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Useful Websites As a web addict, I have come across many a site in my day that has seemed useful, but I have later deemed uselss, and understanding that probably many a person has gone through the same situation I have, I have gone through various websites eliminated the ones which I saw as cool looking, but useless, and left for here to present the acutal good ones, enjoy! Nice Translator: It is as the name says, a nice translator. The main difference it has between other translators is that you tell it which languages you are working with (it can be more than two, but I've never needed more than those), and instead of everytime you need to have something go from English to, let's say Spanish, and then back to English, you don't have to redo it, it auto-identifies which language it is, and translates it to the other, often with very accurate results.
Block Posters: A very interesting online application, where you give it a photo, and it expands it and makes it so you can print it into a poster using many pieces of paper. Though it looks a little tacky unless you're willing to spend some time and a bit of money on it, it's nice if you have some empty wall space and if you're room's look isn't 'classy', in fact I even have a black and white poster of the Eifel Tower in my room because of this app.
Free Printable Paper: Once again, a very descriptive title, and while they hold a great variety of papers, I believe the best ones are graphing paper and music paper, but of course, to each his own.
Qlock: An interesting website where you can visually see which part of the world is at night, and which in the day, and then see specific major cities and what exact time they are at, very interesting if you love geography or other cultures, and practical if you have friends or family outside your time zone.
Amazing Facts
President James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while simultaneously writing Latin with the other.
Most teddy bears are manufactured with a neutral expression on their face so that children can project their own emotions onto the stuffed creatures.
The average CD can hold 74 minutes’ worth of music. That unusual length was determined by Sony’s president, who decided that a single CD should be able to contain the longest recorded version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Despite his amazing success as a songwriter in the early 60s, Paul McCartney wanted to test the theory that it was the Lennon-McCartney name that made hit songs. He wrote a song “Woman” for Peter & Gordon using the pseudonym “Bernard Webb.” The song became a hit.
In 1983’s Return of the Jedi, three different actors portrayed Darth Vader. The man in the costume was David Prowse, the voice was that of James Earl Jones, and the revealed face was that of Sebastian Shaw.
A person of average size and weight burns about 60 to 70 calories each hour just sitting and watching television.
Near the event horizon of a black hole (the boundary in spacetime surrounding said black hole), ’spaghettification’ will occur, stretching matter into thin strips.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
Andrew Jackson was the only US President to have the national debt paid in full.
It is much less likely for a woman to be Red-Green colourblind than a man. This is because in order for a woman to be Red-Green colourblind, both of her X chromosomes would have to be affected. Because a man only has one X chromosome, he is more likely to be colourblind.
The Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 because they had run out of beer. Water didn’t stay drinkable on long sea voyages whereas beer would due to the alcohol.
To assemble the Wizard’s wardrobe for The Wizard of Oz, MGM costumers shopped at thrift stores to find clothes that projected “shabby gentility.” In an incredible coincidence, the previous owner of the coat they purchased was Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum.
When lightning strikes the ground, it will sometimes fuse the soil into a hollow, glass-lined tube called a ‘Fulgurite’, especially if it strikes a sandy area such as a beach.
Cashews are actually a fleshy fruit. The nut that we eat is actually the seed which grows on the outside of the fruit.
Black-eyed peas aren’t peas, but beans. And coffee beans aren’t beans, but seeds.
Antarctica gets very little snow, so why is there snow on the ground there? Because the snow that does fall on the continent never melts.
There are people who can actually see, smell and physically taste music. This is an example of a phenomenon known as synesthesia. Synesthetes report seeing symphonies in spectacular colors, smelling Beethoven and tasting Chopin.
Facts thanks to mentalfloss.com.
Favorite Websites of the Past Google of 1998 and the present Yahoo! of 1996 and the present MySpace of 1997 and the present YouTube of 2005 and the present Facebook of 2001 and the present Windows Live of 1998 and the present MSN of 1996 and the present Wikipedia of 2001 and the present
Most teddy bears are manufactured with a neutral expression on their face so that children can project their own emotions onto the stuffed creatures. 
Despite his amazing success as a songwriter in the early 60s, Paul McCartney wanted to test the theory that it was the Lennon-McCartney name that made hit songs. He wrote a song “Woman” for Peter & Gordon using the pseudonym “Bernard Webb.” The song became a hit.
Near the event horizon of a black hole (the boundary in spacetime surrounding said black hole), ’spaghettification’ will occur, stretching matter into thin strips.
Andrew Jackson was the only US President to have the national debt paid in full.
To assemble the Wizard’s wardrobe for The Wizard of Oz, MGM costumers shopped at thrift stores to find clothes that projected “shabby gentility.” In an incredible coincidence, the previous owner of the coat they purchased was Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum.
When lightning strikes the ground, it will sometimes fuse the soil into a hollow, glass-lined tube called a ‘Fulgurite’, especially if it strikes a sandy area such as a beach.
Black-eyed peas aren’t peas, but beans. And coffee beans aren’t beans, but seeds.
