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| Top Ten Bad Business Decisions. Check out this list of the top ten bad business decisions. There are some real winners in here including New Coke, Microsoft Bob, and Western Union. Who knew what was really going to happen at the time you had to make these decisions? |
| Time to find a place for all those books and it’s not in the never-used oven or empty underwear drawer. The home design mavens over at Levitate UK have created an incredibly cool bookshelf staircase that screams bookworm fantastique. |
| During this excellently executed advertisement, your YouTube browser window may start to tremble and shake and seemingly implode, but it’s all just a part of the very clever campaign for Acciona, a sustainable development firm based in Spain. |
| Obama has never used Twitter. More than 2.6 million people follow President Obama on Twitter -- or so they thought. The president told a youth audience in Shanghai on Sunday that he has never used Twitter. |
| 12 facts about entrepreneurs that will surprise you. Thanks to a new survey, taken by five hundred and forty nine company founders accross a variety of industries - here are twelve facts about entrepreneurs that will likely surprise you. |
| Are bloggers better neighbors?. What a recent Pew study suggests? |
| 5 ways to create a future-minded nonprofit organization. The recession has affected us all, especially the nonprofit sector. That’s why it’s worth checking out the five trends that are hastening the emergence of a new nonprofit landscape. |
| "Each train displaces 280 trucks on the road," Buffett says. "When it comes to spewing pollutants there is nothing more efficient than trains. It is very much in line with the future goals of society. While the railroads won't take over the world it is something that is part of the future." |
| Four project managers from General Motors, Nokia, Method, and Facebook explain the lessons that they’ve learned about getting things done. In a related post, three project managers from the Colorado State Patrol, Heathrow airport, and Synovus explain how they got things done too. All in all, two very good articles about project management. |
| An interior design studio run by Masamichi Katayama. The website's main index is a fluid grid-structure that sensitively to each mouse action, organically changing its form based on the user's browsing history. |
| An interior design studio run by Masamichi Katayama. The website's main index is a fluid grid-structure that sensitively to each mouse action, organically changing its form based on the user's browsing history. |
| X Factor fans can go online and create light performances using their webcams. The best ones get shown in the show's ad break on TV. |
| If you’re a geek, you will LOVE this interview of Woz. It occurred several years ago when he published his book, iWoz. |
| The surprising relationship between IQ and intelligence. Do you think that a high IQ means you’re intelligent? Apparently, IQ isn’t everything. |
| You can create your 2 minutes aquarium. Change your browser into the finder of the Sony cameras, and shoot the beautiful moments. www.sony.jp/camera/wmp/02/. |
| Official website for the latest horror release by Rob Zombie, Halloween II. |
| clearification.mekanism.com/ |
| www.hondabluesky.ca/ celebrates Honda's environmental past, present and future. It's all told through the lens of children - some of the world's most powerful dreamers. |
| As the writer describes the thrill of feeling paper and taking in the elegant page design, he must be experiencing what Wired editor Chris Anderson has referred to as "the superior experience of paper." How does it hold up? Read the article to find out. |
Everything you could ever want to know about women (except how to make them happy, that remains a mystery).
Check out the top ten women most influential women here—from Marie Curie to Joan of Arc. |
| Mekanizm. Storytelling for Emerging Media. |
| One Love. Released in celebration of Bob Marley's birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe. |
| Ten Reasons To Cancel Your Cable TV and what to do instead. |
| It's more than you imagined - a surprisingly deep, interactive film experience for HBO. {hboimagine.com}. |
| Check out this collection of fifteen Google Earth pictures. Remind me not to sunbath topless… |
| You will complain less after you watch this. Jessica Cox is the first person with no arms who has a light-sport pilot certificate. Just shows what you can accomplish if you try. |
| The travelling art show collective, "Imagining Mozambique" is a fund-raising drive for ASEM, a non-profit organization that helps the children of Mozambique. |
| Wired has put together a collection of short clips, titled Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009, that makes it easy and fun to dip into the sciencey side of life. |
| "Japanese town logos- official symbols designed to communicate the identity of each municipality-- come in a vast array of shapes and colors. Many of these municipal symbols incorporate typographical elements (particularly kanji, hiragana, katakana, and Roman letters) into their designs." Typographic town logos. |
| Many, many interesting sites and links you can find and search on Alltop.com, built by Guy Kawasaki |
| 2009 Illinois Solar Tour is part of a national tour hosted by the American Solar Energy Association and is the largest solar energy event in the world! Solar Tour – Saturday, October 3, 2009 – 10a-3p |
| Team Detroit and Firstborn are at it again. They teamed up to help break in the asphalt for the 2010 Ford Mustang. |
| Want to search craigslist nationwide, or an arbitrary number of miles for a designated zip code? The try Search Tempest. |
| Flying out of O'Hare in Chicago and want to know how the traffic is on the outbound Kennedy Expressway? Intellicast Trafffic Report has your answer. |
| Pitchfork: One the first independent-music Web sites, and arguably still the best. |
| Dotherightthing.com is where employees, customers, and companies collaborate to discuss and implement ideas. We are dedicated to becoming the primary resource for people, from both inside and outside companies, to consider, discuss and/or help implement ideas that help companies innovate and do the right things. This is the place where your ideas can grow into successes. |
| Tell us what you want on every flight. Make suggestion. everyflight.com |
Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered 'useless,' will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously.
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Odosketch - the very fun, very easy and, best of all, very free flash drawing application that allows you to create sketches on a digital canvas with just a few clicks of your mouse.
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How to Change a Flat. Flat tires happen on occasion, but there's no need to worry. As you'll see in this video, fixing a flat tire and getting right back on the road (or path, or trail) is a pretty painless process. No jack required!
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SpyPig is a simple email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.
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Werkstette is a leading photo management agency from Copenhagen. The site idea is based around the content with an intuitive and simple navigation.
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The roof of the Vancouver BC Convention Centre is covered with over 2.5 hectares (6 acres) of native grassland. "Growing Cities" documentary series shot while traveling in the USA and Canada - June 2009. 2 person crew. Canon 5DmkII and Zoom H4n.
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So much energy has never before been contained in a bottle. You had better not touch it, one can never know what consequences it might have. www.energylab.tv.
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The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time.
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An online channel to discover, interact and organize your way to watch Conspiracao projects.
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quakequizsf.org?
Provides six urban environments in which to learn what to do in the moment of an earthquake. Offers before and after safety tips, too.
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In the new recruitment campaign, the Swedish Armed Forces are looking for mental ability and psychological strength. The question:
Do you have what it takes?
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The Economist has launched an online campaign for Europe which showcases the spaces where our readers go to think. Where do you get your ideas?
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Official website of Director M.Night Shyamalan, reflecting his own style and personality.
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Kindle Killer?
Plastic Logic, based in Mountain View, California, is making the eReader, available in 2010, that hopes to compete with Amazon's Kindle. Guess who partnered with them? None other than the world's largest book store chain, Barnes & Noble.
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Some journeys change mankind forever. To mark the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon, Louis Vuitton is taking viewers on a Journey Beyond.
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A real-time recreation of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon complete with round the clock audio transmission and 3d animations representing each step alond the way, distances, etc.
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Explore the new Coors Light Cold Activated Can at Project: Cold, and forget everything you thought you knew about Cold Beer. Rate or submit Cold Experiments.
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Explore the farm-themed digital world of Corny, with detailed product information, visitors can also discover the TV campaign, new online game and much more.
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Meet "Twitch" and his Simple Machines. A combination of intuitive interaction, storytelling and realtime physics simulations to create a rewarding and inspirational educational experience.
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JOIN THEM AND WALK THE ETERNAL MOONWALK
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www.sointeractive.pl
is a small sample of the kind of production capacity that Sointeractive are capable of. Enjoy.
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When President Obama was elected to office, Americans were promised greater governmental transparency. But who knew that pledge would extend to the first family's Flickr?
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The "Playing the City" campaign builds upon the concept of the exhibit of the same name: the city of Frankfurt and users are pulled into a secretive, real, yet simultaneously virtual game.
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The goal of Conservation International's Lost There, Felt Here campaign is to show people that they CAN make a difference in reversing climate change, even if it's just one acre at a time.
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Abandoned Places in the World
There are many villages, farms and just lonely houses all around the world but when thousands of people leave, leaving the whole city dead that's a real tragedy. There are mainly two reasons why people suddenly or little by little leave the place where they used to live for years or even generations: that's the danger and economic factors. The biggest number of abandoned villages and farms can be found in Unites States and the countries of the former USSR.
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The University of Notre Dame has launched the Notre Dame Video Channel a place to watch stories, lectures and other content straight from the Notre Dame Web site, and a way for the University to archive and organize its rapidly growing video library.
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www.acdcrocks.com/excel/
AC/DC smashed through corporate firewalls with the world's first music video in Excel format - 1 million downloads and 1.4 million YouTube views to date.
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Greenpeace Weather
is a multiplayer strategy game where players become activists to fight against climate changes.
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www.concavescream.com
Promotional website for indie band, Concave Scream, based in Singapore.
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www.havana-mojito.com/
Discover the real Cuban Havana Mojito through an interactive video experience at the bar "La Bodequita del Medio.
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www.norwegianoil40years.no
A visual micro-blogging experience for the citizens of Norway to share how oils has impacted their lives.
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Based on the "Impossible Made Possible" (Real Taste Zero Sugar), you are taken behind the scenes of the Coke Zero headquarters to see if you have what it takes to become part of the CCZ team.
www.possible.cokezero.com
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Presenting two nice evenings in IKEA kitchens. And what happened before. But everything's shown backwards.
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Video demonstration of the Ames window, a compelling optical illusion featuring a trapezoidal window with an angled bar bisecting it as a sort of reference point. As the odd-shaped window rotates, the bar occasionally, and magically, appears to pass right through the frame while the window seems to reverse its rotation.
