You Are Someone’s Reason…
Never forget this. Ever.

If Fire Were Water
AMAZING graphic manipulation–it really looks like the fire of a candle has been changed into a sparkling, leaping drop of water! This and more cool “fire-to-water” changes await beyond the link!

Stranded
The grass always looks greener…in the middle of the ocean. Confused? Click and laugh at the profound hilarity.

Scriblink
A virtual whiteboard that you can invite people to, collaborate on, and save. Makes group projects and group meetings a lot easier!

Showcasing all my Internet surfing of the last few months, today’s Glassics post features four types of links: thought-provoking/helpful sites, media- or game-driven pages, funnies, and useful Internet tools. All the links I find every week are arranged into groups of four in each Friday around the Web blog entry.

This collection links each blog entry instead of each link, because I’m too lazy to copy ‘n paste every single link I’ve found since July 2011 into this one Glassics post. (Actually, I just tried, and it was way too long to read. Thus, the shorter way appears below.)

(For your additional perusal: My first Friday around the Web Glassics post has the list of my first few months of Friday Internet surfing, also arranged by blog entry.)

December 2011

Problematic Words and Phrases, Top 10 Films, Scary Snowman, and MindPicnic
TheOnion’s Take on Creation, Super Mario Crossover, Skipping Class Flowchart, and Blekko
Best Teacher Ever, Someone’s “I Want” List, What Comic Sans Means, and Schoolr
Creative Truths, Snowflake Toy, Universal Wrapping Paper, and DuckDuckGo

November 2011

Oldest Known Melody, Goodbye Shirt, The Amazing Binder Clip, and Listal
Why I Hate Reading Maps, Fantasy Realism, Copycat Candy Recipes, and Creative Bookshelves
Educational Quotes, WeaveSilk, The Break-Up Letter, and TextbookRevolution
Font Mixing, Paper Sculptures, A Round Tuit, and Amazing Facts

October 2011

What You’ll Wish You’d Known, Street Art of 2010, Sweet Book Nook, and How Many People Think Firefox Rules
Theories of Learning, ShinyBinary, They Will Never Have a Girlfriend, and Vark
Suppressed Inventions, Drawings of Da Vinci, In the Beginning…, and Privnote.com
Religion Vs. True Belief, Beautiful Bedrooms, Why Does Paper Beat Rock?, and Warning Sign Generator

September 2011

Being Crazy is Noisy, Kitty Balancing Act, Trashion Shelves, and Tips for Success
Unsolved Philosophical Problems, Huge Techscape, On Having a Toddler, and WobZip
Common First-Aid Mistakes, Guidelines for Cats, GamingAngels, and WikiSpaces
Religions and Sexual Ethics, Education REALLY Matters, Music Catch, and RepairPal
The Creative Personality, Banned Toys, ’90s Gaming, and Writing Generators

August 2011

Politics Explained, Einstein Pic, Choice of the Dragon, and Plagiarism Checker
Descriptive Mess, Lady GaGa Fugue, Twice Shy, and Listography
Cool Inventions, Personalized Jewelry, Mutual Weirdness, and World Statistics
Real “Better Mood” Food, Strange Talk Show Topics, Spammer Gets Owned, and DownloadTube

July 2011

Think Like a Designer, Moving Plastic Creatures, Business Cat, and Swap-A-Skill
House Becomes Chalkboard, Pikakitty, The Story of Firefox, and Password Strength Test
The Golden Rule(s), Hendrix in Picks, Mild-Mannered Phrases, and A CSS Sandbox

50 Problem Words and Phrases
Turns of phrase that throw even the most experienced of writers into a tailspin of literary fail.

Top Ten Films
All the top ten films from most of the 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st.

Scary Snowman
MOOOOOOM! The snowman’s gonna EAT MEEEEEE! (Sadistic, possibly parental, humor at its best?)

MindPicnic.com
A new way to learn for free online. Language help courses, math skills, and technology info abound–just mind the spam postings advertising for cheap laptops.

