December 17, 2008

Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten.
Except what to do with pliers, a blowtorch and fire ants
once Peter Stewart, the school bully, was hog-tied in the
boiler room. *That* I didn't learn until the second grade.


Top of the Heap: The Top 10 of Everything for 2008
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10

Share this with anyone who wants to smile today
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1892182081

In this week's "I-wan't-me-one-of-these" department...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_-PQdrgw2A&e

The Eyeballing Game (I got a 6.17)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#url=http%2525253A//woodgears.ca/eyeball/

An emotional farewell, he gets up to leave and... wait... did I just SEE that?
http://vids.eonline.com/services/player/bcpid1396519019?bctid=4256703001

Deck us all with Boston Charlie
http://www.pogopossum.com/deckus.htm

Every flight on Earth in 72 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR00_uLfGVE&e

The Plagiarism Checker
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/?

Well, FINALLY.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081211/sc_livescience/doctorsadviceleavethetoiletseatup;_ylt=AssY19u1Vr2AaRuXcwrrobIPLBIF

The Future of Our World - a small glimpse into the timeline of epic scale (or not...)
http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/

The Top 40 Travel Songs of All Time (with video goodness!)
http://www.worldhum.com/features/lists/world-hum-top-40-travel-songs-of-all-time-20081208/

10 Surefire Stress-Busting Sites
http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Tension-Condension-10-Surefire-Stress-Busting-Sites.394049

This guy is so bad he's hysterical - the World's Worst Comedian
http://regretfulmorning.com/2008/12/worlds-worst-comedian/

December 12, 2009

Personally, I think Nature should learn
to be a little more tolerant of vacuums.


Top of the Heap: Sine Wave Speech - NOW I understand what R2D2 was saying!
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/sine-wave-speech/

No, wait - THIS is the Top of the Heap: Bacon Stocking Stuffers!
http://www.foodvu.com/content/bacon-stocking-stuffers

Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts (hint: Guess what used to be in 7-Up?)
http://listverse.com/food/another-10-fascinating-food-facts/

15 Looks That David Hasselhoff Can Pull Off But You Can't
http://nextround.net/2008/11/18/15-looks-david-hasselhoff-can-pull-off-but-you-cant/

48 Essential Resources for Student Writers
http://education-portal.com/articles/45_Essential_Resources_for_Student_Writers.html

Clichés: Avoid Them Like the Plague
http://www.suspense.net/whitefish/cliche.htm

Bunnies Suicide
http://alisher.city.tomsk.net/shared/bunnies/

The Most Important Image Ever Taken
http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-deep-field.htm

10 Wondrous Websites With Which to Waste Time at Work
http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Wondrous-Websites-with-Which-to-Waste-Time-at-Work.374831

Calvin and Hobbes - Snow Art
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8866/calvinsnowartsv1.png

Water is the source of life - incredible photos
http://thehomebased.com/?p=8

Movie guide to Summer, 2009
http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=906

100+ websites to help you Organize Your Life
http://mashable.com/2008/12/02/organization-applications/

Science the way it's supposed to be - fun
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/bringing-back-the-dead-1208

Funny T-Shirt designs
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Glennz-Tee-Store-Designs/149088

Tips and Tricks with Google Maps (I particularly like the first one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Xv-cJE5NE&e

20 Movie Technologies That Should Have Been Invented By Now
http://www.memebox.com/futureblogger/show/1391-20-movie-technologies-that-should-have-been-invented-by-now-but-haven-t

The Best of Craigslist: Things I'd like to tell students that would probably get me fired.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/42105113.html

The Top (Bottom?) 15 Worst Joker Costumes
http://www.collegeotr.com/gallery/college_otr/the_15_worst_joker_costumes_16485/1

All of the Nations of the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgCUczHQ34

The back stories to 10 Christmas songs
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20711

Most Popular Top 10's for 2008
http://lifehacker.com/5099979/



BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

My son just started his own version of Website Wednesday called "Jack's Sunday Paper"
Here are a few of the postings:
Build your own Solar System
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/
Addicting Game O'the Week - Juggler
http://www.coldtomatoes.com/games/juggler/pongleur5.swf
Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make
http://robertsabuda.com/popmake/index.asp

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December 3, 2008

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance?
Wow! There's *another* thing I didn't know!


Top of the Heap: This is great! A Bacon Advent Calendar! (Mmmmmm, bacon!)
http://www.foodvu.com/content/bacon-advent-calendar

In this week's "I-want-me-one-of-these" category - the Power Nap Capsule! (and it's only $25,000!) http://www.hammacher.com/publish/76362.asp?source=CJ&cm_mmc=CJ-_-1408768-_-1830967-_-Hammacher+Product+Catalog#

25 AWESOME Ways to Break Bad News
http://www.cracked.com/article_16820_25-awesome-ways-break-bad-news.html

Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can finally get into the Christmas scene with 10 Unique Gift Ideas
http://top10listblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/10-most-unique-gift-ideas.html

How to run Christmas lights on your bicycle
http://www.instructables.com/id/The_Holiday_Bicycle_How_to_run_Christmas_Lights_o/

