50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About - Page 2. Fatburgr.com Count your Calories Also a popular iPhone app, Fatburgr helps you count calories and make healthier decisions when eating out at various popular dine-in and fast food restaurants.
Simply pick your poison (ours is Panera Bread) and Fatburgr will present you with an alphabetical list of the restaurant’s entire food inventory with the number of calories, grams of fat, carbohydrates, and fiber in each serving. If you take a look, you might be surprised at the lack of nutrition surrounding some of your favorite dishes. Ffffound.com Get Inspired Ffffound (yes, four F’s) is an image bookmarking web service that allows users to post and share their favorite images they find on the web and recommends similar images according to the user’s taste.
Newseum.org Keep Up with the Local News Curious about what’s on the front page of newspapers elsewhere in the world? Strangemaps.wordpress.com Strange Maps are Strange Wunderground.com The Most Accurate Weather Reports Whatshouldireadnext.com. 99 interview tips that will actually help you get a job. We all have to make a living somehow — and most of the time that process starts with a job interview.
The only problem is that most job interview tips are either so basic that they aren’t useful or so ridiculous that they are just a waste of time. That’s why Passive Panda has put together this comprehensive list of interview tips filled with the real essentials that you actually need to know. Focus on what really counts Yes, it’s true that you should polish your shoes before an interview. Sure, it’s a good idea to wear a noticeable accent on your clothing, so that you stick out in the recruiter’s mind. But let’s get real. Do you actually think that any of those tactics are going to win you the job? Maybe if it’s really really close. Instead of worrying about 10 little things that could be a tiebreaker, why not spend time thinking about the stuff that actually matters? So with that said, here are 99 interview tips that will actually get you the job. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. 25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names: Pics, Videos, Links, News.
10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School: An Alternate List. This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books.
While their picks are definitely classics, most of which we did in fact have to read in high school, we think today’s youth (and any adults playing catch-up, which let’s be real, is almost everybody to some extent) would be better served by a few alternate choices. The classics are wonderful, but the canon should be fluid, allowing some experimental choices as well as the tried-and-true. Of course, kids today should read hundreds of books, if possible, so this is by necessity a finite, imperfect list reflecting, as it must, our own proclivities. Let us know your own choices for essential alternative high school reading in the comments! Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace It’s no secret that we love us some DFW, and though we’re tempted to suggest his work as a salve for almost any problem, this book is especially pertinent here. Maus , Art Spiegelman Swamplandia!