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Stupeflix Helps You Easily Make Great Looking Videos

by Austin Keenan

With a name like Stupeflix, you've got to be wondering what's up with this site. What the site does is provide you with a graphical interface that allows you to create your own slide show videos, complete with soundtracks, text overlays, and image legends. What makes the site a real winner is that it's not just easy to create these things, but you have all the freedom in the world to create your video.

Track Your Wikipedia Pages with Wiki Alarm

by Austin Keenan

Recently, Irish sociology student Shane Fitzgerald fooled numerous reporters by inventing a fake quote just hours after the death of French composer Maurice Jarre. The quote, originally posted on Jarre's Wikipedia page, wound up in blogs and publications around the world. Fitzgerald says this was done to teach journalists the importance of double checking the facts listed in Wikipedia before publishing them. Maybe some of these writers would have been hip to the hoax if they had used Wiki Alarm.

Re-Kindle Your Fake Blogs?

by Ron Callari

In Dennis Leary's Hulu TV commercial, his alien persona critiques us mere mortals of sharing our "bliggety blogs" and our "Facey-spaceys" and our "Tweety pages" with all our "bookwormy anti-Boobtubey friends." Perhaps Amazon was thinking along the same lines when they rolled out their Kindle Your Blog campaign. This week Amazon's Kindle Publishing for Blogs is promoted as a "fast and easy self-publishing tool" that let's you upload and sell your blogs at a subscription price of $1.99 per month.

See Jacko's Amazing Auction Catalogue at JuliensAuctions.com

by Austin Keenan

The King of Pop has been feeling the crunch of the recession just like the rest of us, and now he's getting a little hard for cash. In an effort to stay afloat, Michael Jackson has decided to start auctioning off items from his world-famous Neverland Ranch. For this endeavor, Jackson has employed Julien's Auctions to create a catelogue of what's up for grabs. JuliensAuctions.com will give you an interactive experience as you peruse Jacko's mysterious and bizarre auction items.

Add Phone Charms Japanese Style with Stick-On Adhesive Buttons

by Steve Levenstein

Want to hang phone charms off your mobile just like they do in Japan but your cellphone has no hole? No problem - just stick on a button!

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Social Media Taught In Schools

by Ron Callari

What if you could go to school to become famous? Where a curriculum was built around your individuality! Where you were measured and graded on your sphere of influence? Today, in the Age of the Individual, we are all learning to market our own brand. In this new world of commerce, both online and off, your reputation is indeed becoming an accepted form of currency. If you ever thought you were too cool for school before, think again... you just might be able to enroll in an institution of higher learning that puts a whole new spin on socializing!

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Designer Hospital Gowns To Go! The Progressive Recovery Collection

by Boomer Babe

Most of you know the problems with hospital gowns. They suck. With, if you're lucky, two sets of strings in the front, or in the back, depending on how you're told to wear them, you always have something showing that even your intimates seldom see.

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Twitter Dating Service Radaroo: Finding Love In 140 Characters Or Less

by Beth Graddon-Hodgson

As Twitter helps businesses and people communicate in 140 characters or less, brevity in communication is changing businesses marketing strategies and replacing long, drawn out corporate communications. As Twitter transforms the business world, could it also change the business of online dating, with online matchmaking profiles in 140 characters or less?

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Solar Powered Apparel: Chic or Geek?

by Gloria Campos

If solar powered gadgets were inconspicuously integrated into apparel or integrated into clothing in such a way that it looked more chic than geek would you wear it? Maybe you like the eco-geek gadget look. Not sure? Take a look at the cool solar powered apparel gadgets below to find out.

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Grasshopper Inspires Entreprenuers In Down Economy

by Ron Callari

If you remember the TV Series Kung Fu (1972- 1975), you know that David Carradine's character was continuously inspired by his mentor, the blind Master Po. The zen master's ability to uncover life's hidden truths taught his eager student how to become one with his spiritual potential.

