June 30, 2010

Who says the real estate market is down?
You wouldn't believe the incredible
deal I got on a beachfront timeshare
condo in Louisiana last week!


Top of the Heap: Why You Should Never Buy an Animal From a Pet Store
http://www.ecosalon.com/why-pet-adoption-and-rescue-is-better-than-a-pet-store/

Internet Meme Hall of Fame: Flowcharts
http://www.nerve.com/photo-features/internet-meme-hall-of-fame-flowcharts

Flying Car Gets Go-Ahead From US Air Authorities
http://alturl.com/zfc9

Good for a few minutes of distraction - get the balls into orbit (or opposite orbits) with Nuve
http://www.nuve.com.br/

The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You in School
http://www.cracked.com/article_18611_the-10-most-important-things-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school.html

4 Ways to Find Out the Name of That Elusive Song
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-find-song/

Steve Martin’s Tour Rider
http://stevemartin.com/stevemartin/2010/06/steve-martins-tour-rider-leaked.html

Keep your car going by following this auto repair maintenance schedule
http://www.trustmymechanic.com/maint_schedule.html

How to buy video editing software
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365581,00.asp

How to stop your loved ones from texting while driving
http://www.komando.com/toolbox.aspx?mode=print&id=8827

The first assembly lines at the Ford Motor Plant (Thanks, Barridawn!)
http://www.facebook.com/skiptucker#!/skiptucker

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version (Thanks, Bardgal!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

10 ways to find more pleasure every day
http://alturl.com/ebgv

Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/06/five-real-time-search-engines-for-you.html

Google Voice Tricks
http://lifehacker.com/5571978/top-10-clever-google-voice-tricks

Steak-Grilling Myths
http://lifehacker.com/5571192/seven-myths-about-grilling-a-steak

June 23, 2010

If *I* owned an airline, I think I'd put another
airline's name and logo on the life vests.

Top of the Heap: 10 Amazing Tricks to Play With Your Brain
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-amazing-tricks-to-play-with-your-brain/

Baking Powder vs. Baking Soda
http://alturl.com/fpbj

The Tugo. Something ELSE I wish I'd thought of first
http://goodtugo.com/

5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to the Movies)
http://alturl.com/gp3x

Cool Zip Code Finder
http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm

10 Unforgettable TV Show Intros
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Entertainment/Television/10-Unforgettable-TV-Show-Intros.html

Road trip! Here are 10 Wacky Summer Festivals to enjoy
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/Travel/10-Wacky-Summer-Festivals.html

Interactive Map - Where Americans Are Moving
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html

Summer Gadget Guide
http://www.pcworld.com/article/198587/summer_gadget_guide.html?tk=nl_cox_h_crawl

6 Time Travel Realities Doc Brown Didn't Warn Us About
http://www.cracked.com/article_18564_6-time-travel-realities-doc-brown-didnt-warn-us-about_p1.html

Find local events to attend at Eventful
http://eventful.com/

More Android Apps
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/39-android-apps-you-should-try/

Toy Story 3 Easter Egg Guide
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67118

10 Essential Homemade Survival Items
http://www.survival-goods.com/10_Essential_Homemade_Survival_Items_s/372.htm

Ten Things You Can Do With Wolfram Alpha (to make you look like the smartest person in the room)
http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/wolfram-alpha.htm

Ten Tiny and Amazing Mac Apps (you've never heard of)
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/17/ten-tiny-and-amazing-mac-apps-youve-never-heard-of/

15 People You Hate Watching Games With
http://www.sportspickle.com/article:993/15-people-you-hate-watching-games-with

Five Effective DIY Alternatives to Running an Air Conditioner
http://lifehacker.com/5568311/five-effective-diy-alternatives-to-running-air-conditioner

10 Ways the iPad Will Forever Change Education
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2010/06/21/10-ways-the-ipad-will-forever-change-education/

June 16, 2010

I just got this "Road Runner: Raw" DVD and you
would not believe the filthy stuff this bird says
to egg on the coyote. Of course in the standard
censored version all you ever hear is "beep beep."


Top of the Heap: The White Man's Soul Food: The 37 (or so) Ingredients in a Twinkie
http://www.good.is/post/picture-show-the-37-or-so-ingredients-in-a-twinkie/

Interactive World Cup 2010 Schedule
http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You (Probably) Don’t Know
http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/57704.html

10 Far Out Father's Day Gifts
http://www.oddee.com/item_96716.aspx

Another 10 Far-Out Father's Day Gifts
http://www.oddee.com/item_97081.aspx

Not THAT old chestnut: Man Forced to Marry Cow Faints During Ceremony. Then it gets weird.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/830794-man-forced-to-marry-cow-faints-at-wedding

An article which includes links to web sites that allow you to comparison shop for health care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/technology/11cost.html?ref=technology