Sumerians Look On in Confusion as God Creates World
TheOnion produces a surprisingly thought-provoking satire of the typical “date of creation.” (All to be taken as tongue-in-cheek)

Super Mario Crossover
Choose from Ryu, Link, Mario, Simon, Mega Man, Bill R, Sophia III, and Samus to play through classic-looking Super Mario levels.

Should You Skip Class Today?
A handy flowchart for determining whether you should skip class today. As a former teacher, I really shouldn’t laugh at this…but I DID. 😀

Blekko.com
Further specify what you want to search for with “slashtags”, which work like filters for your search. Example: “iPhone /4G” retrieves only articles relating to iPhone 4G rather than all things including the word “iPhone”.

Best Teacher I Ever Had
Hilarious anecdote about an inventive science teacher, who used the cattywampus to illustrate a great point about education.

More Random Stuff I Don’t Need but Kinda Want
What do a completely transparent-plastic chair, a set of ice trays that make the alphabet, and a Tetris mirror have in common? This blog post, of things the author wants but doesn’t need. Don’t we all have one of these lists lying about? 🙂

Fonts’ True Meanings
Keep in mind, the fonts you use in your communications really DO have another, hidden meaning, as detailed in this handy (and funny) chart.

Schoolr
Search all kinds of academic databases at once on this Internet-circa-1999-designed site. Don’t let the design fool you–it’s still quite current. Great for speeding up research time for papers!

Creative Truths
Great truths presented by some of the greatest thinkers we know.

Snowflake
Make your own snowflake in this pretty little web-toy. Not only can you look at it as a still-life, but you can also turn it around and around, both in 2D and 3D!

Universal Wrapping Paper
Wrapping paper that doubles as a crossword puzzle? OKAY! (Laziest and yet most creative gift-wrap idea ever?)

DuckDuckGo
A more private search engine that doesn’t track your usage.

The Oldest Known Melody
Possibly the oldest song ever written, circa 1400 BC. VERY cool video! Groove to what people in present-day Syria were listening to 3,400 years ago.

The Goodbye Shirt
How can you say goodbye and use an animal name in the sentence? This shirt will help! (Why is “Afterwhile, crocodile” not on here?! Seriously, is that just a Southernism or what?)

6 Life-Changing Uses for Binder Clips
6 funny ways you can use an ordinary binder clip to do jobs around the house.

Listal.com
List all the stuff (TV shows, music, movies, books, and games) you love, and share your lists with others.

Why I Hate Reading Maps
A beautiful poem about reading a map…and seeing the sad distance between two people.

Fantasy Realism by Tebe Interesno
Blending the real with the fantastical in one picture takes a lot of talent. And, y’know, I think I DID see a flock of dolphins flying overhead one time, now that I think about it…

Copycat Candy Recipes
Learn how to make your own versions of popular candies! …Oh Lord, they have a “make your own Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup?!” 500 pounds, here I come.

20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves
Crazy bookshelves that just might work in our version of reality.

Inspirational Quotes for Teachers and Learners
Inspiring quotes for teachers (and thought-provoking snippets about education for the rest of us!)

WeaveSilk.com
Just by clicking and dragging, create beautiful aurora-borealis-like effects! :O Also, hold Shift and move your mouse for extra hidden coolness. 🙂

The Break-Up Letter
At first, sad…and then, hilarious. XD

TextbookRevolution.org
Find textbooks for free! :O

Four Ways to Mix Fonts
Ways to blend different fonts together into a cohesive webpage design! :O Makes me feel downright ashamed of my Verdana/Garamond-using self.

PeterCallesen.com
See the work of an artist who does AWESOME paper sculptures. (Mind is officially blown.)

A Round Tuit
I can’t believe it–my grandmother gave this to my parents printed on a pot holder about a million years ago, and I thought it was so hokey. LOL, it’s Internet fodder now!

Amazing Fact Generator
From the folks at mentalfloss.com, the cure for Internet boredom. Random facts, all day, every day, as often as you want ’em.