Upload a pic of yourself to this site and see what your yearbook photo may have looked like over the decades from a beatnik of the 60's to a Gen Xer of the 90's.
via Buzzfeed
Monday, August 18, 2008
YEARBOOK YOURSELF
STOCK MARKET GAME
Starting with a 1 million dollar portfolio, Updown.com is a site that allows you to trade real stocks using virtual money. However, you can make real money by posting your own stock analysis as well as consistently outperforming the S&P 500. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be collecting any checks soon seeing as how I've already managed to lose $50,000 in just under 48 hours.
Friday, August 15, 2008
CAN YOU GUESS MY ACCENT?
Language Trainers Group, a language training course, has a video trivia game online where people from around the world read a brief piece of literature and then ask you to guess their accent. It's fun, though I personally did not do so well. Shockingly, I was unable to detect one woman's thick Lithuanian accent as she read an excerpt by Rudyard Kipling.
AIRPORT PARKING MADE EASY
Since the beginning of time, man has always approached airport parking by just simply winging it. (pun absolutely intended). For some, it ends in shelling out a few extra bucks, but for others it culminates into complete panic and anxiety.
It's hard to imagine getting excited about anything involving Airport Parking Lots, but this site is actually very useful. Consider it the Yelp of airport parking. Simply type in the airport and the dates you will be flying, and it will give you not only the info on all surrounding parking lots (including addresses and prices) it also has user comments about past parking experiences. Some lots even allow you to reserve a spot. Check it out at AboutAirportParking.com.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
100 MOST COMMON WORDS
Trivia game gives you 5 minutes to guess the 100 most common words used in the English language. Surprisingly neither blogosphere nor Dark Knight were on the list, so the game may be bogus...
THE WONDERBRA AD
Interactive mosaic ad made up of thousands of women wearing the wonder bra to create a giant push up bra. This ad contains the largest amount of deceiving cup sizes in one place in the world.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
SAFE ROAD MAPS
Find out if you're living in a death trap. This site kind of works the way those sex offender sites work except when you enter your address it tells you about all the fatal car accidents that have happened near your home.
Just click the MAPS Tab and then SAFE STREET MAPS and enter in your address.
VIRAL TIMELINE
An interactive time line of every viral Internet sensation ever from "Dancing Baby" to "Matrix Ping Pong". Starting as early as 1941, it gives some major milestones in the creation of computers and the world wide web. However, to no surprise, the bulk of the timeline is from the last 10 years. The site is fairly new, so there's still a lot of stuff to be mentioned which you can add yourself.
via dipity.com
Friday, August 8, 2008
SEXY PEOPLE
This ironically titled blog is a photo album of people's personal portraits. Most of the pictures are from the mid 80's to early 90's. Basically it's an entire decades worth of "sexy people".
Hasday find via renz-o.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
HOW MUCH IS 5 DOLLARS
Site collects pictures of items that people were able to buy with $5. Gives you an idea of the relative value of $5 around the world.
via The Five Dollar Comparison
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
HOW RICH ARE YOU?
Enter your annual income and this site will tell you how rich you are compared to the rest of the world. Site is actually made to convince you to donate to less fortunate parts of the world, but it does also serve as a quick pick-me-up when you're feeling down.
via Global Rich List
TABLE-X-CHANGE
The site is currently only set up for LA, NY, Chicago, and the Hamptons, but they'll soon be opening up in other cities across the country so that everyone will be able to get a good table at their local Outback.
via TableXChange
Thursday, July 31, 2008
HOW POPULAR IS YOUR NAME
Name Trend is a site that shows you how popular a name is whether you're trying to name your next baby or find just one more thing that makes you just that much more unoriginal. Enter your name and it'll graph out the trend of your name's popularity since 1881. It can also break down the popularity by state.
via NameTrends.net
THE NEW FACEBOOK
The new Facebook is here. My problem is that I'm just afraid of change in general so by default I hate it. But maybe if I play around, I'll learn to love it. So long as it's still easy to stalk my friends and make unsolicited friend request, it's ok by me.
Just sign in and go to www.new.facebook.com.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Zombie Love
You've always said that you'd die before you met the perfect mate. Well maybe now you should. Zombie Harmony is an online dating site for zombie singles. Overall, the site seems pretty legitimate, but make sure to read its disclaimer as it is not liable for contributing to the apocalypse.
Oliver T. find via Zombie Harmony
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE NOTES
The art of passive aggression is now being collected and displayed at the website PassiveAggressivenotes.com. The site posts notes that people have written to make a request or provide information but with a slight hint of bitchiness.
via PassiveAggressivenotes.com
Thursday, July 17, 2008
WHICH DRUG SHOULD YOU TRY
Quiz tells you which drug is best to take based on a series of questions about your preference of physical and mental states. According to my results, MDMA would best satisfy my preferences.
At first I thought this was a pretty useful tool, but somewhere along the way, the line of questioning began to scare me from taking any drug at all. The breaking point may have been the question asking whether I feared brain or organ damage more.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
MISSING MONEY
This website, MissingMoney.com, is a database of unclaimed state property records. In other words, if money is owed or if property left by the deceased is unclaimed, they have all the info on it. Only next of kin are able to collect on the money.
So search your parents' names and see if they have anything owed to them. It's at this point you can decide whether to let them know or wait til they punch their clock to collect.
Monday, July 14, 2008
FORGETTING TO REMEMBER
This website, Alerts.com, allows you to never have to remember anything on your own ever again. From birthdays to taking your meds to going to the bathroom, this site reminds you when stuff is coming up through whatever medium you choose (text, e-mail, phone call, smoke signals).
The cool part is that it does alert you on useful things like gas prices, job openings in your selected field, and lowest airline fares where you enter in the travel cities and desired cost and it constantly searches websites to find what you want. Point is: It's worth checking out.
via Alerts.com
Friday, July 11, 2008
THE GROWTH OF WALMART
Map shows a simulation of the growth of WalMart since it's inception in 1969. At first, the dots representing store locations seem to tell a local success story, but starting in the late 70's it begins to look more like an infestation.
via Flowing Data




