If you want to work at this bookstore, you need to pass this literature knowledge test (via Swiss Army Librarian)
Remember Nintendo Game and Watch? They're back in keychain form
Science Books Online is a collection of free science ebooks (via MakeUseOf)
Everything you wanted to know about the venus flytrap
Friday, July 31, 2009
Neat sites
Friday lists
15 facts you didn't know about your body
Top 10 amazing lost or suppressed inventions
10 types of Comic Con fans
8 most insane non-comic book Spider-man moments
9 more songs about serial killers
10 best screaming lines from movies (via I Am Bored)
25 unusual Russian nesting dolls (via Neatorama)
17 deep fried delicacies (Thanks Nick!)
11 things that are weird to do alone
Top 10 wonders of Google Earth (via Popcorn Trick)
4 weirdest coffees in the world
Games
Nano Recon. Don't let your ship hit the sides (via Look At This)
Bouncing Balls. Like Peggle, get rid of the red pegs (via Look At This)
Rollball. Get the ball to the goal but don't fall! (via Look At This)
Word Vine. Put the words on the vine in the right order (via Look At This)
Demolition City. Place dynamite to take down buildings (via Jay Is Games)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Even more Thursday lists
7 awesome cover songs
10 best (and real) work-at-home jobs (via Delicious)
3 sites to help you identify unknown drugs
10 worst evolutionary designs
Top 15 social media resources for foodies
5 highest bungee jumps in the world
10 film debuts of famous actors
21 fun and funky pillowcases
15 creepiest kids in movies (via BuzzSugar)
15 resources for finding jobs in sports (via Neat New)
11 best free web site analytics tools (via Delicious)
Neat sites
What your username says about you
Site that features emails from crazy people (via Monkeyfilter)
Guide to zombie fiction
Search for coupons and coupon codes at CraigsCoupons (via PennyWise)
quiz
You Are a Ceasar Salad |
 You are very popular and easy to love. You strike a cord with people. You are friendly and careful not to offend anyone. You try hard to get along. And while you may avoid controversy, you are still very sincere. People love that about you. You are dependable and steady. With you, what you see is what you get. |
Games
DiscField. Move the arrows to get the two orbs to meet (via bontegames)
Saunavihta. Get the guy to the sauna (via bontegames)
More Thursday lists
Top 5 most respected military geniuses (Thanks R!)
100 amazingly insightful people you can learn from on Twitter
100 free cutting edge courses that didn't exist when you were in school
Top 5 resources for guitarists (Thanks R!)
9 sites that get your house ready to sell
6 best websites to waste time on
First 10 free apps to install on a new Windows PC (via Delicious)
25 predictions for the university of the future (via Peter Scott's Blog)
6 things that shouldn't explode but did anyway
20 ways to save your money (via Consumerist)
Top 100 language blogs 2009 (via Larry Ferlazzo's Blog)
9 cuts of meat and how they got their names
20 things you didn't know about eclipses
Top 10 TV playboys and their playlists (Thanks Mike!)
Thursday lists
10 greatest American short story writers
7 3D murals (via Neatorama)
4 ways to find totally free internet access almost anywhere
10 most extreme places on earth
Top 25 most popular blogs (via Larry Ferlazzo)
10 incidents of cannibalism
Bestselling books so far in 2009
12 clever doormats
9 mysterious ape-men from around the world
10 lamest Star Trek villains
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Some more neat sites
Death Star cookie jar
How to bypass stupid voicemail instructions
Discussion on the worst children's books ever (via Reading Copy)
How to bypass stupid voicemail instructions
Discussion on the worst children's books ever (via Reading Copy)
A few more Wednesday lists
Neat sites
Pepsi vs. Coke logo evolution
Spreety is a HUGE collection of links to TV shows you can watch online (via ResourceShelf)
Rare earth magnet fridge pins look cool
I like food
Fudge Sundae Creme Oreos look tasty
I can't wait to try Lake Champlain Chocolates' Granola Five Star Bar
Wednesday lists
Top 7 places to see great minds in action
6 resources for tomorrow's happy hour
10 top web applications
10 manliest names ever
10 fascinating cases of mind control
11 famous people who were in the completely wrong career at age 30 (via Mental Floss Blog)
5 things movie trailers need to stop doing
5 videos of kids behaving badly
17 least appropriate Playmobil sets for children
50 beautifully delicious coffee designs
8 very cool vending machines (via Presurfer)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Neat sites
Depictr lets you create simple diagrams online (via MakeUseOf)
How to buy a mattress (via Lifehacker)
How to learn anything on the web (via Internet News)
CrimeReports. Enter your location to see a map of nearby reported crimes (via AltSearchEngines)
SeatQuest will help you find available tickets for an event and show you where the seats are (via AltSearchEngines)
A pictorial history of dentistry (Thanks John!)
