Incredibox. If you are a fan of beatboxing, you will love this site. If you just like fun time-wasters on the Internet, you will love this site. Incredibox works like this: you start off with a bunch of animated beatboxers, and a bunch of beatboxing sounds that you can have each of them do, then you…
This is the second part of my search for John Green books. This week I read Let It Snow, it is a collection of three Christmas love stories (these are love stories that guys will enjoy). The stories are all slightly related and are all quite interesting and funny. The book was written by John…
By now I’m sure you may have heard about the Kindle, Amazon.com’s wireless reading device that lets you download a whole book in a minute and now can carry over 1,500 books in one device (on the Kindle 2). Supposedly, the screen “reads like real paper” (check out the video below). You can also get…
Now this is something totally awesome I know you’ll appreciate this weekend: For many years, we’ve all searched the Internet for the perfect font for one project or another. I’ve seen the ones that are based on famous fonts (like the font from “The Simpsons” title, etc.), and the super curly ones, and the gothic…
In the past few days, some pretty awesome websites have been discovered. How awesome? Warm fuzzy feelings awesome. Over the next week and a half, Alice and I will each shed some light on these websites. So by now, I’m sure we all know about FMyLife (FML). And thanks to this, we also know about…
With Grey Cup Festival on its way, its time to decide how you are going to enjoy it! Now for those of you who are not planning on attending the game, a game watching party or just sit by yourself at home watching, there is more to the Grey Cup than just the three hour…
“Sigh”… I was really expecting something different when I decided to read this novel. You see, from what I had heard, it is a story that takes place in a world that has suffered a zombie apocalypse. Groups of people built towns surrounded by fences to protect themselves from the zombies, and now, many generations…
Very few of us appreciate the homework we receive throughout our time in school. While we’re trying to balance volunteering and sports and music and whatever other extra-curricular activities we may be involved in, homework just gets in the way of us having a life. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to just get rid of it?…
My whole life, I have been allergic to peanuts, and there have been many incidents where I have had to spend the night in emergency. If there was something I could do about this issue, it would be to let more people know why they should be conscious of those with a peanut/nut allergy. Here…
As we all know, Google is slowly becoming one of the most powerful corporations of all time. For those of you that don’t know, Google was founded in 1997, and now controls the majority of the search engine business, with 59.3% of people choosing to use Google Search. Their next closest competitor, Yahoo, controls a…
Wires are great, they served us for centuries, bringing useful electricity to us everyday; however, imagine that you have a printer, an external hard drive, a lamp, a set of speaker, a cell phone charger and a computer system in your bedroom, and they are all connected via wires. You know when you need to…
There was Make It on the first weekend of November, and Fairly Traded Market Day coming up on the last, well, how about something in-between? Behold, The Art Market! With over 200 professional artisans involved with this event, it’s no wonder why this is one of Calgary’s ‘premier art and craft sales’. So get a…
Pets may not be with us everywhere we go, but they are an important of our lives. Whether it is a cat, a dog, a lizard, or a fish, pets keep us company and give us a friend we can always count on to be there in our times of need. Okay, maybe a fish…
I am a junior facilitator with the Minds in Motion All Girls [science] Club and volunteer each Saturday at the U of C and help with their activities. So far this fall, we have created aliens, Saturn-mobiles, discussed the science of zombies and eaten candy. 😀 This past weekend, we went to the TELUS World of Science along…
Are you a game developer or interested in becoming one? Or do you just have some time to kill? Whatever the reason, I have something you might be interested in. Kongregate is a gaming website dedicated in hosting free games for anyone interested, but more importantly, it supports game developers by holding weekly, monthly and…