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WotW or Websites Of The Week is where we want to encourage you to take part in exploring new and interesting things that you can do on the Internet. It may be something you’ve known about already, or it may be something absolutely new. Benjamin Rockwell, our stalwart explorer and leader, has found a variety of websites that will keep you informed and entertained with. Every Tuesday, Benjamin or one of the team, will present a website that is perfect for you to check out and learn more. Read below to find out more…
WotW – TVbythenumbers.com
Website of the Week - TVbythenumbers.com I’m a statistics junkie. I’m fond of television, having spent many hours in front of it over my many years, but while I’m not obsessed by it, I do like to follow what’s coming our way, and what’s leaving us. TV by the numbers is a site which covers exactly that… and next week, we’ll be in the heated renewal announcements. Many of the announcements for renewals and cancellations, and new shows have already come up, but the network’s will reveal the...
read moreWotW – Scholarships.com
Website of the Week – Scholarships.com Would you like to go to college, but can’t afford it? Do you think that scholarships are only for straight-A students? Not so. There’s free college money for people with all kinds of skills, abilities, and ambitions, and some of them would surprise you. Check out this website, then search for websites like it: http://www.scholarships.com/ Somebody has to get that money, and it might as well be YOU. It takes some time and a little effort, but you can’t win if you don’t enter...
read moreWotW – HistoryOrb.com
Website of the Week – HistoryOrb.com So, I was sitting at my desk one day, and someone sent me an email asking about my birthdate. I was thinking of narrowing down the date by adding some trivia about the date on which I was born. Sometimes people have those really cool dates or times, like my son. Benny’s birthdate was amazing… 51 years to the minute after the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor were seen on the radar installation at Opana Point, Hawaii… and his great-great-grandfather was one of the small team...
read moreWotW – Wired.com
Website Of The Week – Wired.com I only wish that I could know all of the things that I need to know in the cyber-sphere by osmosis. Truth is, however, that there are many sites that I rely upon to give me more nerd information. Wired.com is the closest that I have found to the science side of an old magazine made years ago… OMNI magazine. OMNI had science, but they also had more of the fiction, and the stuff that is usually talked about on late-night radio programs, in what I think of as the modern ghost stories. Wired,...
read moreWotW – Chow Tips at Chow.com
Website of the Week – Chow Tips at Chow.com OK, so if you’ve seen my picture here on the website, you’ll know that not only am I a nerd, I also enjoy food. I am always lloking for great ideas in the kitchen, and for cooking, and these little snippet videos are AWESOME. You can learn how to cook in a matter of 2 minutes a day, by learning little tips, and progressing further on your culinary skills. For instance, making boiled eggs, I found out… has nothing to do with boiling the eggs. I now make better boiled...
read moreWotW – GetFirefox.org
Website Of The Week – GetFirefox.org OK, so perhaps it’s not so much that it’s a website, but a browser. I am constantly encouraging people to check other browsers, other than what they are used to. Got a Mac? You’re probably stuck on Safari. Got a Windows PC? Probably still using Internet Explorer. Either way, you need to step outside of the doldrums and check out other browsers. This week, I’m suggesting Firefox, which has a number of interesting features. In the interest of time, I’ll...
read moreWotW – WiFiFreeSpot.com
Website of the Week – WiFiFreeSpot.com There aren’t many of us any more who don’t have any kind of mobile Internet-enabled device or laptop computer. But when we’re out and about, where are the Free Wi-Fi access places that we can use if we need to? Before you travel, check out wififreespot.com and make a list in advance. Remember that Wi-Fi spots come and go, so always have a backup location.
read moreWotW – OnlineNewspapers.com
Website of the Week – OnlineNewspapers.com It’s great to have the news at your fingertips, but did you ever suspect that you weren’t getting the whole story, or that the American reporter was misinterpreting something that happened overseas? Or maybe you just want to follow the doings of the British Royal Family or the election campaigning in France, but you just aren’t getting enough from your favorite online news sites. The answer is to go to online newspapers and magazines that cover your area of interest or are...
read moreWotW – ThinkGeek
Website of the Week – ThinkGeek.com Ok, so I use the term Nerd to refer to myself, but Nerds do like geeky stuff too. It’s a matter of how we approach the topic, as I’ve said before. A geek puzzles why people don’t like the stuff he does… a nerd, however, is self aware, and understands that what he does is outside of the norm. In this case, he still enjoys the outside of the norm, and can explain it to people in their language, versus technobabble. Think of Big Bang Theory… a comedy TV show about a...
read moreWotW – Cafepress
Website Of The Week – Cafepress.com Cafepress is one of those websites that is great for all kinds of people. Do you like t-shirts? Great, there’s some for you… one of the widest selections of “almost original” shirts out there. Hoodies? Same thing… People make their designs and they are usually something a little less frequently seen than the norm, and I’ll get to that in a moment. For the wearer, you can choose from a gazillion designs, from the latest holiday item, to your various...
