Thursday, August 7, 2008
Who knew?!
In case you didn't think there was something online about absolutely anything you can think of, there is a toaster museum.  It's a well-designed website and actually fun and interesting to visit, in case you thought you knew everything about toasters.  Or (foolishly) didn't know there was more to know.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Neat sites

I have no personal use for a kennel in northern New Jersey, having neither a dog nor a residence anywhere near there, but Highland Kennels is apparently one of Color Addict's web clients. It's a nice website - informative and fun to look around. A kick just to look at the pictures. If I had a dog and lived in the area and wanted to let my dog go to a playgroup, I'd definitely go there.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Newser
I'm not sure if I like the barrage of images but maybe I do. I definitely like the hover-and-read feature. Newser.com is an interesting development in news sites and at least it makes a distinction between hard and soft news and, more importantly, allows you to select your own percentage of hard and soft. Not have to read about Ben Affleck having a baby in the same breath as economic issues would be refreshing. Of course one could probably make a case for all news being essentially entertainment but that would be a different subject. Anyway, newser seems worth a try.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Superb websites
Time magazine has compiled a list of 50 fabulous websites. I liked them all especially these:

Gas Buddy (time-tested and VERY helpful)
Howcast (much better than others like it)
Itotallylikeloveit (this is a delight)
Omiru (amazing, fun and useful)
Wikitravel (I basically am not a fan of wikis (topic for another day) but this is terrific)
Health.com (much better tone and therefore more useful (to me anyway) than the others)
Serious eats (Mario Vitali and lots of interesting stuff)
Mapjack (digital mapping made fun and visually appealing)
Mint (financial planning/scheduling made fun)
Nymbler (names made wild and crazy)
Picnik (photo editing gone easy as well as wild and crazy)
SearchMe (results of searching moving to a new level)
Someecards (not your average card shop, not even average e-card shop)
WebSudoku (no need for explanations)
CarbonRally (either silly or awesome, not sure yet)
Colourlovers (awesome)
FreeRice (tons of fun, instructional AND worthwhile, all in one!)
Kiva - and some others (personal loaning sites, very interesting and useful)
Petfinder (holy cow, I mean mackerel, I mean . . .)

Enjoy!!

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