Archive for the ‘Cool websites’ Category

The Bigfoot Hoax

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Well, it comes as no surprise to most that the alleged Bigfoot corpse that made headlines for the last couple weeks has turned out to be a hoax.  It seems extremely unlikely that a creature the size of Bigfoot living in regions populated by humans could have remained undiscovered all ...

Dropbox: New beta site offers free online file storage

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

A friend of mine sent me an invitation to Dropbox today, which is basically a site where you can store your digital files online for the convenience of accessing them from any computer in the world.  I'd heard a little about the site but hadn't been actively seeking an invite ...

UK file pirates to face the music

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

It was announced today that British ISPs will begin sending out warning letters to their customers who share copyrighted files on the Internet. Besides the privacy concerns with this, it's doubtful that it will stem the tide of online piracy. Pirates have always been about ten steps ahead ...

Roadside America

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Roadside America is a guide to offbeat tourist attractions, which you can search by attraction name, town, or state.  Visitors to the site can add their own info and photos about local oddities.  I was a bit disappointed to find that there are very few listings for the Indianapolis area ...

Zilok.com, a site for peer-to-peer renting, officially launches today

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Zilok.com, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer website designed to allow users to rent goods to each other, officially launched today. Whether you're looking for camping gear, computers, cameras, party supplies, tools, gardening equipment, sporting goods, or dozens of other rarely used items, Zilok is hoping you'll consider renting rather than ...

Investing in domains as if they were stocks

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

For an enterprising few in the late 90's, buying and selling domains eventually led to millions in profits. Those with enough foresight to register and sit on one-word dictionary domain names received huge payouts once the rest of the business world caught up with the web and realized they ...

The Darwin Awards

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Darwin Awards is a website that chronicles deaths that the site owner feels prove the theories of Darwin. The motto of the site is "Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it." Depending upon your personality, you'll either find the site extremely humorous or ...

Jinx profits from social networking/marketing

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Many companies have been trying to capitalize on Web 2.0 concepts such as social networking but few have had much success as of yet with this fairly new idea in online marketing. The problem, I believe, is that many companies have trouble relating to their target demographic and providing them ...

Strip Generator lets you make your own comic strips

Monday, April 21st, 2008

For those with a good sense of humor but no artistic ability, Strip Generator offers a free and easy way to create your own comic strips using clip art. The site isn't the only comic strip generator on the web, but it is one of the easier to use ...

Affordable custom poster frames do exist

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I collect movie posters, lithographs, and art prints related to comic books and popular science fiction shows.  The most expensive part of this hobby isn't the posters and prints themselves but the custom frames needed for the odd sizes of many of these posters.  If you go to a framing ...