More Tuesday lists
40 fantastic time-wasting web sites (via Internet News)
3 biggest reasons music magazines are failing (via Fimoculous)
9 notorious squirrels
10 questions to infuriate a librarian
5 baseball-related legal disputes
17 warm weather jokes for summer
6 famous advertising dogs
List of double entendres in Star Wars
10 facts about the Arch de Triomphe
10 useful and interesting Google Docs hacks
Tuesday lists
12 exciting ethnic enclaves and international districts
7 totally sweet enemy spacecraft
18 ways attention goes wrong
10 adorable baby animals
12 core human skills (via Delicious)
73 ways to become a better writer (via Delicious)
10 more incredibly bizarre movies
14 crafty prison inventions (via I Am Bored)
20 most anticipated movies of 2010 (via Presurfer)
100 Ivy League literature courses you can take at home for free
5 most shameful commercials featuring Mr. T
Best film title sequences ever (via Delicious)
Monday, July 27, 2009
Neat sites
How to get free wi-fi at airports that charge for internet connections (via Lifehacker)
Yebol. Yet another search engine (via AltSearchEngines)
How to get what you want from a customer service agent (via Consumerist)
Uh oh. Those newfangled LED traffic lights don't do a good job of melting the snow that can obstruct them (via How We Drive)
DiscoverEd. Search for open education resources (via AltSearchEngines)
iSerenity. Choose from 31 soothing sounds and scenes
Parkr. Find amusement and theme parks near you
More Monday lists
10 phrases to avoid on your resume
6 modern technologies that animals have had for years
12 facts about pickles
12 fantastic Facebook fan pages for parents
10 best novels about novelists (via Lit Lists)
6 ways of organizing your bookshelves (via The Written Nerd)
10 great U.S. government web sites (via ResourceShelf)
Games
Warp Shot. Launch your orb to the goal (via bontegames)
Cat in Outdoor. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Splitter 2. Cut the boards so the smiley face ends up at the exit (via bontegames)
Book Review: Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning
Book: Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning
About: Written in the form of dated entries, clinical psychologist and psychology professor Manning tells of her almost 2 year battle with a severe bout of depression.
Pros: Very quick read. When I sat down to read it, I usually ending up reading it for longer than I had planned. Well written. Some of the best descriptions of the feelings of depression since Styron's Darkness Visible.
Cons: Her introspection, description and analysis work well when she's focusing on depression but there was a bit too much material about spirituality, religion and poetry for me.
