I’m not a horse race fan, but my neighbor, Sue, is.  A few weeks ago she told me I missed an amazing horse race and she sent me the link.   She was right.  This is amazing!

Etsy.com I have no idea how they got this name, but once you know it, you know it. It made Time.com’s 50 Best Websites for 2009. I love Etsy.  Great stuff. Great prices.  Great vendors. Give it a whirl for some of your Christmas shopping.  I bet you mark at least one person off your [...]

Are you blocked from Facebook at work?  Twitter?  MySpace?  YouTube? Shel Holtz writes a blog called A Shel of My Former Self that he sub-labels “blogging at the intersection of communication and technology”.   In his October 7th post he talks about “a study released last month by the Robert Half Technology, 54% of the [...]

If you’ve ever been to Times Square in New York City and spent some tourist time walking around seeing the sites, you may have run across one of Time Squares more famous attractions. Attractions. Ummmm. Yeah. Anyway, The Naked Cowboy struts his stuff Spring, Fall, Summer AND Winter.  And, P.S., he’s not really naked. Can’t [...]

  Single Purpose Websites. Have you heard of them?  I hadn’t until recently. Here’s a list (some are offensive so be aware). A few of my favorites. d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com IsIt2010Yet.com HowMuchIsAStamp.com AmIAwesome.com Mostly useless, but good for a look.

In case you’ve been living under a rock. Thanks to Ashleytisdalefan007 for the awesome lyrics! And, better yet, thanks to Anita Renfroe for the awesome performance! (And, of course, I found this on YouTube.com).

    I’m Just Sayin’…

Have you tried the new search engine BING? I gave it a quick look but haven’t delved into it yet.  What I saw looked cool asthetically but I couldn’t tell much of a difference at first blush. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted on his blog on June 1st Bing Doesn’t Suck.  Bing got a rough start — [...]

  YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. YouTube has more than 100,000,000 videos.     In case you care, here’s how it works. (Article thanks to our friends at HowStuffWorks.com.) (Statistics thanks to Social Revolution Video)

  Say what? YouMayDie.com   The 2010 Death Race™ will only accept 100 participants, 
to secure a spot in our event you will be required to contact Andy, 
aka the “undertaker” at andy@peak.com. Goodluck… “The 2010 Death Race™ will only accept 100 participants.  To secure a spot in our event you will be required to [...]

(I hope REGAN will forgive any copyright infringement. I am more than happy to give him all of the profits I’ve made off of this post.)

I know this is a little after the fact since Halloween was last weekend, but I ran across this and just was amazed.  What do you think?  Leave a comment. A definition… “A Hell House consists of a group of horrific scenes within a type of haunted house. The customer walks through a sequence of [...]

A really cool resource for parents that will help you with your kid’s math no matter what grade they are in.

I’m not a fan of plastic bottles.  I use them.  But I try not to. They are convenient because I can carry a little water with me when I go places…beats the collection of glassware I used to have rolling around in my Opal in college. I just have a problem with the amount of [...]

  So I think we’re really in trouble here. An article yesterday from Time.com announced a house cat has been officially diagnosed with swine flu. “On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed case of H1N1 in a house pet, a 13-year-old domestic shorthaired cat. The animal likely contracted the virus [...]

Does anyone know if these kinds of sites are legit?  I enjoy this one because it’s fun to test my knowledge with the quiz.  It gives you a word.  If you get the meaning right, it give you a harder one.  If you get the meaning wrong, it gives you an easier one until you [...]

Google Wave is coming…   What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document.  People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. [...]

  Top 10 Causes of Death for Women in the United States‡ The graph below shows how breast cancer compares to other common causes of death in women of all ages from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.  R Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Website - Learn more about breast cancer and what you can [...]

          Why do I fall?         Did you know that leaves don’t fall off of trees?     They are pushed!                   NPR.org recently broadcast an interesting story on this very subject.  Listen to it or read it here.

“Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.” Stan Schroeder recently wrote a post on this subject for Mashable. [...]

Time.com came out with their 50 Best Websites…it’s worth a look! “Clear out your bookmarks. You’re going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.”   Flickr California Coastline Delicious Metafilter popurls Twitter Skype Boing Boing Academic Earth OpenTable Google YouTube [...]

Hey!  Check it out….a website that allows you to upload an image into several templates that are fun to play with.  You can also save them.  I have several that I use as my profile picture on Facebook.   And it’s all free!   Photofunia.com