Links to Fun Interactive Sites

Yes, that is a baby stroller. Cool,eh?

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htmSee scale as never before.

http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/Make a snowflake.

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/Make your image in plastic.

http://musicovery.com/index3.php?ct=usCool interactive radio (and you can buy tunes there as well).

http://www.neave.com/television/Most likely the coolest website I've ever seen. You click on the screen and it turns the channel of at TV, but the channels (programs) are so random. Perfect for my ex-husband.

http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.htmlBuild your own kaleidoscope. Very fun.

http://www.beonlineb.com/click_around.htmlCreate your own music video.

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html?skin=originalCreat your own drawing.

http://www.deathonline.net/movies/mm/autopsy.cfmIt's an interactive autopsy.

http://www.freedocumentaries.org/

The Heart of the Matter

Lately I have dealt with two what I would consider ethical issues and for those of you who read my blog I'd love it if you could comment or reply to these. I want to know if I'm being unreasonable here because sometimes I tend to over-react.

Issue #1:Someone hits my new car, rear-ends it, and at the time of the accident admits guilt in person, calls his mother and also admits guilt to her. The accident happens on private property so all the police do is note the damage. Also, there were not any witnesses. When it comes time to report the accident the kid says my car "flew" into his and he was at a stand-still. HE LIES. It's my word against his and even though he admitted guilt at the time (and, um, my car was rear-ended) nothing can be done. He lies, benefits, I tell the truth and am out the $500 deductible to fix my car. Do I take him to Civil court to recover my costs or just chalk it up to bad luck and I guess the simple fact that I don't get to own a vehicle without someone damaging, destroying or stealing it?

Issue #2:I forget to deauthorize my iTunes account on my iMac at SDSU (my old job) before I move out here. Somehow a gift certificate is purchased using this account (I had the "remember my password on this computer" enabled on that machine, dummy) and was sent to the general email account all of us in reference used (that's about ten or so people). A former co-worker of mine opened the email and clicked on the "Redeem Now" button and redeemed the gift certificate (oh, it was for $100). Now said co-worker said when they opened the email it "just downloaded automatically" but that isn't how iTunes works, you must hit the "Redeem Now" button to redeem (I even called iTunes to verify and know people who work at Apple to confirm that there isn't/wasn't another way). Because this gift certificate was redeemed I have no way of cancelling the order. And apparently there is no way for that money to get gifted back to me. Now my bank won't credit my acct (they did initially but after the investigation they cannot prove fraud since the gift certificate was redeemed). The individual who redeemed the gift certificate refuses to reimburse me as it wasn't their "fault." So, that makes me $100 poorer and them $100 richer. What do you do in that instance? Should I even have expected a reimbursement? I think yes, what do you think? I guess if it was me on the other side, downloading the gift certificate, I'd volunteer to reimburse because I use iTunes and would eventually use the money anyway (although not budgeted, I realize) and because I shouldn't have downloaded the thing in the first place since it wasn't addressed to me by name (the to and from lines both had my name on them). I think it's the right thing to do. Simply put.

Weigh in all.

Links

http://www.iliketotallyloveit.com/
http://psychcentral.com/
http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
http://answers.yahoo.com/
http://popsugar.com/
http://www.thenest.com/
http://www.geni.com
http://www.mapjack.com
http://www.nextag.com/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/
http://beta.searchme.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
http://www.modernfeed.com/welcome.htm
http://www.imeem.com/
http://www.kongregate.com/
http://ffffound.com/
http://www.someecards.com/
http://www.gaiaonline.com/
http://www.carbonrally.com/
http://www.colourlovers.com/
http://digitalvaults.org/
http://www.opensourcefood.com/

Links

Wired

How Stuff Works

Slate

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Good Things

Hearty Beef Bowl

The Whale Hunt

Indexed

Book Glutton (like this layout)

Cooper-Hewitt (simplicity and functionality)

Smithsonian (cubes and simplicity, bold)

National Archives, Video Vaults (see what technology can do)

Designing Interactions (Another Simple Design)

Skull a Day

Paper Critters (fun)

Passive Agressive Notes (just for fun)

Stiches

Cute Overload

Bad Gift Emporium

Happy Kreg Land (look at masthead)

Janet Klein (cool)

Girls Who Wear Glasses (like the simplicity)

Mimi (retro Art)

Retrolounge (like the logo)

Sniffy (icons)

Very Big Design

Retro Jane

Chip Wassaco

Vintage Swank

Rotodesign (fonts)

Examples

Squidoo

Search Engines Galore

General:

Brainboost

Clusty

Excite

Turbo 10

Web Crawler

Metacrawler

myriad

Kyak

Mamma

Ask.com

Gigablast

Librarians' Index

MSN

Dogpile

Wikiasearch


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Validator One

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http://weblibrarians.ning.com/

This is Planet Earth...

I came, I went, I saw. It was a great time. The picture above shows our boys Duran Duran in this weird line-up they did, which was admittedly three parts cheesy, one part pretty damn cool. Notice Simon, what's that, yeah, you are correct sir, he's playing a guitar (not in this actual shot, but believe me, it happened). Odd. I know.

AnyWHO it was a great time, my friends, and despite my advanced years I danced like Molly Ringwald in "The Breakfast Club" and have absolutely no regrets. You know what, girls just wana have fun. So there.

I am here to urge you to go to some of these reunion shows (not New Kids on the Block though, that is just wrong since they blew in the day anyway) because they can be a riot. Also, Duran Duran, I discovered, are really good musicians and sounded great live. The only downside: Simon Lebon has no rhythm. He dances like GWBush in that footage with the African dudes. NOT cool Simon. Follow John Taylor's lead, that boy and his bass guitar have rhythm. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT, do that pointing thing you do during "A View to A Kill" or that criss-crossed arms move during "Wild Boys" (two songs I could happily live without, but were wildly popular).