10 Terrible Life Lessons From Your Favorite Christmas Movies
http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/editors/191/10-Terrible-Life-Lessons-from-Your-Favorite-Christmas-Movies

Redneck PlayStation (thanks, Debb!)
http://majman.net/fly_loader.html

Probably the funniest "Daily Show" clip, ever - Stewart and Colbert losing it, big time
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=108395&title=Prince-Charles-Scandal

12 remakes of sci-fi classics in the works
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/11/hollywood-back.html

Blahblahfish - English to ___ and back again - see what's lost in the translation (this is fun)
http://www.blahblahfish.com/en/

15 very strange ads
http://www.unfabulouz.com/2008/12/15-very-strange-ads.html

Flickr Photo Selection Tool - Very Cool - Select Your Photos by Colors
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/?1

Strobe light + waterfall = too cool
http://www.wimp.com/toocool/

The MegaPenny Project - a cool way to visualize large numbers
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp

Farting in Public
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ejlkzDCuc

Total eclipse of the Sun, as seen from 27,000 feet
http://holy-web.blogspot.com/2008/11/total-eclipse-of-sun-photographed-from.html

10 More Super Cool Cell Phone Tips and Tricks
http://www.totalpad.com/story.php?title=10_More_Super-Cool_Cell_Phone_Tips__Tricks

In the "Why-Didn't-I-Think-Of-That" category, Cool Inventions
http://funny-you.com/index.php/Funny/Cool-Inventions.html

Blue Beauty
http://www.greatdanepro.com/Blue%20Bueaty/index.htm

Keyboard for Blondes (Yes, it's real)
http://www.keyboardforblondes.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.main

No Fear Shakespeare (something Tally's gonna HATE!)
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web
http://www.online-college-blog.com/index.php/features/100-useful-tips-and-tools-to-research-the-deep-web/

Frak Yeah! BSG Spinoff "Caprica" Goes to Series
http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20081202/en_top_eo/71216



But wait! There's more!
Youngest son Jack decided HE'D get into the Website Wednesday game this week with the following:

First of all, the Addicting Game O'the Week - BUNNIES
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm
Addicting Game O'the Week #2 - people bucket game
http://www.pplbucket.com/
Us Debt Clock
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
conversion tables
http://www.theepicentre.com/tables.html
stephen hawking as a lego
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/OchreJelly/Microscale/StephenHawking/hawkmain.jpg
write rhymes
http://www.writerhymes.com/
30 second bunny movie gallery
http://www.angryalien.com/
girl with x-ray eyes
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/reality/human_files/girl/index.shtml
what's it called
http://www.didyouknow.cd/whatsit/whatisitcalled.htm

And still more...
female logic
http://www.begent.org/women.htm
castaway
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/castaway.htm
Oh, crap
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_nov2008/CliffWalker.jpg
Airline food... what's up with that?
http://pixelatedgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1226797576151.jpg
Love is like peeing
http://www.pickuplinegen.com/index.php?id=562
Today's media
http://cagle.com/working/080222/tab.jpg
A photographer's mug
http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/09/a-photographers.html
Pictures taken at just the right time
http://www.blingit.us/blog/2008/02/27/pictures-taken-just-at-the-right-time/
Batman, the Lego
http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comics/2007-10-12.png
Dog property laws
http://www.sitstay.com/dog/supplies/servlet/LargeImageView?storeId=10001&partNumber=CLDP1
Tsunami danger zone
http://www.wasthatfunny.com/m_pictures/gogotu74.JPG
10 Cool Secrets About Disneyland
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/10-cool-secrets-about-disneyland/
Abstinence
http://www.submiturpics.com/images/oy51de6uj7jv7n839o7v.jpg
Bottomless Pit
http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/halloween/csolsen/pit2007.html
Awesome meteor
http://yawoot.com/post/1666
Ironing Man
http://www.cr3static.com/data/jpg/im.jpg
Lobster Knife Fights
http://web.mit.edu/user/m/b/mbroman/www/farkisms/lobster_knife.jpg
The Bunny
http://www.fivefourteen.net/motivational-posters/bunny.jpg

November 26, 2008

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November 19, 2008

A couple hundred years from now, when they're teaching students about me, they'll probably call this my Website Wednesday period.

Top of the Heap: Cool spy gadgets for the James Bond within you!
http://www.walyou.com/blog/2008/11/18/cool-spy-gadgets/

Hey, troops! Today is World Toilet Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Toilet_Day

A Collection of the Strangest Toilets from Around the World!
http://www.offbeatearth.com/the-strangest-toilets-from-around-the-world/

Bizarre Toilets - a tribute to Joe the Plumber
http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/bizarre-toilets-joe-the-plumber

The Legend of Thomas Crapper
http://www.repwars.com/PSP/crapper.html

A list of common misconceptions (Thomas Crapper is, indeed, mentioned)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions

Solar System Visualizer
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/SolarSystems/

The Stupidest Exercise Machine You'll Ever See
http://www.burbia.com/node/2113

The Earth at Night
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1084777/The-Earth-night-Stunning-images-cities-light-globe.html

