December 31, 2008

There was a movie a couple of years ago called "The Ring"
about a video that kills you if you watch it. If I ever
saw such a video, I'm pretty sure my last words would
be, "It was STILL better than 'The Love Guru!'"


Top of the Heap: Jib-Jab's 2008 Year in Review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmEP93NVTaw&e

The Top 10 Best Top 10 Lists of 2008
http://popten.net/2008/12/top-ten-best-of-2008-lists/

50 Things We Know Now (We Didn't Know This Time Last Year), 2008 Edition
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/22/50-things-we-know-now-we-didnt-know-time-last-year/life/

The 50 Best Astronomy Pictures of 2008
http://www.itvnews.tv/Blog/Blog/best-50-astronomy-pictures-of-year-2008.html

10 Things That Won't Survive the Recession
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/23/10_things_that_wont_survive_the_recession_1.html

2009 Kicks off 365 Days of Astronomy Podcasts
http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m12d31-New-Year-2009-kicks-off-365-Days-of-Astronomy-podcasts

Back to my old traffic reporter days - some things about traffic that may surprise you
http://tomvanderbilt.com/traffic/some-things-about-traffic-that-may-surprise-you/

How to make Brits and Aussies Sound American (You know who you are. Maynard.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-actor-accents-1229dec29,0,4403795.story

Ambiguity
http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ambig.gif

In the "I-gotta-try-this" category: How to Blow Out a Hardboiled Egg
http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_Blow_Out_a_Hardboiled_Egg

Pretty cool - an automatic text summarizer
http://search.iiit.net/~jags/summarizer/index.cgi

10 Web Tools to Save Your Butt in School
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-web-tools-to-save-your-butt-in-school/

Be the master of the all-you-can-eat buffet
http://icanhashappy.com/?p=781

10 Flimsy Paranormal Hoaxes Everyone Bought Into
http://ty.rannosaur.us/10-flimsy-paranoramal-hoaxes-everyone-bought-into/

I thought *I* had the most fun job in the world. Nope - this guy does
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1103046/Is-fun-job-world-The-man-travels-globe-testing-holiday-resort-waterslides.html

For us geeks: The Top Infinite Number of Reasons Picard is Better Than Kirk
http://plaza.ufl.edu/joec/startrek_picardvkirk.htm

You know all those old jokes about how bad a singer Yoko Ono was? Have you ever *heard* her sing? (You have been warned)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3cZb8XZek&fmt=18





And, from Jack's Sunday Paper... (subscribe if you haven't)
Reaction Time Trainer
http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/reaction-time.html

Hue / Saturation
http://sheepfilms.co.uk/b3ta/b3ta38.htm

Pretty freaky - a Kaleidoscope Painter
http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/