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Showing posts with label miscellaneous cool stuff. Show all posts
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Weblink Weekends! Incredibly basic, incredibly useful

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It seems like such a little thing, but I have probably used the Time and Date website hundreds of times.

I don't keep a calendar by my desk at home, but I do have a link to timeanddate.com's Year 2009 Canadian calendar, and I refer to it constantly.

Need to figure out what days you worked last year, or if your birthday falls on a weekend next year? Just toggle to another year. Want to know the stat holidays for another country? Just switch from Canada to whatever you please.

It's also got printable calendars, time zone maps and converters, and the World Clock, showing you the correct time for any zone in the world.

It may sound too basic to be useful, but trust me, it's precisely the opposite. - Caleigh
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Weblink Weekends! Calling all technophiles - stay on top of what's new

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Here's a must-bookmark site for anyone who likes gadgets and gizmos.

SlipperyBrick.com (must look up where that name came from) says this about themselves: "SlipperyBrick was founded in August of 2006, and is a web site dedicated to the relentless search for all things technical. We have an obsessive passion for emerging consumer based technology, gadgets and related sciences and our staff of editors have years of experience, knowledge and most importantly a high interest in these technologies. SlipperyBrick may sound like a silly name but we are very serious about technology."

Some of my favourite items reviewed this week are the amber alert GPS child finder (shown at top), a laptop case that makes your laptop look like a newspaper, glow-in-the-dark toilet paper and absolutely everything made by Steampunk. Oh, and I have GOT to get me a Shoulderbrella. (pic at right from here)

SlipperyBrick reviews products just being launched, and those still in prototype or proposal stage, so you can find out what's coming ... and what's just a dream. - Caleigh

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Amazing find - 1950s "time capsule" home


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I found a very cool article on one of my favourite blogs - Retro Renovation -about a home that came on the market in St.Louis that had been virtually untouched since it was bought and decorated in 1955!

The one-and-only family to own this home lived in the basement (which includes a separate kitchen), and kept the upstairs as a showpiece, never even using the kitchen except to cook the Thanksgiving turkey.

Have you ever seen such pristine pink tile?

The update says that the purchaser bought absolutely everything "down to the clothes hanging in the closets" and plans to keep it in its retro state. - Caleigh
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Weblink Weekends! Get your to-do list in order with 43Things.com


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Last year I discovered a really neat site to help motivate me to finish a variety of long- and short-term projects that I have been procrastinating.

It's called 43Things.com, and with it you decide what you need to accomplish, when you need to do it by, and how you will reward yourself for meeting your goals (or punish yourself if you don't).

A unique aspect of the site is that it's also a social network - you publish your 43 things (or fewer), and others may comment, offer advice, or simply cheer you on. Likewise, you can read other people's goals, and take inspiration from them or provide advice and support if you wish. As you make progress, you can add comments, which can be very useful from a psychological standpoint when it feels like you aren't getting far on a large or long-term goal.

Sometimes checking an item off a generic to-do list can be a little anticlimactic, but with 43Things.com, you have a whole network of people to pat you on the back. It's a remarkable feeling! - Caleigh
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Weblink Weekends! Online literature


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If you've always wanted to read the classics but never made time for it, you're out of excuses!
Read Print is a wonderful resource for students, teachers, and anyone who likes the idea of free books (and doesn't mind reading them online).

The site contains thousands of public domain stories, poems and novels, primarily the classics by authors like Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen and Lucy Maud Montgomery. There is no cost or sign-up required to read the works, and the large print is surprisingly easy to read onscreen. Resources are catalogued by author to be easily searchable. Give it a try! - Caleigh
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When they say "situated on the water", they aren't kidding!


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If you ever wanted to live on water, then this is the house for you! I'm being a tease because it's not actually for sale, but it's definitely cool to see!

Situated on the Loddon river near Wargrave, England, this pinwheel-shaped home really put you at one with nature.

It's called Hind House, and it's the creation of British architect and visionary John Pardey. It recently won an award for its "response to a difficult site subjected to seasonal flooding resulting in its uniques design elevating the building on stilts."

Pardey's homes are all very interesting and unique in their approach to encorporating the outdoors into the design. Click here to view more of his one-off designs. - Caleigh
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Best online conversion tool ever!

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I was going to save this for my weekend weblink, but it's such a handy site that I couldn't wait. I don't think I've ever seen an easier-to-use conversion tool than this one, courtesy a computer programmer in Germany who goes by "Rasmus".

Just pick the type of conversion you want to do (such as Distance & Length), enter the amount you want to convert (such as 10 km) and click Calculate at the bottom of the section, and voila! ... you see all of the conversions for 10 km you could possibly want, whether it's 6.2137119 miles or 5307.8556263 fathoms.

Don't forget to bookmark this site! - Caleigh
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