Whyzz aims to answer childrens' "whats, whys and hows" types of questions (via Mashable)
DangerouslyFun presents risky and fun projects (via MakeUseOf)
KissTunes lets you play music with your PC keyboard (via Download Squad)
Free mp3 audiobooks on history and philosophy (via That Freebie Site)
TrekJews is for all the Jewish and Star Trek parallels you desire (via Linkfilter)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
neat sites
More Tuesday lists
27 cool search engines that aren't Google
18 great sites for discovering recipes
50 greatest movie trailers of all time (via Delicious)
10 best summer music festivals to get your eco on
100 best blogs for journalism students (via Delicious)
10 absinthe drinkers
Top 10 killer features in Firefox 3.5
5 worst teen jobs of 2009
6 new personality disorders caused by internet
Top 5 web sites to listen to CDs before buying
5 inexpensive kitchen tools (via Slashfood)
Top 10 bestselling candies in the world
6 cutest silly pet pic sites on the web
23 foods on a stick
6 neat Gmail hacks
Monday, June 29, 2009
Neat sites
Cryptic Canvas. Name the 50 movies depicted in this painting (via I Am Bored)
Guide to the best free anti-spyware tools
CityMelt gives you neat info about lots of U.S. cities and towns. You can even use sliders to find your perfect place (via BestBiz Newsletter))
More Monday lists
25 web freebies for students
18 best sites to share and understand dreams
5 streaks of futility and how they finally ended
5 cool online games to get your kids interested in mathematics
10 ways to learn stuff while procrastinating online
Top 10 jokes in America
6 items you touch everyday that are filthier than a toilet
10 weirdest toilet papers
8 Firefox extensions for the Twitter fanatic
Monday lists
43 of the best free Windows enhancements that you should know about (via Delicious)
50 free resources that will improve your writing skills (via Delicious)
Top 10 soap opera cliches
99 amazing widescreen wallpapers to spice up your desktop (via Delicious)
Top 10 bizarre TV shows for kids
10 most beautiful U.S. national parks (via Delicious)
8 stealth ways to uncover big savings with secret online coupons
10 of the best literary vegetables (via Lit Lists)
8 dumbest barbarian heroes
Sunday, June 28, 2009
neat sites
Why bottled water has an expiration date
Fefoo is a cool search engine that can search 125 search engines on pretty much anything (via Phil Bradley's Blog)
Folowen will search a bunch of social networking sites at once for any name you enter (via AltSearchEngines)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Book Review: I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams
Book: I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams
About: Abrahams' chaotic upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness, where most things are forbidden due to them being considered demonic
Pros: Exceptionally funny
Cons: Mentions Planters' Cheese Puffs. I don't think Planters made Puffs, just Cheez Balls and Curls. No real conclusion. Pictures would have been nice.
Grade: B
Friday, June 19, 2009
games
Windosill. Point and click game (via bontegames)
Use Boxmen. Guide the guy through the levels (via bontegames)
Panda's Big Adventure. Point and click game featuring a panda (via bontegames)
Oran. Collect the coins and complete the levels (via Jay Is Games)
Friday lists
10 extreme points in the United States
5 things happening now that are worse than the auto apocalypse
8 memorable animals from literature
8 ingeniously creative green product designs
38 things you didn't know your tech could do (via Consumerist)
Top 10 slow jams of the 70s, 80s and 90s
10 magnificent elevators
15 memorable movie dads
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Neat sites
Netalyzer scans your internet connection for errors (via MakeUseOf)
Download free sounds at SoundJay (via Marcus Zillman)
More Thursday Lists
50 best dessert recipes (via Neat New)
Top 10 environmental disaster books (via Lit Lists)
7 condiments and their origins
7 greatest robots of the early modern world
7 names inspired by poetry
5 ways Twitter can save you money
2 sites to verify urban legends and email scams
100 most beautiful English words (via Popcorn Trick)
15 ways to fix the world (via Popcorn Trick)
7 huge declarations of love as seen on Google Maps (Thanks David!)
7 amazing types of invisible ink how you can use them (Thanks Andy!)
