July 2007

Baggu is a reusable shopping bag now available for preorder. The makers claim that "using one Baggu for one year replaces 300 to 700 disposable bags".

Clever use of a classic TV icon…

The Frugal Panda offers a list of Top 50 Frugality Bloggers.

You have a dead frog and and an Internet connection. What do you do? You stick a web server in its gut and make it into its own web site.

I had a biology teacher in high school who tried to convince me that if you stick a fork in a tomato, it will scream. Guess what? Beans scream too!

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here." If you know that as the opening line of the classic text adventure game Zork, you are indeed a gamer of long standing. You can now play Zork and several more classic games from Infocom online.

Digital Music – DIY Now! is a free downloadable ebook. It is said to be "a guide to making a living making music out of your backpack, from anywhere, and everywhere".

Harry Potter fans will get a kick out of a way to Use Spells to Control Your Computer. The article illustrates a method using Windows Vista, but this would be easily adaptable to Windows XP or other operating systems.

One of the key character traits of a successful Evil Overlord is the ability to think through the ramifications of any plan for world domination. Some folks just aren't cut out for the job…
 

No, I'm not kidding. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Google Video has part 1, part 2, and part 3, and you can find out more about the film at the RASCO Motion Pictures site.

My head asplode.

Here's a list of the the best 100 web applications for 2007, at least in the eyes of the folks at Webware.

Not everything on the web is indexed by Google or its competitors. Check this listing of invisible web directories for portals to online databases that don't always get the attention they deserve.

The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos: "Once upon a time, how-to guides were all about numbered lists and badly-drawn diagrams. Now those guides have gone multimedia, with a slew of new sites offering video how-tos from the users themselves. Here are 10 of the best."

Hankering to make a podcast? Check out the Podcasting Toolbox, a listing of more than 70 podcasting tools and resources.

Need to get rid of things? Then GetRidOfThings.com is for you. What kind of things can they help you get rid of? Almost anything: computer viruses, skunk odor, panic attacks, static cling, chlamydia, fire ants, zits…