Favortie Desktops

From Secondsister

Recommendations from others

pulled from sticky notes around my notebook:

Restaurants to try: Ned Ludd, Clark Lewis, Corbet Fish House

Website: councilofdads.com

Book: One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer

Music: Shoe Shine Blue

Kill time without an ounce of guilt

From Oprah magazine

• Listen to ordinary people interviewed by their loved ones
• Learn where your mental strengths lie
• Color test
• Weirdly wonderful games
• Surf on a guided tour
• Test vocabulary

Love this for dinner

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/dinner-15-minutes-selections/index.html

Go to health web sites

General health: healthywomen.org

Mental health: webmd.com

Pediatric health: healthychildren.org

Fitness: acefitness.org

Prescription Meds: nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus

patient pov: rateMDs.com

specialists: vitals.com

nitty-gritty on doc: checkmd.com

Kid Idea Websites

Disney Family Wondertime

Green-cleaning party

andenvironmen.org has a virtual kit on uses vinegar, olive oil, and backing soda in recipes for cleaning products.  It has also container labels to print.  You can create laundry detergent, soft scrub, etc - guests just bring their jars. 

Files and Lists

So, I use this blog to keep track of all the cool things I see and things I don't want to forget but there are two really neat web pages that will do similar things - evernote.com and jott.com - very cool. And these list pads are great.

prettybitter.com

broadwaypaper.com

Photo Editing

I found the greatest tool - www.picnik.com - I can't stop. 

Blogging

"Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. Blogging is writing out loud."  from The Atlantic 

Mind Game

Go here for some smart ways to waste some time.

Calendar Wallpaper

I am always looking for a calendar, so this wallpaper for my computer is perfect.



http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/29/desktop-wallpaper-calendar-april-2008/

Sites of Interest

The Experts Speak

expertvillage.com

Musings of novice writers and literary celebrities - redroom.com 

Politics:

maps.google.com/elections

youtube.com/youchoose

mydebates.org

vote411.org

thewhitehouseproject.org/daughters

Movies:
www.hulu.com

Inspiration:
The Last Lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ya9BXClRw

To waste some time:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
http://www.improveverywhere.com/
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
http://alltop.com/

Arts and crafts:
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.hostessblog.com/
http://www.shesgotitall.net/
http://www.designmom.com/
http://angrychicken.typepad.com/angry_chicken/

Health:
http://www.healthywomen.org/
http://www.potterybarn.com/content/articles/stylehouse.cfm?flash=on&cm_ref=http%3A//lyndsiefield.blogspot.com/search%3Fupdated-max%3D2008-01-22T08%253A17%253A00-07%253A00%26max-results%3D7
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89434945&ft=1&f=5

Finances:
http://www.womenandco.com/

To do:
http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/what_to_do/