contents
searching | entertaining | informing | writing | interacting | designing | playing | laughing | socializing
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do" (Andrew Carnegie)
searching
√ Bing, Microsoft's search engine, 3rd in popularity (3%) after Yahoo (6%) and Google (85%)
√ Cuil, "the world's biggest search engine" with more than 121 billion URLs searched
√ Dogpile, metasearches Google, Yahoo, and Bing
√ DuckDuckGo, a search engine that does not collect or share personal information
√ Eccellio, excellent faceting search and science minor
√ Google, founded in 1998 and currently indexing more than 8 billion URLs
√ Icerocket, Real-time search for blogs, twitter and FaceBook posts
√ Internet Archive, Way Back Machine for visiting archived Websites back circa 1999
√ Ixquick, metasearch engine with useful Results Seen Before feature
√ KartOO, metasearch engine that presents its results on a visual map
√ SearchEngineWatch, the source for search engine marketing information
entertaining
√ allmusic, created in 1995, boasts 8.5M relational links on entertainers, albums, genres
√ college humor, founded in 1999, funny videos, pictures, links
√ cracked, America's only humor and video site, since 1958
√ ephemeral films | Prelinger Archives of advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films
√ filmsite, including 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
√ hulu, online video service with more than 100 content providers
√ Internet Movie Database, started in 1990 as a set of Unix shell scripts
√ io9, blogger appropriately self-described as being "strung out on science fiction"
√ linkdup, World Wide Web stimulus ... v.1.5000231e (blue)
√ metacritic film, music, game, and book reviews
√ paleofuture, a look into the future that never was
√ pandora, part of the music genome project, captures 400 song attributes and sorts
√ rotten tomatoes movies, games, reviews, and previews of more than 100K titles
√ this American life, Co public radio episode archive
√ wayback machine, for building and preserving digital content
informing
√ 1stHeadlines from multiple international news sources
√ AlterNet, progressive online news magazine and community
√ American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett, Matthieu Ricard interview
√ Ask the Techies, weekly tech Internet TV tutorials and product reviews
√ Best Colleges Online (20 best blogs in instructional technology)
√ Newseum, interactive museum of news and today's front pages Map
√ Newsmap visually reflects the daily space of the Googe News aggregator
√ News Now, the leading provider of Internet press cuttings and real-time news services
√ Qualtrics, NC State's sophisticated research made simple
√ refdesk, fact checker for the Internet
√ Spectra, msnbc visual newsreader
√ Technology News, computer, Internet, invention and innovation forum
√ Truthdig, political blog for "digging beneath the headlines"
"First say to yourself what you would be,
and then do what you have to do" (Epictetus)
writing
√ Amazon, the earth's most customer centric company, founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos
√ APA Formatting & Style Guide, the OWL @ Purdue resource
√ AskOxford, Oxford Dictionaries Word of the day, Quote of the week, and Ask the experts
√ Bartleby (after Melville's short story), great books online, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus
√ Biblical Resources Search, Mark Goodacre's award-winning all-in-one search engine
√ Britannica, three encyclopedias, images, magazines, Websites, and Merriam-Webster
√ FindArticles, 5M articles from leading academic, industry, and general interest publications
√ KnowPlay Reference Search, includes thesaurus, rhyming, and quotation lookup
√ MIT eTheses, MIT Libraries' selected masters and doctoral theses online
√ OneLook Dictionary, almost 8 million words in 975 online dictionaries
√ Online Etymology Dictionary, eccentric (from Gk. ekkentros "out of the center") word collection
interacting
√ CanSouth.org, bringing together Canadians across North Carolina
√ CRDM@NC State (& program website)
√ Digital Games Research Center (DGRC) at NC State University
√ Exploris Middle School
√ Farmington Woods Elementary School
√ Martin GT Magnet Middle School
√ Raleigh Charter High School
designing
√ Andy Foulds Design | freelance flash Website designer
√ Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager | wonderful numerical-chronological data-retrieval interface
√ clustrMaps, hit counter map widget and tracker for showing locations of all visitors to any site
√ cooper | design + strategy for a digital world
√ digitas | an integrated brand agency with a real-time digital core
√ Flavors.me | make a homepage in minutes
√ global mechanic | we make art work
√ good todo, online to do list for productivity
√ Groundswell | constructing the contemporary landscape of 23 open spaces
√ hillmancurtis, inc. | new media designers, making the invisible visible
√ iconmobile | creating future-oriented, commercially successful/user focused solutions for the mobile era
√ informationisbeautiful.net | David McCandless's ideas, issues, knowledge, data—visualized
√ kurzweilAI.net | relational database of AI articles by theBrain visualization group
√ Mind Lab, JST Virtual Science Center site on consciousness
√ Prezi | the zooming editor for alternative presentations
√ Processing | open source programming language for images, animation, interactions
√ razorfish | helps companies build great brands
√ schematic | interactive agency that creates branded experiences
√ seymourpowell | one of the world's leading design and innovation companies
√ Top 100 Tools 2011 | Center for Learning and Performance Technologies
√ Typetester | compare fonts for the screen
√ Visualization, Periodic Table of | visual-literacy.org on visual representations
√ Visual Elements, arts/sciences collaboration supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry
√ we feel fine | an exploration of human emotion, in six movements
playing
√ dog paddle | virtual mindlessness in the shape of a blue ball
√ elevatormoods | designers with considerable time on their hands
√ LAB.mathieu-badimon.com | pointless play but gorgeous Flash
√ Perpetual BubbleWrap under "useless" at urban75.com (must have more!)
√ Save The Words | important words generate important causes
√ Virtual Stapler | revolutionary online stapler simulation
√ Virtual Whiteboard & Chalkboard | platinum visual systems
√ Vectorpark Ball | play fetch with a three-legged apostrophe
"The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul,
to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into
the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony" (Mary Baker Eddy)
laughing
√ Book-a-Minute bedtime, when you've no time "for your children and a good book"
√ Artty Bollocks Generator, instant artist statement
√ Despair, Inc. and their Demotivators collection
√ DO NOT PRESS | alternative red button exercise
√ Hello... I'm sorry.. I like you! make your selection and press the red button
√ HEMA - online winkelen | consumer products gone mad
√ Hoops&Yoyo | Hallmark's most interesting invention
√ Modern Living | Neurotica series (don't ask; just experience)
√ NaDa™ 0.5 | Does nothing for everybody. And it's free
√ tedPAD | create millions of amazing and really bad TED talks
