse with your computer. Creepy
How to search multiple social media sites at one time
Folks share their craziest library stories (via Library Love Fest)
neat sites
Stockvault gives you free stock photos (via MakeUseOf)
Catalogs.com. Order free catalogs online (via Neat New)
Free.ed.gov has some great resources and lessons plans from the U.S. government. Geared toward teachers but could be useful for anyone wanting to know more about a bunch of topics.
Photos of the most interesting bookstores (via BookFinder)
games
Ice Breaker: Red Clan. Free the vikings from the ice (via Jay Is Games)
Gears. Put the cogs in the right place
Abstract Arcade. Shoot the squares
Thursday lists
8 reasons not to go to open mic night
Top 10 food myths debunked
10 best movie games for the Atari 2600
9 corporate attempts at "edgy" that failed hilariously
10 most unusual places to set up your office (via Presurfer)
7 strangest wars
6 mama's boys
Top 10 most influential educational video games of the 1980s (via Infodoodads)
8 inane and pointless pieces of exercise equipment (via Consumerist)
10 myths about happiness
35 sad photos of the recession (via Consumerist)
10 facts about Harry Houdini
Top 10 books about bookselling
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
neat sites
USA sitcom map shows you where dozens of shows are set (via Fimoculous)
MotorMouths lets you search for reviews of new cars so you can make an informed decision (via Consumerist)
Build your own comics page from the strips available from the Houston Chronicle (via J-Walk Blog)
I like food
Basic Bran Muffins look yummy
This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie sandwich picture is droolworthy
quiz
You Are Mind |
 If you dream it, then you can do it. You are very mentally sharp and strong. You enjoy challenging yourself both at work and with studies. You love mastering difficult tasks. You thrive in new environments, even stressful ones. You are able to study everything objectively. You have a upbeat attitude, and won't be deterred easily. You are open minded and optimistic about the future. |
Wednesday lists
10 literary one hit wonders (via Bookninja)
Top 10 diseases with no known cause
20 best job search web sites
25 of the most badass video game boss fights
10 of the world's most bizarre competitions
Top 10 persuasive TV ads
15 free downloads to pep up your old PC (via Delicious)
10 sites to help you get the most out of March Madness
6 best browser based personal finance management tools (thanks Andy!)
games
Boxheaded. Get the diamond
Tiny Trails. Complete the mini games (via Jay Is Games)
H20. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Another Room. Point and click escape game (via Jay Is Games)
Friv is a large collection of online Flash games (via MakeUseOf)
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Neat sites
NameMasher will combine two names in various ways - make your own version of Brangelina (via MakeUseOf)
Filmaps lets you search by movie or location to see where films were shot (via MakeUseOf)
You don't lose most of your heat through your head (via ACP Internist)
Perfect Portions takes the guesswork of how much to cook for a party
Book review: Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day by Peter J. Bentley
Book: Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day by Peter J. Bentley
About: Bentley goes through a hypothetical very bad day in which the science behind 34 mishaps is explained. Oversleeping, shaving cuts, bad milk, bird poop, skipping CDs, skin burns and hard drive crashes are examples of what's covered (good thing this bad day is hypothetical!)
Some Interesting Things I Learned:
- To remove chewing gum, try peanut butter or mayonnaise (the oils in them help the molecules in the gum slide off whatever they are stuck too). You can also try icing the gum to freeze it, and then break the frozen mass.
- NASA didn't spend millions of dollars to develop a "Space Pen," They bought them from Fisher. Most normal ballpoint pens will work in zero gravity anyway.
- If you eat something very spicy and want to cool down your mouth, drink milk. It's thought that the mix of casein and fat will wash away the capsaicin molecules that give chilies their spice. Milk chocolate and several types of beans and nuts are thought to have a similar effect.
- Cut yourself shaving? Don't dab the cut with a tissue, you'll just keep disrupting your platelets that are trying to heal the area. Instead, apply steady pressure.
- Anti-lock brakes leave dotted skids that look like ======= . Non-anti-lock brakes leave solid line skids.
