September 29, 2010

That sensitivity-in-the-workplace seminar my boss made me attend would have been a total bore had the instructor not possessed such absolutely enormous hooters.



Top of the Heap: The "Lie to Me" Lie Detection Tests
http://www.fox.com/lietome/lightmantests/

Ten things that aren't free - but should be (and how to get them for free anyway)
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/09/21/free-things-people-pay-for-too-often/

See all new stuff from Google in one place at Google New
http://www.google.com/newproducts/

See if you can jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with this iPhone and iTouch Jailbreak/Unlock Matrix
http://jailbreakmatrix.com/iPhone-iTouch-Jailbreak

10 Dead Simple Gmail Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts
http://alturl.com/k2x82

Great idea - a Bicycle Monorail
http://www.shweeb.com/

Addicting (and frustrating) Game of the Week - Bloxorz
http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/

Everything you wanted to know about the amenities in around hundreds of airports is at Airport Guides
http://www.ifly.com/

10 Words That Can't Be Translated Into English
http://listverse.com/2010/09/23/10-words-that-cant-be-translated-to-english/

Enter several address and Route4Me will find the best route to hit them all. Seems great for a bunch of errands
http://www.route4me.com/

10 Coolest Kitchen Gadgets (I used to have #6)
http://www.oddee.com/item_97198.aspx

Have an aquarium? Check out FishProfiles for tons of info on fish and aquaria and the care of both
http://fishprofiles.com/

5 Absurd (But Mind Blowing) Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories
http://alturl.com/yzznf

September 22, 2010

I like to think of myself as a do-it-yourselfer.
Not a do-it-MYselfer; a do-it-YOUR-selfer.


Top of the Heap: Around the Solar System
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/around_the_solar_system.html

Wanna buy a Stargate?
http://stargateartifacts.com/2010/09/13/own-the-sg-1-travel-stargate/

Firefly Star Jewel Staite Reveals How the Show Should Have Ended
http://techland.com/2010/09/17/firefly-star-jewel-staite-reveals-how-the-show-should-have-ended/

Bill Murray turned 60 yesterday. Celebrate with 60 Bill Murray Facts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/11/bill-murray-60th-birthday-facts

6 New Spy Technologies You Literally Can't Hide From
http://alturl.com/ewmc5

Airport Security Checkpoint Wait Times
http://www.orlandosentinel2.com/data/travel/news/airport/

10 Reasons Why Everybody Hates Kanye West (some NSFW language)
http://www.music-juice.com/celebrity-news/10-reasons-why-everybody-hates-kanye-west.html

Pluto (recently downgraded to a Mickey Mouse Planet) has 14 new neighbors
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/breakingorbit/2010/09/pluto-gets-14-new-neighbors.html

A stunning 3-minute animation of life inside a cell (action starts around 6:50)
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell.html

First complete topographic map of the moon
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/moon-map/

7 Features Facebook Should Integrate Into Its Next-Gen Product
http://bajillionhits.biz/post/1138076628/7-features-facebook-should-integrate-into-its-next-gen

10 Coolest Mac OS X Apps You Might Not Know About
http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/09/17/10-coolest-mac-os-x-apps-you-might-not-know-about.html

Search the archives of Ask a Scientist to find neat science info
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/archive.htm

September 15, 2010

Proposal for resolving the "paper defeats rock" controversy:
Eliminate paper, rock and scissors altogether, and replace
them with the following more realistic hierarchy: intercontinental
ballistic missile -– pellet gun -– mouse chewing on power cord.

Top of the Heap: The Next 5 Years in Social Media
http://mashable.com/2010/09/07/next-5-years-social-media/

Classes Every College Student Dreads
http://www.bestcollegesonline.net/blog/2010/10-classes-every-college-student-dreads/

Search for specific colleges to see how solid their curriculum is at What Will They Learn?
http://whatwilltheylearn.com/

Seven Sites to Help Students Choose and Apply to Colleges
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/7-sites-to-help-students-choose-and.html

In the "Why-the-Hell-didn't-I-Think-Of-That-First" department - 10 Bizarre Business Ideas that Made Millionaires
http://www.oddee.com/item_97180.aspx

Pick a year and let the YouTube Time Machine take you down memory lane
http://yttm.tv/v/1968

Listen to nature sounds around the world at the Wild Sanctuary map
http://earth.wildsanctuary.com/

Will There Be Klingons? Director J.J. Abrams and Writers Talk Star Trek 2
http://alturl.com/xf63j

Find everything you wanted to know about playing cards at (aptly named) World of Playing Cards
http://www.wopc.co.uk/

5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same
http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html