Grade: B+
Monday lists
5 amazing buildings of the future and how they'll kill you
5 best instant messengers
3 forum search engines to search 40,000 message boards
Top 5 web sites for free stock photographs
6 curiously named products and the stories behind them
10 deadly foods
9 sites for socially responsible and ethical shopping
100 best self-education sites for switching careers
100 terrific time management tools to get your degree in 3 years
10 famous final photographs
6 repurposed Disney songs
20 more fascinating historical facts
10 unique city parks from around the world (via Presurfer)
19 amazing acts of death defiance (via Presurfer)
5 myths about sleep and insomnia (via Look At This)
15 most expensive college dorms in the U.S. (via I Am Bored)
13 of best pogo stick fails of all time (via I Am Bored)
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sunday lists
9 things invented or discovered by accident
Top 10 disgusting web sites to share with friends
13 craziest cell phone accessories
9 raging water rides (via Presurfer)
Top 5 funniest fake Facebook pages
10 great offensive seasons in Major League history
5 literary terms you didn't know you were reading
4 grossest kid health problems
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Neat sites
Movie Title Still Collections. Hundreds of stills of movie titles. Organized by decade. Very cool. (via Delicious)
Fascinating article about Secret Service training. It's long but worth the time in my opinion. I recommend printing it out for easy reading
Saturday lists
Top 50 literary magazines and metazines (via Internet Resources Newsletter)
90+ videos for tech and media literacy (via Internet Resources Newsletter)
10 magnificent maelstroms and destructive whirlpools
100+ musicians on Twitter
5 dearly departed TV dogs
4 scandalous moments in baseball
12 banned and controversial TV commercials
10 recently extinct animals
22 uses for dryer sheets
20 best and worst pets in science fiction (via Linkfilter)
25 pickled products (via Presurfer)
5 best novels about immigrants in America (via Lit Lists)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Neat sites
Internet Bird Collection. Everything you ever wanted to know about birds (via AltSearchEngines)
Love mystery books? Stop You're Killing Me is a great site to find things to read
Video game T-shirts that don't suck (Thanks Nat!)
More Friday lists
30 colorful examples of high-speed bullet photography (via Delicious)
7 insane ads that have no clue what they're selling
Top 10 travel gadgets under $50 (via Delicious)
15 most annoying movies yet to come out in 2009 (via Popcorn Trick)
5 online software resources for booksellers
5 more Twitter-related trends to watch right now
7 very fun games that are good for your brain (via Delicious)
7 most disgusting insect delicacies on earth
50 greatest gadgets of the past 50 years (via Stephen's Lighthouse)
101 best genealogy sites 2009 (via ResourceShelf)
Games
Photo King. Take the best photos you can (Thanks Javier!)
Gravitex 2. Collect the coins and get the ball in the hole (via Look At This)
Red Ball. Get to the goal (via Jay Is Games)
Escape from the Black Box. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Closed Office. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Friday lists
10 excellent science search engines
10 facts about Marvin the Martian
13 fast and furious stick figure animations and tutorials
35+ push-up exercises (via Delicious)
10 most unusual eco-friendly products
30 enchanting pictures of mushrooms toadstools and fungi (via Presurfer)
Top 10 bizarre restaurants
100 serious Twitter tips for academics (via Presurfer)
7 famous beer logos and the stories behind them
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Neat sites
PickMusic. Search for thousands of music videos by artists or song (via MakeUseOf)
Some misconceptions about science cleared up (via Choice Internet Resources Newsletter)
14-0848 Mimosa is the color of the year
SiteJabber has user reviews of online retailers and web sites (via AppScout)
Movie monster size comparison chart (via Popcorn Trick)
Some of the best new comic books (via Early Word)
More Thursday lists
Book review: Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation... by Mark Adams
Book: Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet by Mark Adams
About: The rise and fall of Bernaar MacFadden, a great promoter of what he called "Physical Culture" which espoused fasting, exercise and healthy eating. Magazines, books, health centers and even a religion are created by Macfadden in order to bolster his cause, bank account and ego. As I had never heard of Macfadden before this book, you can imagine that his huge popularity and empire doesn't last.
Pros: A thorough look at a forgotten man, some of whose ideas were ahead of their time (such as eat less, exercise more). Includes notes and bibliography. Adams even tries some of Macfadden's health regimens like fasting and eating all raw foods.
Cons: Pictures in a clump in the middle of the book, I like them spread out and placed where they fit the text. No in-text citations. Because Macfadden had so many business ventures, it can sometimes read like a dry business book.
