If You Love Words....

Wordie.org is a site all of you word-lovers have most likely heard of. But if by chance you haven't, check it out. It reminds me of M-W's Open Dictionary, but with a more intellectual vibe.

The sites tagline is "Like Flickr, but without the photos." I think that says it all.

Twitter-ers That Aren't All "Babble"

BBC News recently told us all something we all already know, at least those of us who use Twitter regularly know this. A lot of what people say on Twitter is "babble." Uninteresting, pointless, and un-newsworthy  - and dare I say, even un-tweet-worthy in some peoples opinions. Though I personally believe nothing is un-tweet-worthy. The mundane details you get from it is what I think makes it work.

If your looking for Twittter-ers with more depth to their tweets, please observe, and follow, the following:

Wise words:

@QuotesGeek - Lots of famous quotes

@QuakerQuotes - Quotes of Quakers and many others

@motivation - Motivational quotes

@Quotes4thought - Philosophical quotes

Celebrities:

@Pink - The singer Pink

@jason_mraz - The singer Jason Mraz

@UncleRUSH - Russell Simmons

Educational:

@NOVAonline - The PBS show NOVA

@nysci - NY Hall of Science

@BadAstronomer - Astronomer Phil Plait

@make - Make zine


@NatGeoSociety - National Geographic


Various:

@MTVsMADE - The Official Twitter for the MTV show MADE.

@officialpeta - People for the ethical treatment of animals, a.k.a. - PETA


@trends - Stay in-the-know of Twitter trends

@givesmehope - Inspirational stories

All-in-one Vintage Kitchen appliances from Cribcandy - a gallery of hand picked houshold and interior design items from magazines and webogs, every day

All-in-one Vintage Kitchen appliances from Cribcandy - a gallery of hand picked houshold and interior design items from magazines and webogs, every day

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App Turns Your iPhone Into An iSaber (Lightsaber)

I can't believe I'm only discovering this now.

I was over on Twitter finding more people for the official @GettinSmttien Twitter account to follow. I was skipping through various American Idol contestants Twitters and came upon Syesha Mercado (season 7, 3rd place - follow her!). One of her tweets from a little while back read "Just played Lightstaber (iphone app) w/ Hess in the Dark. I was Darth Vader with a red sword. Uh I had to stop I got a lil scared..lol"

Lightsaber iPhone app?

How have I not heard of this until now? I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I don't think you need to be to enjoy this. I then googled it and found basic info on Laptopmag.com

"We preface this short review by saying the 0.8MB application is free. We did not spend our hard-earned money on becoming mobile Jedi masters. Here’s how it works: as you swing your phone, a range of light saber sound effects come out of the iPhone’s speakers. You can change the color of the saber on the left side. Saber colors include: blue, green, red, purple, and yellow.
When you are not swinging the phone—I mean saber—you get some nice high-tech background noise. But words cannot detail this application. Check out the video of my fight with iPhone lightsaber-wanting Haselton."

You should really check out the vid.


Whilst on the subject of lightsabers, I found this really funny article over on (one of the BEST sites ever) HowStuffWorks. It explains how lightsabers (would) work.
I love when they take a break from being all "educational" and get silly over on Howstuffworks.com

Tartan Maker - Make Some Tartan

TartanMaker.com - I'm smitten. I'm a big fan of tartan; it's sort of like plaid, but different. I don't quite know how to describe it. When I stumbled onto this site I thought it was hilarious that it's a whole site just for making tartan... then I spent a whole hour on the site, you know, just making tartan.

If you like tartan (or really simple, fast and FREE background making), I'm suggesting you check it out. If you don't, well you may not find it as thrilling as I did.


I made this for the @GettinSmitten Twitter(!):

 

If you make anything, please, comment and post the link! 

Brooke Hogan Vows To "NEVER" Wear Fur

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I've got a new, major respect for Brooke Hogan. I enjoyed watching her and her adorable little family on their reality show Hogan Knows Best and I've always thought she's seemed like a sweetheart. Recently Miss Hogan, using that sweet-heart of hers, made a blog recalling her trip to talk about blog ideas and possible collaborations with (one of my favorite vegans ever) Russell Simmons. Something else that happened on the trip: He showed her an anti fur blog by Tila Tequila and the accompanying video. Brooke tells she was deeply affected by this.

Note: I have never watch one of these videos that show animals being destroyed as if they were inanimate objects. I've heard about them - I've got the message; I'm an anti-fur-vegetarian. But, I suppose, I'm not anti these videos either, as some people may need to see it, in order to believe it.

Brooke wrote:

 I love animals, I was raised with animals and respect them. I was speechless when I saw this and it affected me deeply... Animals feel pain and suffer exactly the same way as you or I do. They weren't put on this planet so that we could do whatever we wanted to them and not be held accountable...

Join me and vow to NEVER buy fur...not even fur gloves or fur on your collars.

Fur equals pain and suffering. Period. And for my girls out there, if you watch this video you WILL cry so make sure you have your waterproof mascara on first.  Its a killer.  Literally.

I think it's great she's taken this stand and is promoting the idea, as well. One of the commenter's on the sourse of this article mentioned something pretty obvious - it's just as wrong to eat meat as it is to wear fur; the animals on farms are abused, too. Very true. But I still get giddy when I see any sign of people trying to be more respectful of animals. Every little bit helps. Go Brooke.


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The Climb - by David Sides

I think this is beautiful.

David Sides does a great collaboration with the group Ahmir to remake Miley Cyrus' hit "The Climb." If you don't dig this song by Miley, please, don't let that deter you from giving this a listen.