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WotW or Websites Of The Week is where we want to encourage you to take part in trying 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 – LifeHacker
Website Of The Week – Lifehacker.com Coming from me, as a nerd, but sort of a DIY guy, but also a guy that is about making myself better… well, hacking your life is cool and fun. There’s so much here to look at to improve and change your life for the better. From your desk, to your home, your lunch, your mind… your LIFE can be made better by reading this website, and exploring the new things that you can do. In any given day, you can learn cool new tips and tricks for your resume, your diet, your pet, and even...
read moreWotW – Critical Past
Website Of The Week – CriticalPast.com With Pearl Harbor day here, we move to the past to see what happened. I must confess that frequently fascinated by the different films from the past. Historical films reveal some of the issues that we take for granted, or overlook, and sometimes those films reflect propaganda, or how the other side viewed the situation. A website that presents 57,000 videos from the past is a valuable website indeed. The concept of CriticalPast.com is to provide a resource to teachers, presenters, and the...
read moreWotW – HubbleSite.org
Website of the Week – HubbleSite.org The Hubble Space Telescope has provided astounding images of space since it was launched in 1990. Even in it’s early years, when they found a mistake in the glass, they still gained amazing pictures of far off galaxies. Today, the telescope constantly kicks out colorful images of what we could never hope to see with the human eye within our lifetime. HubbleSite.org is devoted to keeping the thrill alive for astronomers of all ages, highlighting great pictures, but also exploring the...
read moreWotW – Epicurious
Website Of The Week – Epicurious.com Ahh, the time of the year when we are scrambling to put the turkey in the oven, make stuffing and cornbread, cook the corn, squash, and sweet potatoes. And did we forget pumpkin pie? Never! But so many of us are not sure how to handle these things. Grandma and Grandpa used to do the cooking, but with families becoming more separated, the passing along of information from one generation to the next in regards to cooking, baking, and kitchen tasks, has dwindled. Enter Epicurious, which gives...
read moreWotW – Wayback Machine
Website Of The Week – Archive.org The Internet Archive, through the Wayback Machine, delivers you to a time when the web was a lot less of a web. Archive.org has spent a large portion of time, crawling the internet (technically, as well as figuratively), to keep track of the information as it used to be. One can easily look at their favorite website from 15 years ago, and see how it progressed. Yahoo.com did not always look the way it did, for instance. Yahoo.com, when it started, was a small assembly of hyperlinks that were...
read moreWotW – 2 offbeat political sites
Websites of the Week - 2 offbeat political sites OK, so there are folks at all ends of the political spectrum, and these two websites are some of the most talked about websites by the other side of the spectrum as being wacky, insane, fringe, and more. I actually like to check out both sites regularly to see what the hardcore people think, even though my own political views are more centrist. One site proposes that Obama is not a “natural-born citizen”, and the other site proposes that GW Bush was Satan incarnate. One site...
read moreWotW – IMDB
Website Of The Week – IMDB.com You’re sitting there, watching a movie or a TV show, and you want to know where you know that actor from? Well, one of the best resources for anything having to do with movies and TV, is none other than the Internet Movie Database. Started by this guy who was just keeping track of his interests and pastimes (movies), this website has developed into so much more. From actor biographies, trivia about your favorite movie, info on upcoming movies, and even some of the more arcane information like...
read moreWotW – Indeed
Website Of The Week – Indeed.com Everyone has likely had to look for a job at some point in time. Job hunting on the Internet can be tough if you go to all of the websites that are available. Fortunately, Indeed.com siphons the information from a bunch of resources that list jobs, placing them all in one nice need location. They post thousands upon thousands of jobs every week, but you can narrow the results to different things, like looking for a geographic area, or a particular keyword. This is a valuable tool for anyone in the...
read moreWotW – Kideos
Website Of The Week – Kideos.com There are so many websites out there for videos, but what do you do if you have children? YouTube doesn’t cut it, and there are plenty more that are worse. Kideos serves up a great option for parents who are looking for video content that their kids will love, and that will be save. Kideos breaks up the options into all kinds of age groups, and the site is colorful for kids, which helps maintain interest. The videos may be pulled from other websites, but they stay within their control, so...
read moreWotW – Lulu
Website Of The Week – Lulu.com I’ve got a half dozen ideas for books, but no time to make them. Alas, I know other people in the same boat, but I also know folks that have completed their books, but don’t know where to publish them next. Additionally, there are folks who are great authors, but haven’t been signed yet, so they need someplace to publish their works in the meantime, for friends and family. After reviewing a few different places, I came across this oddly named site called LuLu.com. A calculator is...
