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Smitten Kitchen

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

A home cooking weblog from a tiny kitchen in New York City. The place to find all of your new favorite things to cook. Continue reading

Tags: appetizers, beef, desserts, dinner, food, food blog, food images, Food Photography, free recipes, how to cook, Recipes
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Martha Stewart’s Crafts for Kids

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Summer is quickly approaching, and school lets out with it. That means kids are going to need fun, crafty things to do! Check out the assortment of crafts and instructions on how to make them at this site! Continue reading

Tags: Crafts, free, kids crafts, nature crafts, summer crafts
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Stormtroopers 365

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

An awesome photo set of stormtrooper action figures in various poses that spans 365 days. You’ll also find bonus features like videos, deleted scenes, alternate scenes, and the photographer’s commentary. Continue reading

Tags: 365, alternate scenes, commentary, deleted scenes, Knitting, photo set, star wars, stormtroopers
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Heyo

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Create a fan page in under five minutes through Heyo! Continue reading

Tags: create a fan page, easy fan page creation, facebook, facebook fan page, fan page, fan page creator, free, free fan page creator
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Civil War Trust

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Check out Civil War battlefields, maps, and photos at the Civil War Trust. You’ll even find nifty interactive applications that you can download for any iPhone, Android, or Google Play enabled device. Continue reading

Tags: android, battlefields, civil war, Google Play, interactive maps, iphone, maps, photographs
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Curse of T.Rex

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Join NOVA and learn more about the creatures who shared the dinosaurs’ environment and how scientists find fossils with Curse of the T.Rex. Continue reading

Tags: dinosaurs, fossils, science, t-rex, trex, tyrannosaurus rex
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Skillshare

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Skillshare is an interesting site that promotes learning from anyone, anywhere. What the site does is help you to connect with educators to learn whatever skill it is you are seeking instruction in and allow educators to connect with students. Continue reading

Tags: creative arts, culinary arts, education, entrepreneurship, find a class, lifestyle, skills, technology
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Eating Asia

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A professional food writer and photographer explores street food, ingredients, and culinary traditions throughout Asia. Continue reading

Tags: Asia, Asian food, culinary exploration, food, food blog, food images, Food Photography, Food Pictures, food reviews, traditional Asian food
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World History Traveler

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

The World History Traveler is a thematically-organized interactive that helps you learn more about the patterns and processes that make up world history. Continue reading

Tags: ancient history, brain food, colonialism, education, History, history themes, technology, world history
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Our Best Bites

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

A lovely food blog filled with mouthwatering photos, free recipes, and even craft ideas and tutorials! Continue reading

Tags: cooking. crafts, desserts, DIY, free recipes, how-to, kitchen adventures, main courses, Recipes, tutorials
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History World

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

This site makes history fun, interesting, and accessible through interactive content. Continue reading

Tags: fun, historical timeline, History, interactive, interactive history, Quizzes, timelines
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Pearltrees

Monday, April 16th, 2012

Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web. Give it a whirl! Continue reading

Tags: bookmarks, discovery, explore, Favorites, internet explorer, organization, organize, web content
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HTML5 Gendered Advertising Remixer

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

The Gendererd Advertising Remixer app lets you re-combine video from ads directed at boys with audio from ads directed at girls (and vice versa) to create hilarious and insightful fair use mash-ups! Continue reading

Tags: advertising, boy, funny, gendered, gendered advertising, girl, mash up video, mashup, stereotypes, swap, toys
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NIH Senior Health

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading

Tags: Exercise, health, health videos, memory, senior, senior health, wellness
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Rat Race Rebellion

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Need help finding legitimate jobs that you can do from home? Check out Rat Race Rebellion where you’ll find screened job leads, as well as tips to make your resume more attractive to employers looking for at home workers. Continue reading

Tags: employment tips, home work, job finder, jobs, screened leads, work from home
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Jamie’s Home Cooking Skills

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Are you are a college student who has just entered the world of having to cook meals for yourself? Are you someone who wants to brush up and learn more about cooking,? Or are you parent who wants to start teaching your children how to cook? Or do you just want free recipes? Well then, this site is for you! Join Jamie Oliver and learn Home Cooking Skills today! Continue reading

Tags: cooking, food prep, free recipes, how to cook, how-to, learn to cook, recipe videos, Recipes, skills
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Red-tailed Hawk Cam

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Watch Red-tailed Hawks nest live at The Cornell Lab. You’ll also find lots of information about red-tailed hawks and even see the hawk lay eggs in the archived videos. Check it out today! Continue reading

Tags: animal web cam, bird cam, Birds, eggs, hawk, live cam, nest, nesting, red-tailed hawk cam, web cam
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Uncylopedia

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

A satirical parody of Wikipedia filled with content-free information! Be entertained today! Continue reading

Tags: alternate history, encyclopedia, free, humor, parody, satire, wikipedia
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Baby Names Hub

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

This site provides you with the statistical data of naming, so that you can take more than just the meaning of the name you’ve chosen for your baby into consideration. Continue reading

Tags: baby, baby namer, baby names, name data, name gender, name statistics, names, naming trends
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Honey and Jam

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Honey and Jam is an amazing food blog filled with recipes and photographs that are sure to whet your appetite! Continue reading

Tags: food, food blog, Food Photography, free recipes, lemon cake, no knead bread, Recipes, tomato soup
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MariO

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Enjoy the classic Super Mario Bros game combined with the puzzle solving of Portal in this free downloadable game! Continue reading

Tags: free, Free Games, level editor, linux, mario, osx, portal, source, super mario bros., windows
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Volunteer Match

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

This site provides a way for you to quickly and easily find opportunities to volunteer in your community. Continue reading

Tags: community service, helping communities, volunteer, volunteering
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Solipskier

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Are you ready to play a fun, fast paced, and addicting game? Help your skier navigate through gates, tunnels, and do tricks to score points. Continue reading

Tags: addicting, free, Free Games, fun, Games, music, skiing
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The Wonderful World of Early Photography

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Check out what early photography was all about starting with camera obscura and covering the first moving image, camera guns, and the first color photograph! Continue reading

Tags: birdie, camera guns, daguerreotype, early photography, photography, photos
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15 Chic and Creative Ways to Tie a Scarf

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Check out a tutorial that will teach you fifteen awesome ways to wear a scarf this spring! Continue reading

Tags: DIY, fashion, how to tie a scarf, how-to, scarf, scarves, tutorial
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750 Words

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Having difficulty focusing because your mind is full of too much other stuff? Are you facing writer’s block or have you hit a brick wall in your creativity? Do you like to journal privately but it gets intermingled with your public posts accidentally? Well, then you should try 750 Words a site dedicated to giving you a platform to write your thoughts down spontaneously and unfiltered all while keeping them private. Continue reading

Tags: 750 Words, morning pages, private writing, spontaneous, unfiltered, write, writing
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