LucastArts

LucasArts is a multifaceted interactive entertainment company which have created many inspiring, and challenging games for its players. Their videogames have achieved many notable commercial success and awards, including multiple awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. In recent years, they have released many best-selling games. Those games include LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Empire at War, Mercenaries, Star Wars: Episode III, Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Revenge of the Sith, Indiana Jones, Star War Republic Comando, Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Light-speed and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Konami

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDEI) is a famous global developer and manufacturer for home videogames. Konami has designed many interactive games from a range of Action, Adventure, Sports, Simulation and many more. Their recent released games are Silent Hill Origins, Pro Evolution Soccer, New International Track & Field, Hellboy The Science of Evil, Deca Sports, Target: Terror, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

THQ

THQ is one of the fastest growing PC and home videogames developers featuring games for Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo's GameCube and Game Boy Advance, personal computers as well as wireless devices. Since its establishment, THQ continues to innovate and evolve the interactive entertainment medium. Their best rated games are The Polar Express, MotoGP 2, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, UFC 2009 Undisputed, Battle of the Bands™, Dancing with the Stars, Zoo Tycoon DS 2 and Age of Empires: Mythologies.

EA

Electronic Arts (EA) is the world's leading interactive entertainment company for advanced console systems, online games, PC games and mobile phone devices. They offer games featuring from a wide selection of sports, racing, simulation, puzzle games, and other platform game genres. Their top-rated selling games are The Simpsons, Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix, Need for Speed Carbon, Rock Band, FIFA 08, Madden NFL 08, and Need for Speed Pro street.

Sierra

Sierra is a multi-platform interactive entertainment software developer which offers multi-player online games as well as games for PC, console systems and mobile phone devices. Their latest released games are Sea Life Safari™, Gin Rummy, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor™, and Aces of the Galaxy™.

Atari

Atari is one of the global interactive entertainment company featuring games for the whole family, with a catalogue that includes franchises and many international licenses. Their best games are Alone in the Dark, Dragon-shard, Demon Stone, Sid Meier's Pirates, Act of War: Direct Action, TimeShift and DRIV3R.

Activision

Activision is one of the rapidly growing interactive companies featuring for online and console games. Their best selling video games include Guitar Hero®, Call of Duty®, and Tony Hawk, Spider-Man™, X-Men™, Shrek®, James Bond™ and TRANSFORMERS™.

Blizzard Entertainment

This is one of the most popular and well-designed computer games makers. Their selling games include blockbuster hits such as World of Warcraft®, Diablo®II, StarCraft®, and Warcraft®III: Reign of Chaos®.

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Allmusic

A veritable information of artists, biographies, songs, discographies and album credits.

B

Britannica Internet Guide

A comprehensive guide to websites, with reviews for a broad range of subjects.

C

CNET

A true heaven for the computer whiz, this site has the dish on everything tech-related.

D

Doughnet

This site is aimed especially at teenagers, to steer them into the world of finance and business know-how -- which will be very, very helpful in the future.

E

Epicurious

Food appreciation will even be more satiated as this delicious site offers thousands of recipes, cookbook reviews, and the latest foodie trends.

F

Fortean Times

Interested in all things strange and paranormal? Enter the delirium.

Family Play

Interacting with kids just got a lot better with this site's numerous tips on how to get children have a little more fun, and you too.

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Good Home 

This stylish site will get you all excited on decorating your home, as long as you've got the budget and the taste.

Gardenweb

Green thumbs, high five! A vast community of fellow gardening enthusiasts awaits you.

Google Earth

It hasn't been said enough, but this marvel is surely one of the closest (and best) ways to ever go to the farthest places in just a single click.

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Hoovers 

Job seekers and the curious alike can simply type the name of a company, and then find about its history, location, competitors and even its annual report!

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IntelliHealth

This site has the latest medical news, drug and nutrition databases, and special areas on health conditions.

J

Joke Index

Updated regularly, this site can cheer up many a sense of humor.

K

Kiplinger

Taxes? Never fear. This site is very accessible for beginners who would like to know how to file their annual income tax returns, and how to legally reduce them.

L

Lonely Planet 

Easily one of the best travel sites around, their accounts give remarkable and honest insights for every destination.

Last.fm

Scrobble along as this music-slash-community site is a great dig for all music lovers. Play your own online radio with your favorite artists and songs as the playlist.

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Museum of Modern Arts Store

Put an artistic touch into your living space, as the MOMA Store offers a wide selection of goods, from beautiful centerpieces to Eames furniture.

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NextMonet

Start on your new collection -- bid on paintings, photographs and sculpture in this well-organized art auction site.

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The Onion

Get your latest funny fix as this online news-magazine doesn't pull punches in mocking the headlines.

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Productopia

Shoppers can take a background check before purchasing a product. Choose from price, style and quality, and get the best value for your money.

