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Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style. Modern Web-building technologies allow designers to realize their most daring and creative ideas.

Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style

Enhanced interactivity and a remarkable visual appearance can be achieved by means of such tools as Flash, JavaScript and Papervision3D, to name just a few. These strengths usually impress and entertain visitors and thus are often used for conceptual artistic presentations and promotional campaigns. In this post, you’ll find a collection of amusing websites that, by combining unconventional (and sometimes bizarre) ideas and clever JavaScript and Flash effects, will entice you to play on them for an embarrassing long time. Bizarre and Beautiful Websites Link Record Tripping1 Record Tripping is a nifty experimental game by Bell Brothers. Sound of Hamburg3 Here is one of the most creative and unconventional Flash websites we’ve seen lately.

Echogenesis5 Echogenesis is another interactive brainchild of Bell Brothers. Bubole19 Bubole will definitely make you smile. Exercise an Open Mind. Edit Article Edited by Sam Rawlins, Krystle C., Richd, Erika Altek and 105 others One hour of increased brain activity via innovative thinking or experiencing new stimuli can make you smarter, more energetic, more creative, more sociable, and more open to new experiences and ways of thinking.

Exercise an Open Mind

The key ingredients are to be open to new experiences and to make changes in previous ways of thinking about these experiences. Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. Ad Steps 1Don’t allow yourself any dead time. 20Browse something that you are not familiar with the internet. Tips Become more like an inquisitive child. Warnings. Paste the text you want to speed read. The How-to Manual That You Can Edit. 7 Unique Brainstorming Techniques. Karen Littman, writer, producer, and founder of educational computer game designer Morphonix, says that when she wants to help her employees be more creative, she takes them out of the office.

7 Unique Brainstorming Techniques

"If possible, don't put people around the conference table," Littman said. "Twice a year we rent a beach house. I think being out of the office jump starts your creativity and gets you out of your left brain. " Employees and their bosses both tend to adopt certain attitudes in the office. Changing location may help both groups discard their more dronish tendencies, and encourage creativity. Steven Pritzker, professor of psychology at Saybrook University, was a television comedy writer before he began co-writing scholarly works on the creative process. Geoff Garlock, a sketch comedy instructor at New York City's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, recommends a rubber duckie as muse. Lukas Biewald doesn't like meetings. 10 Must-Have Items For Your Car. 10 Things That Should Always Be in Your Car. By Evan Griffey of MSN Autos It's inevitable: Cars break down.

10 Things That Should Always Be in Your Car

In fact, the Automobile Association of America, the largest emergency roadside assistance organization in the country, handles between 29 and 30 million roadside calls for help each year from motorists stranded on America's highways and byways. While most mishaps can be handled with little trouble (AAA says that 3 out of 5 assistance calls it receives are fixed on location without the need for a tow), others are a little trickier because aid isn't nearby or is "closed for the evening. " Waiting time for a helping hand to arrive in these situations varies greatly depending on where you are, as well as on road and weather conditions.

It's important to follow the Boy Scouts' motto while on the road: Be prepared! Watch Video: How to Prepare for a Roadside Emergency The simple solution For those who want to take the thought process out of building a kit on your own, there are plenty of prepackaged auto safety kits on the market. Food. HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF.

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Funny Voicemail

In case we haven┴ш╙t spoken in a while, let me catch you up. I┴ш╙m currently more than 8 months pregnant and my husband and I have yet to fully move into the house we bought in May. Given the circumstances and for my general health and sanity, I┴ш╙ve installed a new app that screens messages, deleting any that might cause additional stress at this critical time. Unless you are a close family member with important news, a dear friend who knows what┴ш╙s up, or a good Samaritan who wishes to babysit for free, provide free manual labor, or make a donation to our ever-growing ┴шоthat needs to be fixed too┴ш² fund, your message will most likely be deleted before it reaches me. iPhone 4 Newbies: 10 Essential Tips and Tricks CIO. CIO — You soon-to-be Verizon (VZ) iPhone 4 customers can learn from the experiences of others.

iPhone 4 Newbies: 10 Essential Tips and Tricks CIO

Take it from iPhone old-timers, you're about to enter a magical world of awesome apps running on the most simplistic, addictive device on the planet. Sure, the possibilities are endless. You can leave your clunky laptop and digital camera at home. You can video chat with friends on FaceTime. You can spend hours on social networks. Now here's the kicker: The iPhone, dear readers, isn't perfect. 1. The Idea Swap.