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/

August 25, 2010

As an inventory control analyst, I'm intrigued
by one question: Does Coldwater Creek have
an above-average problem with shrinkage?

Top of the Heap: In the "I-NEED-me-one-of-these" department: the Submarine Shark! (Thanks, Debb!)
http://alturl.com/w7a38

24 Things You Might Be Saying Wrong
http://alturl.com/w63bf

The Best Boardwalk Foods in the USA
http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/8-Best-Boardwalk-Foods-in-the-U.S.html

25 Awesome, Futuristic Motorcycles
http://supertremendous.com/Content/25-awesome-futuristic-motorcycles.html

3 Reasons Why the "Ground Zero Mosque" Debate Makes No Sense
http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-reasons-the-ground-zero-mosque-debate-makes-no-sense/

What Your Face Reveals About Your Health
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/drmao/what-your-face-reveals-about-your-health

6 Movie Plots That Could Have Been Solved in Minutes
http://www.cracked.com/article_18658_6-movie-plots-that-could-have-been-solved-in-minutes.html

How to Tell When Your Boss is Lying (it's not just when his lips are moving)
http://www.economist.com/node/16847818?story_id=16847818

The Top 10 Facebook Fixes
http://lifehacker.com/5616928/top-10-facebook-privacy-and-usability-fixes

A little strapped for cash, are we? Here's How to Find Unclaimed Money and Property
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2010/07/26/how-to-find-unclaimed-money-and-unclaimed-property-online/

Your Complete Guide to Cheap College Textbooks
http://www.couponsherpa.com/ask-coupon-sherpa/your-complete-guide-to-cheap-college-textbooks/

50 really useful Android tips and tricks
http://alturl.com/om65w

Related: Six Ways to Type Faster in Android
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203229/article.html?tk=nl_bex_h_howto

A-a-a-and.... 10+ Invaluable Android Apps for Back-to-Schoolers
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/19/10-android-apps-for-back-to-school/

Here's more! 5 Must Have Back-to-School Apps for your Computer and Smartphone
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/19/5-must-have-back-to-school-apps-for-your-computer-and-smartphone/

The World's Worst Powerpoint Presentations
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203396/article.html?tk=nl_tnx_h_topstory

The Top 10 Extreme Sport Jumps (Thanks, Billy!)
http://biggeekdad.com/2010/06/top-10-jumps/

August 18, 2010

Everyone was pretty stoked when we announced
we were getting the band back together, but the
next task was figuring out who had a garage
big enough for the 76 of us to march in.


Top of the Heap: Need to save your seat? Try Fake Spilled Food
http://vintagehomeshipshe.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=16

The Top 12 Vegan-Friendly Cities ("Are you a vegetarian because you love animals or because you hate plants?")
http://blog.koldcast.tv/2010/koldcast-news/12-cities-that-make-it-easy-to-be-a-vegan/

What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked? Try Unsuck It
http://unsuck-it.com/

The Ultimate Fart Soundboard
http://www.fart-sounds.net/fartboard.swf

Like reading? Check out What Should I Read Next?
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

This week's Cool Online Clock
http://helvetictoc.com/

10 Ways to Live Frugally at College
http://www.zencollegelife.com/10-ways-to-live-frugally-in-college/

In defense of Steven Slater (Thanks, Jack!)
http://alturl.com/kz8x5

13 Tips for Selling Your Home
http://alturl.com/d63ia

The Dos and Don'ts of Dealing With Your In-Laws
http://alturl.com/3oq9j

In honor of Shark Week (well, a week late... but still) - Shark Facts
http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/top-shark-facts.html

August 11, 2010

Fries, toast, vanilla, kisses and ticklers.
I don't care what anybody else says, the French ROCK.


Top of the Heap: This girl is awesome. SOMEBODY hire her! (Thanks, Debb!)
http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/

Top of the Heap #2: The Best Craigslist Ad, EVER (warning, a little NSFW) (Tip o'the hat to the Bardgal for this one)
http://cavemancircus.com/2010/08/06/how-awesome-is-this-craigslist-ad/

Skip's Rule #236: Everything tastes better on a stick. Even pizza
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pizza-on-a-Stick/

Suck on THIS, vegans: Switching to a meat-based diet helped early humans grow big, strong brains.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128849908

Seven DIFFERENT 7 Wonders of the World
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/62030

Incredibly cool - photos from the past superimposed onto photos from the present.
http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

10 Reasons to Go to a Small College
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/professors-guide/2010/07/28/10-reasons-to-go-to-a-small-college.html

6 Evil Corporations in Movies (With Terrible Business Plans)
http://www.cracked.com/article_18643_6-evil-corporations-in-movies-with-terrible-business-plans.html

Princeton Review's Top 10 Party Colleges
http://brainz.org/news/princeton-review-top-10-party-colleges-2011/3268/

A tour of Graceland
http://chrisglass.com/album/2010/07/13/graceland/

The Seven Most Inaccurate Movie Sound Effects
http://www.popcrunch.com/the-seven-most-inaccurate-movie-sound-effects/

5 Things You Should Check Before Disposing of Old Computers
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-check-disposing-computers/