Pros: Well-written with very interesting and varied topics. Short chapters make for easy pick-up reading.
Cons: No cites, no full bibliography provided. No real sum up, book just sort of ends.
Grade: B
I like food
Pete's Gourmet Confections' Chocolate Marshmallows look yummy
Taste test of Haagen-Dazs' 5 new ice creams
Tuesday lists
8 of the weirdest St. Patrick's Day drinking vessels
5 ridiculous safe for work fetishes
10 greatest micro playsets of all time
8 most underrated health trends
5 new ways to find music
Top 10 bizarre cases of mass hysteria
17 most outrageous drum kits on the internet (via Presurfer)
11 of the world's most unique and weirdest aqua-land animals (via Presurfer)
12 outstanding wall paintings
10 creative bathroom advertisements
Top 10 recession reads
16 most entertaining law blogs
Monday, March 16, 2009
neat sites
Geography of a Recession. Cool map that shows you the unemployment rates for all counties in the U.S. (via El Dorado Public Library)
Cognitive abilities start to decline at age 27
Monday lists
5 best and worst airports for on-time flights (via Consumer World)
10 worst comic book vacation destinations
10 most boring web sites in the world
10 incredibly eccentric people
10 coolest movies for geeks
6 crazy veterinary procedures
100 funny photos taken at unusual angles (via Delicious)
25 sites to have fun with your photos (via Delicious)
Top 10 first date turn offs
3 add-ins to boost your Microsoft Word experiences
6 movie remakes that missed the point
Sunday, March 15, 2009
neat sites
Object Graveyards: See where computers, wires, tanks, phones and planes go when they're no longer of use
February 2009 was the 9th warmest on record
BestInClass is a site where experts recommend digital cameras (via MakeUseOf)
games
White Day. Point and click game (via bontegames)
Kagi Nochi Tobira 2. Find the key to escape each room (via Jay Is Games)
Sunday lists
15 weirdest hats
10 terrible eating-related disorders
10 annoying habits of geeky spouses (via AQFL)
5 most annoying programs on your PC (via Linkfilter)
8 brilliant scientific screw ups
100+ resources to increase your social media savvy (via Linkfilter)
100 greatest singer-songwriter albums of all time (via Linkfilter)
Top 10 tips for talking your way into a better deal
Top 10 bizarre food festivals
27 visualizations to help make sense of the financial crisis (via Linkfilter)
Top 10 controversial music videos
100+ sites to download all sorts of things (like torrents, ebooks, music, videos, fonts, sounds, photos and freeware) (via Delicious)
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Neat sites
Pictures of cool guitars (via Presurfer)
Collection of Super Nintendo game sound clips (via Linkfilter)
Odeo is a video and audio search engine (via Marcus Zillman)
Know Your Meme explains popular internet phenomena (via AQFL)
Online Crosswords has printable crossword puzzles for your enjoyment (via MakeUseOf)
Addicted to a web site? KeepMeOut will prevent you from accessing any site you wish (via Listio)
Taste Kid will recommend music, books and movies based on your taste (via AltSearchEngines)
I like food
Giant Cheetos sound interesting
Jenny's Brownies and Golden Cinnamon-Pumpkin Bars look tasty
This layer cake recipe has some really delectable looking photos
Saturday lists
18 top sites for fantasy baseball
40 sources to download high quality royalty-free stock images (via Delicious)
8 worst discontinued food products
U.S. states ranked by well-being and physical health
5 ways to make your own screensaver
50 surprising ways to boost your brain's performance (via Presurfer)
10 stunning temples from around the world
50 incredible stop-motion videos (via Presurfer)
Friday, March 13, 2009
neat sites
Guide to too-good-to-put-down sports fiction books
ZipWho. Enter a ZIP code to get demographic info (via NeatNew)
I found this MetaFilter thread on What questions do library users most often ask to be pretty accurate (via librarian.net)
TwizTV has television show scripts for you to peruse (via MakeUseOf)
Anyone need a free subscription to American Cheerleader magazine?
