Alfie1a Member Username: Alfie1a
Post Number: 186 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:28 am: | |
Hi all. Lodgedodger's thread of funny videos made me think of this. How about a thread where we can share some of our favorite websites? non-political, of course. heh http://www.earthsky.org/ I especially like the "EarthSky Tonight" charts. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 3990 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 1:34 pm: | |
I visit these often - http://www.gadgetstart.com/ http://www.savethecougar.org/ http://www.cryptozoology.com/ |
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit
Post Number: 2314 Registered: 03-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 3:18 pm: | |
I really only visit DYES and my blog roll for entertainment. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6648 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 3:34 pm: | |
100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites Also, just for laughs: The Bottom 10: The Web's Most Useless Sites |
Servite76 Member Username: Servite76
Post Number: 159 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 3:35 pm: | |
Someone just sent me this... http://www.faceinhole.com/us/ |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 3997 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 4:01 pm: | |
At least an interesting read. Crypto American Monsters |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4016 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:08 pm: | |
Nope, try again. What fun. |
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1803 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:26 pm: | |
This one is updated every Sunday, and I've checked it out each week since It'sJeff posted it... http://postsecret.blogspot.com / |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3719 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:43 pm: | |
Crystal - that brain candy one is driving me nuts! It's late and I can't figure out what I'm doing! I'm just not computing very well right now! LOL The one with the letters (Message edited by eriedearie on February 22, 2009) |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 2179 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 2:26 am: | |
Great thread Alfie, but I wish we could get some descriptions of what each site is about. Im not about to just click on every site someone posts just because its there to click on. Come on folks, lets hear a script. For instance, I love http://postsecret.blogspot.com / also. A look into the secrets ppl are afraid to tell anyone else. |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 2180 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 2:53 am: | |
In response to Bigb's http://www.savethecougar.org/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDmCE JokZs A look at the modern American cougar, SNL style. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4018 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:48 am: | |
Thank's anyway, Django, but I'm on American dialup, not Mexican broadband.(Youtube a problem). But I still appreciate Michigan cougars. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4019 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:57 am: | |
This will be an addendum to Cheddar_bobs site. http://www.myuntoldsecrets.com /Default.aspx?page=88&data=bes t&sort=ratings |
Ladia Member Username: Ladia
Post Number: 219 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 8:31 am: | |
I'm always looking for fun websites to check out,I thought this website was pretty fun. :-) |
Crystal Member Username: Crystal
Post Number: 383 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:29 am: | |
NASA's Earth Observatory The Earth Observatory’s mission is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models. http://earthobservatory.nasa.g ov/ Just My Type Drag each closeup snapshot to match a letter it could have come from. http://www.scottkim.com/newmed ia/justmytype.html Color Me RGB Make the original color match the target color by clicking one of the six buttons. http://www.scottkim.com/newmed ia/colormergb.html Retail Alphabet Game You are presented with 26 alphabet letterforms, extracted from US product and corporate logos. Figure out the source of each. There are five editions of this puzzle. http://www.joeykatzen.com/alph a/ Launchball Launchball is a physics flash game. Place blocks to set up a sequence of events that moves a ball into the goal. You can also create and share your own levels. Blocks that may be available on a level include a Tesla coil, escalator, torch, battery, lens, fan, and water turbine. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.u k/launchpad/launchball/ |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9471 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:36 am: | |
http://i.gizmodo.com/5158577/a t+at-walker-boombox-is-so-awes ome-i-want-to-cry |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4025 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:10 am: | |
Johnlodge - we both hang at Gizmodo ? We need to get a life. |
Alfie1a Member Username: Alfie1a
Post Number: 194 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 8:05 pm: | |
Bigb23, do you like listening to Coast to Coast AM? Every so often, they discuss cryptozoology. I like that postsecret thing. Django, that modern american cougar is damn funny. lmao heres another. it maps out the growth of Walmart through the U.S. Damn Walmarts are like a disease. http://projects.flowingdata.co m/walmart/ |
Crystal Member Username: Crystal