Listen to full music albums before you buy them with MusicLink
http://www.musiclink.fm/

Nicholas Cage as EVERYONE!
http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/

13 chefs' secrets for the perfect breakfast
http://alturl.com/koq5e

Compose your own Blues song (sorta)
http://www.thebluesmaker.com/

The Top 8 Unanswered Questions in Television
http://www.spike.com/blog/top-eight-unanswered/99641?page=2&numPerPage=1

Saturday Night Live: The Board Game
http://www.saturdaynightlivethegame.com/

11 Artists Who Wouldn't Give Weird All Permission For a Parody
http://www.11points.com/Music/11_Artists_Who_Wouldn%27t_Give_Weird_Al_Permission_For_a_Parody

Six Fictional Stories You Were Taught in History Class
http://www.cracked.com/article_18755_5-fictional-stories-you-were-taught-in-history-class.html

When Food Attacks! (Thanks, Ken!)
http://www.thecooksden.com/when-food-attacks/

25 Best Nutrition Secrets (What?? Nothing about bacon?)
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/25-best-nutrition-secrets

Interactive Map of Middle Earth
http://3rin.gs/#2.6367188,4.9648438,-0.8183594,-1.9824219,l,

Scientists teach robots how to trick humans. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
http://www.datelinezero.com/?p=3682

September 8, 2010

My life kind of resembles Forrest Gump's life,
except that I haven't met any famous people, struck
it rich or had any major accomplishments.
I guess all I'm saying is that I, too, once drank
so much Dr. Pepper that I had to pee really bad.


Top of the Heap: A free tool to play nature sounds for reading, meditating or just having fun
http://naturesoundsfor.me/

Hysterical Stand-Up Rabbi (Thanks, George!)
http://www.bobalper.com/demo.html

It's getting close to that time - here are the voter registration deadlines for all 50 states
http://www.declareyourself.com/voting_faq/state_by_state_info_2.html

Interesting: Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future in 1964
http://www.wimp.com/predictingfuture/

The Biology of Getting Drunk
http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/the-biology-of-getting-drunk/

5 Mind Blowing Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks on You
http://www.cracked.com/article_18704_5-mind-blowing-ways-your-memory-plays-tricks-you.html

Treat Your Fingers to the Best of Both Worlds with a Modded USB Typewriter
http://gizmodo.com/5625671/treat-your-fingers-to-the-best-of-both-worlds-with-a-usb-typewriter-mod

What happened in your birth year? (In MINE? Let's see... fire was invented, the earth started cooling...)
http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

Create your own newspaper
http://www.newscred.com/

If you're a Trekkie/Trekker with an hour to kill, check out this HILARIOUS two-part review of Star Trek (WARNING: some NSFW language)
http://blip.tv/file/4069271/ (part one)
http://redlettermedia.blip.tv/file/4069458/ (part 2)

The Top 10 Facebook Pages
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-10-facebook-pages/

20 Experiences to Have Before You Die
http://www.keepandshare.com/blog/2010/08/30/20-experiences-before-you-die/

Tips for Finding the Best Airfare Deals Online
http://alturl.com/cotmz

Release your inner artist
http://muro.deviantart.com/

Websites We Can't Believe Actually Exist
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/9-Websites-We-Can-t-Believe-Actually-Exist

Entertaining 404 Error Pages
http://mashable.com/2010/09/04/404-error-pages/

September 1, 2010

This little piggy est allé au supermarche.
This little piggy se repose a la maison.
This little piggy mange le roti du boeuf.
This little piggy ne mange rien.
And this little piggy went
"Oui! Oui! Oui!" all the way home!


Top of the Heap: Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2010 (as usual, Skip's House of Chaos must've been #51. Again.)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2012721,00.html

Another Top of the Heap: Ten Clips of Jon Stewart Destroying Fox News
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-clips-of-jon-stewart-destroying-fox-news/melodyyan

Tips on Tipping Everyone from Your Pizza Guy to Your Sherpa
http://consumerist.com/2010/08/tips-on-tipping-everyone-from-your-pizza-guy-to-your-sherpa.html

Never warp your brain with Time Zone math again
http://everytimezone.com/

Hate her (or his) guts? Say it with dead flowers
http://dirtyrottenflowers.com/

Fried Beer. That is all. God bless America
http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/428360/ed-stansel/2010-08-27/fried-beer-ultimate-fair-food

Expedition Titanic is a free website that lets you explore and watch Titanic wreckage footage entirely through your web browser
http://www.expeditiontitanic.com/

The 6 Coolest Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants (Thanky, Tally)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/30/southwest-flight-attendants_n_695966.html#s131071

Incredible scale model of the Solar System
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/