ParenthoodWeb

Moms can benefit from this site, with a lot of information includes tips of pregnancy and child-rearing.

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Quizilla

A treasure trove for every personality test conceivable.

R

Rotten Tomatoes

Planning a movie date? This site compiles all critics' reviews and files into a single rating for every film. Even visitors can participate!

S

Slate

Get your news here. Today's latest headlines are summed up in this online magazine, with interesting columns and features weekly.

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Travelocity

Compare travel fares and get the best deal! A must-do for any eventual tourist.

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Uproar

Play the latest games that can keep you up for hours.

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Vox

Not just an online journal, it's a community. Look for similar people and once the team gets cozy enough, there's a section for the next big meetup.

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Wet Feet

Looking for a job gets more accessible, with the site offering valuable, realistic information about companies, HR facts and employability data.

Weberman

Conspiracy theorists converge, as this site's got a huge mass of stories that will leave you thinking thrice.

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eXploratorium

The web version for San Francisco's science museum. A fantastic site for kids and adults alike!

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Yahoo! Mail

If there's one email provider, this is it. Offering unlimited data storage and a newer interface, you now can choose on cooler domains such as rocketmail.com and ymail.com.

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Zagat

The free version of this magazine is a godsend for foodies. Search the best restaurants, read reviews, and find the one that fits your palate and pocket.

If you know of other fascinating websites not mentioned, please let me know and do add it up!

If not, search for 'poll scripts' or similar in a search engine and choose a module. You will need to know what sort of script you want - is it 'asp' or 'php' or 'perl' or something else? If unsure, ask your host to see what sort of scripts are permitted or recommended. If you host your own blog you can choose any that take your fancy or build your own in Flash or html with css.

Like many hosts, Blogger provides an easy route into poll building by providing a standard module. Go to 'Settings', then 'Layout' and finally choose 'Add a Page Element'. From the dialog that appears, select Poll and type in the question and then the answers, set the closing date, click 'Save' and the poll will immediately appear on your page. Simple as that!

This makes producing a poll easy, the hard part, of course, is thinking what to ask and how to use it.

The best way is to dive in and get your module prepared, which is often all that is necessary for the ideas to flow. Later, when you have a few under your belt, you can think about a theme for the polls. However, steer clear of unpleasant or deeply controversial subjects and don't do polls that could be hurtful to others - whilst this may seem like fun at the time, it can backfire later.

The best advice is to try to make your poll both interesting and entertaining as well as having some relevance to your audience. Polls on music, games and sport are popular for most pages and you can usually fit them in with the content of the site. For a less specific blog or site you can try polls that test general or some form of specialised knowledge.

If you're completely stuck, search for 'trivia' on the web. This will enable you to easily put together a poll that sees just how much your visitors really know! If you want to go the whole way, you can feature the winner and, particularly if your readers are a local group of friends or similar, give away something as a prize.

But a more serious blog demands a more serious poll so pick something you are writing about and do some research to make the poll both interesting and informative. For example, if your blog is about modern art, you can ask if your readers like the work of a certain artist. The benefit of this is that you can make a feature of the result in a new post on that subject in a few weeks time.

Polls can provide both entertainment and light relief for the surfer and are generally well supported and well regarded. They also look good on a page and provide some contrast against a solid block of text as well as helping to lead the eye in a particular direction so they are usually well worth the effort needed to produce them.

But whatever you do, have fun with your poll and remember that it is fun and should not be taken too seriously!

So what should you do? Well one of the best sources of YouTube humor is bloopers. What is broadcasted 24 hours a day 7 days a week live? The news! All you need to do is type in "news bloopers" and plenty of great vids are available right at your finger tips, with new ones everyday. Ever stay up really late and watch those terrible infomercials or the QVC shopping channel? Well a lot of those programs are broadcasted live with little room for error. Searching for home shopping bloopers also yields an incredible amount of great candid entertainment.

Everyone has seen America's Funniest Home Videos. The best part of the show is the montage of people taking horrible yet hilarious spills! Well to see them again and again and share them with your friends who missed it while they were in the bathroom simply search "man" or "woman" or "kid" followed by the word "falls" and you are bound to get some great results.

Now for those of you who are over the humor of seeing people fall over and over again a great way to simply be amazed it to see what silly people do everyday. Searching "drunk redneck" is a great way to see some crazy back country antics that happen all the time. Also simply typing in "explosion" is a great say to see some fascinating videos of breathtaking explosions. Whether it be someone firing a rifle at a 5 gallon propane tank or the dropping of the Tsar Bomb (the first H Bomb ever tested with a mushroom cloud 8 miles in diameter) your eyebrows will definitely be lifted!

Let us examine a questionnaire. Here are several sample questions common in most e-mailed social questionnaires.