read moreWotW – Opera
Website Of The Week – Opera.com It would be nice if we all just had one browser… NOT! Well, each browser out there has their own ups and downs, and Opera is just one of the alternatives to Internet Explorer and Safari (the default browsers if you are running Windows or Mac (respectively). Opera turns out to be one of the “skinniest” browsers available, using up very little overhead, loading information quickly, and just bringing the information to you without bloating your computer. If you are on the web...
read moreWotW – PopCapGames.com
Website Of The Week – PopCapGames.com Web based gaming is one of the cheaper ways to have fun while at your computer. Exercising your brain, your mouse hand, and your fingers, as you look over some very fun games, and play them, is one way that people manage to keep the brain active. Obviously, you need to make sure that you don’t do this at work… well, other than break time, of course. PopCapGames.com is one of those places where you can find some of the brightest and best games available for casual play. It’s...
read moreWotW – Box Office Mojo
Website Of The Week – BoxOfficeMojo.com OK, I’m a numbers junkie, a sucker for statistics, and I love the movies as well… so what fits in better? Well, what about a website that covers the latest weekend box office numbers. It lists how all of the movies are doing: how many theaters, the dollar per theater, the overall gross, etc. That’s this weeks website of the week, but there’s more as well. For instance, recently Liam Neeson’s movie called “The Grey” came out… and it’s...
read moreWotW – DailyInfographic.com
Website of the Week - DailyInfographic.com I’m just enthralled with statistics, well, actually with information about all kinds of things. Trivial Pursuit? I usually win. I also enjoy seeing how other people portray the information that they try to share with other people. Infographics are therefore, my cup of tea. If only there were a place where I could find infographics onall kinds of topics… BUT THERE IS!!! hahaha… DailyInfographic keeps you posted on all kinds of things that involve cool statistics, wierd...
read moreWotW – ErasingDavid.com
Website of the Week - ErasingDavid.com This Saturday is Data Privacy Day, a day that is set aside for us to all recognize the dangers of too much information being released. David Bond did a documentary in 2009 about his venture into going missing for 30 days, with top level detectives on his trail, all of the issues pertaining to privacy, about how governments track us, and more. This documentary was done in England, but the truths behind this documentary apply to us everywhere around the world. This is not some drug-fueled paranoia...
read moreWotW – Craigslist
Website of the Week – Craigslist.com By now, I am sure a lot of people have heard about Craigslist, but have you actually been there? This simple little website is a source for almost any purchase imaginable. From cars, to video cameras, to business cards, to… even your next job! Craigslist has long been a Wild West kind of area, and it’s not perfect, but it does serve a very important niche that has been left void by the demise of the newspaper. Classifieds have moved on-line, and they are free. It’s a good...
read moreWotW – CarBuyingTips.com
Website of the Week - CarBuyingTips.com Through life, we all tend to buy a car, or two… or… OK, I think I’m on car #12. Some were private parties, but a number of them were from a dealer. I’ve been to the dealer, and I’ve been fleeced, swindled, lied to, and robbed blind. Many of us have been. Even if you don’t think you have… you’ve either been lucky, or very naive. After a number of times of dealing with all of this, I’ve taken a hard stance against the dealers. I’ve...
read moreWotW – Gutenberg.org
Website of the Week – Gutenberg.org With the passing last year of Michael Stern Hart (2011′s Computer Talk Radio Nerd of the Year), we chose to also list Gutenberg.org as a Website of the Week. Gutenberg.org is a valuable resource for people who are interested in reading. Over 30,000 books are contained within the digital walls of this library which allows you to check out classics, but you don’t even have to return them… as they are eBooks. Whether filling your e-reader, or reading on-line, the power exists at...
read moreWotW – D-PAN.org
Website of the Week – D-PAN.org My grandfather, in his later years, became increasingly hard of hearing. As a person who talks with their hands a lot anyway, I’m fascinated by American Sign Language… and as a person who loves to hear, I find myself heartbroken that there are things that many deaf people will never hear. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, written when he was almost deaf, in itself is a testament to the awesome things that anyone on this planet can achieve. 2 months ago, I was drawn to the website by...
read moreWotW – NoradSanta.org
Website of the Week – NoradSanta.org Santa Claus gets some serious help each year from a wide variety of folks. Some of the folks that help keep him on schedule, are the same folks that protect our country. NORAD ensures that Santa can bypass the many problems with Air Traffic Control (hypersonic vehicles like Sleigh1 require special guidance to avoid other airplanes). Their partnership with the ELF Team (Extreme Little Flying Team), ensures that Santa can make all of the stops that he needs to within the roughly 24 hours he has to...
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