Peg Kerr's Journal

From lifehacker_rss: Mailbox Maps is Google Maps mashup that shows you the closest set of mailboxes and the pickup times at each so that you can be sure to get your package out on time.

All you have to do is enter your address. Mailbox Map quickly shows you the nearest mailboxes, and clicking on the mailbox icon shows you the pickup information.

aome pointed out the fairy doors available for sale here:



For those interested, check out this delightful site about urban fairies, which started with the fairy doors of Ann Arbor, Michigan and then continued to acquire information about other fairy doors all over the world.

I find these rather delightful. Hmmm. Perhaps one will show up in my house soon.

For those of you, like me, who are trying to get healthier (hey, all you SparkPeople!), I have found an interesting website called The World's Healthiest Foods. I have set up a syndicated feed for it, at whfoods. It has very detailed nutritional information on these foods, with recipes to suggest so you can incorporate them into your diet. Criteria for inclusion:

1. Most nutritionally dense
2. Whole foods
3. Familiar foods
4. Readily available
5. Affordable
6. Taste good.

Also you might find the Food Advisor on this site to be interesting, a survey you can take which suggests foods you might want to incorporate into your diet, based on your age, gender, personal lifestyle and individual health needs.

Interesting site. It is set up as a non-for-profit, to enable them, they say, to maintain an independent perspective on nutrition research. Worth checking out.

From lifehacker_rss:

No time to read? Email service Daily Lit sends you a bite-sized chunk of a novel to your inbox every day.

Search for a book you'd like to read via email from an impressive list of classics in the public domain - like Gulliver's Travels or Moby Dick - and receive it in parts, one a day, at a scheduled time, via email. The message isn't too long and gives you the option to get the next installment immediately, or wait till the next day's scheduled time. Today I got part 1 of 145 of Wuthering Heights, and I'm already looking forward to the next installment. Great way to get a little reading in between the boss requests and v1@gr@ messages. — Gina Trapani

I've signed up for Moby Dick, a book I've always meant to read but never gotten around to reading. Taking it in little nibbles, I think, will help.

This is a cool site. If, like me, you hesitate to order clothing from the Internet, you can go here and try the clothing on a virtual model, which you can personalize to be exactly your size, so that you can see how it fits.

Another silly LOTR video: "What's taters, Precious?"

Gacked from fileg: Go HERE and move your mouse. Click to get a different color.

Gacked from fileg: Shatner raps Shakespeare. No, really.

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Sorry to those on my friends list who will have to spork out their eyes after watching this. It's almost as bad as the deathless Ballad of Bilbo Baggins!

Thanks to rabican for the link to the Minnesota Power Falcon Cam here.

Hurrah! piccolo_pirate has posted pictures from the annual festivities here! She says she will let me know when more are posted at the website.



Cross-posted to bad_feminists