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Wednesday lists
50 films you can wait to see when you are dead (via Neatorama)
List of essential Mac downloads
100+ alternative search engines you should know (via Delicious)
8 academic holidays
10 memorable hockey fights
8 bizarre brand extensions
20 marvelous items inspired by the iPod & iPhone (via Presurfer)
10 far out Father's Day gifts
10 notable grunge bands
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Neat sites
After The Deadline scans your writing for grammar and spelling errors and provides style tips (via Download Squad)
Pictures of what inmates eat in prison
This Wilton Brownie Pan creates brownie bowls that have a nice space for ice cream
Download free Excel templates like budgets, calendars and calculators at Vertex42 (via MakeUseOf)
Create online charts and graphs with ChartPart (via MakeUseOf)
Free OCR will turn any image you upload in to text (via Marcus Zillman)
More Tuesday lists
10 awesome tools to get more out of Wikipedia
18 crazy and legally unlikely courtroom scenes (via Popcorn Trick)
10 super geeky ways to use Twitter
5 historical figures and families identified with DNA
3 dearly departed amusement parks
10 very useful comparison sites you have to bookmark
10 of the world's most unique islands
Tuesday lists
10 best horror films of the last 10 years (I've seen all 10) (Thanks Nat!)
50 most looked up words on NYTimes.com
10 big differences between men's and women's brains
Top 100 funniest one-liners on the internet (via Delicious)
Top 10 alter egos
10 movies that great actors should be embarrassed to have been a part of (Thanks Nat!)
60 rare and unusual vintage signs (via Delicious)
Top 10 misconceptions about neanderthals
10 coolest things made from chocolate
Monday, June 15, 2009
Neat sites
IdiomSite lets you look up the definition of idioms (via MakeUseOf)
Creepy web browser loophole: Here are the sites you've visited (via Delicious)
Get Rid Of Things tells you how to get rid of things like stains, raccoons and boyfriends (via MakeUseOf)
About Herbs. Find tons of info on tons of herbs (via Libology)
More Monday lists
Top 10 free genealogy web sites to find ancestors
25 ways to sabotage your job search
12 natural getaways near major cities
10 authors and their typewriters
10 notable diamonds
15 classic PC design mistakes (via AQFL)
3 sites to help you change your life
7 most impressive libraries throughout history (Thanks Andy!)
499 funny and real city names (via I Am Bored)
45 ridiculous pictures of boy bands (via I Am Bored)
6 biggest jerk moves in the history of science
21 stunning examples of creatively done stop-motion animations
games
Who Am I? Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Hit The Road. Help the pedestrians cross the street (via AQFL)
Monday lists
15 fascinating facts about toilets
100 awesome anti-aging brain games (online and off)
Top 10 candy myths
Top 10 drunk writers (via Reader's Advisor Online)
12 terrifying pieces of furniture that will give your children nightmares (via Presurfer)
5 best web sites for finding coupons
7 ways to save on legal advice (via Consumer World)
16 potentially deadly car noises
4 common Latin abbreviations explained
10 great speeches by fictional presidents
45 unusual canned foods (via I Am Bored)
14 strangest canned foods
8 Starship Enterprise facts every Trekker should know
80 creative ways to customize your Macbook (via Delicious)
6 disgusting ways animals can improve your health
5 best recipe managers
51 things you aren't allowed to see on Google Maps (via Library Stuff)
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Neat sites
RecipePuppy lets you search for recipes by ingredients or keyword (via MakeUseOf)
DeeperWeb is a search engine that uses Google to give you results from the deep web (via Delicious)
games
Star Beacons. Get rid of the stars in this Peggle-like game (via Jay Is Games)
Sushi No Suki. Be the best sushi chef you can be
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Neat sites
Crazy interactive psychedelic kaleidoscope (via Mental Floss)
AboutAirportParking gives you info on parking at U.S. airports and might let you reserve a spot (via MakeUseOf)
Guide to unusual hotels of the world (via MakeUseOf)
WhoCallsMe helps identify unfamiliar phone numbers from telemarketers and the like (via MakeUseOf)
SongKick lets you search for a band, see upcoming shows and find info on all their past performances (via MakeUseOf)
I like food
Baby Ruth and Crunch Crisp look yummy. So does JELL-O Pudding Ice Cream from Cold Stone Creamery
I want to try PopChips
Friday, June 12, 2009
More Friday lists
Top 6 Firefox addons for the movie freak
10 obnoxiously annoying driving habits
10 ways to turn your favorite hobby into a trip (via highpeaksresort)
13 more things your bartender won't tell you
8 obscure twists on Monopoly
7 excellent web apps to track and save on gas
10 awesome books that best explain how a shadow economy works and how you can get a piece of underground action
9 myths of bipolar disorder
10 most polarizing movies of the past decade (I've seen 7) (thanks Nat!)
