Fun & Interesting Websites - Page 2

GeoffC · 05-17-2011, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR

This would be my favorite

SameOldStory · 05-26-2011, 09:33 PM

Thanks to dsvic I've re-found a funny site that I'd forgotten about.

xkcd
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

dsvick · 05-27-2011, 01:16 PM

XKCD is awesome, it is the first site I go to on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!! I like this one:

crich70 · 05-27-2011, 03:05 PM

One site I like is http://www.mysteryshows.com/ They have a free section and a members section (a small one time donation to get access) which altogether has some 45000 + Old Time Radio episodes that you can listen to online or download for your own collection. Way better than a lot of what's on TV now days.

SameOldStory · 05-27-2011, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by crich70

One site I like is http://www.mysteryshows.com/ They have a free section and a members section (a small one time donation to get access) which altogether has some 45000 + Old Time Radio episodes that you can listen to online or download for your own collection. Way better than a lot of what's on TV now days.

Exceptional.

I like to listen to audiobooks as I drive (and there are times when I drive a lot). If you right click on an audio selection you can save it to a folder or the desktop. I then transferred it to my Sansa Clip Plus and it played just fine.

While driving for work I listen to audiobooks (and now these radio stories) thru the radio system. Traffic jams have never been so enjoyable.

And I get paid to do it too!

nohmi2 · 05-28-2011, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crich70

One site I like is http://www.mysteryshows.com/ They have a free section and a members section (a small one time donation to get access) which altogether has some 45000 + Old Time Radio episodes that you can listen to online or download for your own collection. Way better than a lot of what's on TV now days.

Many thanks for the site.

I like to listen on my MP3 when doing the drudgery of housework.

Much appreciated.

Cheers.

SameOldStory · 05-28-2011, 01:27 PM

Still another time-waster site.

Engrish

crich70 · 05-28-2011, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SameOldStory

Exceptional.

I like to listen to audiobooks as I drive (and there are times when I drive a lot). If you right click on an audio selection you can save it to a folder or the desktop. I then transferred it to my Sansa Clip Plus and it played just fine.

While driving for work I listen to audiobooks (and now these radio stories) thru the radio system. Traffic jams have never been so enjoyable.

And I get paid to do it too!

You're quite welcome SameOldStory & nohmi2. Happy listening. The old programs are indeed just the thing for putting on Mp3 players. Many are fairly small in size so you can put a lot on and they stimulate the theater of the mind.

SameOldStory · 06-05-2011, 11:19 AM

I think that this one must be a work in progress, but here is a short list for those who like dogs -

Caninest

I'd like one of these.
Kishu Inu (Japanese)

Or one of these.
Shikokou (Japanese)

BenG · 06-07-2011, 10:21 AM

The Newspaper Map.
http://newspapermap.com/

It translates too.

SameOldStory · 06-10-2011, 11:01 PM

There are so many bad imitation Wiki's that I really don't want to say that this site is the "Wiki of food", but it truly is that interesting.

The Food Timeline

Cheese sticks anyone?
"Fry pieces of rich cheese, neither obviously aged nor obviously fresh, in a pan suited to them, with either butter or fat. When they are becoming tender, turn them, and take them out immedately. They must be sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and eaten hot."
---On Right Pleasure and Good Health, Platina, critical 1475 edition

translated by Mary Ella Milham"

PIONEER COFFEE
" Most emigrants took the advice of Anna Maria King: "Fetch what coffee, sugar and such things you like, if you should be sick you need them." By the time the travelers were nearing either Oregon of California, coffee was sometimes the only provision left. Catharine Amanda Scott Coburn, and Oregon pioneer, recalled those times: 'We still had coffees, and, making huge pot of this fragrant beverage, we gathered round the crackling camp fire--our last in the Cascade Mountains--and, sipping the nectar from rusty cups and eating salal berries gathered during the day, pitied folks who had no coffee.'"

Italian sausages:
"The Romans, who loved highly spiced food, ate enourmous quantities of spicy...sausages...The Romans...developed a wide variety, including pendulus, a large slicing sausage, and hilla, a very thin sausage using the small intestine, rather like today's dried mountain sausages. The first-century Roman gourmet gives this recipe for the still famous smoked Lucanica sausage from southern Italy: "Pound pepper, cumin, savory, rue, parsley, mixed herbs, laurel berries, and liquamen, and mix with this well-beaten meat, pounding it again with the ground spice mixture. Work in liquanum, peppercorns, plenty of pate and pine-kernels, insert into an intestine, drawn out very thickly, and hang in the smoke.""

orlok · 06-11-2011, 06:45 AM

This would fall into the fun category. "HEMA" is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on 4th November, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands .

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.

Don't click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see.

HEMA - online winkelen

lestatar · 06-11-2011, 07:24 AM

^ ROFLMAO! orlok, that was fantastic!

I am spreading the link to all my peeps... THANKS!

note: 100% safe [just Flash] and absolutely G-rated. In fact, I suggest kid's watch with you - they will love it.

SameOldStory · 06-11-2011, 10:52 AM

I AM NOT FAT!

I'm just growing. A little.