Post Number: 385 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:16 pm: | |
The map showing the spread of Wal-Marts reminds me of the dynamic map showing the spread of zebra mussels: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/d ynamic/dyn_zm.html# |
Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 1245 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:34 pm: | |
Here's one: www.coasttocoastam.com Conspirecies, crypto-news, alien abduction, crop circles, and anything else paranormal from the best overnight radio show. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6663 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:43 pm: | |
The epidemiology of Wal*Mart. Catchy theme. All Your Base Are Belong To Us |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 412 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:48 pm: | |
View over 900 satellites currently in orbit! A second Java-applet window will open. http://science.nasa.gov/Realti me/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html That plane that just passed overhead? Find out where it came from and where it's going. http://www.helloflight.com/ In a similar vein, find a flight by tailnumber (Red Wings are N682RW, Pistons are N880DP) and track it. http://flightaware.com/ |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 2182 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:20 pm: | |
D.j72, thanks for the Coast to Coast link. I totally forgot about that show. Again, great thread Alfie. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6708 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 8:22 pm: | |
http://bsalert.com/ That's where I found Mike Rowe: America Is Engaged In A Civil War Against Work where The Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs host explains how badly America now needs the very infrastructure workers it has alienated in the past. Duration 21 minutes:
Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Laborquote:Drawing on his experiences picking up roadkill, feeding swine, and castrating a lamb with his teeth, Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, discusses how modern American culture belittles necessary labor. EG is the celebration of the American entertainment industry. Since 1984, Richard Saul Wurman has created extraordinary gatherings about learning and understanding. EG is a rich extension of these ideas - a conference that explores the attitude of understanding in music, film, television, radio, technology, advertising, gaming, interactivity and the web - The Entertainment Gathering Mike Rowe has had more jobs than you. In fact, Mike has had more jobs than anyone. As the creator and executive producer of Discovery Channels Emmy-nominated series Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe, Mike has spent years traveling the country, working as an apprentice on more than 200 jobs that most people would go out of their way to avoid. From coal mining to roustabouting, maggot farming to sheep castrating, Mike has worked in just about every industry and filmed the show in almost every state, celebrating the hard-working Americans who make civilized life possible for the rest of us. On Labor Day 2008, Mike launched a Web site called mikeroweWORKS.com, where skilled labor and hard work are celebrated in the hope of calling attention to the steady decline in the trades and bolstering enrollment in trade schools and technical colleges. In addition to Dirty Jobs and his mikeroweWORKS endeavor, Mike is the voice of Deadliest Catch and the national spokesman for Ford Trucks. He has traveled extensively for Discovery Channel, hosting Shark Week in South Africa, where he field-tested a steel-mesh shark-suit, and Egypt Week Live, where he opened and explored newly discovered tombs in the Valley of the Golden Mummies. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4081 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 10:01 pm: | |
When I had cable, that was one of my favorite shows. He put a face back on the working man. Thanks Mike Rowe. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6743 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:12 pm: | |
I'd like to recommend Active Worlds although I haven't participated there for years. It's a 3-D (minus the stereoscopic goggles) virtual reality environment focused on chat, architecture, interior decorating and landscaping. It's an intelligent, international community. They provide an optional Software Developer's Kit allowing members who can write C programs to create bots that can enter a 3-D world and perform complex tasks on their behalf. I have real estate there in AlphaWorld at 255N 172E and 20000N 7777E that demonstrate some of the things that can be done. (All email and website addresses there are obsolete.) Wikipedia's Active Worlds article I am not affiliated with Active Worlds in any business sense. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4145 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 9:59 pm: | |
This is a British site with a few fun things. Warning, this is the PG-13 stuff, if you find anything else on the site, you're on your own ! http://www2.b3ta.com/singing-k itten/ http://www2.b3ta.com/bunnygame / http://www2.b3ta.com/sleepy-ki ttens/ http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic -internet-simulator/ http://www2.b3ta.com/buffyswea r/ |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4178 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Friday, March 13, 2009 - 8:23 pm: | |
Okay, this is for fun. Angry baby.
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