Stonehenge Demystified (tip o'the hat to Skip D'Amico)
http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks

70 Things to Do Before Having Children (I managed 45 of 'em)
http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/08/25/70-things-to-do-before-having-children/

Need a light? All you need is a potato, salt, some toothpaste, 2 wires and a cotton ball
http://holy-web.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-need-light-all-you-need-is-potato.html

10 Cool (and Weird) Watch Concepts
http://devicedaily.com/gadgets/10-cool-and-weird-watch-concepts.html

The 8 Worst Wedding Theme Ideas
http://www.omglists.com/article/104954/the-8-worst-theme-wedding-concepts/

What did your town look like according to Penny Postcards? (thanks to my right-wing love muffin George)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html

Peering into the micro world - incredible pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html?

Yes, we can learn a lot from the Chinese...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/15/china-ministry-culture-music-miming?No_Mimes

Bathroom mirror prank
http://www.break.com/index/absolutely-hilarious-bathroom-mirror-prank.html

Meh...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/meh--the-really-boring-buzz-word/2008/11/17/1226770336183.html

The coolest picture of the Moon and Saturn you'll see all day
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Eclipse.html

Fanboys (a movie featuring Princess Leia, Lando Calrissian, Jay, Silent Bob, and Captain James T. Kirk) is going to be either hysterically funny or incredibly disappointing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzYG9t5zi0

But Star Trek, on the other hand, looks AMAZING
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-xi/trailer

This is pretty cool - want to sent a messages to the inhabitants of Earth in the year 52,010 (or 52,011)? Go here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO

The "How to Spot a Tourist in New York City" Quiz
http://www.citypass.com/97th/spot-a-tourist.html

Oh great. And I just left Seattle today, too.
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/165393/

November 12, 2008

If life hands you a lemon,
roll back the odometer,
slap on a cheap paint job,
and sell it to some poor sucker.
Just don't get caught like I did.


Top of the Heap: Best customer review, ever
http://www.amazon.com/review/RXI2EYTY96F8D/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

In this week's "I-want-me-one-of-these" department: A pocket projector!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html

Strike that! Put THIS on the list!
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/06/darth_toaster/

How awesome is this? A live webcam from Alaska that shows the aurorae!
http://salmon.nict.go.jp/awc/live/index_n_e.php

Being covered in paint is not always a bad thing
http://www.offbeatearth.com/being-covered-in-paint-is-not-always-such-a-bad-thing/

Would you buy this funny-looking bulb?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/would-you-buy-this-funny-looking-bulb/

While my idea of "roughing it" means "no room service," here are the Top 10 "Best for Camping" National Parks
http://www.campingtourist.com/camping-spots/united-states-national-parks-top-ten-best-for-camping/

Know Your Meme: FAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cilLKufYOhE

The wacky world of Personal Ads
http://www.purpleslinky.com/Humor/The-Wonderfully-Wacky-World-of-Personal-Ads.335085

An atheist talks with God (crappy theology, but an interesting article)
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal

50 Facts You Might Not Know About Barack Obama
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html

Online alarm clock - once loaded, the online alarm clock will work even if your Internets goes down. Supposedly.
http://kukuklok.com/

Wanna see a 17-gigapixel panoramic photo of Yosemite? Me neither. But if you do, here it is
http://www.yosemite-17-gigapixels.com/

MST3K, 20 years later
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/television/09dave.html?ref=television

Erase your identity online in 10 easy steps "because what happens in Vegas, stays ONLINE!"
http://smashgods.com/2008/08/20/become-web-dead-erase-your-online-identity-in-10-steps/

A Census of Life - Diversity Under the Sea (thanks, barridawn!)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadband/theedge/sfl-edge-n-marinelife,0,4942100.flash

WiseGeek: Clear Answers for Common Questions
http://www.wisegeek.com/

InCREDible! Brain Magic
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/keith_barry_does_brain_magic.html#

November 5, 2008

Change is good. Especially when
it's a change back to the way
I liked it in the first place.


Top of the Heap: This is great: Star Wars: An a capella tribute to John Williams
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4&fmt=18

The Lost "Bloom County" strips - those which appeared in newspapers and then were never reprinted
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/bloomtrilogy.html

In this week's "I-want-me-one-of-these" category, the Van De Graff Levitation Wand
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/30/amazing-geek-toy-the-van-de-graff-levitation-wand/

How to peel a watermelon in 30 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S3cXJrQqk#t=0m17s

A Guide for Americans Seeking Affordable Medical Treatment Abroad
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover2-2008nov02,0,5118575.story

A bit late, but a GREAT Trick-or-Treat prank
http://urbanprankster.com/2008/11/trick-or-treat-dummy/

Explore the Universe with this neat tool
http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/english/4d2unav.html

Newspapers! You can't make this stuff up!
http://www.stopthefwds.com/2008/captions/newspapers/

The Top 10 Islands of the Caribbean
http://www.thetravelerszone.com/travel-destinations/top-10-islands-of-the-caribbean-choose-your-favorite/