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A collaborative place to get creative using our custom-made devices, in real life and real time, all from the comfort of your own computer. (NOTE: only fully functional between noon and midnight BST) www.blastgetcreative.co.uk/
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Twenty-first-century robotics has a way to go before it catches up with 20th-century science fiction. But a German technology company has come up with a robotic penguin that Isaac Asimov himself would have admired.
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Last March, an anonymous indie label took the brilliant step of posting the demo recordings it receives online: The best of them are choice, but have some aspirin on hand before you listen.
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The new O'Neill global framework showcases, international events and team riders, the site also provides direct access to O'Neill TV.
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A stunning collection of amazing sand sculptures from around the globe.
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Take control of Chlorophyllo, the most powerful luchador in the history of Mexican cinema! An interactive adventure awaits.
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General Electric invites you to take a journey through an interactive 3D home, where users can test their "lighting Skills" by adjusting the lighting and decor to create variuos moods in each room.
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Microsoft releases updated Live Search Engine. Includes significant advancements in core technology and consumer experience. Microsoft Search.
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Intel is blurring the line between science fiction and science fact. See what tomorrow will bring.
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In Bb 2.0 collects 16 YouTube music videos and lets you play them in any order, or all at once. And because 15 of them feature music in the key of B-flat major, the sounds match up perfectly.
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The new mN website.
Something different. Something fun. And all about drawing and discovering.
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Virtual Tour of New York
This amazing set of aerial panoramas were converted to a multi-resolution flash virtual tour.
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What do people really care about? The site asks its visitors to come up with questions that then become part of the rapid-fire poll that subsequent visitors take. Read more than 15,000 questions and see more than 1,000,000 responses.
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Take part in the Proximus Generation TV commercial by bringing the site images to life with your own pictures.
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Four friends create a photo story with 11 photos. The My Camera Story concept showcases the main functions of the ST50 camera.
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Solve five unique word problems using color key to win a bonus track from Mark Pritchard's first Harmonic 313 EP.
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In this charming four-minute video, a Dutch art student named Evelien Lohbeck transforms an ordinary notebook into a notebook computer.
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Audi covers the topic of efficiency through the Vorsprung durch Technik (Advancement through technology) website.
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Connect the dots! Upload a photo, click to add dots, and then send it off to your friends to solve and reveal.
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Eskil is a Founder of Global Balancing Ltd. has been working 12 years as a performer of balancing acts around the world.
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Admirable World For each travel route option an unforgettable experience is presented and a feature of the Ford Edge car is highlighted.
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The warnings, instructions, and street signs you'll find on Signspotting.com will make you laugh out loud - even if that wasn't actually their original intention.
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Now showing at Medias.net: Daily performance by Media-Man, an active and emotional embodiment of daily news feeds.
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An immersive experience promoting a new exhibition about Egyptian mummies held at the Musee de la civilisation in Quebec City, Canada.
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Punch the clock. You wake up and (do or do not) hit the snooze button. You eat and drive to work (at a fast-food franchise). You work and work and work some more. And then you drive home, eat, watch TV, sleep, and (do or do not) dream (about working at a fast-food franchise). It's hard to make it through the day. But if you do (it takes about six minutes), you'll have a newfound appreciation for your own daily grind. Unless, of course, you work at a fast-food franchise.
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ARK+, a place where architecture projects find the exclusive materials by Porcelanosa in a conceptual and interactive world.
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Drawing inspiration from the highly secured bank safes and their small boxes where you store your treasured valuables.
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Honda Unveils Experimental Walking Assist Device With Bodyweight Support System. The new walking assist device with the bodyweight support system reduces the load on leg muscles and joints (in the hip, knees, and ankles) by supporting a portion of the person's bodyweight.
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The first ever 3D HTML only website. Resn.co.nz Developed by Bruce Willis and Rick Astley.
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The promotional site for Samsung Emporio Armani phone takes web interaction to a higher level by enabling users to control the animation by their own gestures using a webcam.
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Rabbit Problem
You have 1 pair of baby rabbits (1 male and 1 female). After 2 months they will start having babies (1 male and female pair each month). After they are 2 months old, each new pair of rabbits will also start having a male and female pair of babies each month.
How many pairs of rabbits will you have after 1 year?
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Finally, a retail site with sea urchins, potted cacti and a girl who'll strip for you. Unlock all the surprises as you weigh the everyday against the 173g Puma L.I.F.T..
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Uniquealocity.com
Shooters Post & Transfer is a creative driven post production facility located in Old City Philadelphia. The Website is full of creative reels and is nicely designed.
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Ford Fusion Reveal Site. One car. Three personalities. Everything you want to know about the new 2010 Ford Fusion in a full screen gallery experience.
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Explore the purity of New Zealand Vodka made from 26000 year old water. An expansive 3D experience that will immerse you in the finest vodkas.
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PROJECT 7-7 is one of the biggest art installations of 2008. A story about nature, humanity and art by Belgian artist and photographer, Wim Tellier.
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The Egg Republic is a New York based agency that specializes in 3D, Web, Brand and Print Design.
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EcoZoo is a very clever site where you can find some tips how to live environmentally friendly .
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Step into your world by finding the one color that is truly yours. NIKEiDx with a mono color storyline.
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Welcome behind the cardboard scenes of the IKEA PS world. Find out how a chair becomes a floor clock and what Swedish potatoes and storage crates have in a common.
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Louvre The French museum's online site stands out, and not just on the strength of the institution's world-famous collection. Available in several languages, the site is bright and well-organized.
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labuat.com Interactive music video clip that allows you to draw the music you are listening using a brush that reacts to the music and the lyrics.
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Browse, play and interact with msnbc.com's spectrum of news. This three-dimensional visualizer features a webcam color sensor, Newscollector and 3D automode, with more to come.
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Google has a new web site that is just the coolest thing if you are runner, biker, etc. Click on the route you plan to take and you can calculate the mileage of your route and even the calories you will burn.
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Innovative recruitment site for UBISOFT, showing their creators of emotion (employees).
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Sensual, effective and focussed portfolio of Senol Zorlu, a Turkish photographer from Germany.
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You can see the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium via a video wall in the form of a shark.
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Song Around the World
from Concord Music Group.
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Berliner Philharmoniker - Digital Concert Hall
With a subscription you will have a private concert hall in your own living room, throughout the season.
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UNIQLO
is about fashion. There are many ways to start the site. I started a march. You may love the screen savers as well.
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PEPSICO: Zeigeist
the site aggregates tweets and accompanying keywords and presents them in a slick visual layout according to several categories. With additional visualizations, like popularity ranking, overheard and map overlay, the site ensures that if you're not in Austin you can at least see which way the wind's blowing.
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Teavana
is Opening the Doors to Health, Wisdom & Happiness. Great Tea Company for Tea Lovers.
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Lulu
Avoid the hassles of publishers and agents: publish your own manuscripts with Lulu. Browse the content that others have published via the site and vie to be featured on Lulu's front page!
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Slate is full of interesting news, podcasts, blogs.
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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
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The book Groundswell
is about how to win in a world transformed by social technologies.
Check reviews and videos on the site.
The groundswell is: A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.
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Want to turn your favorite Flickr, Picasa photos into a professional-quality book?
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Real Books. Made by you.
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The Better Place business model is one most of us already experience every day - with our mobile phones.
Just replace the phone with an electric car, replace the cell towers with battery recharge stations, and replace the cellular networks with an electric recharge grid. Now you're buying miles, not minutes.
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VOTE EARTH
SWITCH OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR EARTH HOUR
SATURDAY 28 MARCH
8:30-9:30PM
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POLITICAL IRONY - humor and hypocrisy from the world of politics.
... and This is so wRong?
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On Weatherbonk you can check weather and traffic, see close webcams and add your webcam.
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Enjoy the drive of Hyundai Genesis Coupe. Don't forget to turn the driver radio on.
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UMOO is the leading fantasy stock trading game, offering the thrill and profit opportunity of the financial markets in a unique competitive format.
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The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need; the eradication of world hunger.
On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. See the results from your clicks.
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B-cycle is the "next"-generation bike-share program.
B-cycle is the zero-hassle, zero-emissions way to get around town. On the website is a place to add your location as one that 'wants' Bcycle there.
