Category Archives: Friday around the Web

Four links every Friday, varying from the funny to the thoughtful, the entertaining to the useful.

Design Your Life, Tree Street Art, Chill Songs, and Web Developer’s Cheatsheet

Start Designing Your Life
Ever looked at your life as a project? Start today, and who knows where you could be in a year’s time?

Street Art: Tree Holding Poster
Aww, this poor little tree just wants to get home to his family in the forest! LOL!

Songs to Lie on Your Bed and Stare At the Ceiling To
A neat mix of completely chill tracks.

The Web Developer’s Cheatsheet
This site has helped me so much in my design and development. Find help with HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, MooTools, jQuery, SEO, WordPress, and RGB hexcodes!

Sleepy Silence, (Funny) Ways to Be Cool, Dutch National Ballet, and Free Online Classes

Sleepy Blissfully Happy Silence
Physical closeness doesn’t have to mean sex…

Ways to Be Cool
One kid’s “to-do” list to make him cool. “Learn to speak European” made me LOL.

Dutch National Ballet: Photos
Beautiful, amazing pictures of ballet dancers in action.

10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take for Free
Learn more for free without using Wikipedia–take these online classes!

Education on TED, Strange Children’s Bookbag, Drawing vs. Photography, and DIY Chan Luu Bracelet

Education @ TED.com
Awesome educational video library right here.

The Harry Potter Sonic Obama Bookbag
This bookbag…seems a little confused as to what it’s marketing…xD

Amazingly Creative Drawing vs. Photography
Cool combos of photography and sketches. Wow!

DIY Chan Luu Bracelet Tutorial
Make an awesome wrap Chan Luu bracelet with this DIY tutorial!

Former Pro-Lifer Speaks, Lost Cat Poster, Storms Over a Cornfield, and Prescription Foods

How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Movement
An interesting perspective written in a personal, insightful way; well worth a read, even if you don’t agree.

The “Lost Cat” Poster
Making a “Lost Cat” poster, snarky-graphic-designer style. This is hilarious…

Photo: Storms over a cornfield…

11 Prescription Foods to Cure Your Illnesses
Foods that can help you battle illnesses? SIGN ME UP!

Why Geeks Make Better Lovers, If Shakespeare Used Twitter, Photogenic Kitten, and Parmesan Knots Recipe

10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers
Tongue-in-cheek, and yet informative, too!

If Shakespeare Used Twitter
18 examples…I snickered at the Sir Walter Raleigh reference in #16, and referring to himself as an “OG Soneteer” in #3. (warning, NSFW language)

The Most Photogenic Kitten on the Internet
I challenge you to find a cuter one. 🙂

Easy Parmesan Knots: A Recipe
NOM NOM NOM. I gained 15 pounds just reading this article. lol

$30 a Week for Food, 25 Ways to Improve Health, NeonFlames, and DIY Statement Rings

A Movement Toward Food Justice
This guy is currently trying to live on $30 a week for food, following the #SNAPChallenge (food stamp challenge) on Twitter.

25 (Funny) Ways to Improve Your Health…
Learn how to improve your health with these 25 visual tips…from your pets? LOL

NeonFlames
Create fantastic celestial-like images with this beautiful art tool.

DIY Button Statement Rings
Wait, you can make buttons into rings? Yep! Learn how behind the click!

Untranslatable Relationship Words, Funny Time Schedule, Contemporary Hillside House, and 20 Healthiest Foods Under $1

Top 10 Relationship Words that Aren’t Translatable Into English

My Time Schedule (Funny Picture)
This is pretty much my life. LOL

The Contemporary Hillside House by SB Architects
Gorgeous interiors and exteriors of this neat little “hillside house.” :O

20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
All for under $1? Wow! Some surprising entries on this list…

18 Rules of Living, Purple Power Cleaner, Creative Packaging Design, and Poetry.com

18 Rules of Living, by the Dalai Lama
18 surprisingly simple little rules…

Multi-Purpose Cleaner, Apparently Very Good
Purple Power display, with an added (hilarious) endorsement by the store staff!

30 Bizarre and Creative Packaging Design Examples
A milk carton that actually looks like the word “Milk,” a tequila “gun,” boxless pizza cartons, and more!

Poetry.com
Submit your poems, read others’ works, give feedback, and hear from others here.

Sexual Politics of Dancing, Photoshop Cooking, Toeshoes on Timbers, and Home Organization

Sexual Politics of Dancing
Guys who barely move (or girls, for that matter) are only letting themselves be hindered by social pressure. Just dance!

Photoshop Cooking: A Demonstration Video (Funny)
I need this program now, please. 😀

Toeshoes on Timbers
Juxtaposing delicate ballet slippers against rough wood.

52 Totally Feasible Ways to Organize Your House
WOW @ tip #15: Turn Your Hangers to Find Out What You Really Wear… nifty little way to figure out what’s just taking up space in your closet. That and many more tips for storage and general headache-saving advice behind the click!