1. What is your favorite Television show?
2. What is your favorite Movie?
3. If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?
4. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?
5. What celebrity would you most like to meet?
6. What was your first pets name?
7. What is your current pets name?
8. Would you rather be too hot, or too cold?
9. If something happened to your spouse, would you marry again?
10. Do you know how your parents met?
11. What is your mothers maiden name?
12. What is your favorite thing to eat on a hot day?

Most questionnaires are much longer of course, this is only a short example to point out some common, dangerous questions. First remember somebody sent you this questionnaire with the message to fill it out and return it to them, sometimes people get so many forwards of this type they don't always pay attention to who it is from, they simply enjoy filling it out. Often you are also instructed to forward it to others on your mailing list. People enjoy answering and sending them back and do not always think beyond that point.
Let us look at some of the questions above, most are safe to answer, but some are dangerous. Numbers 6, 7, and 11, are the high risk ones. Often these are answers given to secret questions given when you cannot recall your password. So in effect you have given somebody your e-mail address and the codeword to get the actual password. Also sometimes people use these answers themselves as their passwords. So you have just given a stranger access to your e-mail account, and maybe more.

From your e-mail account they may have access to your Pay Pal or other on-line functions you preform. They may even have access to your bank account and anything else you have passwords and Internet access for.

If they fail to get the answer they want, all they have to do is send you another fun questionnaire with the right questions on it, cleverly hid as entertainment. Now, I am not suggestion you forgo filling out any fun questionnaires in the future, I only recommend that you check who they are from, and if you are replying to more than one source when you return the filled out e-mail. Also be keen to spot these potentially invasive questions. I am sure most of the time the senders are harmless, but you never want to be caught off guard by hitting the one that is not.

Another tip is to remove these questions from any forwards you get, so that you save your friends any potential grief.

OKAY I know there are two guys on one guitar. That already rocks. One guy for bass and the better of the two picking out banjo like melodies. These guys really have their stuff together. The song that they chose to cover is Jerry's Breakdown written by Jerry Reed and together is spot on. Very nice.

Impossible guitar work, or at least sounds that way... Damn this guy can tap his fingers on that fret board like no other. His sound is very unique and along with that acoustic guitar makes a nice listen.

Andy is and will always be my favorite acoustic guitar player. He used something I never thought possible, a creative and awesome tap-style guitar along side his hand slaps for a drum beat. WOW! I dig how the song sounds like a rainy day but not dark almost like the sun is still shining.

Rick Renstrom is the best guitarist ever. The End.

This article will introduce you to “10 Surefire Ways That The Internet Can Save You Big Money” and show you where to find how-to instructions to connect your pc to your television for improved viewing.

1. Magic Jack

   Home telephone service calling plans have dropped greatly in price, the typical basis AT&T landline plan starts at about $30.00 once all of the fees and taxes have been figured in. Even $30 dollars is $360 dollars per year with a no bells and whistle calling plan and that is still too much when compared to the savings that consumers experience using the MagicJack Internet phone service.
   
   At a starting cost of $48 dollars (including the MagicJack USB gadget and S/H charges) and $19.95 per year annually thereafter, now that is a great deal. I own a MagicJack and it delivers crystal clear reception and I can call anywhere within the US and Canada for only $1.60 per month without ever receiving another month telephone bill.
   
   The next several websites deliver quality entertainment such as movies, television programming, Internet radio and video games directly to your pc for free. To make this experience more worth wild, the first website will show you how to connect your pc to your television, so that you can watch and enjoy the great programming that the Internet has to offer you.

2. Bittorrent

   On this website you will find complete easy to follow instructions making connecting your pc to your television as easy as 1-2-3. Plus, BitTorrent offers movies, TV, music and games that can be watched, listened to or played for free.

3. World TV PC

   When most people turn on their television set, they may have as many as 200 channels to choose from and many people have even fewer channels to choose from depending on service. At WorldTvPc.com consumers can watch hundreds of television programs that are being broadcasted from locations around the world. This is a great way to learn what is really going on in the world, today.

4. WwiTv

   As if the first free TV website wasn't enough, here's another one where you can tune-in to international television programming from around the globe. There are plenty of channels to choose from and everything from sports programs to lifestyle shows to movies.

5. Channel Chooser

   Now this website is a bit different than the last two free Internet television websites, because this one allows people to watch popular cable television programming like the Sci-fi channel, ESPN, CNN, and many others. With hundreds of channels to select from, there should not be any real problem finding something to watch for free.

6. Live 365

   At Live365, you will find thousands of free Internet radio stations airing free radio programming and music. Users can locate their favorite radio station by selecting stations by genre or built-in station search. Listen to music; talk radio shows and news from around the world and across the Internet from your home computer.