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MoMA takes over the subway
The modern art museum replaces all ads with art in a Brooklin station. |
| HowToCleanAnything.com Spring cleaning tips and tricks all the year round. You'll find gems like using soap and vinegar to clean wood, and a simple way to brighten up gold - a dab of handwashing soap on a toothbrush. There's a list of cleaning providers, and a discussion forum. A new feature is a product review section where they review products that have been provided for 'test' families. They offer their opinion as to whether the product meets the claims made by the manufacturer, and post select responses from other visitors about their experience with the product. |
| Flavorpill loves culture. We embrace the high-brow, low-brow, underground, mainstream, and everything in between — as long as it's good. A city guide for those who like to go out, Flavorpill publishes a daily update of worthwhile cultural-event listings, from art exhibits and readings to concerts, plays, and festivals. Content comes from local editors and writers. Covers Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London |
| The Hype Machine monitors hundreds of music-related blogs, and lets users listen to songs posted on those blogs for free -- just type in the name of a band or track. (It's also a good place to find out what's new and popular in the music blogosphere.) Songs can't be downloaded, but Amazon and iTunes links appear next to most tracks. |
| picnik.com is a free photo-editing site that doesn't require registration or software downloads. Users crop and adjust photos within their browser window -- special effects and frames are available, too -- and can post images to sites like Flickr or Facebook without leaving Picnik. |
| Pogo.com is a great place to play free online games, including card, puzzle, word and board varieties, game downloads, flash games, and multiplayer games. |
| Click on Adobe House of Cards and a playing card will appear on your screen...wait a few moments for it to load, then scroll down below the card and you will see a line that has a little red slider bar in it. Move the slider gradually to the right and stop and watch the show take place, then move it a little more to the right and stop and another show will take place and keep doing this till you are to the end. This is soooooo cool. The marvels of technology. Patience; it takes a while to load. |
| Got a problem and need an answer? Log on to this community weblog, Ask MetaFilter,
post your poser then await advice from the "hive mind". Current topics awaiting advice include: Best Slow Cooker Clam Chowder for my Super Bowl Party?, what financial aid is available to students and What's a good, energetic song for the "Groom's Life" portion of a wedding video. |
| Everything you ever wanted to know about marketing Super Bowl XLIII.The Nielsen Company today released its annual Guide to the Super Bowl, which showcases a full range of consumer and media information about the most anticipated marketing event in the U.S |
| Here's one for film fans and stock traders. The Hollywood Stock Exchange, or HSX, is a web-based, multiplayer game in which players use simulated money to buy and sell "shares" of actors, directors, upcoming films, and film-related options. "The Dark Knight" disappointed its fans in missing out on a best-picture nomination. And it left many traders on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a virtual market where players buy and sell shares of films and other entertainment "securities," looking at a loss, like so many real-world stock pickers these days. Trading is now open to predict winners at the Academy Awards on Feb. |
| Chinese New Year known as Lunar new year is on January 26. It is time to celebrate the Year of The Ox. (1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997)
Pragmatic and down-to-earth, Ox people are motivated to work hard and have no respect for lazy or careless people. Although they can be easily trusted and find it easy to put trust in others, they are not dependent on friends and family and would rather find an answer or a solution themselves than to ask these people for help or guidance. However, others can, without a doubt rely on Oxen, who are always honest and meticulous about their responsibilities. While they do not feel the need for many distant or acquaintance-oriented friendships, they value the strong bonds they share with their partners and families, and make close friends that last a lifetime. |
| One way to make sure you're getting the most for your dollar is to search the Web for product reviews. These reviews, usually consisting of ratings systems and comment sections, might give the finicky shopper a helpful glimpse into a real user's experience with a product. Buzzillions.com is a free Web site that mainly posts reviews from people who have verifiably purchased the product they are appraising, according to retailers' records. The secret sauce behind Buzzillions is generated by surveys that over 300 retailers send to consumers. These surveys ask consumers what they consider to be a product's pros, cons and best uses, and its ranking according to the site's best-out-of-five star rating system. it also asks these verified buyers to categorize themselves. |
| The Cloud Appreciation Society is a beautiful and relaxing website extolling the beauty of clouds. The Society aims to foster our love and appreciation of clouds.
Paradise for cloud-lovers
The main attraction is a photo gallery of stunning images of clouds, which can be viewed by type of cloud, or at sunset and sunrise. Visitors are encouraged to submit their own photographs and to rate those of others.
If you wish to take some time away from the hurly-burly, this is a relaxing and life-enhancing site to visit. |
| If you are passionate about the English language, Ask Oxford provides a haven for lovers' of words. You will soon be on course to improving and embellishing your writing skills.
A fantastic resource about all types of words. What is the longest word in English? Are there any rhymes for "orange", or "silver"? Ask what comes after once, twice, thrice... Or a word like "siblings" for nieces and nephews. And how do you use the "Oxford comma"? Find the answers to these and many other word-related questions in this site's "Ask the Experts" section. |
| How Four-Wheel Drive Works Four-wheel drive can be useful in rough weather or terrain. A lot of drivers use it just to make everyday errands a little more exciting -- there's nothing quite like jumping a few curbs in a supermarket parking lot. Find out how four-wheel-drive systems keep cars on solid footing. |
| During the boom years, technology advances were generally viewed in terms of how they allowed us to do new things.
But there's another side to technology that maybe hasn't got enough play, but is likely to as the economy gets worse. New technology also lets you do all the same things you always did, only cheaper, such as comparison Web sites billshrink.com that help you cut costs. |
| "Truthdig" is an online magazine that provides its readers with extensive coverage of current events and world affairs, as well as thoughtful, progressive articles on a wide range of topics. The content on the site is created by individual experts in each field, who "dig" down to the dirty truth beneath the daily headlines related to "Politics", "The Environment", “Arts & Culture”, and other news topics. |
| Crackle, Inc. is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original short form series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures’ vast library of television series and feature films. Crackle, offers audiences quality programming in a variety of genres, including comedy, action, sci-fi, horror, music and reality. |
| Mint.com is a useful, intelligent, and free financial Web service that's simple to set up and tracks your monetary life with little intervention on your part. Mostly autonomous. Logs transactions. Sets up budgets. Sends alerts. Creates spending trend charts. Finds ways to save you money. |
| Your credit, or FICO, score is a three-digit number, ranging from 300 to 850 that lenders use to try and gauge what you are going to be like as a borrower. Fair Isaac generates the score based on your credit report from one of the three credit-reporting agencies. Fair Isaac and the three credit reporting agencies charge for consumers to see their FICO credit score, but your credit report, the blueprint for your credit score, is free. If you are curious what your credit score is, but don't want to shell out the cash, there are several credit-score simulators available on Credit.com, CreditKarma.com as well as Bankrate.com. Although these are only simulators, they might help give a general sense of where your credit rating stands |
| I am wierd but I like the The 2009 Weird Science Awards. Far out, man! The top vote-getter is the story about the 2,700-year-old marijuana stash. |
| Very Short List is a collection of distinct, free, daily e-mails that each recommend one must–see gem a day. Each weekday, we recommend a single gem from the vast mass of films, TV shows, books, websites, music, and more. The focus is on products that deserve attention but haven’t already been subject to giant media pile-ons. |
| The American Association of Wine Economists (imagine the joke potential there – wine + economists) has released a paper on the correlation between price and taste. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/37328 As you might guess, the cheap stuff wins, so if you want to impress the sommelier with your insights on the relative merits of Night Train versus Thunderbird, see: http://www.bumwine.com/. |
| StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites
Whether it's a web page, photo or video, our personalized recommendation engine learns what you like, and brings you more. A downloadable toolbar suggests Web sites and videos and learns your preferences as you give a thumbs up or down to what you see. |
| Visuwords turns the dictionary into a neural network; it’s the perfect interface for writers, readers, and anyone who’s curious about the English language. Type your word into the search bar, and watch it pop up in the center of your screen. Shooting off in all directions are other, associated words. Click on those words, and open an entirely new set of words and meanings. The site taps into Princeton University’s WordNet database. |
| How much do you really know about Christmas? Learn the true history of Christmas , the history of Santa Claus, Christmas Tree history and facts, click here |
| Since green myths aren't only about giants, leprechauns and dragons, it's often difficult to sort fact from fiction when adopting a greener lifestyle. What are five of the most monstrous green myths? |
| How do touch-screen monitors know where you're touching? Touch-screen monitors have become more and more commonplace as their price has steadily dropped. There are three basic systems that are used to recognize a person's touch -- learn how they work. |
| Top 10 Items You Should Have in Your Medicine Chest When you've got a cut hand, a sore back or a high fever, it's no time to dig around for medical supplies. What are the 10 must-have items for your medicine chest? |
| For fashionistas in lower tax brackets, reproducing the latest hip look from Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton can mean endless clicking through online retail sites and hit-or-miss searches on Google or shopping engines. Like.com is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. We believe that there are literally millions of items that are difficult to describe via text-based search and where individual tastes are all over the map -- think of your favorite pair of earrings or shoes and what an ordeal it can be to find something new but in a similar style. |
| Every winter, like clockwork, the flu returns. It infects millions of us.
Although most of us think of the flu as a mild annoyance that we have to deal with each winter, it can actually be a very dangerous disease. The CDC estimates that in the United States alone, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized with the flu or with flu-related complications each year, and more than 30,000 people die from it.
Find out how people get the flu, what the symptoms are and how to protect yourself in How the Flu Works. |
| The deepest and broadest retail discounting in living memory is creating a quandary for consumers: There are so many sales that people don't know where to start -- or when to hold off. Check these out: ShopItToMe.com - Emails you about sales involving favorite brands or stores; TopButton.com - Offers a cornucopia of online sample sales; DealDivine.com - Comiles coupons, sales and other deals. |
| The League was voted one of the top sites in BusinessWeek’s “Best Of The Web” poll in the Humor category. The show is one of the new breed of multi-episode series created specifically for the web by filmmakers. Chcek out the first season. |
| Only health benefits are more confusing than these top-10 most confusing traffic signs. |
| VideoSurf.com is a site that claims to be the first to search videos by "seeing" images that appear in these videos.
Search results on VideoSurf spread out videos in a filmstrip-like format, distinguishing one scene from the next.
The site aggregates content from about 60 sources, including YouTube, CNN Video, Hulu, ESPN and Comedy Central, and a sorting tool weeds out unwanted results like the irksome slideshows that are labeled as videos. |
| With the economy spiraling south, Americans are cutting back on restaurant visits and spending less when they go out. Restaurant.com has begun giving away three million $10 certificates (usually the certificates cost $3). Consumers can register online free and give the certificates to as many as three people a day, who can use them at 5,000 participating restaurants nationwide.
On OpenTable, off-peak diners can earn 1,000 points per reservation at a surprising caliber of restaurant. (Once 2,000 points have been earned, they can be redeemed for $20 off a meal at any restaurant booked through the Web site. |
| Death by Caffeine How much of your favorite energy drink, soda, or caffeinated food would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out: (They don’t list our local brew.) |
| Flixster is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love. |
| Weather Bonk is a mashup that lets you view real time weather information on a map. This can provide some very interesting information, particularly in areas with microclimates, such as San Francisco. For example, summer in San Francisco can be particularly cold and foggy, and this map can help you to find a sunnier area of the city to visit. Clicking on the web cams give you a visual observation from a given location. Looking at wind direction can help you locate approaching weather fronts.
