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(Message started by: floridian on Oct 7^th, 2004, 9:33am)

Title: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by floridian on Oct 7^th, 2004, 9:33am

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

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/meanie.jpg

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
$20
CycleGadgets

Posted on September 17, 2004 at 03:11 PM
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000523.php

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Oct 7^th, 2004, 9:58am

For the geeks who like to mess with the Windows registry.

Disclaimer:
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/

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Jimmy_B on Oct 7^th, 2004, 11:28am

It's gotta be:

www.fark.com and don't forget to stay informed on
https://www.swern.gov/public/fbitips.php

Jimmy

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Rock_Lobster on Oct 7^th, 2004, 11:39am

on 10/07/04 at 11:28:58, Jimmy_B wrote:

www.fark.com

+1 for www.fark.com

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Kirk on Oct 7^th, 2004, 11:52am

http://slashdot.org
[smiley=bow.gif]Cowboy Neal

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by BobG on Oct 7^th, 2004, 12:55pm

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. ;)

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Gena on Oct 7^th, 2004, 12:58pm

www.joecartoon.com ;;D

I love this website

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by eddie on Oct 7^th, 2004, 1:12pm

Funny as hell you will like this one !!! [smiley=laugh.gif]
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/home.asp
let me know what you think [smiley=laugh.gif]
PFDAN

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Tim_Z on Oct 7^th, 2004, 1:32pm

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

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by floridian on Oct 8^th, 2004, 10:28am

on 10/07/04 at 13:12:36, eddie wrote:

Funny as hell you will like this one !!! [smiley=laugh.gif]
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/home.asp
let me know what you think [smiley=laugh.gif]
PFDAN

I think I'll have to browse that from my home machine ;;D

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by notseinfeld on Oct 8^th, 2004, 1:12pm

Aesthetics Anyone?

www.theprestonpartnership.com

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by TomM on Oct 8^th, 2004, 3:21pm

This is my boss' hubby's web site. Some funny shit, IMHO.
http://www.fernt.com/
TomM

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Racer1_NC on Oct 8^th, 2004, 9:28pm

Thousands of airplane photos.... www.airliners.net

Bill

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by taraann on Oct 9^th, 2004, 1:08am

www.flowgo.com if you like silly things like groovin granny, baby bush, etc

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by clarence on Oct 9^th, 2004, 8:09am

on 10/07/04 at 13:12:36, eddie wrote:

Funny as hell you will like this one !!! [smiley=laugh.gif]
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/home.asp
let me know what you think [smiley=laugh.gif]
PFDAN

LMAO eddie! I wasted my whole morning looking through that site. It is going to the top of my favorites!

Casey

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by Charlie on Oct 9^th, 2004, 12:57pm

Fun for boring guys like me:

http://www.smiliegenerator.com/

This place can be fun too:

http://www.csicop.org/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi

Charlie

Title: Re: Cool Websites (OT)
Post by bean on Oct 9^th, 2004, 8:30pm

http://sharingthegroove.org/ for music lovers

http://arstechnica.com/index.ars

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x the people on these boards are soo smart- soapbox, lounge, VR....some funny stuff