things of a high interest nature
July 29th, 2008 — entrepreneurship, interesting, online publishing
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.
July 27th, 2008 — games
This is a great short tutorial about how to win at rock paper scissors.
July 25th, 2008 — interesting
Read this article about seven people who stared death in the face and laughed. These are some incredible stories.
Read the article: 7 People Who Cheated Death and Kicked it in the Balls.
July 21st, 2008 — movies
You’ve all seen Boondock Saints, right? It’s a pretty good movie. Well, now after many years, Boondocks 2 is finally slated to see the light of day.
Learn more here.
July 20th, 2008 — creativity, health
Naps are something that many of us do not have the luxury of enjoying often enough. This is unfortunate because naps are useful for resting the body, refreshing the mind, and for helping you reach creative solutions to problems.
Overachievers like Thomas Edison and outside of the box thinkers like Salvador Dali used naps to great effect.
Learn how to Tap Your Nap. Then go get some sleep.
July 18th, 2008 — videos
TubeZoid is a website where you can save all of your favorite videos from online video sharing websites like youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, break, and google video.
All you do is input the URL for the video in a field on the site and submit it. Then, whenever you come back to TubeZoid, your favorite vids will be there waiting for you.
This looks like a great way to keep all of your favorite videos in one place online without having to download large files onto your computer.
July 18th, 2008 — tv shows
Fancast is a great site where you can watch hundreds of free tv shows and movies online. And it’s completely legal.
The videos are high quality and stream directly from the site from a nice little video player on the site. There are a lot of current shows you can choose from.
Some examples are Family Guy, The Office, and Desperate Housewives, so the site isn’t exactly sweating it. It’s got some upper-echelon material for you to use to turn your brain into mush.
If Desperate Housewives doesn’t do it, then I don’t know what will.
July 18th, 2008 — video games
Shigeru Mayamoto could be the biggest name in video games. He not only is the face behind Wii, he also created the huge Nintendo Mario Brothers franchise.
Meet him here.
July 17th, 2008 — books
Where do you find one million books online for free? You can get one million free books here.
If you like to read and you don’t like to pay, this link is for you. Hey Bill Shakespeare, get your free reading materials here.
July 17th, 2008 — music
You feeling like tuning up and plucking out a face-melting solo? You better get in tune before you kill all the cats in your apartment complex.
Learn how to tune your guitar, you mindless savage of the strings.