Grade: B
Thursday lists
9 stars' early TV appearances
100 simple salads for the season (via Delicious)
4 free open source tools for working with video and audio
18 natural formations that look man-made
10 more common historical myths
12 strangest promotions and combos
10 surprising uses for potatoes
43 weird things said in job interviews (via Mental Floss Blog)
26 epic and life-affirming movie deaths (via Look At This)
5 cats that look like Wilford Brimley (via Pop Culture Junk Mail)
9 things not to do when in a new country
100 awesome blogs for your business education
100 awesome Firefox addons for back to school
Top 10 books about mental illness
Top 10 odd allergies
17 relevant charts and graphs
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Neat sites
A soft trip to video game nostalgia: Crocheted Lemmings
Busker's Handbook. How to survive as a street performer (via Neatorama)
Why no two raindrops are alike (via Neatorama)
Virtual Keyboard. Play music on your computer keyboard (via MakeUseOf)
More Wednesday lists
21 office supplies too awesome to exist
5 most badass things ever done by jungle cats
8 reasons why Adam West is the most resilient victim of typecasting ever
5 cover tunes that rank with the originals
15 insults and their history (Thanks Nicholas!)
10 facts about Jeopardy!
100 things your kids may never know about (via LISNews)
Top 10 books about cold climates (via Lit Lists)
10 most common myths about college
10 special ways to fly
18 great sites to learn a new language
20 film and TV directors to follow on Twitter
5 horrifying apocalyptic scenarios that have already happened
9 kids' foods to avoid (via Consumerist)
7 products for smuggling alcohol into venues you're not supposed to (via Linkfilter)
Games
Loom Custody. Point and click escape game (via Jay Is Games)
Alkirian 2: The Seven Scepters. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Space Oddity Part One. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Third batch of Tuesday lists
5 cool video remixes
10 incredible Magellanic clouds
13 web sites to help you eat better
Top 10 foods to avoid eating while driving
7 e-learning and teaching resources
100 easiest, fastest recipes ever
5 free web sites to catch plagiarists
125 healthiest supermarket foods in America (via HeatEatReview)
10 reality shows that peaked in their first season (via BuzzSugar)
Neat sites
Gsalr. Find garage sales near you (via MakeUseOf)
Create your own web banners with this Online Banner Generator (via MakeUseOf)
What color is water? (via Presurfer)
Large collection of money saving links
Legistalker lets you follow the activities of your government representatives (via AppScout)
Roooby searches social sites for images and videos (via AltSearchEngines)
Some sites for computer repair help
Tuesday lists
10 of the world's oldest companies
10 ways to use social media to pick a college
5 worst sci-fi TV series
10 most engaged brands on the web (via Delicious)
9 cracked-out classic TV show intros
Top 10 timely deaths
110 artworks from the top 20 digital artists in Europe (via Delicious)
8 of the world's most inspirational people
7 free alternatives to Photoshop with all of the bells and whistles
10 more incredibly bizarre mental disorders
9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days (via Presurfer)
Top 20 magazine web sites
3 essential books for screenwriters
13 most overheard phrases in an 80's arcade
13 more highly questionable car mods
17 really old computer magazine ads
50 richest people in the world
Monday, July 20, 2009
Neat sites
Collection of royalty free files such as photos, clip art, sounds, ebooks, audiobooks, posters etc. (via Larry Ferlazzo's Blog)
Enter your ZIP code and view a map, census data and weather (via MakeUseOf)
LetsTalk help you find the perfect cell phone and plan (via Reader's Digest Ways To Save Blog)
Like to dig in the sand at the beach? You could be sifting through feces
As speed limits rise, so do deaths
Guy might have cracked KFC's secret blend of herbs and spices
More Monday lists
5 things you can use if you run out of cash
5 germiest tourist attractions
10 Safari plugins that could make you drop Firefox
6 web resources for finding yard sales
200 best beach books ever
10 more of the world's oldest still inhabited cities
5 weird requests from rich hotel guests
5 online tools to identify almost every unknown language
Monday lists
10 ways to keep your flight attendant happy
4 awesome tools for creating no-tech web pages
100 free college courses to develop your artistic eye
Top 10 grunge guitarists
Top 10 gruesome medieval torture devices
9 ways to tell if someone is lying to you (via Consumer World)
3 recent books that help you live like a cheapskate
30 neat works of stencil graffiti art (via I Am Bored)
7 injuries that people somehow survived
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Neat sites
Odopod Sketch. Create your own drawings online (via MakeUseOf)
CancelThatCard lists worldwide phone numbers to cancel a lost or stolen credit cards
The Gateway. Search over 50,000 education resources (via ResourceShelf)
I like food
These chocolate peanut butter cupcakes look delectable (via Jim's Chocolate Mission)
So do these Chocolate Frosted Marshmallow Cookies
Sunday lists
5 disasters that could have been avoided
Top 10 great social media sites for movie lovers
15 amazing elevator advertisements and pieces of art
25 free apps and web sites for tech-loving teachers (via Delicious)
9 ways to get a person on the phone when calling a company
15 ugliest products ever
10 useful inventions that went bad
72 rules for evolved humans (via I Am Bored)
14 funniest movie inspired tattoos (via I Am Bored)
10 extreme marathons (via Presurfer)
10 failed couplings in literature (via Lit Lists)
5 HTML tips to create a fast loading free web site
10 geekiest pieces of furniture in the universe
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Neat sites
Download and watch tons of free documentaries at Documentary Heaven (via MakeUseOf)
See what cartoon characters might look like in real life (via Presurfer)
lists
45 greatest guitar riffs (Thanks R!)
