It never occurred to me to feel sorry for a guy fantasizing about catalog models. But the article Personal Inventory: The Erotic Appeal of the Lands’ End Catalog gave me some insight on how guys... OK, some guys feel about women.
You have some, but not complete, control over your own happiness. The secret is how you live your life day-to-day.
How’s the weather in McMurdo Station, Antarctica? If it’s Condition One, you’ve never seen anything like it before!
3 Happiness Enhancing Activities With Evidence They Work.
How Car Dealers and Other Businesses are Taking Away Your Right to Sue.
Enter a website at Lingro and make all the words clickable, going to a dictionary in your choice of language.
This is what homemade fireworks can do to you. It’s just an x-ray, but still may be disturbing.
Nine Famous Jewels from the Movies.
The science behind burping.
Why guys don’t want to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them. The McDonald’s Analogy makes a lot of sense.
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. It’s like Mama told you: hard work will get you farther than born smarts.
Endangered Brazilian Ocelot Kitten Born at the Louisville Zoo. And there’s a delightful picture of the blue-eyed baby boy with this article.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Informative Links
Dear Rockers helps you pay musicians directly for music you’ve downloaded in the past. You can clear your conscience, showcase your creativity, and thank a musician all at once!
Top Ten Secrets of Air Travel Insiders.
Satelloons.
6 Incredible Ocean-Going Hotels from Around the World. These do not include cruise lines, they are much more adventurous.
250 Public Speaking Tips.
Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department.
The Twenty Worst Foods in America. For your health.
Top Ten Terrible Tech Products.
Impress your friends with mental math tricks.
How to choose gifts for holiday office parties.
Peculiar Streets around the World.
How to achieve a more humane, culturally reflective and engaging office bathroom. This article includes the Hierarchy of Bathroom Needs.
Top Ten Secrets of Air Travel Insiders.
Satelloons.
6 Incredible Ocean-Going Hotels from Around the World. These do not include cruise lines, they are much more adventurous.
250 Public Speaking Tips.
Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department.
The Twenty Worst Foods in America. For your health.
Top Ten Terrible Tech Products.
Impress your friends with mental math tricks.
How to choose gifts for holiday office parties.
Peculiar Streets around the World.
How to achieve a more humane, culturally reflective and engaging office bathroom. This article includes the Hierarchy of Bathroom Needs.
The Star Spangled Banner
It was Disability Awareness day and the folks at Fenway did a lot of great things for kids with challenges. Here is one who sang and when he got nervous the Fenway Faithful helped him out.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Santa Claus Championship
Dave Downey of Perth, Australia has been crowned Father Christmas at the Snoyran Santa Games in Sweden. 30 Santas went nose-to-nose in five categories: chimney climbing, reindeer racing, kick sled racing, porridge eating and Santa's Christmas Eve. Mr. Downey won a gold medal, a diploma and a hand-made sculpture of Santa, in addition to the title. (via Arbroath)
Good Reads
Find out which radio stations are already playing wall-to-wall Christmas music in your area, with this list from 100000watts.com.
The top 10 IT disasters of all time. Yes, I would agree that almost starting World War II deserves the top spot.
A parent’s guide to buying video games.
The germiest places in America. (via J-Walk Blog)
Amazing Linguistic Coincidences.
How to memorize anything.
A colony of fruit bats in northern Queensland was invaded and destroyed by poisonous ticks. Several baby bats were rescued and are being raised by staff at an animal rescue center. See a half-dozen adorable baby bats wrapped in bankets and enjoying their bottles. (via Unique Daily)
NASA has developed a new bargain-basement approach to satellite manufacture and delivery. Is it just me, or is there something frightening about NASA bragging on how cheap they are?
Fifteen castles, each built by a non-architect, without contractors or professional builders.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines from the US Postal Service.
One of the earliest references to a controlled experiment is from Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible.
The top 10 IT disasters of all time. Yes, I would agree that almost starting World War II deserves the top spot.
A parent’s guide to buying video games.
The germiest places in America. (via J-Walk Blog)
Amazing Linguistic Coincidences.
How to memorize anything.
A colony of fruit bats in northern Queensland was invaded and destroyed by poisonous ticks. Several baby bats were rescued and are being raised by staff at an animal rescue center. See a half-dozen adorable baby bats wrapped in bankets and enjoying their bottles. (via Unique Daily)
NASA has developed a new bargain-basement approach to satellite manufacture and delivery. Is it just me, or is there something frightening about NASA bragging on how cheap they are?
Fifteen castles, each built by a non-architect, without contractors or professional builders.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines from the US Postal Service.
One of the earliest references to a controlled experiment is from Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Hand in Hand
He lost his leg when he was very young. She lost an arm in a car accident. But their ballet won a dance competition on a Chinese TV network, CCTV9. (via Phil’s Phun)
Monday, November 26, 2007
Young and Innocent
A man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Charles Bennett based on a novel by Josephine Tey. 1937. (via Metafilter)
Funny Links
How many days til Christmas?Sproutifarts. In this game, you have to feed Brussels sprouts to Mr. Sproutifart, or he will faint from hunger. Don’t forget to fart, or you’ll be sorry! (via b3ta)
The Ultimate Movie Montage. An impressive homemade compilation.
The shower scene from Psycho, recreated by a potato.
The customer is not always right. Tales of stupidity from the retail business. I hope you don’t recognize yourself in these stories. (via Metafilter)
Billionaires for Educational Reform.
It’s just a run-of-the-mill local story about a case that was dropped when the victim admitted she lied. BUT the defendant has the most unfortunate name in the history of the English-speaking world.