More Friday lists
Top 10 most eco-friendly countries (via Linkfilter)
3 ridiculous stunts by contemporary artists
12 most annoying habits of therapists
12 of BuzzSugar.com's favorite albums
2 sites to check for cheap eats
7 ways to fool your sense of touch (via Mind Hacks)
Best and worst used cars (via Consumerist)
100 things more popular than Twitter (via AppScout)
10 St. Patrick's Day essentials
quiz
How Progressive Are You? quiz. I scored 277/400 which makes me "very progressive" (via J-Walk Blog)
games
Collection of good online games (via Delicious)
D-403: Journey of a Service Droid. Be a robot in this platformer (via Jay Is Games)
Superstar Combo. Collect stars (via Jay Is Games)
Thursday, March 12, 2009
games
Drag And Drop. Drag the hand to the end of several mazes (via Spiral Pocus)
Leaf Blight. Get rid of the bad leaves (via Jay Is Games)
50 Comedies. Name the comedy films from visual puns (via Jay Is Games)
Oregon Trail. Play the classic game online
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Neat sites
PolicyMap is very neat data mapping tool. Enter your location and choose some data (demographics, housing, income, health etc.) and it'll overlay the info on the map (via LibrarianInBlack)
Nanocrowd lets you enter a movie and it'll give you suggestions on other films you might like (via ReadWriteWeb)
TechFuga, in a similar idea to Alltop or PopURLs presents you the top tech news aggregated from different sources (via WebWare)
The kids' book Mr. Popper's Penguins could be turned into a movie
Definitions of color words (via Delicious)
Feeling Retro is a site for fans of 1960s and '70s pop culture
More Wednesday lists
5 ways to do the Irish jig on St. Patrick's Day
15 beautiful microscopic images from images inside the human body
10 things students need to know about college but don't
5 solid health search engines
10 descendants of dictators and what they've been up to
5 sites to find funny videos online
10 must have Gmail filters available for download
20 best web sites to download free ebooks part II (via Delicious)
7 badass cartoon villains who lost to retarded heroes
I like food
Chocolate Drizzled Butter Pecan Cookies look tasty
So do Homemade Hob Nobs
Burger Cupcakes are very creative
book review: Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel by Jerry Oppenheimer
Book: Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel by Jerry Oppenheimer
About: Oppenheimer is the male Kitty Kelley as he provides a surprisingly salacious account of the history of the Mattel toy company. From feuds between the coked up, bipolar, sex addicted "Father of Barbie" Jack Ryan and the founder of Mattel "Mother of Barbie" Ruth Handler to very unethical business practices and lead-filled playthings and deadly magnets in toys, if you had a rosy image of the company, it will be quite tarnished after reading this book.
Pros: Very fascinating in a "I wouldn't suspect that" kind of way given that it's a toy company. I enjoyed how the workings of a corporation could be be so engaging. The tale keeps you hooked.
Cons: Tabloid-like feel, not all sources cited, only selected bibliography. The book just sort of ends, with no real sum-up.
Grade: B
games
Find The Numbers. Locate the numbers in the room
Toya Room 2. Point and click escape game (via Jay Is Games)
Escape from Kilmainham Gaol. Point and click escape game (via Jay Is Games)
Skylocopter. Collect gems in your helicopter
Contrast Cannon. Shoot the balls into the right targets
quiz
You Are the Artist |
 You are unique and inspired. You aren't happy unless you are making art of some sort. Almost anything can be a catalyst for your creativity. You find the whole world stimulating. You have beautiful visions, and you're good at expressing them. You like people to see what you see. You also have an inventor's spirit. You're always thinking up new ideas and concepts. |
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Neat sites
Create your own Burger King T-shirt. Seriously (via QSR Magazine)
FreeLargePhotos has big photos of locations around the world that you can use on web sites (via ResourceShelf)
Wize has product reviews to help you make informed purchases (via WebUpon)
Comics I Don't Understand posts confusing comic strips (via J-Walk Blog)
Howto.co.uk has free ebooks you can read online (via El Dorado County Library)
DocJax searches for PDFs, doc, ppt and xls files (via Linkfilter)
Google searching tips for students and universities (via Delicious)
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