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Know Your Nuts and Bolts

Jan 30. 2011

I have a tendency to keep all the extra screws, nuts, and bolts that come with electronics, toys, furniture, etc just in case we have a malfunction in the middle of the night and ohmigosh this thingamajig just fell apart because it's missing ONE screw but Home Depot isn't open! So as you can probably imagine, our toolbox carries a giant mess of various fasteners in all shapes and sizes. I could never really tell the difference between each nut or bolt, or even what they're called. Enter Bolt Depot's interactive guide to fasteners. Not only does it describe the different nuts, bolts, washers, etc, it also tells you what each should be used for and offers a downloadable PDF for offline viewing. For instance, did...

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Information, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

Average Happiness vs Transcendent Moments

Dec 17. 2010

Do you guys watch videos on TED (tagline: "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world")? If not, you should — the site is filled with thought-provoking talks and discourses from some of the most exceptional people in the world. Yesterday, TED posted a presentation given by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, the husband-and-wife team behind the popular websites Nerve and Babble. Their talk, titled "Let's talk parenting taboos," struck a chord with me because not only did they deliver it in a funny and enjoyable way, the content itself was honest and entirely relatable to where I am currently in my life. Grisom and Volkman explores 4 truths that parents are taught by society never to admit...

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Blogging, Information, Web

The Geekinheels.com Web Empire

Nov 20. 2010

Webempires is a neat tool that aims to visualize the traffic of every website on the web. Basing its figures on the popular traffic aggregator Alexa, the site can be used to answer questions such as: What if your website was a country? What if all your visitors gathered in one place? And more! As of today, Alexa lists this blog as having 9,537 visitors per day. So if Geekinheels.com were a country, it would be larger than Montserrat! And if all the daily visitors were to gather in one place at the same time, it would surpass the number of people who gathered to break the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously making snow angels in one place: How does your site, or...

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Art/Design, Information, Web

Talkin’ ’bout My Generation

Nov 17. 2010

Since 1900, there have been six generations in the United States: G.I., Silent, Boomer, X, Millennial, and Z. While most people identify with one generation, I have the luck of having been born during a generational overlap — between X and Millennial. Could you have guessed this based on what social trends influenced me while growing up? USAToday believes so. In fact, they have created a fun interactive quiz which guesses your age based on your cultural experiences. I have always been told that I act older than my age, and that my tastes and preferences belong to someone who is older. This must hold true to some regard, because USAToday guessed the year of my birth as 1973, not 1980! How about you?...

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