When bored, many of us turn to the Internet to help pass the time. While the default choice for many computer users is online games, there are also people who like to expand their general knowledge by learning new facts. If you are interested in learning various facts, check out a site called Did You [...]
The recent earthquakes in Japan caused a lot of damage to the country’s nuclear power stations. With this event the world’s attention was refocused on nuclear power and its potential danger. If you are curious about nuclear reactors in the world and their locations, check out Reactor Finder by VOANews. Reactor Finder is a web [...]
Do you want to know which part of the globe has a concentration of Christians? Would you like to know where IKEA stores are located most? For these and other types of globally distributed data, visiting Show World would be a great help. Show World is a free and easy to use website that presents [...]
Daring our friends to do stuff they would not normally is a recipe to embarrass them and make us laugh. Whether it is our own friends that are put into the “˜dare’ situation or somebody else’s, watching people embarrass themselves is mostly amusing. That is why Make A Dare is such an interesting website. Make [...]
Luxand Blink is a nice face recognition tool for Windows PCs that lets users log in just by looking at the webcam instead of typing the password. Setting it up isn’t difficult. Once you run the software after installing it, it registers your face using the webcam. Just follow the instructions and you should be [...]
While science has taught us much about the human body, its social and aesthetic aspects have often been overlooked. Fleshmap is an interactive website that displays the results between body and sensual desires, in other words the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation. It is composed of three parts: Touch, which [...]
If you are fascinated with every bit of information about numbers, then you should check out Number Gossip. This fun website shows you everything you want to know and lists interesting facts about numbers. Just enter a number in the search box to know its unique and common properties. You will also get a set [...]
Ever wonder what will happen to your place after a nuclear strike? Then you should bookmark Ground Zero. This updated version of a Google Maps mashup can show you the extent of thermal damage, pressure damage, and nuclear fallout of a strike in a particular area. To use Ground Zero II, input an address then [...]
Ever wonder what is on the opposite points on the globe from where you are right now? Zefrank is a Google Maps website that shows you exactly any two opposite points on the globe. This fun tool displays two maps, each belonging to a point-place in the world. To use the site, you just need [...]
If you have ever wondered what are your chances of having a heart attack, or what’s the probability of a black horse winning a race, then Book of Odds is the site you need to check out. It is an interesting site which talks about the real life probabilities presents you with some nice data. [...]