Top 10 DIY projects that harness the power of the sun
10 original songs better than the movies they came from (via Mental Floss Blog)
10 more cool things you can do with YouTube videos
12 unique language reference tools
4 top sites to get event tickets instead of Ticketmaster
8 tips to boost the signal of your wireless router
Games
Statue of Sun. Point and click game (via bontegames)
William and Sly. You're a fox, complete the levels (via bontegames)
Flashpipes. Connect the green and pink dots
NanoTank. Move your tank through the levels (via bontegames)
Saturday lists
10 coolest remote control toys
Top 10 people who almost became president
5 best insider accounts of the moon landing (via Lit Lists)
5 TV doctors who should be surgeon general (Thanks Maj!)
15 really useful web-based HTML editors (via Delicious)
24 more really strange signs
14 things the recession is helping get rid of (via I Am Bored)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Book Review: White House Nannies by Barbara Kline
Book: White House Nannies by Barbara Kline
About: Kline is the founder of White House Nannies, a nanny placement firm in Washington DC. In her book, she focuses on busy DC couple Janette and David as well as Emma, the nanny Kline matched them with. This narrative is interspersed with tales of notable families, nannies and situations that Kline has dealt with.
Pros: Some of the stories are funny
Cons: Kline name drops and comes off as a bit pompous as she takes credit for successful nanny-family matches and seems to blame failures on traits of the family or the nanny. Stories feel repetitive as they mostly consist of "this nanny/family is great" or "this family/nanny is awful".
Grade: C+
Neat sites
BestParking lets you find a compare parking rates and locations in major U.S. cities and airports (via MakeUseOf)
These gloves really pack a punch
Games
58 Works #5. Point and click escape game (via Jay Is Games)
Covert Front 3. Point and click game (via Jay Is Games)
Friday lists
8 moon landing hoax myths (via Linkfilter)
50 tools and tricks to revolutionize your note taking (via Delicious)
Top 10 UK locations you may have overlooked
Top 10 literary tearjerkers (via Lit Lists)
10 more incredibly bizarre deaths
15 most literal pictures
17 bizarre and wacky gadgets to spice up your kitchen (via Presurfer)
6 bizarre explanations from the set of Roseanne
20 psychotic freeze frames from TV shows (Thanks Nat!)
8 things Obama could do to ensure his nerd legacy
5 most unintentionally hilarious work safety videos
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Neat sites
How hot is too hot? See what happens at warm temperatures, i..e. crayons melt at 128 degrees F. (via Larry Ferlazzo's Blog)
TimeZoneCheck shows a map of the current time around the world (via MakeUseOf)
GodsBoard. Create your own message from God (thanks Adam!)
