Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Fab five web sites

I came across these fabulous web sites. You might be interested in checking them out:
1. Stumbleupon.com: Be prepared to waste every spare moment of your life on this. You create a profile of genres you are interested in (like art, humor, rock climbing, quilt making, etc.) and you simply push the "stumble" button on your browser toolbar and random web sites related to your profile pop up.
2. Projectplaylist.com: you can create song play lists for your personal Web site or just listen to your favorite songs for free. Unlike iTunes, you actually get to listen to the whole song and because you don't download anything, it's perfectly legal.
3. Earthalbum.com: Google Earth teamed up with Flickr to create a world map that as you scroll over a country, every photograph in Flickr's database that is tagged as being from that country comes up. It's like National Geographic times a million at the tip of your fingers. It was fascinating to do it over Ulaanbaatar Mongolia, Meridian Road in Rupert Idaho (with a half wheel line now watering our entire farm!) and Resistencia Argentina!
4. Guerrillamail.com: You know those web sites that make you give them your email address so they can send you junk mail for the rest of your life? Guerrilla mail generates email addresses that last for only 15 minutes, so you can use them to get registered and then let the junk mail disappear into cyberspace.
5. Ehow.com: Don't know how to eat a dragon fruit or how to select the right running shoe? Ehow will tell you. Endless how-to articles will teach you what you need to know from travel to business to sports and child care.

5 comments:

Jamie Jo said...

Those sound really fun. I can't wait to try them out.

Lee said...

Thanks Von- that's helpful. I'm excited for you to have Jord and the girls there! Have so much fun with them. Are they enjoying the chilly weather?

VFR said...

Interesting web sites, Vonnie. The problem is finding time to check on them.

Annie said...

I've been 'stumbling' for about a year and I get lots of great stuff from there for my blog.

I'm so glad Jordan made it there and the darling girls. I'm sure you will love every minute.

Claire said...

I have heard of 3 of those but not the others. Good sites!