The data comes from a combination of personal weather stations that are run from homes and schools as well as national weather services. |
| A little more of the universe has been pried out of the shadows. Two groups of astronomers have taken the first pictures of what they say — and other astronomers agree — are most likely planets going around other stars. Fomalhaut b is the first extrasolar planet to be directly imaged at visible wavelengths and to have its orbital motion around its host star measured. For more pictures check out the New York Times article "Now in Sight: Far-Off Planets" |
| SparkPeople's, mission is to SPARK millions of PEOPLE to reach their goals and lead healthier lives. They offer nutrition, health, and fitness tools, support, and resources that are 100% free. All the components of the program mix in an element of fun so that members truly do stick with their programs.
They’ve found that using sound nutrition and regular exercise as a “springboard” for success helps members find greater enjoyment in life and strive for even more goals, creating their own real-life adventures! |
| Infectious Greed, is one of the best known business blogs by Paul Kedrosky,
an investor, writer, and entrepreneur. |
| Rocketboom is a daily international news program based in New York City. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to contemporary internet culture. |
| Gapers Block is a Chicago-centric web publication providing information on news and events around town. There are many terms for the slowdown in traffic that occurs when there's an accident on the side of the road. Some people call it rubbernecking, others a lookie-loo. Here in Chicago, we call it a gapers block (or gapers delay). What better name for a site that asks you to slow down and check out all the cool things in the city? |
| Google Flu Trends Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you might expect, there are more flu-related searches during flu season, more allergy-related searches during allergy season, and more sunburn-related searches during the summer. You can explore all of these phenomena using Google Trends. But can search query trends provide an accurate, reliable model of real-world phenomena? We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. |
| How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names From iPod and BlackBerry to Twitter and Wikipedia, CIO.com takes a look at the processes and people who came up with the names for these iconic tech products. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult—to say the least. |
| Postmodern Dada Office Supply Art Have you noticed a shortage of pencils in your departmental supplies. This might explain why. |
| WHEN AMERICANS ARE LAID OFF,
they aren't paying withholding tax
anymore, so the Gov't gets less money. |
| Tim McSweeney's List of Lists such as New Anxiety Medications for Coping With Economic Gloom and Tenth-Graders' Favorite Suggestive Terms From Geometry |
| Find your voting location and more. http://maps.google.com/ Enter the home address where you are registered to vote. Developed with state and local election officials and the Voting Information Project. |
| Halloween.com's mission is to help you enjoy Halloween as much as we do! You're able to find the nation's premier haunted houses, costumes, pumpkins, crafts, monsters, Halloween party information and more. |
| Wait, this camera makes me look small. Amazing Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Videos Make Lilliputians of Us All |
| Esquire's 75 Books Every Man Should Read In its new 75th Anniversary issue, Esquire lists the 75 books that every man should read. What do you think of the list? What books would you add? |
| WEBSTER's DICTIONARY is FULL!
They want to delete a bunch of words
to make room for new ones. Here are a list of words the Collins English Dictionary wants to discard to make room for up to 2,000 new entries. |
| The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through. That's why you need these, to start. |
| BlogHighEd is a Higher Ed blogger network. We aggregate higher ed blogs from many areas: webmasters, marketers, counselors, vendors, consultants, and more. |
| Hanging pictures, woodworking and many other day-to-day tasks involve “eyeballing.” So now you can see if this is one of your talents. |
| "Logotournament" Get the logo that you really want by choosing from 30-75+ custom designs, instead of settling on a design from a handful of options that a traditional design firm provides. Maybe people need logo’s for their kids schools or entrepreneurial ventures or something. |
| Goodreads is a free website for book lovers. Imagine it as a large library that you can wander through and see everyone's bookshelves, their reviews, and their ratings. You can also post your own reviews and catalog what you have read, are currently reading, and plan to read in the future. Don’t stop there – join a discussion group, start a book club, contact an author, and even post your own writing. |
| Very Short List is a collection of distinct, free, daily e-mails that each recommend one must–see gem a day. Very Short List points to excellent new (and sometimes vintage) entertainment and media that haven’t been hyped to within an inch of their lives. Each weekday, we recommend a single gem from the vast mass of films, TV shows, books, websites, music, and more. The focus is on products that deserve attention but haven’t already been subject to giant media pile-ons. |
| Akiyoshi's illusion pages Most of the material contained on this site was created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Professor, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan |
| TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. |
| Earth From Above comes to NYC Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States - to New York City for the first time in 2009. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 - and has produced an exhibit of over 150 4-ft. by 6-ft. prints which will be on display in New York City. |
| Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge. Free Rice - For Each Answer You Get Right, We Donate Free Rice through the United Nations World Food Program to Help End World Hunge.
FreeRice has two goals: Provide education to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. |
| How close have Presidential elections been? Closer, perhaps, than we ever guessed. Mike Sheppard, a grad student in statistics at Michigan State, has done a mathematical exercise that shows it. “What is the smallest number of total votes that need to be switched from one candidate to another, and from which states, to affect the outcome of the election?” |
| How much power does the world consume? Usually, we're focused on our personal power consumption -- wondering why our gas bill went up or took a dip. But what if we added up everybody's power consumption? How much would it be? |
| The fall television season is in full swing, with networks serving up batches of new shows. The Internet knows no seasons, but many Web channels are taking a page from prime time and rolling out their new online-only shows now, too, in hopes of snagging viewers who've been trained to think of this as premiere season. Try 'Republicrats' In this lampoon that mirrors the events of the presidential race, Sean Masterson portrays a candidate who vows to acquiesce to his constituents' every whim. Among his campaign promises: to double America's spending power by replacing one-dollar bills with two-dollar bills. "Two is the new one!" |
| It can be hard to find just what you want in the 24-hour news cycle that constantly churns content out online.
One way to find the information you want is by setting up computer-generated alerts. These electronic notifications are relatively simple to use and offer a range of helpful services, from a virtual heads-up when your name is mentioned online to messages about a product's price suddenly dropping. Alerts.com and Yotify use forms that are a cinch to fill out and let you pinpoint your searches.
Alerts.com offers to notify users via email, SMS text messages or even voice calls to a cellphone or landline.
Yotify the ability to integrate with FriendFeed and Facebook so friends can offer their recommendations or opinions. It also lets users search for event tickets or items auctioned on eBay. And a smart preview panel gives you an idea of the type of results your search will return before you submit the request for an alert. |
| Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox.
The mission is to reduce the number of repeat and unwanted catalog mailings, and to promote the adoption of sustainable industry best practices. They aim to accomplish this by freely providing the Catalog Choice services to both consumers and businesses. Consumers can indicate which catalogs they no longer wish to receive, and businesses can receive a list of consumers no longer wanting to receive their catalogs. |
| Check out the cool, online tool known as Google Sketch Up. The free download is a modelling program that allows you to design houses, sheds, decks, even spaceships, and then plot your creation in the growing universe of Google Earth. |
| Lotsa Helping Hands can help you or someone you love to easily organize family members, friends, and others during times of medical crisis, family caregiver exhaustion, or when caring for an aging loved one. Or just coordinate a group of volunteers for your neighborhood, school, religious institution, or Scout Troop. |
| Be in the know on your next trip to the mechanic. repairpal.com ofers a comprehensive explanation of what typical repairs should cost based on car make, model, year and ZIP code. Now you can visit the shop with enough ammo to talk your way out of any scam. |
| "The Elegant Universe", a profound TV series produced by PBS/Nova, explores the big questions being asked and topics being studied by top physicists and scientists about the very nature of our Universe. Visitors to the site can watch the show's 8 episodes on a full-screen version of QuickTime. The eight chapters delve into the very nature of our elegant universe, and the evolution of cutting-edge Physics such as String Theory. |
| Revolution Health aims to tame the glut of health-related sites created by WebMD, Google and Yahoo's health directories, and countless others, by giving surfers something of a one-stop shop. The developers also seem to have taken great pains to make this destination the most visually appealing health-care directory on the Web. The Doctors, Hospitals, and More feature allows you to locate hospitals, dentists, and specialists in your area. |
| If you have ever considered buying, selling or living on an island, the Official Private Islands Blog is for you. (And even if you haven't, it's still a great read.) The author, Mark Amherst, a self-described "islomaniac" (a person with a "passion or craze for islands"), is retired and lives on a private island. His blog is a wonderful and diverting guide to islands as travel destinations, investments and, of course, homes. Some recent posts: "Mobile Beach Huts" (for those "marooned on a desert island"); "Britain's 50 Greatest Islands"; and "Own an Island in the Wilderness." |
| Many decisions about retirement -- including when to collect Social Security and how best to tap your nest egg -- hinge on a good estimate of life expectancy. With that in mind, try the "Vitality Compass," a tool developed by Robert Kane, a physician and director of the University of Minnesota's Center on Aging.
Answers to 35 questions yield your biological age (your body's age given your current habits), your overall life expectancy and your "healthy" life expectancy (years you should live free of major diseases).
To learn more, visit bluezones.com. Registration is required. |
| Baby Einstein, you've got some competition. "Wunderkind Little Amadeus," a new animated series airing on public television stations, aims to get children ages 4 to 8 interested in classical music by exploring the early life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Each episode features Mozart's work; there's also an accompanying Web site |
| For women and men age 50-plus, two new resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and AARP can "help answer your questions about what daily steps you can take for good health, whether you need medicines to prevent disease, and which screening tests you need and when to get them." These "Checklists for Health" are based on recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. |
| Each day, dealnews reports the best deals available on computers, technology, gadgets, and other items you want to buy. dealnews is updated with as many as 200 new bargains, coupons, and sales in a single day. Each deal we list is by definition the lowest price available on that item from a reputable merchant, period. |
| MAKE Magazine web site brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. |
| Artocracy is a virtual art space connecting artista and patrons through the sale of affordable art.
