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…
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…
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…
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…
These days, you don’t usually find many people who are not on Facebook. However, there still are those people that ask, “What is Facebook?” and I have dedicated this post to fill you all in – for those of you who are already very familiar with Facebook, let this be a little history lesson for…
In October, something really cool happened. The Because I am a Girl caravan visited Calgary and stopped at our school. They interviewed girls and listened to our thoughts on what it means to be a girl here in Canada, and around the world. Learning more about their campaign and speaking to them, I wanted to spread…