Futurity

Do I look fat in this? (It’s all in the hips)
“Our findings suggest that pelvic growth may contribute to people becoming wider and having a larger waist size as they get older, whether or not they also have an increase in body fat.”

"The pelvic width of the oldest patients in the study was, on average, nearly an inch larger than the youngest patients. This one-inch increase in pelvic diameter, by itself, could lead to an approximately three-inch increase in waist size from age 20 to age 79."

I suppose this is the reason that older women are called "broads".

Men, of course, are simply "distinguished".

SameOldStory · 06-11-2011, 10:57 AM

From the same site;

Root may stem breast cancer spread
"A compound from roots used in one of the world’s oldest medical systems prevents breast cancer cells from metastasizing in animals."

“Most patients who die from cancer die because of metastases, not from the primary tumor,” says senior author Adam Marcus, assistant professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University.

05-27-2011, 01:16 PM	#18
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	XKCD is awesome, it is the first site I go to on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!! I like this one: Attached Thumbnails

06-11-2011, 06:45 AM	#27
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	This would fall into the fun category. "HEMA" is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on 4th November, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands . Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. Don't click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see. HEMA - online winkelen Last edited by orlok; 06-11-2011 at 07:24 AM.

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SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	Thanks to dsvic I've re-found a funny site that I'd forgotten about. xkcd A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

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crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,305 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	One site I like is http://www.mysteryshows.com/ They have a free section and a members section (a small one time donation to get access) which altogether has some 45000 + Old Time Radio episodes that you can listen to online or download for your own collection. Way better than a lot of what's on TV now days.

05-28-2011, 01:27 PM	#22
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	Still another time-waster site. Engrish

06-05-2011, 11:19 AM	#24
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	I think that this one must be a work in progress, but here is a short list for those who like dogs - Caninest I'd like one of these. Kishu Inu (Japanese) Or one of these. Shikokou (Japanese)

06-07-2011, 10:21 AM	#25
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,729 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	The Newspaper Map. http://newspapermap.com/ It translates too.

06-10-2011, 11:01 PM	#26
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	There are so many bad imitation Wiki's that I really don't want to say that this site is the "Wiki of food", but it truly is that interesting. The Food Timeline Cheese sticks anyone? "Fry pieces of rich cheese, neither obviously aged nor obviously fresh, in a pan suited to them, with either butter or fat. When they are becoming tender, turn them, and take them out immedately. They must be sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and eaten hot." ---On Right Pleasure and Good Health, Platina, critical 1475 edition translated by Mary Ella Milham" PIONEER COFFEE " Most emigrants took the advice of Anna Maria King: "Fetch what coffee, sugar and such things you like, if you should be sick you need them." By the time the travelers were nearing either Oregon of California, coffee was sometimes the only provision left. Catharine Amanda Scott Coburn, and Oregon pioneer, recalled those times: 'We still had coffees, and, making huge pot of this fragrant beverage, we gathered round the crackling camp fire--our last in the Cascade Mountains--and, sipping the nectar from rusty cups and eating salal berries gathered during the day, pitied folks who had no coffee.'" Italian sausages: "The Romans, who loved highly spiced food, ate enourmous quantities of spicy...sausages...The Romans...developed a wide variety, including pendulus, a large slicing sausage, and hilla, a very thin sausage using the small intestine, rather like today's dried mountain sausages. The first-century Roman gourmet gives this recipe for the still famous smoked Lucanica sausage from southern Italy: "Pound pepper, cumin, savory, rue, parsley, mixed herbs, laurel berries, and liquamen, and mix with this well-beaten meat, pounding it again with the ground spice mixture. Work in liquanum, peppercorns, plenty of pate and pine-kernels, insert into an intestine, drawn out very thickly, and hang in the smoke.""

06-11-2011, 07:24 AM	#28
lestatar LB's lolz Mutt Minion Posts: 2,902 Karma: 5700001 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Hong Kong now but NYC forever Device: Kindle3, GalaxyTab, BB Bold9700, BB 8300, Sony Clie, Palm Vx, Palm III	^ ROFLMAO! orlok, that was fantastic! I am spreading the link to all my peeps... THANKS! note: 100% safe [just Flash] and absolutely G-rated. In fact, I suggest kid's watch with you - they will love it.

06-11-2011, 10:52 AM	#29
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	I AM NOT FAT! I'm just growing. A little. Futurity Do I look fat in this? (It’s all in the hips) “Our findings suggest that pelvic growth may contribute to people becoming wider and having a larger waist size as they get older, whether or not they also have an increase in body fat.” "The pelvic width of the oldest patients in the study was, on average, nearly an inch larger than the youngest patients. This one-inch increase in pelvic diameter, by itself, could lead to an approximately three-inch increase in waist size from age 20 to age 79." I suppose this is the reason that older women are called "broads". Men, of course, are simply "distinguished".

06-11-2011, 10:57 AM	#30
SameOldStory My True Self Posts: 3,126 Karma: 66242098 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor, Galactic Center Device: Galaxy Tab 2 7.0	From the same site; Root may stem breast cancer spread "A compound from roots used in one of the world’s oldest medical systems prevents breast cancer cells from metastasizing in animals." “Most patients who die from cancer die because of metastases, not from the primary tumor,” says senior author Adam Marcus, assistant professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University.

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