Artocracy addresses the disconnect between artists and people who enjoy art through its galleries of original, affordable art prints.
Artocracy's professionally curated galleries of original art provides exposure and income for talented artists, creates access to affordable art, and supports development of the arts throughout the world. |
| MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws. This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. |
| SupportSpace is a clearinghouse for tech support providers. Instead of employing its own staff, SupportSpace certifies techs from all over and gives them a site where they can make their services available. Each tech determines his own price, but there are some set packages available for services such as Virus Check and Clean-up ($89) and PC Tune-up ($49). You have access to info on the technicians and can see which ones are available for immediate support. Good choice of pricing options. Most techs have pay-by-the-minute options. Money-back guarantee. |
| Amazon is offering steep discounts on it's albums to steer shoppers to its digital music store. You can flip through the digital bargain bin by price, and even submit a suggestion for a price slash on Amazon's Facebook page. |
| Cake Wrecks When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong. A collection of baking disasters - from a podiatry themed monstrosity - to hideous wedding cakes. |
| Think of it as a virtual starship. A classroom without walls, whose limits are the edges of the universe. A bit hyperbolic, maybe, but for amateur astronomers Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) lives up to the hype. This free virtual telescope from Microsoft's Next Media Research gives anyone the ability to view compelling images from any section of the heavens. When using WWT, you're not remotely controlling a real telescope, however. Instead, the tool shows you full-sky imagery (captured at a variety of wavelengths, from radio to gamma ray) from a number of observatories, both earthbound and space-based. |
| Some people like to keep their data private. Others like to let it all hang out. Blist is a free online database and spreadsheet application designed mostly for people who like to display data in public. The publicly inclined might use this service to display their favorite movies or recipes, their ratings of their classmates' looks or intelligence, or anything else that can appear in a spreadsheet-style format, including pictures, ratings, Web addresses, and more. Blist looks like a spreadsheet but can also act like a database, by letting you create "lenses" on your data. You could, for example, display all your recipes that include hot peppers, or all your friends who live in Canada. Databases are public by default, but can be set to be visible only to yourself or to friends whom you invite to view or edit the data. |
| Instead of hopping from Web site to Web site, juggling multiple usernames and passwords, why not check up on all your online accounts from a single, secure, AJAX-based site: Pageonce.com. Using Pageonce, you can check your phone bill, bank accounts, Netflix queue, MySpace inbox, and more, without ever having to jump to a new Web page. |
| The Good Earth See stunning images of our beautiful planet, taken by satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station. Take this mind-blowing multimedia tour and experience the Earth as you have never seen her before. |
| For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds. Scientists have been stumped.
Then along comes a normal guy - a retired construction worker - and he says well, I would do it l ike this. And he does. This guy uses the simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have been to create Stonehenge.
This is a really great video clip. Amazing how this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries. And not only figures it out, but demonstrates it! “ Stonehenge Reloaded” |
| Prepare to have your mind read by a computer! The Fido Puzzle uses a numerical principle to predict the "number you are thinking of". |
| At Midnight Thursday, Microsoft Live Labs released its first broad consumer Web service, called Photosynth. This service turns multiple photos of a scene or site -- say, an art gallery or a building -- into a 3-D scene you can virtually "walk" through on the Web. Unlike a simple 2-D panorama, which many photo programs can create from several pictures, a Photosynth creation, called a "synth," is a virtual 3-D environment. It gives you the feeling you are in the middle of a room looking around, or circumnavigating a building or object. You can travel through a scene both laterally and vertically, and zoom in to see detailed, higher-resolution views of objects inside the synth, such as paintings on a wall. |
| Hundred of meteors fly across the sky every night, but only a few make it to Earth. Meteors are best known for the brilliant streaks of light they make as they burn up in the atmosphere. Learn about 10 memorable meteor crashes that left an impression. |
| "Get your Loaf on" at Powerloafing.Com, the smallest sitcom in the entire world. Powerloafing follows the hilarious misadventures of Cubicle Carl as he 'loafs' his way about the Starship Enterprise. In addition to watching this cool sitcom, visitors will find heaps of other features on the sight to help them kill time at the office. Other fun bits include "Irritate the VP", and "Virtual Rubix Cube". Rated PG-13 for language. |
| Nokia Picture Poetry To give people an alternative to the everyday Christmas cards and promote Nokia's camera phones, they created 'Picture Poetry'. Visitors can submit their poem or wish and it'll be converted word by word into a visual poem, which you can send to a friend.
For this project they took over 7000 pictures of (mainly Dutch and French) words which can be found in the street in various Belgian cities and Paris. The site was created in Dutch & French.
But it also worksin English. |
| Every language has a word for water; no living thing exists without water. It soothes the spirit and sustains the body; its beauty inspires art and music. Employed by cultures around the world in rituals and ceremonies, water bathes us from birth to death. Water is essential to life as we know it. And as it cycles from the air to the land to the sea and back again, water shapes our planet—and nearly every aspect of our lives. Want to know all about it? Check out Water: H2O = Life, a site organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul |
| Digital electronics will eventually break or get replaced. But it's hard to know just what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. Some people stuff them in junk drawers. Others want to donate or recycle their old electronics, but worry about compromising private data. And plenty of people want some monetary compensation.
Some sites, like Gazelle.com and VenJuvo.com, offer cash for your items and/or will recycle products. Another site, TechForward.com, lets people pay a fee to "lock in" a value for how much the site promises to pay for the product in the future. MyBoneYard.com accepts only laptops, desktop PCs, cellphones and flat-panel monitors, and gives Visa gift cards rather than cash. |
| Google isn't satisfied with dominating just one part of the Web, even if it is a fantastically lucrative one. The past few years have seen the search giant getting into all sorts of new areas, whether through development or purchase. The company's latest online venture, Google Lively, enters the world of virtual online worlds dominated by Second Life
and, to some extent, World of Warcraft. All Lively activities take place within your browser. When you start Lively, you'll need a Google account to sign in. (PCMagazine review) \ |
| What is Plurk? A new microblogging rival to Twitter. It's a really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life in deliciously digestible chunks. Plurk is an easy way to chronicle and share the things you do, the way you feel, and all the other things in between that make up your life, with the people close to you. Welcome to the world of Microblogging! |
| How did the car become so important in American life? Why not trains, subway systems or other forms of public transportation? To find out why automobiles rule the road -- and why the roads were built at all -- click here |
| MyFourThirds.com is dedicated to photography using the Four Thirds system, an SLR standard created to be digital from the ground up.At the heart of the site is a great and growing collection of images (both black-and-white and in color) from the site's users, posted in a variety of categories, from abstract to documentary to fashion to wildlife. Beyond the photography, MyFourThirds has a small but growing body of tips, articles, suggestions, polls, and links for the Four Thirds photographer. You'll find articles on digital workflow, software tools, places to shoot, and so on, many of them applicable to any photographer seeking to learn more about his art. |
| An important part of attaining the body you want—or even just maintaining reasonable health—is keeping tabs on what you eat. But tracking daily calorie intake is tedious at best and impossible when you don't have accurate nutritional data at your fingertips. The Daily Plate does that legwork for you. Simply add the meals you consume during the day to your online plate, and the site tallies the calories and other info to help you reach your weight goals and whip you into shape. Easily tracks what you've eaten. Customized calorie goals based on your metabolism, how fast you want to lose weight. Comprehensive food, meal database. Lively, helpful community. |
| Suspect your rent is too high? Or are you a landlord wondering how much more dough you can squeeze out of your property (and the people who live in it)? Check out Rentometer.com and find out the going rates for nearby properties.
Hit or miss that you'll get results if you live outside the biggest cities. |
| Music-oriented Web services are booming. Songkick hopes to carve out a space by letting fans track their favorite artists' live shows. Simply give the site a list of performers you like, and based upon your location, you'll get a variety of information—in particular, you'll get alerts when those artists will be in town.
A personalized dashboard displays the artists on tour in your area and where they're currently performing when they're elsewhere.Based on genre, Songkick will also recommend live performances of other artists not listed in your favorites. |
| Four Word Film Review The fwfr is a film review site like no other- an ever expanding collection of extremely brief film reviews and summaries. Submissions are welcomed from anyone- the only condition being no more than four words may be used.
As it has evolved howeever, (fwfr) offers a mixed bag of content- some summaries, some reviews, some a bit of both, but all of them valid comments in one way or another of the film in question. |
| If people aren't reading newspapers anymore, and TV news ratings are down, where are people getting their news from? Places like "The Huffington Post - Breaking News and Opinion" Check out the news, breaking news, news blog, business, sports, politics, technology, entertainment, living |
| Email invitations to view friends' photos on a site like Shutterfly, Snapfish or Kodak Gallery can often be as much a hassle as a pleasure. Some services require tedious steps to open an album. Others ask for forgotten passwords. And even those albums that are easy to open could be hard to get back to at another time if you can't find the original email invitation.
Now Shutterfly, a leading online photo service, has integrated simple photo sharing into personalized Web sites, which serve as a more permanent and collaborative place to communicate. It is called Shutterfly Share, and the sites are free of charge and without advertisements, for now. |
| A web site called Storeadore.com can help people who are visiting new cities find stores to shop in. It profiles boutiques in New York, Los Angeles, Boston Chicago and numeous others as well as online stores. The site offers advice on various services and users are encouraged to share their thoughts. Some boutiques offer discounts. |
| Mint is fresh, intelligent online money management. Not only is Mint free, it saves you money. While existing personal finance software packages require hours to set up, a passion for accounting (is that possible?) and hours of weekly maintenance, Mint is virtually effortless.
It automatically pulls together your bank, credit union and credit card data, and provides up–to–date and amazingly accurate views of your financial—life from the big picture to specific details, in a friendly and intuitive way.
