Thursday, November 13, 2008

Power Tools...Wait, We're Not Talking Saws?

I always scrunch up my eyebrows and forehead when someone talks about power tools and computers. I guess I need to look up how the term "power tools" came to be applied to a collection of on-line sites that are mostly fun and efficient to use. I suppose its because they give the user the power to do whatever they want and they are on-line tools. OK, whatever works.

As for the "power tools" listed on our webpage, I played with some of the ones that looked like fun. BoingBoing was a lot of fun with some really interesting stuff:
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/kitchenLego
or how about this: http://www.pointclickhome.com/image/tid/4109 People will pay too much money for anything.

I dig Digg. Lots of wacky factoids on here; http://health.howstuffworks.com/lobotomy.htm, more college football lists that should have remained in some one's head http://bleacherreport.com/articles/80179-epic-failures-top-10-busts-of-the-bcs-era/page/3
and then there's this, kind way out there: http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/ohmibod_naughtibod

The not so cool stuff includes Technorati -- guess you have to be a real techie to like it; its just too much information. Why does MOLDI have music? Seems like too much of a sideline. Too many others do it better. They do have some esoteric movies, however like these: http://clc.lib.overdrive.com/4D4079D0-5843-4CD7-9492-4777BAE8024B/10/234/en/SearchResults.htm?SearchID=19236748

Last comment, glad they give the user of the option of adding Firefox. We all know just great IE can be sometimes.

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