Some alternative search engines to check out
Vacations that start out bad and get better leave you with more positive memories than those that start off great and go downhill from there
Thursday lists
15 weirdest Etsy finds (via Neatorama)
15 cool and crazy concept computers
Top 15 web hoaxes of all time
6 amazing rainforest treetop walks
9 great laptop review sites
10 animals of folklore
Top 25 web sites for teaching and learning (via American Libraries Direct)
100 best websites for mathletes
100 motivational blog posts for disgruntled grads
10 divine apparitions in unexpected places
7 college pranks
10 fascinating reattachment surgeries
10 creepiest"Are You Afraid of the Dark" episodes
7 amusing newscast slipups (via I Am Bored)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Another batch of neat sites
TownMe will tell you stuff about your town (via AltSearchEngines)
Search for music at iZaria.us (via Delicious)
How to detect crap on the internet (via American Libraries Direct)
See what the internet thinks about any topic you enter (via American Libraries Direct)
Amusing retro book covers of well-known movies
Neat sites
Coffee Seeker uses Google Maps to help you find a coffee shop nearby (via Google Maps Mania)
Neat ray gun pen and cramp-free pen
Coursepedia lets you search for online courses by school, topic or career (via AltSearchEngines)
Qtorrents is a torrent search engine that searches several torrent sites at once (via MakeUseOf)
Drawing of 101 Sesame Street muppets (via Mental Floss Blog)
Download free ringtones that sound like real phones
Why wet things smell more than dry things
More Wednesday lists
8 very hairy people
10 weird food laws (via I Am Bored)
7 movie toy lines that desperately need a remake
5 ways people are taking Harry Potter way too seriously
Top 25 Harry Potter characters (via Popcorn Trick)
9 overstuffed food creations (via Neatorama)
5 bizarre instruments
Top 10 computer novels (via Lit Lists)
Test your sense of pitch
Test your sense of pitch by listening to the 26 song snippets to hear if they are played correctly or not. I, amazingly, got 26 out of 26 correct (via MakeUseOf)
Wednesday lists
6 toys unlikely to ever get their own movie
20 most worthless pieces of junk
100 best curator and museum blogs
11 great sources of U.S. government data sets to view in Google Earth
Top 10 most successful actors at the box office
18 streaming music resources
10 craziest diets ever
13 most unfortunate personal names for their jobs
10 U.S. cities that are meanest to the homeless
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Neat sites
Timedrain. Watch time tick away (via Presurfer)
Whatever happened to the cast of Die Hard (Thanks Nat!)
See what notable books are being released in the Fall
The riskiest month to drive in the U.S. is October
NatureFind. Find stuff to do outside near you (via ResearchBuzz)
More Tuesday lists
Top 5 tools to make a home movie online for free
10 strangest manias
10 martian sci-fi books
50 creative 404 pages (via Delicious)
50 excellent health search engines
16 electronics companies and how they got their names
9 things not to have on your web site
Top 5 movies and miniseries about meteors and storms
4 interactive sites to learn how to do anything
Top 10 rock and roll documentaries (via Popcorn Trick)
16 more interesting modes of transportation
7 cases of spontaneous human combustion
quiz
You Are an Ice Cream Sandwich |
 You are well grounded, reliable, and very balanced. You love to work hard, but you also know how to take it easy. People might be surprised to know you have a very goofy side to you. You like to let loose and have fun. You just don't let yourself go too crazy! |
games
Room Escape Vol 1. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Red Remover. Click on the red blocks to remove them (via bontegames)
Tuesday lists
8 game show stories worth retelling
100 non-business books every entrepreneur should read
100 movies every man should see (via Neatorama)
10 bizarre things you didn't know you could buy online
5 surprising inventions by famous people (via Look At This)
10 more amazing coincidences
9 toys that prepare children for a life of menial labor
8 wonderfully weird cakes
Monday, July 13, 2009
Neat sites
Open Library lets you search thousands of book cover images (via MakeUseOf)
If the Simpsons lived in India
2009 sunscreen guide (via Docuticker)
Gympost will let you enter a location to find a gym nearby (via AltSearchEngines)
More Monday lists
5 direct to DVD sci-fi movie sequels that should never have happened
13 funniest cameos of celebrities playing themselves (via Popcorn Trick)
10 best places to live in the U.S.