Mint is proactive—alerting you when you are exceeding your personal budget, have a low balance, need to pay a bill, and more. |
| Are you sick of calling a company and pushing numerous numbers to get to a human being? What if you knew the buttons to push to get to a human immediately? Go to http://gethuman.com and search for companies by letter. Less time spent on the phone – yeh! Feel free to copntribute any shortcuts of which you are aware. |
| The Infinite O.Z. features the artistic visions of nine acclaimed international artists, a collaboration that brings to life the world of L. Frank Baum's classic adventure as reimagined by the SCI FI Channel miniseries event Tin Man. |
| Don't get too depressed about South Bend, but here is a web site that indicates the number of sunny days in major US cities. |
| The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER) is a non-profit NGO working to build the first girls’ boarding school and research center in Muhuru Bay, Kenya. Working with Duke University, they are dedicated to maintaining a strong academic program for girls that fosters a spirit of inquiry, intellectual independence and enthusiasm for learning. We’ve laid the groundwork and we’re moving forward. With the first classes scheduled for enrollment in January 2009, WISER is taking shape rapidly. Take a peek at our business plan and see the framework WISER is built upon. |
| The Matthau Company
Created for director Charles Matthau - son of acting legend Walter Matthau and actress and author Carol Matthau - for his film and television production company, The Matthau Company site is also a heartfelt tribute to his parents. |
| In Scott Adams' reading of the Internet, you either ride the train or it runs you over. So with the new iteration of his "Dilbert" Web site, Adams is making every "Dilbert" ever made freely available, has added color and animation to the strips there, and has introduced a new feature that lets readers craft their own, last-panel punch lines. |
| Are you a fan of the Simpsons? Visit the Simpsons Movie site to view clips, play games, tour Springfield and get fun stuff at the Simpsons Shop. |
| I like The Good Fight where you can start a foodfight or ambush a friend (from Eat Better America. Created and funded by Minneapolis-based General Mills, eatbetteramerica.com is designed for people who are increasingly interested in the impact food has on their health and crave simple, easy-to-understand health and nutritional information.
But we know that too often, nutritional information can be confusing or a little difficult to follow. As one of the leading food companies in the world, we saw the need for a simple, straightforward website that makes eating better easier and more fun. |
| MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.
This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. |
| Tech giant Cisco Systems will pay $250,000 for a big idea. Auto insurer Progressive is sponsoring a $10 million contest to foster ultra-fuel-efficient cars. Most companies spend gobs on their own R&D, but many are lauchingcontests to lure outside ideas. Business Week has a Special Report on Innovation Prizes. Maybe you'll be inspired to enter the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million prize for innovations that remove greenhouse gasses from the environment. |
| Digital Threads is an interactive Web environment that highlights new digital artworks by Canadian artists Jennifer Angus, Joanna Berzowska, Kai Chan, Ruth Scheuing and Samuel Thomas. Internationally known for innovative work that challenges the boundaries of conventional textile arts, these five artists define new territory on the World Wide Web with dynamic projects that link to 50 exhibitions from the Textile Museum of Canada. |
| Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week online, via podcast and on the radio, you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up. There's also a very popular daily Web quiz. |
| Concierge.com is the premier source of independent travel information online. They publish original travel guides to nearly 200 top destinations, with expert recommendations on hotels, restaurants, attractions, shopping, and nightlife. Their Interests + Ideas section contains great vacation ideas for every type of traveler, from budget to luxury to adventure. They also have easy and effective travel tools, lists of the world's best and hottest hotels, and features from Condé Nast Traveler magazine. |
| Each weekday, Thrillist will shoot you an article delivering the best of what your favorite city's hiding. It might be a restaurant that serves poisonous (yet edible) fish, a rock bar that lists a "Double Shot of Jack" on its cocktail menu, or even a pocketknife that doubles as a money-clip -- an ideal accessory to carry into a bar that lists a "Double Shot of Jack" on its cocktail menu.
They don't write reviews. That would require them to tell you about things that suck, which, while potentially funny, would be a huge waste of your time. Instead, they sift through the junk to find the best in food, drinks, events, gear, services and travel. |
| These cartoons aren't just for kids. The work of star animators like Bill Plympton mingles with inspired student projects and and web cartoons on this clearinghouse from Animation World Network. Editors compile playlists, such as a selection of summer-themed clips. |
| Why is summer fuel more expensive than winter fuel? - It sounds like a song parody about the exorbitant price of gas in the summer. But did you know that more than 20 different boutique fuel blends are sold from June to September? |
| Wouldn't it be great if, after attending an event -- like a wedding -- at which friends and family took digital photos and videos, everyone could contribute to the same online album? It would be even better if everyone could access the album through a simple email invitation instead of having to create yet another log-in profile. Shwup is a free Web-based application that's available from muvee Technologies and works as described above with only a few pitfalls. |
| Like many human beliefs, the fear of Friday the 13th (known as paraskevidekatriaphobia) isn't exactly grounded in scientific logic. But the really strange thing is that most of the people who believe the day is unlucky offer no explanation at all, logical or illogical. As with most superstitions, people fear Friday the 13th for its own sake, without any need for background information. To learn more click here. |
| Mythbusters: Bombed by an Airbag - Can an airbag really bomb a person in an accident? Find out in this video from the Discovery Channel's MythBusters to find out the answer. |
| VisualDxHealth is dedicated to providing quality health information to consumers via the Web. At VisualDxHealth you have access to some of the best medical images in the world. They believe images combined with expert-written knowledge will help you better identify and understand a health concern than by simply using words. |
| Want to know more about how to conserve energy at home and save money? Visit EnergyStar@Home for tips for every room of the house. |
| CHOW is a new kind of food media. Not only is the subject matter different—about the parties you really want to go to, the meals you really want to eat, the gear you really want to have—but we deliver it to you in audio, video, and everything else the Web’s got to offer. Come to us for recipes, instruction, news, entertainment, discussion, and advice. And come often—we update the site daily. |
| Boost Mobile and RockCorps have partnered to spread a national youth movement: Boost Mobile RockCorps. The movement encourages volunteerism in young people. It was created to effect social change and act as a bridge between communities in need and the young people who want to make them better. Every volunteer who gives 4 hours of service, receives a ticket to a concert featuring the hottest artists today. Boost Mobile RockCorps introduces youth to service opportunities in their own neighborhood starting them on a lifelong commitment to civic engagement and service. |
| Experience The World of King Tut! (The King Tut Exhibit will be coming to Indianapolis in 2009. Preview the exhibit now.) Since the discovery of his tomb in 1922, Tutankhamun has captured the hearts of people around the world. Buried with him were treasures beyond the imagination, a tomb holding the most magnificent treasures of the Golden Age of the Pharaohs and giving us a glittering glimpse into the past.
It has been almost 30 years since the golden artifacts of the boy-king last left their home in Egypt. In the 1970's, the unprecedented King Tut exhibit fascinated millions of visitors with the marvelous treasures of King Tut's tomb, setting attendance records worldwide. Now Tutankhamun's treasures are back, giving a new generation the chance to learn firsthand about the life and magic of this ancient monarch. |
| Wondering about a vactaion location or going to be in California this summer? Check out the great pictures of this beautiful section of Monterey County.
In this heavenly slice of California called Monterey the air is different. It is at once relaxing and invigorating. It imbues visitors with a sense of timelessness that is mindful of yesterday, but very much enamored with the here and now. The air in Monterey can intensify the taste of food and wine, anchor memories to your subconscious and create a sense of well being that you will undoubtedly crave forever more. Alive is the air. |
| Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for this “other 90%.” Through partnerships both local and global, individuals and organizations are finding unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalized. |
| The Earth Institute at Columbia University is working to help the world pave a path toward sustainability. The Earth Institute’s overarching goal is to help achieve sustainable development primarily by expanding the world’s understanding of Earth as one integrated system. They work toward this goal through scientific research, education and the practical application of research for solving real-world challenges. |
| Memorial Day Tribute Memorial Day is yet another day to remember the brave American soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the USA, their homeland and its citizens. The three-day weekend is a solemn occasion to commemorate their bravery. Much more than a three-day weekend, Memorial Day holiday is meant to reflect on the true meaning of the day, to honor America's fallen heroes and be thankful to them for their efforts and their profound patriotism. The somber tones of 'Taps' at 3.00 p.m., the National Moment of Remembrance, and the wreaths placed by those who take time to remember the sacrifices adorn the graves of the soldiers. |
| In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. Double-click on or move the original map to set a marker on a desired location. The antipode map will automatically show it's antipodal location. |
| Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need. |
In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. |
| The world's first never ending webpage, full of amazing things.. Good Things Should Never End |
| TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. |
| America's Favorite Architecture The 150 works of architecture in this exhibition - buildings, bridges, monuments and memorials - represent some of the best of America's architectural heritage. When people are asked to select their favorites, they choose buildings and designs that symbolize innovation and the spirit of their country and community. |
| It's costing us more and more money to fill up the gas tank. And while that's unlikely to change anytime soon, there are some tricks to getting the most value per gas dollar. To learn more about ways to lower the cost at gas stations click here. Also,
Go to www.indianagasprices.com to find out the lowest gas prices in your area. |
| If rockers can give away their work on the Web, why not authors? The book "Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal" is available as a free download. |
| The Bad Gift Emporium has lots of BAD gifts. So bad, they are actually considered good (at being bad). Because one man's bad gift is another man's bad gift ...in a good way. |
| From The Wall Street Journal's The Mossberg Solution: If there's a skill or process you want to learn or know more about, chances are there's an online video for it. These days you can find a video that will teach you to cook, survive college, build your own headphones or even become a better kisser. Some suggested sources: Howcast.com, wonderHowTo.com, eHow.com |
| Founded to democratize the art world one print at a time, Artocracy is a digital marketplace for original art.