7. Streaming Media Online
   

   Can't get enough of all of these free or almost free Internet entertainment tools, well then here is another fine example of organized linking to many other free radio and television websites on the web. Surely, you will be able to find something interesting to watch or listen to with this website resources.

8. Every Video Game

   The Internet has developed into a fine place to play video games of every sort and most times they are completely free to play and enjoy straight from the Internet. Every Video Game offers hundreds of old school and new video games that can be played for free from your PC or TV (if your pc and television are connected). Connect your favorite joystick or game pad and start playing your favorite free video games.

9. News and Newspapers Online

   Never buy another newspaper again. Get your news and newspapers from this website completely free. Select the state or country where you live or want to get the news from and have your news delivered directly on your PC for a free and easy daily read.

10. The ISP Guide

    Now, since we have established that the Internet is an extremely valuable Internet tool to maintain during stressful economic times, it is very important to stay connected to the Internet to cash-in on all these savings. The ISP Guide allows you to compare Internet Service Providers (ISP) side-by-side, so to locate the best and some times the lowest connection plans available.

You can't sit around and not do anything but brood. Psychologists tell us that entertainment is vital to our mental health. After all "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

You fire up the trusty PC and get onto the information superhighway. You surf the usual sites and do the usual things. And you still brood. We need to break you out of the rut.

There are uncounted entertainment sources on the Internet. There are so many sources that information overload is a real danger. These tips will cut away the overload and get you on the road to being recharged.

Go to Google and narrow your choices. Start with movies and music since they are the perfect escape vehicle

• "Movie Downloads" will bring up a huge number of sites where download movies for a fee. These are subscription based services that move you out of the doldrums and into relax mode.
• "Music Downloads" are also great escapist destinations. As always, subscriptions offer the most value for your money.

If you are not into Movies and Music how about gaming? In your search be sure to specify your format. Some examples of this would be:

• "PSP Downloads" will get you a vast listing for the Playstation Portable format
• "PSP Movies" is new. I recently learned that I could watch movies for my PSP. Remember this for trips.

Don't forget television services. Cable may have a lock in your local area, but you still have options. What you do is install Satellite TV on your PC. Try these search terms:

• "Satellite TV for PC's" is awesome for overnight stays during high powered business travel
• "TV on PC" or "PC TV" or variants will work. You will get the same results for subscription services. And the best part is getting your normal channels, and unique content from all over the world.

As you can see, entertainment is only a mouse click away. Today we live in a dynamic, fast paced world full of competition and stress. Stop taking your work home, protect your mental health, and have fun.

 

Stop worrying about what to get that person who already has everything, because unless the person that you know is a closet serial killer, then they probably don't have one of these. At “Corpses For Sale” you can purchase an incredibly realistic full body corpse with rotting flesh, teeth and yellow fingernails. The corpses are not real, but the expert craftsman sure makes one stop and take a double take and the reason, is because they look so real.

Looking for a bit of nerd humor with a tad of geekiness? This website offers an assortment of actual technical signs that are not normally funny, but these signs come complete with humorous captions that makes them funny to look at and to think about.

The website introduces an amazing illusion that will have you seeing dots for the rest of the day. Watch a rotating board containing three yellow dots and one green dot, that are there in front of your eyes one second and gone the next second. This is a really cool optical illusion that will capture your attention for the next few minutes.

Built to pay tribute to one of the world's most relied on consumer products “Toilet Paper”. This website presents an extensive collection of brands of toilet paper that range from the mundane to the exceedingly rare. This is a comprehensive Internet resource for learning about toilet paper.

Now, for a fun and dizzying activity that will freak out your mind and confuse your senses. Some sensitive observers may become dizzy and/or sick, so if you are one of these people, then you should leave the site immediately.

Angry Alien has created a new twist on the typical movie review. In 30-seconds, visitors can watch a troupe of bunnies re-enact some of the best movies of all-time in a movie parody sort of way. Some of these movies parody are absolutely hilarious and a must to watch. My personal favorites are: Borat, Jaws, The Grudge and Star Wars.

Sure, Dr Mega Volt is a tad bit weird and completely out of his mind. Anyone who would knowingly put himself in an electrifying situation has to be included in an article entrenched in the world of weird. This guy has either a death wish or he has found a job that pays really, really well.

The Department of Homeland Security introduced in 2002, the Homeland Security Advisory System that features a color-coded warning bar scale that ranges from green (Low-risk) to red (Severe-risk). Now, you can get you very own to download onto your computer for free. I don't know why anyone would want one of these, but there are some weird things that people want for some strange reason.

If you have wondered how many pennies would it take to fill-up a room, then this website will answer this question and continues to take this question even further. What would one billion pennies look like if stacked?

Developed in 1994, “The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything” is a usual artifact that attracts thousands of people every day. Pushing the button is pointless, but for some reason people still continue to push the button regardless.