read moreWotW – KhanAcademy.org
Website of the Week – KhanAcademy.org Did your kid or grandkid just ask you a question about math or science or history that you don’t know the answer to? Did you not take Calculus or Physics, or you need help with studying for the SATs? Check out KhanAcademy.org. This amazing website contains hundreds of videos from which you can learn why we’re worried about what’s going on in Korea or what the “housing crisis” is all about. If you have the time and just want to learn something new, this site’s for you! The videos are...
read moreWotW – LinkedIn
Website Of The Week – LinkedIn.com Facebook, Google+, MySpace, and more of these social media websites, all vie for a little piece of attention in your off-hours. They are all seeking to promote your social interaction with others, keeping you in touch with the most important people in your personal life. But what about the professional side of things? What about getting a new job? Yep, there’s a site for that. LinkedIn has been around for a few years, and while it’s mentioned, I sometimes find that a large number of...
read moreWotW – ArmorGames
Website Of The Week – ArmorGames.com (with special author, Benny Rockwell) Put on your armor soldier, it’s time to go to war! Against boredom! www.armorgames.com is a great presenter and host of online free-to-play flash games, from puzzle games to action games. You’ve likely already played some of their games on www.addictinggames.com, but here you can find their full collection, right from the source. Owned by a company in Irvine, California, their site has hundreds – if not thousands – of addicting flash-powered games that can...
read moreWotW – Snopes
Website Of The Week – Snopes.com Not sure about an e-mail? Having a problem with trusting everything that you read? What about the various e-mails that you receive with sweet stories that claim truth, or dire consequences of the “Worst Virus Anyone Has Ever Seen”. Well, there are a number of sites that duplicate the efforts, but none ever seem to be able to match the style, charm, and devotion to fascinating background that Snopes.com does. Barbara and David Mikkelson, the researchers, authors, and organizers of this...
read moreWotW – Major Geeks
Website Of The Week – MajorGeeks.com Atten-Hut. Listen here, soldiers. You’ve been dragging your feet. Head on down, right now to the Major’s office. OK, so I’m not exactly setup to be a Drill Sargeant. I respect our servicemen, but I also know that I couldn’t hold a candle to the guys that train our men for going overseas into the battlefield. I’ll leave it to the nerd stuff for the rest of the post. Major Geeks has become more cluttered than when I started using it some 8 or 9 years ago. The...
read moreWotW – HSX
Website Of The Week – Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com) Stocks have gone topsy turvy, and our 401K’s are all now called 201k’s… (notice the little k?). The stock market seems like only the insiders are getting rich, and that is tough. This weeks website is not about making money… well, not real money at least. It’s called the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Picture a concept where you are given $2,000,000 (not real), and you get to treat the movies as the different properties that will make or break...
read moreWotW – FreeCycle
Website Of The Week – FreeCycle.org Recycling is something that we should all do. The concept of putting our discarded items to better use elsewhere is great. Sometimes, however, we think too far through the process, and consider the dismantling, destruction, and demolition of things once loved. That sometimes makes it harder to deal with letting go of something we used to love. Freecycle is a different kind of a concept for many folks, but it isn’t much different than the hand-me-down concept. You have a 3 year old kid,...
read moreWotW – Rotten Tomatoes
Website Of The Week – RottenTomatoes.com We can’t always pick a website of the week that is rare or unusual. Sometimes, we pick something that has gathered attention, and present it in case you had never heard of it. In years gone long ago, when an actor was doing poorly, a variety of vegetables or other items would be hurled upon the stage (and sometimes the actor), and it was a genuine reflection on the quality of the story, the actor, and the presentation. With that concept in mind, you now have a little bit of an...
read moreWotW – TED
Website Of The Week – TED.com What if there were a website that you could learn from. No, I mean, REALLY learn something useful. In a short period of time. Imagine a place, where some of the most influential nerds, the brightest minds, and entertaining characters in technology, entertainment, and design, come to “give the talk of their lives.” That’s TEDs mission. TED stands for Technology Entertainment, and Design, and the folks there are astounding in their concepts and delivery, managing to bring...
read moreWotW – Addicting Games
Website Of The Week – AddictingGames.com (with special guest, Benny Rockwell) There’s a reason why Addicting Games.com starts with ADD… Hi, my name is Benny, and I’m an addict – to video games! Okay, not really, but www.addictinggames.com has an amazing collection of free-to-play games, that really are quite addicting. They may not produce any of their own games, but they are one of the most popular hosts out there. Owned by the same company that owns Shockwave, their site has hundreds – if not thousands – of...
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