Crayon Physics, a freeware game that allows players to draw objects that immediately react to the environment.
How do you hide an elephant? With the help of Photoshop, of course!
Remember that old myth about elephants being afraid of mice? Mythbusters puts it to the test, with surprising results.
A collection of 38 pictures of cats caught in mid-pounce, just ripe for captioning. (via Cynical-C)
What would these celebrities look like if they had plastic surgery? (via My 2 Second Shelf Life)
The 50 greatest fictional weapons of all time. (via Metafilter)
Mr. T is back, in an ad for World of Warcraft.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Informative Links
A colony of fruit bats in northern Queensland was invaded and destroyed by poisonous ticks. Several baby bats were rescued and are being raised by staff at an animal rescue center. See a half-dozen adorable baby bats wrapped in bankets and enjoying their bottles. (via Unique Daily)
NASA has developed a new bargain-basement approach to satellite manufacture and delivery. Is it just me, or is there something frightening about NASA bragging on how cheap they are?
Fifteen castles, each built by a non-architect, without contractors or professional builders.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines from the US Postal Service.
One of the earliest references to a controlled experiment is from Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Peculiar Streets around the World.
How to achieve a more humane, culturally reflective and engaging office bathroom. This article includes the Hierarchy of Bathroom Needs.
You have some, but not complete, control over your own happiness. The secret is how you live your life day-to-day.
How’s the weather in McMurdo Station, Antarctica? If it’s Condition One, you’ve never seen anything like it before!
NASA has developed a new bargain-basement approach to satellite manufacture and delivery. Is it just me, or is there something frightening about NASA bragging on how cheap they are?
Fifteen castles, each built by a non-architect, without contractors or professional builders.
Holiday Shipping Deadlines from the US Postal Service.
One of the earliest references to a controlled experiment is from Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Peculiar Streets around the World.
How to achieve a more humane, culturally reflective and engaging office bathroom. This article includes the Hierarchy of Bathroom Needs.
You have some, but not complete, control over your own happiness. The secret is how you live your life day-to-day.
How’s the weather in McMurdo Station, Antarctica? If it’s Condition One, you’ve never seen anything like it before!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Family Conversation
Me: OK, kids, I'm going to take a nap, and you need to vacate this room.
Princess: C'mon, Sis, that means redecorate it!
Gothgrrl: No, that mean clean it up!
Princess: C'mon, Sis, that means redecorate it!
Gothgrrl: No, that mean clean it up!
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Thihs 1954 film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz and Roger Moore. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's short story Babylon Revisited.
Fun and Funny
Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures.
How well do you know your world? Try this global geography quiz, and remember, speed counts in this one!
Dickipedia, a wiki of dicks.
Invisible Musicians, from Worth 1000. (via Geek Like Me)
If Abraham Lincoln were a modern CEO, he would have given the Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint presentation.
Get your hankies ready as you watch this story from YTMND about the game Animal Crossing. Then call your mother. (via Metafilter)
Why Guitars are Better than Women.
And in the interest of fairness, Why Guitars are Better than Men. (Thanks, Stratoblogster!)
Watch elephants who throw darts better than you do.
Mudd Math Fun Facts, a site of math puzzles and games.
Food that looks like what it isn’t. An entree of waffles, then spaghetti, meatloaf, and hot dogs for dessert! (via Grow-A-Brain)
Sex and the College Girl. (from 1957)
Toilet Tunes, your bathroom privacy insurance.
How well do you know your world? Try this global geography quiz, and remember, speed counts in this one!
Dickipedia, a wiki of dicks.
Invisible Musicians, from Worth 1000. (via Geek Like Me)
If Abraham Lincoln were a modern CEO, he would have given the Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint presentation.
Get your hankies ready as you watch this story from YTMND about the game Animal Crossing. Then call your mother. (via Metafilter)
Why Guitars are Better than Women.
And in the interest of fairness, Why Guitars are Better than Men. (Thanks, Stratoblogster!)
Watch elephants who throw darts better than you do.
Mudd Math Fun Facts, a site of math puzzles and games.
Food that looks like what it isn’t. An entree of waffles, then spaghetti, meatloaf, and hot dogs for dessert! (via Grow-A-Brain)
Sex and the College Girl. (from 1957)
Toilet Tunes, your bathroom privacy insurance.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Thanksgiving Links
For a giggle, check out this ecard from Hoops and Yoyo. Marti send this one to me!Americans Enjoying Thanksgiving Tradition Of Sitting Around At Airport.
The Gobbler. (via Everlasting Blort)
Thanksgiving Quiz. (via Bits and Pieces)
What some of your favorite Supervillians are thankful for. (via Fark)
Roundup of Eats and Treats for Thrill-Seeking Thanks Givers. More ways to have a very different Thanksgiving, from Wired.
Five Tricks for Thanksgiving Leftovers.
Skunkfeathers tried to make a pumpkin pie once. ONCE.
Turkey Day chemistry in the kitchen. Understanding what makes a great turkey will help you cook one better.
Thanksgiving trivia from the US Census Bureau.
Thanksgiving, the way the Pilgrims did it.
Manly Ways to Prepare Turkey.
Thanksgiving links and jokes, and more links and jokes.
I hope the Thanksgiving feast doesn’t affect me like it did last year!
As we give thanks to God for making it through another year, I also want to thank YOU for stopping by here at Miss C Recommends, and at Miss Cellania, Neatorama, mental_floss, and YesButNoButYes. Hugs and kisses, and have a great holiday!
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