Art need not be expensive, and artists do not need the word "starving" attached to their profession. Artocracy addresses the disconnect between artists and people who enjoy art through its galleries of original, affordable art prints.
Artocracy's professionally curated galleries of original art provides exposure and income for talented artists, creates access to affordable art, and supports development of the arts throughout the world. |
| Forty-seven years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He launched aboard his Mercury-Redstone 3, named Freedom 7, to make an historic 15-minute suborbital flight. Many of the images from that era have been converted to high definition and are now in color. check out the NASA Image Gallery. |
| Mailbox overflowing with mail and catalogs? CatalogChoice is a free service with close to 1000 catalogs on file that you can opt out of with one click once you register. The consumer dredit-reporting industryindustry's web site www.OptOutPrescreen.com, allows you to eliminate mailed credit card and insurance offers. |
| YouTube recently announced its annual list of award-winning videos, including one by Potter Puppet Pals. |
| Mint is fresh, intelligent online money management. Not only is Mint free, it saves you money and is virtually effortless. It can be started in less than five minutes. After that, revolutionary, patent–pending Mint money management software does the rest, with virtually no more work required. It automatically pulls together your bank, credit union and credit card data, and provides up–to–date and amazingly accurate views of your financial—life from the big picture to specific details, in a friendly and intuitive way. |
| Last.fm connects you with your favorite music, and uses your unique taste to find
new music, people, and concerts you'll like. |
| Why aren't there green or purple stars? - Watch this NASA video explaining why we don't see green or purple stars. The key is in the way light refracts and reflects into our eyes. Video courtesy of the Spitzer Science Center. |
| eatbetteramerica.com is designed for people who are increasingly interested in the impact food has on their health and crave simple, easy-to-understand health and nutritional information.
We have created a site where people can learn from experts, as well as folks just like them, about how healthy eating habits and easy-to-follow exercise tips can help enrich life. So, now, you’re not alone in this quest. In addition to our own experts at the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, we’ve brought in outside experts to provide a richer, more comprehensive, and more importantly, more entertaining site. |
| That Guy is a multi-media campaign, funded by the Department of Defense, that uses online and offline communication with the goal of reducing excessive drinking among young servicemen. The campaign encourages young enlisted personnel to reject binge drinking because it detracts from the things they care about: family, friends, dating, sex, money, and reputation. The campaign uses humor to deliver a serious message and provides viral tools so you can be part of the effort to eradicate That Guy. The campaign is a reminder to everyone: Don't Be That Guy! |
| For those of you that prefer the experimental approach to learning physics |
| Check out this musical roller coaster from the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Warning: For those of you that survived the sixties this might cause flashbacks! |
| Earth Day Network Our mission is to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. We pursue our mission through education, politics, events, and consumer activism. |
| FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community-oriented tools, such as a secure document management utility, e-mail newsletters, and message boards. |
| This is an interesting and thought provoking video on YouTube about our students and how they learn. It's long but entertaining. Are you Paying Attention: Digital Learning |
| FactCheck.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding. (ed. note: I know we have had this site before, but we thought that it might be helpful ahead of the Indiana Primary.) |
| Muxtape.com is the iPod generation's version of the mix tape: Users upload MP3s to create mixes and listen to playlists made by other users. Warning: Browsing the site can be addictive. |
| Very Funny Ads.com is about--you guessed it-- very funny ads. The TV commercials you se are some of the funniest from around the world. They've even got some that were tooo racy to be aired in the United States. They're adding new ones all the time so you cankeep coming back. |
| What if there were no gravity? - Have you ever wondered what would happen if we were able to flip a switch and turn the Earth's gravity off for a day? The end result of what would happen may surprise you |
| Need a lilttle humor today? Check out the Man Laws as proposed by Miller Beer in their commercials. Better yet post a Man Law of your own. For the other side try Laws Women Live By. |
| Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in your world. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting and organizing your friends' recommendations in one convenient place. |
| KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. |
| Every Day Fiction features a new short story every 24 hours. The first lines from a recent entry: "A woman sat in a brown cubicle, unplugged. She went to get coffee from the lunchroom. When she took out the milk from the refrigerator, the milk bottle spoke." |
| Salary Madness - 2008 March Madness Predictions By the Dollars. If 2008 NCAA tournament scores were determined by the median salary of its graduates, this is how the March Madness brackets would shake out. |
| ExpertFlyer is the best site for getting the inside scoop on airline fights.With real-time seat maps for more than 100 carriers, this site will help you find what's available the next time a cancellation leaves you stranded at the airport. (Basic subscription is $4.99 per month.) With ExpertFlyer, it's easy to find: Class Availability for over 400 airlines, Award and Upgrade availability for Select Airlines and Real-Time Seat Maps for over 100 airlines. |
| The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. The Center studies education at the Institution and builds consensus on standards for strengthening its educational programs, publications, and websites. |
| Blip is a great service for great shows. A new class of entertainment is emerging that is being made by the people without the support of billion-dollar multinationals. Our mission is to support these people by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer tends to run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. We leave you free to focus on creativity. Check out the shows on the site. |
| House of Tomorrow This webby award wining site's goal is to engage a braod audience with the products of KPN, the Dutch National Telephone Co. The answer is an online interactive sitcom with product placement. By watching the small but catchy scenes, visitors get to know the peculiars of thefamily members and experience how the products play a role in their everyday lives. |
| Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Their site is a forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework. Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. |
| Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. This website, powered by Trendalyzer, enables you to explore the changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show how the development of all countries by the indicators you choose. |
| The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry site has podcasts, blogs articles and an archive that furthers the foundation's mission. |
| Momondo When the price tag for an airline flight is paramount, try this Denmark-based aggregator, which swiftly scours more than 450 sites -- including major booking engines, national carriers and no-frills airlines -- to unearth cheap flights to destinations around the world. |
| Universal Leonardo is a highly innovative project that aims to radically extend public understanding and appreciation of the deep unity and extraordinary diversity of Leonardo da Vinci’s work in all his fields of endeavour.
Universal Leonardo presents a series of linked European exhibitions, some of which are informed by scientific investigations, that reveal new dimensions in the legacy of the greatest visual thinker of all time. |
| OrbitzTLC Traveler Update Along with a color-coded map providing arrival and departure delay details at a glance, this veteran site's latest feature relays advice straight from fellow travelers, who send updates in real time -- by text-messaging from their cell phones -- on security lineups, traffic jams, cab queues and more. |
| Check out the Best Pictures of the Year 2007 on docstoc, a user generated community for sharing professional documents. |
| TripIt is a tidy, paperless way to keep track of everything from flight reservations to OpenTable dinner plans, this site extracts travel details from the booking confirmations that you forward by e-mail, then organizes them all on a private Web page. Bonus: it automatically adds trip-specific SeatGuru tips, weather reports and Google Maps. |
| From eAmazings.com
An electron micrograph is an image taken using electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged picture of it. Some of these photos can magnify specimens up to 2 million times.
Here are 10 awesome electron micrograph images. |
| FabSugar's vision is to be the definitive online media company for trendsetting, passionate women ages 18-44. Their fresh, conversational and witty editorial voices inform, connect, inspire and entertain an audience of over 5 million monthly unique visitors. The Sugar Network comprises of ten distinct lifestyle and entertainment sites covering topics that include celebrity, fashion, shopping, beauty, entertainment, food, health and more. By engaging readers to share their personal views, style, stories and advice with us and each other, the Sugar Network is building the most friendly and engaged social network for women anywhere online. |
| Meet the flagship of the new generation of personal Web portals. Pageflakes lets you build an amazingly customizable start page drawing content from a wealth of information and online tools. This incredibly versatile Web start-page builder takes personal portals up a notch. Pageflakes is all about the widgets, which it calls "flakes." Flakes let you add just about any Web content you can think of—video, picture, news feeds, e-mail, maps, online storage—or you can create your own custom flakes. Once you've chosen (via the slick interface) which flakes to add to your start page, a fluid, breathtakingly intuitive AJAX interface lets you customize to your heart's content. If you like the idea of a personal portal, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. If you've never tried building one, it's time. |
| PBS KIDS Sprout is the first 24-hour preschool network created for children ages 2-5 and their parents and caregivers. Sprout is available on TV, on demand and online. Interaction between parents and preschoolers is an important element in everything we do. From arts and crafts projects to kid-friendly recipes, from birthday submissions to My Refrigerator page, we provide ways for families to experience Sprout together. |
| GreatSchools has evolved into a national, independent nonprofit organization committed to helping parents choose schools, support their children's education and improve schools in the community. More than 25 million users visited GreatSchools.net in 2005. Our Mission: To improve K-12 education by inspiring parents to get involved. |
| TheFind.com is a shopping search engine that is dedicated to delivering the most satisfying online search experience for you - the time-crunched, savvy shopper. Shoppers have access to all of the products on the web - not just the ones that pay to be there.
Their unbiased "Product Ranking Engine" crawls over 500,000 stores to find over 150 Million products web-wide. |
| Yellowstone Park is home to more wildlife than anywhere else in the Lower 48, so you’re sure to see plenty of animals, including grizzly and black bears, trumpeter swans, wolves, moose, elk, bighorn sheep, pelicans and more.There are literally thousands of backcountry trail miles to explore in the Yellowstone area — full of towering granite mountains, glaciers, mountain lakes, rivers and more wildlife than people. This Webby Award winning site provides so much for learning, trip planning and woonderful pictures. |
| How Galaxies Work - So much about galaxies remains a mystery. We know what they're made of and that we live in one (the Milky Way), but we're not totally sure how they form and evolve. And what happens when one galaxy collides with another? |
| The Rubbish Film Festival was unique in the history of the internet. It was the first ever online mobile film festival and over 900 competitors were attracted to the ease and accessibility of entering. They simply had to shoot their own 20 second movies using 027 mobile phones and then upload the films where the public could view and vote for the films, just for fun. A panel of industry experts then judged the category prize winners and best overall entry. |
| Antarctica is a frozen, windswept continent, so hostile and remote that it has no permanent inhabitants. Take a journey through this site to discover Antarctica for yourself. Each section features activities, images, video clips and fact sheets, to help you learn about this distant, frozen wilderness. |
| The first step to lowering carbon emissions is to understand your carbon footprint. The carbon calculator provides a simple guide to your household carbon footprint based upon key features of your home, your personal energy use profile, your use of green technologies and your transport profile.