8 tips for super green pest control
10 facts about the American Flag
5 Greasemonkey scripts to make browsing easier
10 messiest food festivals in the world
3 ultra cheap alternatives to the iTunes Music Store
10 most influential tech products (via LISNews)
5 TV aunts worth remembering
Neat sites
Self Made Scholar provides links to hundreds of online classes (via That Freebie Site)
TV Trends lets you search for word mentions or see the most popular terms talked about on TV (via Download Squad)
How long do dead bodies stay intact in the ocean?
SpyOnWeb will tell you what web sites belong to the same owner (via MakeUseOf)
Gadget Teardown shows you how to disassemble all kids of tech gadgets (via MakeUseOf)
Book Seer will tell you want book you should read next (via MakeUseOf)
games
Civiballs. Get the balls in the right urn (via Download Squad)
Mystery House in Japan. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Alice in Wonderland. Point and click game (via bontegames)
I like food
Brach's Indulge Cookie Nibbles look yummy
So do 7 Layer Bars Made With Animal Crackers and TGI Cake
Chocolate ties for Father's Day
Friday lists
7 things electronics salespeople won't tell you (via Consumerist)
Top 10 innovative ice cream flavors (via Mental Floss)
Top 10 wine myths
Top 10 most absurd Time magazine covers of the past 40 years (via Fimoculous)
15 most popular news web sites June 2009 (via Larry Ferlazzo's Blog)
10 must visit places on Google Earth
15 coolest piggy banks
7 ways to hit amusement parks on the cheap (via Consumerist)
15 of the world's strangest limousines
10 crazy collections (via Presurfer)
Top 10 survival tips for people in horror flicks
10 things required for a minimalist kitchen (via Lifehacker)
10 celebrities named in the Communist scare
10 great moments in pop culture fatherhood (via Neatorama)
11 environmentally friendly habits
Thursday, June 11, 2009
neat sites and things
Collection of U.S. Army training and field manuals (via LII New This Week)
Chocolates shaped like animal heads
Cool giant cupcake pan
CopyPasteCharacter is a site that just has symbols and special characters for you to copy and paste (via MakeUseOf)
GotFreeFax lets you send two 3-page max faxes daily for free online (via Listio)
Guide to tech gifts for Summer
Map of maximum posted speed limits on rural U.S. highways (via ResourceShelf)
More Thursday lists
Best high schools in America
6 historical events people love to reenact
Top 4 web sites to create your own free web sites instantly
100 most essential folk songs (via J-Walk Blog)
15 eco-friendly cars
5 ways to shape hamburger patties
8 best sports web sites
6 best 2012 apocalypse theories (all are BS)
6 tips for taking college courses free of charge
Top 50 health 2.0 blogs (via Neat New)
13 awesome money saving sites (via Consumerist)
I like food
Burton's Wagon Wheels and Werther's Originals Caramel Milk Chocolates look tasty
So does Cadbury Moro Gold
Yummy photo of fresh baked chewy chocolate chip cookies
Thursday lists
10 amusing tip jars
22 awesome web resources for students
100 tips and tricks to sneak in a workout at work (via American Libraries Direct)
10 most creatives Russian nesting dolls
10 amazing commercial airline crews in crisis
10 most extreme wedding proposals
Top 10 ways to provoke a geek argument (via American Libraries Direct)
Top 10 urban legends and myths
40 examples of incredible photo manipulation (via Delicious)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Neat sites
Cool chainsaw art
Flashlight Worthy Books recommends books so good you'll stay up late reading them
More Wednesday lists
Top 5 sites to find song lyrics online
5 kickass lessons books could learn from the movies
10 books about poop
10 celebrities injured on stage
8 fictional suburbs with hideous dark secrets
100+ portraits of iconic people (via J-Walk Blog)
7 types of bookstore customers (via J-Walk Blog)
10 best movie end credits (via Popcorn Trick)
8 ways to get more sleep for less money
200 most popular museum web sites (via Larry Ferlazzo's Blog)
10 craziest hotels in the world (via Popcorn Trick)
7 Civil War stories you didn’t learn in high school
10 TV theme songs and the stories behind them
39 amusing signs
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
quiz
Your Gift is Intellect |
 You are a big thinker, and you're always playing with new ideas. You are curious about the world. You enjoy learning and developing new theories. You enjoy researching, analyzing, and solving problems. Thinking hard feels good! You're the type of person who finds most mental tasks to be easy. You love to stretch your brain. |
Book Review: Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health by Aaron Carroll MD and Rachel Vreeman MD
Book: Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health by Aaron Carroll MD and Rachel Vreeman MD
About: Doctors Vreeman and Carroll tackle common beliefs about health and the human body including the Five Second Rule, double dipping and how much water one should drink. The book is organized into six groups of myths: the body, diseases, sex and pregnancy, babies and children, what we eat and drink, and myths that spark debate and controversy.