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Softening The Loss Of A Pet With A Huggable Soft-Hearted Pillow

by Lady Bee

After nearly two years of writing this column, I have yet to touch on the subject of the death of a pet. Oh, I've seen some lovely, very personal gravestones and urns for pets; it just hurt too much to write about them. But today, when I read about Soft-Hearted Pillows, I knew I had to share these with you... perhaps because a Soft-Hearted Pillow is the most gentle way yet to let our pets "go," and know that they will still be with us.

Kneeling Bench Keeps Toilet Splashes (and Pride) to a Minimum

Toilet Trouble? Bizarre Kneeling Bench Keeps Potties Clean and Spouses Happy

by Steve Levenstein

Urine trouble now... Responding to complaints from homemakers about messes made by micturating males, Japanese bathroom engineers have brought their toilet talents to bear on the problem and have come up with a solution that will bring proud men everywhere to their knees.

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Get Workout Tips from StrongestMan.org

by Austin Keenan

Summer is just around the corner! Are you ready to show off that beach body yet? If you're still getting around to developing that perfect six pack of abs, you may want to consider StrongestMan.org for a little information. The site has a graphical interface that lets users select workouts by muscle area, and pulls routines from sources likw WikiHow and Del.icio.us to give you what you're looking for.

Wolfram Alpha, The Next Google?

by Ron Callari

Move over Google, there’s a new race car driver on the track. Expected to launch on May 18th, Wolfram Alpha is one of the early leaders in the Web 3.0 race, and its turbo-charged search formula may be just the design for all future Google contenders to emulate. It’s the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research who has been fine-tuning his well-oiled machine for almost three decades, in hopes of taking the pole position away from the Mario Andretti of all search engines.

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Heart-Shaped Watermelons Show How Love Grows

by Steve Levenstein

The heart-shaped watermelons grown by Japanese farmer Hiroichi Kimura and his wife are more than just a labor of love, they are products of the Kimura's passion for farming - and each other.

Nintendo Famicom Art Plays On Retro NES Game Themes

Retro Famicom Art Exhibit Features Bush Jr. Game

by Steve Levenstein

The best games never created? That's the theme of Meteor's Famicase 2009, a celebration of wishful gaming designed to pay tribute to Nintendo's influential Famicom home game console.

Good Vibes at ThankingOfYou.com

by Austin Keenan

Do you ever have those moments when you look back upon your past and think of someone who greatly impacted your life? Ever wish that you could reach back and give them a personal "Thank You" for being such an influence? This, and many other themes of gratitude, is the basis of a new social website called ThankingOfYou.com.

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President Called In To Bail Out KFC!

by Ron Callari

To celebrate the highly anticipated launch of its new Kentucky Grilled Chicken, fast food chain KFC was giving away gratis pieces of grilled chicken to customers. To help promote the offer Oprah Winfrey added her celebrity heft in marketing the offer. Usually whenever the Big "O" gets involved, the world listens. Well, in this case, KFC's innovative viral campaign came to a crashing halt when the chicken-lickin' demand exceeded its paltry poultry supply.

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Go With The Flo™ A Transgenerational Squat Toilet

by Boomer Babe

No. You're kidding, right? You think that boomers are going to squat on a toilet?

The designers of Go With The Flo, from Arizona State University (ASU) Design School, say that their squat toilet is a toilet concept for baby boomers to help them get Yoga exercise. Not this boomer!

Tink! Part 4 ... They Can't Believe His Blinking Eyes!

by Ron Callari

As tink! was continuing to perplex and befuddle the vast majority of the New Kids on the Block fan base, the word in and of itself still eluded many us. As the mystery remained clouded, Jordan Knight, the pied piper himself played an online version of 20 questions. Tens of thousands of followers continued to submit guesses which were returned with simple "yes" or "no" responses. And just as this post was being written... Jordan Knight revealed his meaning of tink! However, based on the research of one very shrewd private investigator. I think her investigation in this case came closer to demystifying tink! than Jordan's blinking eyes!

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