I know what you’re thinking: this is a site for a Foundation, which means they want money. Well they do want money, but that doesn’t mean you have to give it to them. Like me, you can just explore the intersting things they have here.
If you’re curious about how this site came to be check out the “What is This All About?” section… Continue reading
“Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss.” How can you help? Well by donating hair, of course!
Here are the Donation Guidelines:
1. 10″ minimum hair length (tip to tip), not wigs, falls, or synthetic hair
2. Please bundle hair in ponytail or braid
3. Hair… Continue reading
“The Worldwide Gourmet presents to you cooking from around the world, a reference for all gourmets.” That’s what the header to this site had to say, but the question I had was could anyone make these creations? Yes, it is possible, I made some fabulous desserts from this site.
If you choose “Recipes”, you are whisked away to another page that has some rather tasty looking… Continue reading
Have you ever been the victim of health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies? Or are you like me and just like to be extremely well informed when comes to health decisions? If so you are going to want to add this site to your favorites.
I suggest reading all of the about section so that you have a firm grasp on how everything is set up… Continue reading
This site is dedicated to the sport of Barbecue. Whether you are just looking for a new barbeque recipe or have a passion for grilling, you are going to enjoy this site. There is a photo gallery for you to check out along with a monthly photo contest.
One of my favorite parts of the site was Restaurants, once you click into the… Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to be an artist? Well now you can try your hand and being and abstract artist—Picasso to be precise. .
Choose “Play” and you are taken away to your canvas to begin creation of your picassohead. Here you will find your tools, color palette and canvas. Begin your masterpiece.
Choose View Gallery to see the art that came before you. You can… Continue reading
“This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes—what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air.”
Here you can learn all about natural snowflakes like the kind that end up in your backyard, but you can also learn all about designer snowflakes which are man made.
In the… Continue reading
This is a great wildlife site. It is rather specific to Australian Wildlife but that’s kind of cool because there are animals in Australia that we need to devote more time and attention to studying. Quite simply because they only live in Australia, so why don’t we check them out today. You’ll find a lot of animal information to gather.
In the “Featured Section” you… Continue reading
The International Surfing Museum
I remember growing up watching beach movies, and in a them had surfing, of course. Well, here is a museum dedicated to surfing. This site is really cool. You can find out about surf legends, check out memorabilia, stroll down the walk of fame, and that’s only a handful of all the neat things to do here.
Starting with the “Legends” section you’ll… Continue reading
This is a site full of helpful and free cleaning tips. From the Inside/Outside of the House, Pets, and Cars—you’ll find it here. There is even a special section on Stains.
A great thing about this site is that it has a search engine so you don’t have to spend countless hours surfing
Why would I be bringing you this site? It’s quite simple really: for the fabulous exhibits. As you will see there is a long list of exhibits to choose from. Explore them all, or just as many as you like.
My favorite exhibit
Children are naturally curious and will love this site because it lets them run with their curiosity through science. Their are adventures, experiments, and even field trips awaiting them on this site. At the top of the page you’ll notice the “Are you Curious?” that may flash at you near the title if you click—it takes you to the “Curious” section where I learned all… Continue reading
When you arrive at this site you’ll get a pop-up that asks you to put in your e-mail address and zip code. If you decided to do so you, and hit go you will a get a local field guide for your area. Then you can see what kind of wild life is hanging out where you live. I got a list of birds right… Continue reading
The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss
Before Dr. Seuss was a beloved children’s author he was an advertising illustrator. At this site you can check out his advertising art. You can browse his art by product from Ajax cups to Ford to Standard Oil and many more.
Browse though each section. Some galleries have multiple pictures, orr like the Ajax cups advertisement, have a picture and a little… Continue reading
This age tabulator calculates your age off of your responses to questions about your general health, family background, and experiences. How long will you live based on your answers?
I filled out the questions and answered honestly. According to the age tabulator, if I continue living the way I do now I could live until I’m 87 years old.
The neat thing is you can… Continue reading
Have you ever upgraded something to it’s newest version only to find out that you really hate the look of it? Or maybe some of your favorite features are gone. Well now you can go back to your previous version with this site. Choose the program from the list that you would like the older version of, click it, and you’ll be taken to that programs… Continue reading
Shel Silverstein: the Official Site for Kids
This is the official web site for poet / author Shel Silverstein and includes many sections such as: Let’s Have Some Fun, What’s New, Shel’s Books, About Shel, and Ideas for Teachers and Parents.
Let’s Have Some Fun: This section is full of fun stuff for your kid’s to do. Just choose the section you want, click the download and… Continue reading
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
With all the new diseases that are springing up, this is a great site to have. You can find out the breaking information here. You can even find tips for staying safe from germs in the workplace.
There is a huge section on stopping germs, what you can do to protect yourself and your family from them. It discusses the importance of… Continue reading
The Golden Raspberry Awards, or the “Razzies”, are awards given for Worst Picture, Actor, and Actress each year. Don’t worry, there is an archive so you can find out who won the Razzie in the past.
Worst Picture:
2002 – Swept away
2000 – Battlefield Earth.
1998 – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn!
Worst Actor
2001 – Tom… Continue reading
BrainPOP is one of the neatest educational sites I have run across yet. With broad spanning subjects and animation to make learning easier, this is a site you are going to want to put in your favorites to help your kid (or college student out.)
The sections of this site are: Health, Science, Technology, Math, English, and Social Studies. With plenty of witty animations and movies… Continue reading
This is one of the neater activity sites I’ve found. Just type your text into the box, turn your speakers on, and hit “Let Them Sing It”. Your lyrics must be in English, and if it runs across any words that it doesn’t know you will get a box prompting you to name a song and artist who use that word so that they can
Federal Trade Commission – ID Theft
A growing problem facing both businesses and consumers is ID Theft. If you do a lot of shopping online (like I do) than this site will be priceless to you. First I would check out the “What is Identity Theft” Section. You can view it text or pdf—it’s your choice. This guide goes through and explains how these thieves can get… Continue reading
I am strong advocate of interesting forms of art, and show my support. Well I love VR Panoramas. They make you feel like you are really there at the location.
The goal of Hans Nyberg, the site’s creator, is “to make immersive panoramic images also called VR Photography more known among the general public.” So I’m going to help him out by introducing it to you.
You… Continue reading
At BugBios you’ll get “shameless promotion of insect appreciation.” I know we’ve visited other insect-a-sites on the web, but this one is fabulous. With tons of information to learn presented in gorgeous website design—you’ll love learning about these bugs. Here are the sections broken down for you.
Entophiles: “Stunning insect macrophotography combined with informative descriptions.” Beautiful and I mean really beautiful photos. Check… Continue reading
This is a fabulous site. I’ve just learned to crochet and have made two wash cloths and now I’m working on an afghan. My mom taught herself how to crochet when she was twelve and can do just about anything with yarn and a crochet hook. So I wanted to learn something more complicated than single crochet (this is the beginner crochet stitch that you… Continue reading
This is the official site of Judy Blumeand it has a lot to offer. To find out what’s happening now click the “Check Out What’s Happening with Judy” link. This will get you current news. You can also find a link to this in the “From Judy” section, which is a few notes from Judy that she put on her website, with a very touching one… Continue reading
This site is so neat, and is all about bubbles. Bubble blowing originated in the 18th and 19th century and is still popular today. I know that I still enjoy getting out the catnip bubbles I have and playing chase the bubbles with my cats. Bubbles are a very light hearted form of enjoyment and there are so many ways to make bubbles.
Using as little… Continue reading
