Loudcrowd: where music meets play, gaming meets people, people play with people, and encounter squirrels, cupcakes, and toast that like music. My experience with social networking sites started with Gaia Online when I was about 11 years old. It introduced me to a close-knit, forum-based online community of elite role-players, general discussion debaters, and otaku.…
Welcome to the first instalment of Sam’s Weekly Serving of NeRd! Today, we shall learn how to make organic plastic! These days, everything is trying to be organic. But is organic really better? First off, let’s take a look at the dictionary‘s chemical definition of “organic”: or⋅gan⋅ic /ɔrˈgænɪk/ [awr-gan-ik] –adjective : noting or pertaining to…
It’s nearing that time of year again: Christmas, Hanukka, Kwanzaa, or whichever holiday you celebrate. Regardless of the holiday, there’s a good chance you’re planning on buying gifts for all the important people in your life. As an alternative to emptying your wallet this holiday season, try some of these ideas for original and heartfelt…
After last week’s Gives Me Hope, our WFW saga continues with another ‘feel good’ website that will leave a smile on your face. So when we look at magazines, television, billboards and even clothing, the image of ripped muscular bodies or tall slim figures with perfect silky hair and glowing skin appear. The flaws are unseen and…
Calgary has recently added a great new recycling program to the city. It’s quite obvious that Calgarians are making an effort to help our environment is ways such as reducing our Eco-footprint. So what’s the next step? Compost! Many cities around North America have started a compost program. This program would be similar to our recycling…
Living in a modern city everyday, it’s hard for us to imagine a city that is lost from human touch. It’s time that we appreciate the past glory and history of the lost cities. There are legends and ruins of dozens of lost cities around the world. The following 5 are the most historically significant…
Over the summer, I was talking to my uncle about this new search engine, Bing. I thought I’d share a bit more about Bing with you all, and if you are an avid Bing user, some changes that you may have seen. Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is the current web…
Google is boring now. A search engine? BLAH. BUT there has been some recent websites that Google has created that have intrigued me. For example, if you type in www.googlegooglegooglegoogle.com, it gives you 4 independent Google browsers within your own internet page. I don’t know what’s the practical use of this, but it’s awesome! Another cool Google…
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…