Jake of the Web Time Wasters And Then Some

For Cute!

http://www.thingsthatmakeyougoaahh.com/
http://cuteoverload.com/
http://www.thecuteproject.com/
For those who need a little something to make them smile and/or realize
there is good in the world. Some of this stuff is pre-conceived staged
saccharine, but some of it is the right amount of cute.

Donate rice and improve your vocabulary

http://www.freerice.com/
Recommended by Asa Reynolds
This site, through funding provided by advertisers (small ads at the bottom
of the page) donate rice to the UN World Food Program. The place where we
get involved is we go to the site and answer questions to help strengthen
our vocabulary. Each correct answer buys 10 grains of rice. This has the
two-fold intention to educate us and feed the hungry.

This site began on October 10th of this year, and it is very cool to see the
total grains of rice and how the daily totals are growing
exponentially:
830 Grains on October 7th
42,153,550 Grains on the 28th

The evils of solar power

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/solar.htm
Critique of solar power and solar power enthusiasts. This was actually
written in the late 70s before Solar Power had really gained any manner of a
foothold in the market. The claims are even funnier and more outrageous
today. (Don't tell anyone, but this is satire.
It's funnier if people think it's real).

Papercraft Toys!

Do-It-Yourself toys that you print out from PDF files and "cut 'n'
paste" together.
I brought 'PAL 9000', 'Do-deca-heathen' and a Geisha. Collect all 22!

http://readymech.com/

Jott

http://www.jott.com/
Allows you to have your speech converted into text and sent via text message
or email to yourself, friends, or groups.
After setting up your account, you can call their toll-free number, say who
you want to contact, and dictate any needed message. These messages are
actually dictated by real people - the same people who dictate medical
dictations.
You can also add posts to your Blogger blog, add appointments to an online
calendar called 30 boxes, or work with a handful of other sites and
applications.
They also have a downloadable desktop tool called 'Jott Express' or an
online Google widget for your Google home page.

What is RSS?

What is RSS about?

RSS, in its most simple terms, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' and is a way for you to view updates to all of your favorite/important sites in one location. News sites, blogs, podcasts and more and more other sites are using RSS, as it also gets their content out to people in a more effective way.

To view RSS feeds, you need an aggregator, which can be a web based app or a downloaded application. Google has 'Google Reader', Yahoo has an aggregator on 'My Yahoo'. Outlook 2007 will also have an RSS reader/aggregator built in. There are Firefox extensions for RSS Feeds, including;

Sage:

http://sage.mozdev.org/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77

Wizz RSS:

http://www.wizzrss.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/424

KlipFolio is a free downloadable RSS aggregator

http://www.download.com/KlipFolio/3000-9227_4-10653710.html

(Atropos note: You can subscribe to the blog's RSS with http://radiofromhell.livejournal.com/data/rss)

Open Cola

http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/

Open-source cola recipe.

NOTE:

"Caffeine can kill people in relatively small doses. The median lethal dose for an adult human is around 10 grams, or approximately one third of an ounce."

So don't overdo it with the Caffeine. You've been warned.

Synchronize your browser between multpile machines

Bill asked last week about synchronizing bookmarks or favorites between multiple computers using firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5525

Bookmark-synchronization add-ons for Firefox. The first, Foxmarks, is one of the most popular of all Firefox add-ons and is the de-facto standard for synchronizing favorites between two machines. Any addition or deletion you make on one computer will be automatically done on the other computer. You can also log in online and make changes while not on one of your usual machines.

Box.net has similar features, and may work for any out there who don't find they like Foxmarks.

Any and Every Video Game

www.everyvideogame.com

Recommended by Damon Liddiard, this site is similar to virtualnes.com, except it has games other than Nintendo games and it also allows you to save your games and come back to finish them later!

Star Wars / Beauty Queen / Trumpet?