Just in time for Summer: The 10 Best Travel Secrets
http://alturl.com/rm8k

Related - Top 10 Strategies for Surviving Airports and Airplanes
http://lifehacker.com/5561002/top-10-strategies-for-surviving-airports-and-airplanes

The Definitive Guide to Finding Free Wi-Fi
http://lifehacker.com/5340435/the-definitive-guide-to-finding-free-wi+fi

You ever wonder whatever happened to the cast of ALF? Me neither.
http://topcultured.com/where-are-they-now-alf/

33 absolute online time-wasters that will eat up your time and spit it out like a carnivorous animal
http://laptoplogic.com/33-anti-efficiency-tools-online

Steep It - the simplest internet tea timer, ever
http://steep.it/

June 9, 2010

The thing about writing stuff for the Website Wednesday
tagline while sitting on a high-tech toilet is that everyone
knows the exact MMMMMOOOOment the bidet hits you.


Top of the Heap: Incredibly cool Web Catalog from the Dutch (let it load and watch what happens) (Thanks, Debb!)
http://producten.hema.nl/

Ever wonder what would happen if an Alka Seltzer tablet was added to a ball of water in zero-G? Me neither.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgC-ocnTTto

The Top 1000 Visited Sites on the Internets (I'm thinking the House of Chaos must've been number 1001...)
http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/

Ah HAH! Take THAT, iPhone elitists (Tally). 10 Things the Android Does Better Than the iPhone
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/10_things_android_does_better_iphone

Top 10 Dangerously Addictive Games
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-addictive-games.php

The Top 10 Codes You're Not Meant To Know
http://listverse.com/2009/02/22/top-10-codes-you-arent-meant-to-know/

Weird, Out-of-the-Ordinary Scholarships
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/10-Out-of-the-Ordinary-Scholarships.html

Oh, lovely. Just when you thought it was safe to play in the yard... be on the lookout for bottle bombs
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

Visual Recipes has recipes with step-by-step photos
http://visualrecipes.com/

Want to be in the movies? Here's How to Be an Extra
http://www.beinamovie.com/extra/index.php

Something I've been trying to do for YEARS: How to Make the Perfect Omelette
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jun/03/how-to-make-perfect-omelette

Secrets of Disneyland
http://www.disneylandreport.com/disneysecrets.html

How to make Windows leaner, cleaner and faster
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/make-windows-leaner-cleaner-and-faster-693833

See a giant Pacific Octopus on the OctoCam (best viewing at night, since they're nocturnal) (Thanks, Pat!)
http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/visitor/octocam

Let NASA take your Face into Space
http://faceinspace.nasa.gov/index.aspx

Rid Your Lawn of Cows, Tigers, and Other Unwanted Pests (Thanks, Ken!)
http://www.zipgolfer.com/pests-on-the-lawn/

and, finally...

Did Sarah Palin Buy Herself a Couple of Luxury Items?
http://wonkette.com/415838/did-sarah-palin-buy-herself-a-couple-of-luxury-items

June 2, 2010

They say you should never raise your
hand to your children, but how else am I
supposed to request permission to speak?


Top of the Heap: The 50 Worst Inventions of All Time (Tip O'the Hat to Uncle Mel!)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/bestworst/0,32232,1991915_1991909_1991902,00.html

One More Top of the Heap: Next Tuesday is No Plastic Day - intended to bring awareness of the over-consumption of disposable plastic goods
http://www.noplasticday.org/

You'll never be as cool as these 25 Cool Guitars
http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2010/05/25-unique-guitars.html

10 Non-Photoshopped images that will warp your mind
http://gizmodo.com/5548138/ten-non+photoshopped-images-that-will-warp-your-mind

10 Most Bizarre Sounds You've Probably Never Heard
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-most-bizarre-sounds-youd-not-have-heard-before/

The Japanese plan to have robots build a Moon base - for ROBOTS. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/japan-wants-moon-base-2020-built-robots-robots

100 Things You Didn't Know About "The Empire Strikes Back"
http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1091748p1.html

The Most Detailed Image of Our Galaxy Ever Taken
http://bmgoau.nfshost.com/milkyway_spitzer_zoom/spitzer.html

Rocket-Powered Motorcycles of the Past, Present and Future (Thanks, Ken!)
http://www.spotmotorcycles.com/rocket-cycles/

Virtual Tour of the Wailing Wall (Thanks, George)
http://www.360tr.net/kudus/aglamaduvar_tr/index.HTML

14 Useful Tools For Your Kitchen
http://www.toxel.com/tech/2010/04/05/14-useful-tools-for-your-kitchen/

Top 10 Most Downloaded Student Tools
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-downloaded-student-tools-movers-shakers/

Classic Film Guide
http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=home

Time-Lapse Satellite View of the Growing Oil Spill
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/05/27/time-lapse-satellite-view-of-growing-oil-spill/