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floridian
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Once or twice a week I check out Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools website. http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.php It has reviews of products that people find useful - not overpriced gizmos, but specialized tools that people find really useful for a particular need. This hurricane season I have made good use of my LED flashlights and want to get several more, but the selection from local mass merchandisers is pretty limited. Today on Cool Tools I find a review of a site called 'flashlight reviews' and I am now working on a decision.
What undiscovered websites are most valuable to you?
A typical 'cool tool' review:
Quote:Screaming Meanie
Idiot-proof wake-up alarm
When I travel I often use earplugs at night (E.A.R foam are my preferred brand) to mute the sounds of strange places and get a good night's sleep. Only problem is, the pathetic "eep eep" sound of a typical travel alarm cannot penetrate the earplugs. For years I have searched for a truly heavy-duty portable alarm, and finally found a good candidate at the Petro Truck Stop in Kingman, Arizona: The Screaming Meanie.
Also available from online sources, the Screaming Meanie is not a clock. It is a countdown timer. You set the number of hours and minutes between now and the time you want to wake up. You can also set the volume, either to "loud" or "frighteningly loud." In case 110 decibels is not enough ("loud enough to wake the dead!"), they have a 120 decibel version too!
When you start the Screaming Meanie the alarm is ON by default. This eliminates my habit of waking up five or six times just to check whether I set my travel alarm correctly. You just know this thing is going to work. You can't possibly sleep through it because while the 10 and 5-minute warnings can be turned off with one button, it takes 3 buttons pushed simultaneously to silence the final alarm. My only quibble is that it should be smaller (it is a rounded plastic block, 1" by 2.25" by 5.25") but hey, it was designed for truckers.
-- Charles Plattt
Screaming Meanie
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Posted on September 17, 2004 at 03:11 PM
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #1 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 9:58am » |
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For the geeks who like to mess with the Windows registry.
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If you're not a computer geek, don't mess with your registry. If you do, Don't blame me when you trash your system.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #2 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 11:28am » |
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It's gotta be:
www.fark.com and don't forget to stay informed on
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #3 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 11:39am » |
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on Oct 7th, 2004, 11:28am, Jimmy_B wrote:
+1 for www.fark.com
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #5 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 12:55pm » |
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There is an alarm clock for deaf people. It is meant to be put under the pillow and vibrates to wake the deaf.
I have one. I put it in my shorts. I always wake up smiling. 
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #6 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 12:58pm » |
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www.joecartoon.com 
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« Reply #8 on: Oct 7th, 2004, 1:32pm » |
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I used one of those screaming meanies once, it will wake the dead. I don't know if this one is the same, the one I used was more like a timer than a clock. You just set it for how many hours until you want it to go off.
Tim
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on Oct 7th, 2004, 1:12pm, eddie wrote:
I think I'll have to browse that from my home machine
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #10 on: Oct 8th, 2004, 1:12pm » |
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #11 on: Oct 8th, 2004, 3:21pm » |
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This is my boss' hubby's web site. Some funny shit, IMHO.
http://www.fernt.com/
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #12 on: Oct 8th, 2004, 9:28pm » |
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Thousands of airplane photos.... www.airliners.net
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Re: Cool Websites (OT)
« Reply #14 on: Oct 9th, 2004, 8:09am » |
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on Oct 7th, 2004, 1:12pm, eddie wrote:
LMAO eddie! I wasted my whole morning looking through that site. It is going to the top of my favorites!
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