May 2008

Halloween is still a ways off, but the Zombie Apocalypse could begin any day now. Learn how to blend right in with the walking dead with Zombie Maker — The Definitive Zombie Make Up and Costume Guide.

A simple Firefox hack lets you Read 20 Digital Magazines for Free.

Are you a Twitter user? Get a daily recipe (in 140 characters or less!) from the cookbook: "Oatmeal Biscuits: cream 5T+1t butter&brn sug. Beat w 4T h2o; +c flour&quick oat/.5t bkg soda/t cinn. Roll thin/cut~36. 10m@350F on grsd pan."

Want. Want. WANT!!!

Visions of my childhood dance before my eyes… It's a meticulous reproduction of the robot from Lost in Space! DANGER! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!

See also: NASA Television Station ID.

"Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."

Can You Imagine A World With Hover Bacon?

(warning: auto-playing Flash with obnoxious sound track!)

Microsoft offers Free Office Templates for Office 2007.

"This tutorial shows how to create simple gif animations using Inkscape and Gimp, two very nice and free open source programs." And here's a tutorial based on Photoshop.

"Just Ask Anybody is a Google Custom Search Engine that searches over 75 Ask-An-Expert and Ask-A-Librarian Web sites. Got a reference question you need answered? Check it out!"

These two articles list image resources that are part of what is called the 'deep web' — web-based information that cannot be indexed by major search engines like Google or Yahoo…

• Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web

• Visual resources online: Digital images of primary materials on public Web sites

I've always wanted one of these…

via io9

If you need to cook for an army — or just want to stock the freezer — you need the collection of recipes and tips at Ellen's Kitchen.

"You don’t need to be a millionaire or even slightly well-to-do to enjoy the finer things in life. Consider this list of 60 Fun Things to Do for Little or No Money."

You gotta love Wrongcards, a site that lets you send ecards like this:

There's even a section of cards to send to friends and loved ones in case of a zombie apocalypse.