8 lawsuits involving video games
10 things you probably didn't know about Harry Potter
3 amazing survivors (via Neatorama)
11 most suggestive structures on Earth
I like food
This blueberry muffin recipe looks good
Great photo of fluffy cinnamon rolls drizzled with icing
Monday lists
Top 100 books of all time (via Reader's Advisor Online)
Top 10 misconceptions about the Catholic Church
5 historic train robberies
40 free screen capture tools and techniques (via Delicious)
12 bizarre ice cream flavors
6 facts about historic figures that their enemies made up
13 things your home remodeler won't tell you
10 short-lived celebrity marriages
List of Summer reading books for journalists (via Bookninja)
4 things not to do to your kids (via Delicious)
7 places around the house to stash your cash
15 stunningly rugged coastlines
5 bookmarklets to simplify tedious tasks
16 cool table lamps
5 best content filtering tools
25 things you didn't know about the first moon landing
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Neat sites
FoodieView is a food site, restaurant guide and recipe search engine (via AltSearchEngines)
Find free stuff, discounts, coupons and other offers at Offers.com (via AltSearchEngines)
U.S. suicides peak on Wednesdays
Book Review: Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies
Book: Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies
About: Gillies (who plays Detective Stabler's wife on Law & Order: SVU) writes about her seemingly perfect marriage that dissolved with astonishing quickness after her husband starts fancying his new colleague who also happens to be one of Gillies' best friends.
Pros: Engaging story and short chapters resulted in "just one more chapter..." syndrome.
Cons: She keeps mentioning that she and the entire Oberlin community is very liberal. You don't need to keep telling us. Commits one of my most hated writing pet peeves by using "had had" on page 52 of the hardcover.
Grade: B+
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Neat sites
Saturday lists
15 great but really long novels
35 beautiful photography web sites (via Delicious)
5 largest telescopes in the world
100 essential skills for geeks (via Delicious)
10 cases of American intervention in Latin America
6 literally retarded monarchs
50 best summer reads ever (via Lit Lists)
10 facts about Casey Kasem
Friday, July 10, 2009
Neat sites
Pdfind will search for PDFs (via MakeUseOf)
Where to find the most popular news stories on the web
How to use Twitter search operators
Guide to Omega-3 supplements
More Friday lists
10 unusual golf courses
4 free thumbnail photo generators
20 unusual churches (via Cynical-C)
5 real-time search engines (via Internet News)
5 rules of thumb and their inventors
16 excellent portable file compression tools
7 types of employees you meet at Best Buy (via Consumerist)
3 handy features of Google Maps driving directions you probably never knew
games
Rat Cage. Point and click escape game (via bontegames)
Save Our City. Use the cannon to protect the city from projectiles (via Jay Is Games)
Crimson Momentum. Get the dot to the goal (via Look At This)
Mini Train. Arrange the pieces to make a path for the train (via Look At This)
Friday lists
Top 10 tales of the frontier
5 foods you shouldn't eat raw
Top 10 princesses of sci-fi and fantasy (via BuzzSugar)
10 oldest still inhabited cities
Top 10 books women would take on a desert island (via Bookninja)
5 Google cheat sheets that will surely come in handy (via Delicious)
10 strangest frogs
Top 10 Disney villains (Thanks Nat!)
Top 10 misconceptions about Islam
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Even more neat sites
Faster Times is a new online newspaper (via Fimoculous)
FusionSearch searches Bing, Google and Yahoo at the same time (via Single Function)
World eBook Fair gives you free access to ebooks through August 4th (via NPR Library Blog)
Read the Reuters Handbook of Journalism for free online (via ResourceShelf)
Cool multicolored salt ponds (Thanks Dave!)
Use the American Psychological Association's psychologist finder to find a psychologist near you (via MedlinePlus New)
neat sites
See the finale and premiere dates of your favorite TV shows
ScienceResearch is a deep web science search engine (via Marcus Zillman)
Real Or Fake? Guess if the photos are the real deal or not (via J-Walk Blog)
Syllabus Finder. Search millions of course syllabi (via Neat New)
Guide to Australian abbreviations
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