 | 2006
Year-End Google Zeitgeist most popular searches? where is?
who is? events? milestones? are you curious...? |
|
20Q
the neural-net on the internet - how do they DO that? |
| The
Art of the Brick
by Nathan Sawaya, amazing Lego brick sculptures! |
|
Baby Boomer Bus Songs Lyrics to old favorites, On Top of
Spaghetti, and more |
| Best
Paper Airplanes 10 great designs, of varying difficulty |
| Bored.com
"When you have nothing better to do" Links to the most interesting sites on
the Internet... |
| A
Brief History of Type the developments and movements of
typography... |
| By Kids
For Kids recognizes the ingenuity and creativity that kids possess. We
provide the support needed for kids to create great ideas and inventions for
other kids to use |
|
CareerInfoNet's
Occupation Profile check out occupations, with education, national and
state needs, salary, and more! |
| Cheese
or font? identify each name as a Cheese, or as a font.
Fun and funny! |
| Comfy
Banana's Casual Lofa a sofa that does up to 87 mph! Need
prom transportation? Check out the bog standard and street
sleeper... |
| Crazy
Fads from Flagpole sitting in the 20's, to pocket bikes in the
2000's, all sorts of fads have marked our history! |
| Dance
Mat Typing Learn typing from the home row on, with cartoon fun
along the way... |
| Delphion's
Gallery of Obscure Patents From
the unusual to the bizarre |
| Did You Know 2.0
and
Shift Happens 2008... see how fast the future is arriving! |
| Diffen
Compare, contrast and find the difference between any two things! |
| Discovery Channel Mind games, animal cams, and more... |
| DM
of the Rings Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers
who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos,
and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them
to Tolkien via a D&D campaign... |
|
Dynamic
Einstein What would Einstein say to you? How about
Dumbledore? What would the Dictionary say about you? |
| Factory
Tours USA What better way to appreciate those qualities than to visit and
tour America at work? |
| FitDay
tracking your foods, exercises, daily life! Yeah, its a diet
site, but full of tons of great info. on everyday living! |
| GE
Interactive Whiteboard
draw on your screen, or invite friends to draw with you! |
| Geocaching
the Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site - check the new wave in scavenger
hunting!
Also visit Hoagies' Gifted: Geocaching: The
sport for gifted kids of all ages
and
Geocaching 101: How to find your
first cache |
| Girls
Go Tech discover careers and explore games in math, science and
technology... especially for girls! |
| Google
Calendar Share your family's calendars, send appointments to
family and friends, and get the big picture while staying on
schedule with task reminders and even mobile phone notifications! |
| Google
Sightseeing
"Why bother seeing the world for real?" The world will never be the same! |
|
Honda
Accord Ad
the most amazing Rube Goldberg machine, two minutes long! |
| House of Cards Rules for all sorts of card games, including Hearts, Spades... |
| How
Common is Your Birthday? check your date! |
| How
Friday the 13th Works Are you paraskevidekatriaphobic? |
| How
to build your own Recycled Plastic Bottle Greenhouse from 1500
2-liter bottles! |
| How
to Make a Hula Hoop Build and then decorate, or build a folding
hoop, and then have fun! |
| Instructables
step-by-step collaboration:
a venue for showing what you make and how others can make it |
| Invention
at Play
from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention... |
| JuggleMaster
download, and create your own juggling patterns! |
| Letterboxing
North America combine navigational skills and rubber stamp
artistry in a charming "treasure hunt" style outdoor quest, for all
ages |
|
Make:
Technology on Your Time
|
| Make-a-Flake
Create your own interactive snowflakes - great art, great
symmetry... |
| MakeBeleifs
Comix Create your own comic strips, with characters, emotions,
conversation or thought balloons, and more.... |
| Minipop
Culture 30 pixel tall ... artwork? Read
Mini Madness... |
| Magic
Eye stereograms, construction and more, plus great links! |
| My
Home Library copy and print your own bookplates - lots of great choices! |
| My
Pyramid the new food pyramid... |
|
NameVoyager
where does your name rank throughout history? |
| Nova
Online Five to ten minute video shorts, on subjects from Science
to Space, Economics to History and more... (YouTube) |
| OLogy
OLogy means "the study of." Explore your favorite ologies here, and meet over
100 different Ologists, from Arachnology to Ornithology, and more. Don't
miss Bioluminescence, in
Marine
Biology |
| Pandora
Internet Radio pick a single song or artist, and Pandora will
create an entire radio station for you! |
|
Paper
Flier This glider is the current king of the paper airplane world...
(adobe acrobat) |
| Plagiarism
Checker ever wonder if your words are being "claimed" by others
around the 'net?? Find out here! |
| Pumpkin
Gutter sculpting into the rind, for an unusual effect and more
interesting possibilities... |
| Playing
With Time look at how the world around you is changing over many
different time periods |
| Ropers Knots How to tie lots of knots, and where to find more knots |
| Running
the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
contemporary American culture through the austere lens of
statistics. Visit Chris Jordan's
other collections... |
|
Schoolhouse Rock The lyrics to the series... |
| Scouting online campfire songs, Eagle project ideas, history, scout shop, more... |
| |
| simCEO
dynamic, interactive stock market simulation, where students create
their own companies, research each others' companies, and trade
shares to influence prices (free for a limited time) |
| Snopes
Myths debunked, urban legends destroyed...
|
| Society of Young Magicians (S.Y.M.) a division of SAM for magicians ages 7 to 17... |
| The
Straight Dope Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we
thought)
|
| String
Games fun step-by-step guide to string-on-your-fingers games and
figures... (requires Adobe Reader) |
| The
Story of Stuff How our lifestyles are part of a larger system.
The story of bottled water, other stuff... |
| TED
Ideas Worth Sharing - an amazing collection of videos of "the
world's greatest thinkers and doers" Sortable
spreadsheet of all the TED Talks to date... |
| ThinkQuest Library winning web sites (by kids!) on Arts & Entertainment, Science, Society and Culture, and LOTS more! |
| Today
I Found Out... history to grammar, TV trivia to how-it-works,
what have you learned today? |
| UNICEF
Games Challenge yourself, while you learn about global issues
today |
| Unusual
Hotels of the World Search by Wow! factor or Type: view,
fantasy, trains, floating, underwater... |
| Useless
Information Stuff you never needed to know, but your life would be
incomplete without... |
| |
| Virtual
Hot Shop Interactive glass-making! |
| Virtual
Perpetual Calendars Julian, Gregorian, holidays, zodiac, and more... |
|
What
is D&D? by the Wizards of the Coast, inventors of the
role-playing phenomenon that's captivated 2 generations already! |
|
Why
do some countries drive on the right and others on the left? |
| The Why Files? Science behind the News...
but it's more than just science, check it out!Wired "How To" Wiki
Ever wondered how to read a barcode? Choose a sound system? Sync
Google Calendar with your iPhone? Find out this and much more here! |
| Wikipedia
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (this is a good
and accurate thing, read more in
Acronyms, Terms, and other things we need to know) |
| XE.com
Quick Currency Converter The world's favorite currency site |
| xtranormal
if you can type, you can make movies! |
| Zomepad
Modeling Software
with models to follow, examine and build a new challenge every
month!
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