The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

OK, is this really "best practice"? It sure is a fun little toy, making you popular with any kids you show this off to, especially if you are at an otherwise boring event with nice linen napkins...

Song Lyrics & more

Lyrics Freak is my first stop.

From Yahoo Song Lyrics on Yahoo! Music

Also, look for Find Me a Tune or
All the Lyrics (go down to the forums for help in identifying a song from partial lyrics... users like to show off their knowledge!).

And for automagic identification, check out Tunatic which,if your sound source is connected to the computer, will try to match what's playing to its database.

MasterGuitar

MasterGuitar

Expensive, but the rep is that this is the best guitar instruction course. I might buy it and try to make some music. Not sure I can commit the time right now, though... hence am holding off.

wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit

wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit
I reserved the site how2.ws a while back with the intentions of linking to a lot of how-to pages, but this wiki is pretty well done, and I think I'll let my domain lapse... could use perhaps some advanced search tools to wade through the tens of thousands of articles. Also, there are a few that seem to be advertising in disguise, but I guess that's the curse of the web...

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
There is way too much to read, in general, but a lot of great works here, all
in the public domain.

World Database of Happiness

World Database of Happiness
Attempting to provide the definitive & comprehensive compilation of happiness studies...

Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somehow these amuse me greatly.

The Frontal Cortex : The Certainty Bias

The Frontal Cortex : The Certainty Bias
Uncertainty -> Fear
Reduce Fear
thus Reduce Uncertainty

The Gapminder World 2006, beta

The Gapminder World 2006, beta
Cool tool!

Political Compass

Yet another quiz to help place you in the political spectrum. This one constructs a two dimensional space, with economic "left-right" on one axis, and "authoritarian-libertarian" on the other. I end up slightly left on economics and substantially, but not extremely, towards the libertarian end. Comrades appear to be Gandhi and the Dalai Lama...