Pointless Ponderings

www.crazythoughts.com ponders all the insane questions that plague modern life. Have you ever wondered why round pizzas are delivered in square boxes, or why the word “abbreviation” is so long? If not, this site certainly has and some more. It will certainly get the old gray matter working.

Excuse Me!

Wednesday nights web review is about an excuse to take time off work. So if you fancy a day off work in bed? Or need a pefect reason for not doing anything. Check out www.excuselist.com which will come up with the perfect excuse to get you out of something you really don’t want to do.

Strange Dreams

Plagued by scary nightmares? Or puzzled by what an unusual dream may mean? Then visit www.freakydreams.com and see if it can interpret what happens when you sleep. Enter a detailed description of your dream and the site will try and work out what it all means.

Crush Calculator

If you’ve got a bit of a crush on a colleage or the girl or guy next door then check out www.romancelevel.com to see if you’re right for each other! This online calculator works out your compatability based on your names and age. OK, its not exactly scientifically proven, but its fun

Got a Crush?

Fancy someone but don’t know whether they feel the same way? Then click on to www.ecrush.com a site that might be able to find out for you. Simply enter your name, their name and your crush’s email address.

This site will then email the object of your affections asking you their crushes, which will then be emailed back to you. And its all done anonymously so they’ll never know it was you

Make your choice

If you’re one of those people Who likes pondering random questions, then give this site a go. www.whichisworse.com asks you to vote on which choice is worse in various situations. So what is worse? Being stuck voting on pointless websites all day, or actually doing some work? Only you can decide

Food for thought

Its best not to visit this site while eating. www.wierd-food.com lists unusual dishes from around the world, all of which are delicacies to locals, but sound disgusting to most other people! So if you fancy eating rat in Thailand or calfs head in France, visit this site to get the lowdown on the wacky foods eaten the world over. Yuck!

Digit Dexterity

If you’re pretty proud of your typing skills, put them to the test at www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjip.php . Here you must carry out increasingly tricky tests during this six minute game, requiring real dexterity.

The Day You Were Born.

If you want to find out what was hot and what wasn’t on the day you were born check out www.kakophone.com Just type in your birth date and you can find out what song was number one in the charts, what film won an Oscar, who was on the cover of Time Magazine and which celebrities you share your birthday with.

And if you are not from this planet, you can find out what was happening in the sky or on Mars on the same day.

Sign of Sillyness

www.funnysign.com is a hilarious collection of the stuidest signs from around the world although it has to be said that a lot of them are from America. Examples range from hairdresser names like Curl up and dye to a service station sign saying “Eat here and get Gas”

How Big Is Yours?

Hold on... Dont get pervy. Its got your attention but its not what you are thinking.

These days everyone is talking g about carbon footprints, but how do you know the size of yours? At www.footprint.wwf.org.uk you can find out. It only takes a few minutes to measure it and all you have to do is answer a few questions about your diet, travel habits and pets - all of which contribute to CO2 emissions

Selfcast

Try www.selfcast.com. Its like youtube, but live. If you are holding an event such as a wedding for example, this site will let you broadcast it on the internet in real time, provided you have a camcorder and internet connection ready.

Page by Page

Page By Page Books at www.pagebypagebooks.com is the equivalent of an online library of classic literature.

The site makes use of books on which the copyright has expired so they can be shared and read online for free.

The site lacks a search engine so to check out which books are available click "View all Authors" or check "See book list by Title" option.

From here just browse through the available books and authors alphabetically.

Most public domain book sites force you to download the whole book at once on one page or in extremely large chunks, this can make reading them or finding a lost place kind of tedious.

In contrast, this site loads a single page of text at a time making it much easier to read. If you do not fancy reading an entire book in one sitting simply bookmark it using your search engine and then open from the bookmarked page when you fancy dipping into the story again.

The site design itself is simple and uncluttered and it is fairly easy to track down interesting titles. At the moment there are only a couple of hundred books on the site but the number of available titles is increasing all the time

Where Are You

Try www.gchart.com and click a section of the map and this site will display a pop-up with the cuirrent time and date in that location along with local blog posts and also pictures from that area. It’s a clever use of modern web technology to do something interesting – You can go on a world tour from the comfort of your chair.

Walking the streets

This is a blog that will make you feel sorry for traffic wardens which shows the day to day life of a traffic warden who quite often finds people aiming cars at him or raising a fist to dispute the ticket. Reading this will give you an indication of what its like to deal with the public when they don’t want to be dealt with. Its very enlightening and should make you think twice about berating a warden. Oh, and given the subject matter, you can expect a few choice vulgarities as the warden recalls the abuse hurled in his direction. The blog can be found at www.parkingattendant.blogspot.com

How To do just about anything.

www.How.com is a fairly big "How to" site offering "How to" guides on a wide variety of subject matter. While the sites claim of showing you how to do just about everything is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, it does have 35,000 "How to" guides for a staggering amount of different things.

The site is organised by subjects: cars, personal care and style, that kind of thing. There is also a search option if you are looking for something specific fast.

Once a category and specific guide has been selected the "How to" itself is revealed. Each guide carries a difficulty rating and is separated into easy to follow steps. After following the "How to", the guide ends with tips and warnings.

While the tips can be useful, some of the warning advice can be a tad hysterical.