Category Archives: Friday around the Web

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

10-Minute Self-Boosts, WoW Condolences, Lucky Couple, and Colllor

10 Things You Can Do for Yourself in 10 Minutes
Writing a thank you note, sitting quietly for a few minutes, finding some water to hang out by…and 7 other quick but beautiful things you can do for yourself. (No, not THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter. :P)

On The WoW Forums, Only One Thing Matters…
…and that’s loot. No matter how somber the subject. (Sad/accurate)

Couple Cheats Death as They Watch 300-Ton Landslide Just Feet Away
Uh, yeah, this couple is incredibly lucky/blessed!

Colllor
Change one color into a range of shades, for all your graphic design needs!

Food for a Week, Snarky E-Cards, Amazing Digital Art, and AlternativeTo.net

 

20 Absolutely Funny E-Cards
Funny/snarky ecards for all occasions, in the style of someecards.com (3 examples above).



Awe-Inspired Digital Art & Illustration
This is both inspiring and discouraging to me, as a complete n00b at visual arts. LOLs (2 examples above; find image sources behind the click!)

A Family’s Food for a Week, Country by Country
Amazing how much (or how little) food families have per week, depending on what country you live in…

AlternativeTo.net
Need free alternatives to your favorite software? Here’s a thorough listing of all kinds of open-source/free software!

32 Keys to Life, Entertaining Cucumbers, Nick Gentry, and Genius Ideas

32Keys.com
32 philosophical keys to life. I liked the one about the past (#14) 🙂

G4TV: Cucumbers: Not Just for Eating
So, they’re for eating and …um…entertaining? I guess that’s ONE way to put it…?

NickGentry.com
An artist who uses old diskettes and other electronic waste as canvases for his masterpieces.

Genius Ideas
Amazing (and often kinda funny/strange) ideas for solving some of life’s random problems.

Words of the Masters, James’ Face, Orange Foliage, and Drugstore Beauty

Words of the Masters
Quotes from some of the world’s best thinkers and philosophers…

James’ Face
James has one mean (Photoshop-geek) friend. Changing his pictures on Facebook to have a slightly different expression? Not cool…but very snicker-inducing.

Orange Tree Foliage
An explosion of sunset colors, except that this is growing on a tree!

10 of the Best Drugstore Beauty Buys
Learn what awesome, high-quality makeup products you can find at your local drug store (I’m not kidding)!

The Sartorialist, Swedish Chef Translator, Earth Pictures, and Keybr

The Sartorialist
Want to know the “meta-game” of clothing? This blog shows you thought processes and concepts behind clothing, and the creative people who are coming up with these new ideas.

Swedish Chef Translator
Translate any phrase into Swedish Chef (from Muppets), Jive, Valley Girl, Pig Latin, or all of the above. Many happy LOLs await you behind the click!

30 Best Earth Pictures: April 24th to May 1st, 2012
AMAZING earth photography…absolutely breathtaking.

Keybr.com
Test your typing skills, improve typing speed, all with this free internet tool!

Top 5 Regrets, Homemade Porsche, NC’s Natural Waterslide, and Paper.Li

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
What people regret the most when faced with their own mortality.. I agree with the “worked too hard” and “not staying in touch with friends” bits… sad, but an important read.

The Homemade Porsche
Somebody went out, got materials, did a whole bunch of precision cutting and painting, and made themselves a Porsche. No, I’m not kidding. Click, and LOL with me at this epic win.

Sliding Rock, NC
A natural rock waterslide! Had no idea this was in NC!

Paper.Li
Make your own online newspaper using feeds from various sources around the Internet. A lot of people use this in conjunction with Twitter, and Crooked Glasses has been featured in a couple!

Good and Bad Procrastination, Unexplainable Photos, Writing Things Out, and MyFridgeFood

Procrastination: The Good and the Bad
Wait, there’s good and bad procrastination? HMMM! (unfortunately, I do the bad kind more than the good kind. LOL)

50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos
No, I don’t think I want to know how this mattress got stained with what I can only hope is dark gray paint, or why these family members look so proud of it.

When Pen Beats Phone: A Case for Writing Things Out
VERY interesting article…maybe we shouldn’t go all digital just yet!

MyFridgeFood.com
Hungry and don’t want to leave the house? Shop your fridge! Never say “There’s nothing to eat in my house” again!

Concentration Drugs, Woman’s Trick Question, Free Retro Fonts, and IKEA Hackers

The Drug Does Work
…but should we be using it? A drug called Modafinil, and how some college students used it to concentrate better.

Guy’s Opinion @ TheDoghouseDiaries
“Should I cut my hair short?” is apparently a whole lot like “Does this make my butt look fat?”…it’s a trap! LOL

Free Retro Fonts
26 awesome retro fonts for designers.

IKEA Hackers
People who take regular pieces of IKEA furniture and turn it into crafty amazing.

Dancing for Health, Common Oxymorons, Heartbeat Barcode, and Pen.io

Rx for Exercise: Dancing
Dancing for health benefits as well as togetherness.

15 Commonly-Used Oxymorons
Virtual reality, old news, and exact estimate were the ones I didn’t give any thought to until this article. LOL

The Man who Sold His Soul (Thump Thump)–A Threadless T-Shirt
When a heartbeat becomes a barcode, how commercial have we become?

Pen.io
Make a webpage in no time flat, share anything with anybody, with just a page name and a password.

Art for Meaning, Stranger than Eviction, Video Games for Lazy Eyes, and FootPetals

Art for Art’s Sake, or Art for Meaning?
Should art just be created for its own sake, or should it mean something else, too (religious, social, etc.)?

Stranger Than Eviction
The sad, crazy, and yet funny story of a landlord named Gary, who just might be worse than living where you live now.

Video Games help Adult Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
A new study finds that people who have “lazy eyes” seem to self-correct when playing video games.

FootPetals
Never suffer ill-fitting, cushion-less shoes again, with these insertable shoe cushions.