A household carbon footprint is the quantity of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere as a result of household energy use, transportation and waste disposal in one year. |
| BeStuff! is an open, organic, polymorphous site which, depending on the user, could take on diverse forms and meanings. The site simply asks you to input your ‘best stuff’ in the world: whether it be a song that inspires you, your favourite little Indian restaurant, or the best explication of Kantian aesthetics. You'll be able to discover what people from around the world think is the best and share your best stuff. BeStuff! is also a vibrant, dynamic community of like-minded people who love to share and discuss their favourite stuff in the world. |
| Scribd.com is an intriguing, if somewhat messy, platform for Web-based document publishing and discovery. If you're looking to find interesting text or share your documents with the world, Scribd can help. Easy to view Flash-based documents. Tons of interesting content. Traffic Analytics lets you track who's viewing your documents |
| SparkPeople's mission is to help millions of people be healthy and reach their goals. They offer similar diet and fitness tools and services that people pay for on sites like Weight Watchers and eDiets.com, but for free. Also, those who do not want to lose weight they can still use SparkPeople's tools and also meet others in our healthy living community. Today they have workoout ideas for couples in honor of Valentine's Day |
| The Gramophone magazine, more than 75 years old, has been running reviews of every darn classical music record and CD and now DVD that is released pretty much anywhere in the world. The reviews are all here, and they are searchable. Plus, there are podcasts, music downloads, message boards and more. |
| Frequently updated and well-fed with tips from its community of users, Tech Bargains keeps you posted on the best deals available both online and, increasingly, in stores. |
| Engadget : Our favorite of the approximately 32,000 gadget blogs, for its timeliness, concision and good sources. Check out the latest on the new iPhone released yesterday |
| LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
LibraryThing is a full-powered cataloging application, searching the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and more than 80 world libraries. You can edit your information, search and sort it, "tag" books with your own subjects, or use the Library of Congress and Dewey systems to organize your collection.
If you want it, LibraryThing is also an amazing social space. You can check out other people's libraries, see who has the most similar library to yours, swap reading suggestions and so forth. LibraryThing also makes book recommendations based on the collective intelligence of the other libraries. |
| Homestar Runner is somewhere between Japanese anime, old video games and an anarchic sitcom lurks this deliriously inventive and funny site, a sort of loose chronicle of the life of the childlike title character and his nemesis, StrongBad Strong Bad. You’ll go with your kids, but you’ll come back on your own. |
| The American FactFinder site at the U.S. Census Bureau is “a data junkie’s delight.” It’s got links to new Census Bureau reports and another link to data from several recent censuses; you can construct your own tables and make your own comparisons. It also features a population clock where you can watch the nation’s populace creep up to 300 million and a link to a world population clock where the number is nearing 6.5 billion. |
| Fark, the anti-Google News, is a simple little digest of funny (funny ha-ha or funny strange) news stories, most of them seemingly true. |
| National Geographic has a quick and helpful interactive introduction to the human brain, explaining in simple terms the brain's anatomy, some common diseases, and also which parts of the brain are lit up by smells, light, sound, romance, and other stimuli. There is even an interactive portion where you can see how the brain processes certain stimulit. |
| Docuticker: My goodness, a lot of documents are produced in the world. As if to prove it, there is this strange and sometimes wonderful link collection, “a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGO’s, think tanks, and other groups … compiled by the librarians who bring you [the also worthwhile] ResourceShelf.com.” |
| Metacritic: This site had the brilliant idea of aggregating what the critics have said about music, movies, TV, games and books and presenting both a total average review, snippets from the originals and links to them. |
| Wondering whether that e-mail that has been sent to you and you are thinking of forwarding to a friend is true? Three web sites to check it out: http://www.snopes.com / http://urbanlegends.about.com / http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org |
| Looking for fun things to do, like creating a snowflake or a five second doodle? Try this site which was one of Business Week's best of 2006. http://www.zefrank.com/ |
| This fun website was created over ten years ago by a New Zealand-based company called “Bitworks”, as a humble “attempt to relieve boredom”. Since then the wonderfully simple “Useless Trivia” site has become quite popular in its own rite, drawing hundreds of thousands of curious visitors, trivia junkies, and bored browsers from all around the world. Click on one of the topical sections, which include “Earth And Space”, “Living World”, “Human Body”, “Science and Technology”, “Sports and Recreation”, and several others. Visitors can impress their friends with random facts (Paul Revere was a dentist?), and also use the “Conversion Data” section of the site as a reference to translate everything from liquid measures to light years. |
| “13 Photographs That Changed the World” presents an unforgettable list of some of the most powerful images taken since the invention of the camera. Scroll through the selected photographs, which date back as far as the American Civil War, and then read the “story” behind each of these memorable pictures. Notable entries include Robert Capas’ 1944 photograph of “Omaha Beach, Normandy, France”, “Dali Atomicus” by Philippe Halsman, and Arthur Sasses’ legendary shot of “Einstein with his Tongue Out”. |
| At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. Digital broadcasting promises to provide a clearer picture and more programming options and will free up airwaves for use by emergency responders. Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. The Program allows U.S. households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, that can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes. |
| The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens. To view their preparation and a performance on You Tube click here |
| Eight years ago the founder and CEO of “Room to Read” was trekking through the mountains of Nepal, and witnessed the poor state of the local schools and infrastructure. Shortly after his trip, John Wood quit his job as a senior executive at Microsoft with the noble goal of making a difference in the world by educating children. “Room to Read” believes that true change comes through education, and partners with local communities in the developing world to create new schools, libraries, and other educational institutions. Check out the official website to learn more about this passionate organization, and how you too can help break the cycle of poverty that cripples so many children and families around the world. |
| “Yoga Basics” brings the wisdom of Yoga from the mat to the Web, with instructional guides to over 40 asanas (postures), as well as individual sections on “Pose Sequences”, “Meditation”, and “Pranayama” (yogic breathing). Be sure to check out “Yoga 101”, the website’s guide to the many different forms of Yoga which include “Hatha”, “Raja”, “Jnana”, and “Bhakti”. Om Shanti! |
| The Medicinal Herbs Guide is a great online resource for those who are interested in learning more about herbal remedies. Browse the guide alphabetically to learn about everything from Aconite to Yohimbe, including each herbs “botanical” and “family” name, as well as a brief description of its common medicinal uses. |
| Soundflavor is the easiest way to find music that you like, make and share great playlists, and meet people with similar musical tastes along the way. Check out “Browse Songs by Sound.” Pick the genre, instrument, year, etc. for a list of recommended tunes. |
| Birthday Facts You probably didn't know it at the time, but quite a lot was going on in the world on the day you were born. Enter your date of birth at this fun site, which will then tell you the day of the week that you were born, as well as other fun facts such as what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days, hours, and seconds you have been alive. |
| How To Become An Astronaut When you ask most children what they want to be when they grow up, it’s usually a close call between “Fireman”, “Superhero”, and “Astronaut”. For young people who dream of a career in space travel, this article details some of the more practical guidelines to follow if you want to end up with "The Right Stuff". |
| Unfortunately much of the mainstream media is covered in fluff, and so every year some of the most shocking, eye-opening stories don't get their fair share of air time. This interesting piece, courtesy of ForeginPolicy.Com , lists ten stories from 2007 relating to Iraq, Immigration, and other controversial topics that didn't quite get the news coverage they deserved. |
| This frightening website, aptly entitled Best-Horror-Movies.Com, was created by a "crew of guys and girls" who are die-hard fans of the movies and monsters that make up the horror genre. Tip-toe through this scary site, which caters to “the Discerning Horror Freak” and you’ll find every ghost, ghoul, freak, monster, and otherwise frightening creature that ever petrified the Silver Screen. Highlights include a consummate list of the "Top 100 Horror Flicks of All Time", as well as entire sections devoted to “Villains”, “Zombies”, “Heroes”, and “Monsters”. |
| "The Great War: 1914-1918", created by scholar Harry Rusche, is a fascinating website that was originally designed to supplement college courses in World War I Poetry. The site features digitized versions of rare poetry volumes, as well as a section of “Postcards" filled with over 450 original postcards from every country involved in the war. The postcards offer a unique insight into the many elements of culture, government, military, humor, and propaganda that were at play during those trying years. |
| "Truthdig" is an online magazine that provides its readers with extensive coverage of current events and world affairs, as well as thoughtful, progressive articles on a wide range of topics. The content on the site is created by individual experts in each field, who "dig" down to the dirty truth beneath the daily headlines related to "Politics", "The Environment", “Arts & Culture”, and other news topics. |
| Want to impress your family and friends at holliday gatherings?
Did you know that each nation has its own unique way of commemorating Christmas? Have you ever wondered why we send Christmas cards? Decorate an evergreen tree and give it a place of honor in our home? Smooch a sweetheart underneath a parasitic plant? Did you ever wonder how Santa delivers gifts to children all over the world in just one night?
These questions and many more will be answered in this Christmas trivia article that’s chock full of interesting, entertaining, and fun facts! |
| The Internet is becoming the primary means for storing and sharing digital photographs, so it's helpful to have a way to easily edit and update pictures in your online collection. Picnik, a powerful Web tool, gives you that capability, allowing you to apply expert effects with just one click. It also syncs to your favorite photo-sharing destinations, such as Facebook and Flickr, and allows you to edit and post photos right from the interface. |
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