Veritable Plethora

Sick of paying $4 for your morning designer coffee drink?

Why not learn how to make Starbucks coffee for yourself? Now, it just got a little bit easier. Download this free Starbucks Coffee Recipes e-Book at CoffeeFair.com.

Read the same blogs and news articles that McCain, Obama, and professional campaign members readers and place your finger firmly on the political pulse.

Don’t stick with the rabble (yahoo! news) and the riffraff (MSN)–get the real political news.

Check it out at Google Power Readers in Politics. And remember, information is power.

In this short video of a female badminton match (or is it game?) in this year’s Olyimpics, the sport of badminton actually looks sort of badass.

The Hype Machine is an interesting website that may be best described as a music blog aggregator site.

The site follows music “discussions” from legitimate online music blogs and collects blog posts and mp3s from thousands of different musical acts and artists.

One of the coolest pages on the site is one that ranks the most popular songs on the site (the ones that get clicked the most by visitors). You can find some cool music here that you would never hear on the radio as well as find songs by bands you’ve probably heard before.

I like the Hype Machine because of its user-friendly, un-intimidating website. It looks like a simple wordpress blog, which is very inviting and makes the experience there seem easy-going.  It also has a kind of cool digg thing going on that promotes good music and also the blogs where the good stuff was found.

Many free music sites seem kind of involved, confusing, or too widgety. HM, however, seems to have been created by people who like music and wanted to create exactly the type of site they would be interested in using: a one stop shop to find new tunes and music news with an eye to the blogosphere.

If you’re a music fan, check this site out and give it a try.

Writing is just like any skill–it takes practice.

Here is a list of ten ways to become a better writer.

Also, check out this list of online destinations you can go to get paid for writing.

They say the only things certain in this world are death and taxes.  I’d like to add a third certainty: high gas prices.  Hopefully this changes.

That being said, the weak dollar is tough to come by and even tougher to hold onto.  But there is hope.

People who manage their money properly tend to have more of it.  Finances and budgeting seem like difficult and annoying distractions, by they’re incredibly important, and if you do them well, you may be able to avoid fast food dollar menus at the end of the month (unless, of course, that’s your thing).

See this list of 25 online accounting and budgeting tools.

Most copywriters understand the vital importance of a strong effective headline.  But, unfortunately, most people who write online aren’t professional copywriters.

Read this great article at A List Apart about the importance of headline writing and how to write a better headline.

I’m thinking of creating some Veritable Plethora t-shirts and I’m thinking about using Spreadshirt to do it.

It seems like a cool website with great ideas for how online t-shirt making should be.  You have (some) control over pricing, and you can even earn royalties from your designs.

Now if I only had some designs.  I’m looking for them right now.

The interface is smooth and it seems very easy to get started.  Look for VP Tees coming soon!

Mygazines.com is a cool website where you can “virtually” read scanned-in print magazines. It’s a weird feeling digitally turning the pages.

If you like the traditional way of reading magazines, but don’t subscribe anymore, check out this cool virtual magazine site.  Join and upload your own.

One cool thing about this site, in terms of publishing and copyright questions, is the fact that the advertisements stay in tact and you skip past them as you look for the page on which your article starts.

This is a great short tutorial about how to win at rock paper scissors.