Etchings on the Attic Wall

Here’s an interesting way to shop for products.  On Coverpop, everything is arranged in categories.  Once you’ve chosen the category you are interested in, you are shown a visual dump of all the available products that you can get at Amazon.com.  Just mouse-over the product and a pop-up will appear with more detail.  Clicking on [...]

If you want to experience sea life in an unusual way, book an excursion with Sea Quest Expeditions.  They offer sea kayaking tours in the following standard locations:

Washington’s San Juan Islands
Mexico’s Baja Peninsula
Alaska’s Inside Passage

If you wish to have a more exotic custom adventure, you can also go to Belize, Chile, Fiji, Palau, Thailand, Vietnam, [...]

This blog shows stills from episodes of the Simpsons along side the movies they were taken from.  It is amazing how many of these scenes were actually taken from movies.  If you are an avid fan like I am, you should be very familiar with many of these images from the cartoon.  I just didn’t [...]

This is a fun site.  Are you curious as to exactly how everything goes to hell during a zombie apocalypse?  Or are you interested in knowing if your loved ones are plotting to eat you?  What about the question we are all pondering – how many tapeworms could live in your stomach?  The Oatmeal is [...]

Looking for somewhere different and memorable to celebrate New Year’s this year!  Then you have got to head over to Times Square in New York.  It is the most famous and biggest New Year’s Eve party in the nation.  The celebration is most notable for the large ball atop One Times Square that descends the [...]

This web site identifies lots of interesting and unusual things located on Google maps.  You can see everything from a hot air balloon to elephants to crop circles.  It is amazing to see what the satellites can capture in a particular moment.

If you are an avid TV viewer and love the catchy tunes that a lot of shows employ, check out this web site.  They have the theme songs from hundreds of TV shows, both past and present.  Catch a blast from the past with songs from Night Court, MacGyver, or Three’s Company.  Or you can [...]

Yes, I’m writing about another cruise vacation.  Can you tell that I like cruises? 
The Oasis of the Seas is the largest passenger vessel in the world and is owned by Royal Caribbean.  It set sail from its shipyard in Finland on October 30th and is due to arrive in its home port of [...]

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of the most famous carnival celebrations in the world.  The celebration is well known for its parades, masquerade balls, and parties all over the city.  The festivities usually begin two weeks before and during Fat Tuesday.  The most recognized feature of Mardi Gras is the large floats during [...]

Here’s a web site for all things Hubble!  The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most significant achievements we have ever done in space.  It has revealed so much about the universe we live in that we could never have seen without it.  It has expanded our knowledge and understanding and its images will [...]