Pros: Quick read, interesting, lots of myths tackled, well written, references in back.
A Few Things I Found Interesting:
- Yellow urine doesn't mean you are dehydrated, neither does being thirsty
- You can't "beat" a breathalyzer
- A mosquito's buzz is just the flapping of its wings
- Once the irritating oils are washed off, you can't get poison ivy from someone's poison ivy rash
- Putting butter on a burn is a bad idea
- Green mucus from your nose doesn't mean you need antibiotics
- Poinsettias aren't that poisonous. No people have died from poinsettia poisoning
- Vitamin C doesn't prevent colds
- Sugar does not make kids hyper
- Twins don't skip a generation
Grade B+
Monday, June 08, 2009
Neat sites
ConvertFiles will convert pretty much any file to another file type (via MakeUseOf)
The mentally ill are not more violent
Get your own personalized beer pitcher and pint glasses
Wordnik will tell you everything you need to know about a word (via WebWare)
Parents modeling healthy eating have no effect on their kids' diets
More Monday lists
Top 10 sites to find the hot selling items on Ebay
10 best graveyard scenes in fiction (via Lit Lists)
9 ways to find Twitter users in your town
9 greatest fan films ever made
6 ridiculous sex myths that are actually true
12 of the world's most fascinating tunnel networks (via Linkfilter)
100 most mentioned brands on Twitter (via Delicious)
quizzes
Pick The Perp. Select the criminal from the set of photos (via ambaum)
Pick the fake logo (via Consumer World)
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Neat sites
Remote controlled 100 foot water cannon
BitFontMaker lets you create your own font online (via MakeUseOf)
More Sunday lists
40 awesome free Windows apps you can download in two seconds
10 early lessons learned from the Swine Flu outbreak
7 common reasons why your system is unresponsive how to solve them
5 hot summer thrillers (via Lit Lists)
5 best alternative file copiers
13 weirdest animal babies
23 striking nature photos
6 tech innovations that nobody wants
6 useful clipboard replacement utilities for Windows
Book Review: Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm
Book: Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm
About: Tamm recounts growing up as a member of the Sri Chinmoy cult.
Pros: It's interesting to see how cults operate.
Cons: I didn't think this cult was very interesting. In fact, I was bored while reading the book. Even though she had an unorthodox experience growing up, the daily routines of the cult show no matter how unorthodox, the mundane customs and ways of everyday life can be very boring.
Grade: C-
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Neat sites
Biblio. Search for rare, used and out of print books (via MakeUseOf)
State by state death penalty information center (via ResourceShelf)
I like food
Mac The Chip cookies, Dove Peanut Butter Silky Smooth Milk Chocolate and the Cadbury Moro bar look yummy
Cool dragon cake
Games
Fruit Smash. A Bejeweled-type game (via Look At This)
Room Escape Game Six. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Sunday lists
10 longest novels in the English language
7 good reasons to cry your eyes out
6 terrifying islands
9 clouds that look like something else
Top 10 wallpaper tools and tweaks
5 best books on scientific fraud (via Lit Lists)
6 uncomfortable interviews with famous musicians (via Mental Floss)
5 best sites to find foreclosed homes
Top 10 weirdest political parties
10 Windows command line tips and tricks you should check out
55 best ways to track your web site daily traffic (via Delicious)
12 coolest faucets
10 more ancient inventions you think are modern
6 of-the world's most deadly, dangerous and disastrous oceans and seas (via Presurfer)
5 funniest songs on YouTube (Thanks RJ!)
Saturday lists
Top 100 most popular pieces of classical music (via J-Walk Blog)
8 famous film villains who died by melting
100+ frugal things to do this summer
Top 10 myths of mental illness
5 tools to harvest the potential of your Firefox bookmarks
Top 5 free resume hosting web sites
List of Firefox addons that could be handy for a librarian or legal professional
10 unfortunate neon signs (has naughty language)
10 great ABBA songs never released as singles
Friday, June 05, 2009
Neat sites
ViewDocsOnline lets you open Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files online (via MakeUseOf)
Cool metal detecting sandals
I like food
I've tried the Fling candy bar. It is delicious.
