IKEA Hacker
Just ran across a fun site for IKEA fans. IKEAhacker.blogspot.com
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Always Thinkin’…
Here is a great idea for a new online social networking app: StomachBook. People can link through their stomachs, not by their faces. It’s time we get down to meeting people who eat like we do, not think. There could be a whole linky thing with recipes and restaurants. Friends would be called TummyChummies. Just a thought.
Label Google Maps
Google maps has been around a few years now and has a nice set of hacks out there. My favorite involves hijacking the title of the pushpin marker balloon as shown in the photo below. This is a pretty easy hack, to be honest:
- Zoom-in to the target location on the map (pick any view)
- Right click on "Link to this page" and (left) select "Copy Shortcut or "Copy Link Location"
- Paste the link into the Address Bar (Firefox users click Ctrl-lv) and do not click "Enter"
- Find the coordinates in the long text pasted into the Address Bar (some string like 35.782171,-78.638763)
- Drag-select both coordinates and Copy them.
- Paste the coordinates into the Google Maps Search Bar
- After the string, hit the spacebar, then "(". Type the title of your balloon, then ")" and click "Search Maps"
- To copy this map as it is, copy the new URL from "Link To This Page" (as in Step 2) and paste it into any application.
- Better yet, paste the URL into tinyurl.com and use the URL they give you!
Pretty easy, huh? You’ll find this as a great way of labeling an exact location for someone.
The Rock Rocks
Check out the rock in rural Iowa. Neat story.
Taming RSS Feeds
I follow about 40 RSS feeds each day and have had a little bit of a hard time taming them. I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader and felt much improvement. However the idea of arranging feeds by use instead of by topic is already paying off! It makes a lot of sense.
Social Butterflies
I have a patient who runs a neat little free email newsletter that women, especially, would really like. It’s called “Social Butterflies” and it features fun things to do and places to shop. One issue, for example, featured heads-ups on Crowder Park Nature Classes, Roots of NC Music classes, Family Movie Festivals, Lazy Daze info, and info about Padoodles, a Fuquay-Varina kids’ boutique. To sign up for the newsletter, email
CaryHeise@yahoo.com.
Find Your IP Address
There are several sites that will display your IP address. Until recently the IPChicken was the most entertaining site displaying one’s IP. We are lucky now, however, to have MoanMyIP.com. At this site a sexy woman moans your IP address. This is NOT office friendly!
Uncle Joe’s Update
A great site for catching quick music and entertainment news is Uncle Joe Benson’s Daily Update.
Daily Dose of Architecture
Here’s a great site. It’s the Daily Dose of Architecture - Daily musings from New York City. It isn’t exclusive to NYC by any means, but it is a very interesting blog to follow.
Atlanta Time Machine
For those who enjoy visiting Atlanta, you’ll enjoy the Atlanta Time Machine. It’s full of fun info and photos of days gone by compared to today. Pictured here is Lenox Square Mall looking toward the garden court end. The entrance to Rich’s (now Macy’s) is on the left.
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Pretty neat. It turns out that Google has a secret little flight simulator application within the new version of Google Earth. Simply install version 4.2. Look at “sky” mode, make the large view window active by clicking once upon it, then click Ctrl-Alt-A. A little pop-up should introduce you to the hidden gem. Here’s more about it.
SNL Archives
The answer to most any question one may have about Saturday Night Live can be found at The SNL Archive. Strangley, another resource seems to reside at that site, but is found through a back door. It is the SNL transcripts site.
One of the funniest skits I’ve ever seen was the “Out of Africa” skit in the ‘94 season opener show starring Charles Barkley/Nirvana. In the skit Rob Schnieder owns a primitive African art store where seemingly every item has a place to “put your weeeeed in it”. I looked for this skit when this episode reran on Comedy Central, however it was edited out when they whittled the show to fit the 1-hour format. Unfortunately it remains a lost piece of SNL lore.
Windows Wallpapers
The best Windows Wallpaper site I’ve seen is Socksoff, a site in the UK.
NYC Skyscrapers
New York City Skyscrapers is a great site for learning about each of the Great Apple’s highrise buildings. Especially impressive is the interactive aerial photo of downtown.
Real Estate Search
By far, the best way to be nosy is to use the Wake County Real Estate Search page. You can read all about sales transactions, see photos, and get fairly accurate square footage on houses.
Check out this 8,500 square foot house which recently burned to the ground. The family was at the hospital visiting their daughter in the ICU. Word is that two firefighters nearly died as the chandelier fell when the ceiling collapsed.
Lifehacker.org
Wanna site that can help you do everything from organizing your closet to organizing your headphone cord? Lifehacker is great.
I Don’t Like You In That Way
If you like celebrity gossip with a serious edge, check out IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com . I especially like the story about Catherine Zeta-Jones washing her hair in truffles and caviar.
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