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50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar. But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. Great Books That Everybody Should Read At Least Once Great books shift how you look at life and how you feel from when you pick them up to years after reading. The best books to read leave you tired but inspired – thirsty for more. The first library I stepped into when I was a mere 6 years old had a large slogan above the door: “Read to Succeed”

Read this column before you die / 1,000 sights, 1,000 books, a few hundred drugs, 397 kinky positions, one million blasphemies. Get busy What the hell are you doing? Why are you just sitting there? Haven't you seen the lists? Haven't you been reading the books? Here is what they tell you: You should be outside, far, far away from here, right this minute, visiting Machu Picchu or a former Hungarian brothel that's now a cute artisanal bakery run by tiny singing lesbians, or visiting a giant musty old castle in Leipzig, or maybe taking lousy digital pictures of that Amazonian tribe that makes cute little earrings out of dried capybara testicles. Connecting K'Nex: The Free Universal Construction Kit F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab have just released what we expect to be on every child’s birthday list this year: the Free Universal Construction Kit, a collection of 80 adapter bricks capable of connecting ten different construction toys. From K’Nex to Lincoln Logs, the kit allows for new forms of interoperability between otherwise closed systems, encouraging more creative potential for children. Here’s the catch: F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab aren’t actually producing the physical kits, but rather releasing the downloadable .STL file for printing via 3D printer.

Inglip Explained Come one, come all, and listen to the revelation of our Lord Inglip! Come receive his wisdom, delivered to us through the holy mouthpiece of reCAPTCHA! Examine the Inglipnomicon, and be enlightened. Oh, you… haven’t heard of Inglip? Well… you know about captcha art, right? Where you play around with reCAPTCHA until it gives you a mad-libby concept and then draw it? The Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010 The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year. I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives. Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier. If you extract the wisdom from these ten studies and apply them in your own life, 2011 just might be a very good year. 1) How to Break Bad Habits If you are trying to stop smoking , swearing, or chewing your nails, you have probably tried the strategy of distracting yourself - taking your mind off whatever it is you are trying not to do - to break the habit.

Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two. You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart).

Kasabian release psychedelic new video for 'Neon Noon' – watch March 22, 2012 11:42 Band unveil trippy promo for the latest cut from 'Veliciraptor!' Kasabian have unveiled a new video for their track 'Neon Noon', scroll up to top of the page and click to watch the video. The promo was shot by the band's mainman Serge Pizzorno at home, using only the songwriter's mobile phone and four mirrors. Pizzorno also revealed that he been inspired to shoot the video after seeing "psychedelic images" projected by his son Ennio's night light. The Six Best Ways to Decrease Your Anxiety We all know the uncomfortable feeling of anxiety. Our hearts race, our fingers sweat, and our breathing gets shallow and labored. We experience racing thoughts about a perceived threat that we think is too much to handle. That's because our "fight or flight" response has kicked in, resulting in sympathetic arousal and a narrowing of attention and focus on avoiding the threat. We seem to be locked in that state, unable to focus on our daily chores or longer-term goals .