Chocolate Chip Brownie Pillows look tasty
Friday lists
List of goth types (via Rebecca's Pocket)
Top 10 rascals in literature
14 directors and the video games they should adapt (via BuzzSugar)
10 variations on Tetris
20 books of shattered childhoods
15 simple security tips to protect your PC
Top 10 misconceptions about cancer
Top 7 sites for finding and reconnecting with people from your past
13 fast food tattoos (via I Am Bored)
Top 10 most ridiculous Transformers ever (via Linkfilter)
25 free people search engines (via Presurfer)
8 most badass 1980s action film intros (Thanks Nat!)
Thursday, June 04, 2009
I like food
Baby Ruth Crisp looks tasty
So do Rich Butterscotch Pecan Scones
List of vegan baked goods at Starbucks (via Starbucks Twitter)
quiz
You Are Imaginative |
 You are a creative, innovative person. You're not afraid of great risks. Right now, you are seeking excitement and a bit of adventure in your life. You are drawn to people who are passionate and deep. You feel like there is nothing in your life that needs to be changed. You are quick to react. You are courageous and bold. |
Thursday lists
28 high school photos of famous musicians
10 incredibly memorable movie quotes
15 essential moments to revisit if you had a time machine (via Mental Floss Blog)
10 more crazy hotels
10 remarkable ceilings worth seeing (via Presurfer)
Top 10 live performances of 1960s and 19070s
7 best free image hosting and photo sharing web sites
10 more things you'll discover at college
11 different countries' hospital food
10 of the world's most beautiful ancient cities
Top 100 picture books of all time (via American Libraries Direct)
3 web apps for staying on top of the music scene
19 new great web sites for kids (via American Libraries Direct)
Top 10 patron pet peeves of a librarian (via American Libraries Direct)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
neat sites
Online guide to moving
Try Consumer Reports Online free for a month
How to interpret science news (via J-Walk Blog)
Move Outlines lets you trace a part of a Google Map in order to compare its size to another place (via MakeUseOf)
This company will create a custom shower curtain out of your photo (via Delicious)
JustJobs is a job search engine (via AltSearchEngines)
New York Public Library guide to job searching sites (via ResourceShelf)
More Wednesday lists
Top 7 annoying web sites
10 worst work habits
10 most surreal video game bootlegs
10 most delicious miracles (via I Am Bored)
12 tricks your brain is playing on you
7 ridiculously over-the-top modifications to deadly weapons
17 great historical moments ruined by modern technology
25 best web comics for programmers (via Delicious)
Amazon's 25 software bestsellers and their free equivalents (via iLibrarian)
Wednesday lists
24 more popular and unique soft drinks from around the world (via Neatorama)
10 more books that changed the world
10 coolest speakers (the music-playing kind, not the blah-blah orator kind)
7 most fascinating underwater ruins
20 things you didn't know about movies
10 unusual and creative USB hubs (via AQFL)
Top 10 bizarre and unusual tragedies
15 greatest sports cheats of all time (via Neatorama)
Top 10 movies about academic life
40 great travel bargains
20 personality traits of record and CD album covers (via Presurfer)
5 problems Wolfram Alpha can solve for you (via Internet News)
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
More Tuesday lists
7 incredible computer-generated works of art (Thanks Andy!)
Top 10 top 10 food lists (via Slashfood)
8 library cats
Top 10 TV characters that need to be killed off (via BuzzSugar)
12 Firefox addons that help you manage tabs
10 kick ass scenes that are in trailers but not movies (via Popcorn Trick)
Top 5 British mystery writers
5 things the gaming industry will never fix and why
10 greatest nerds in pop culture
games
Dr. Ku and the Alien Room. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Peter Pan. Point and click game (via bontegames)
Monday, June 01, 2009
neat sites
How you hold your glass can reveal your personality (via Presurfer)
Don't click here if you have epilepsy (via I Am Bored)
Plagium lets you input text and it will see if it's plagiarized from the web (via Delicious)
GymPost will help you find a gym nearby (via MakeUseOf)
The Boker Plus Cop Tool can help you cut seat belts, pry doors etc.
Collection of free online tools for job seekers (via ResourceShelf)
games
Cat Gets 100 Stars. Collect the stars in this platformer (via bontegames)
Clickplay. Complete the minigames (via bontegames)
Monday lists
10 best beaches in America 2009 (via Consumer World)
5 more excellent ways to waste time online
5 best netbooks
8 free FTP clients for Mac
18 things you don't need on your packing list
10 shocking deaths you may not have heard of
Top 10 significant historical coups d'etat
7 most bizarrely unlucky people who ever lived
4 popular prank call web sites
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