Why The I-Dog Sucks

But honestly, would you really spend $35 on this thing. If you're not familiar with this piece of crap, let me introduce it to you: Basically, it's a hunk of plastic with a few flashing lights on it; and it can move in a super-generic and cheesy way; and it can play your music aloud. Wow. Awesome.
Yeah right. So the it has a few "cool" features. It dances (some conditions apply). Its lights are different colours for each type of music. How lame can it get?
One of its marketing tosses is it'll let you "rock out" but for real, I'd rather rock out with an actual rock that with a little toy that makes you want to break its head off. I mean, it's speakers are barely functional; save some money and go out and buy some real ones.
Let me just compare prices with similar things that aren't as dumb. An Osprey-Talon version is $13.95, and this other one is $9.99.
So just a glance inside the (un)wonderful world of i-accesories. Next time you see one of these, just say i-notstupid.

The Drinks Mixing Authority: Drinks Mixer

15000 is a lot of pretty much anything. Drink recipes are no exception and the largest guide to mixing drinks the web has got to offer is right here. Drinks Mixer has a gargatuan library of drinks; whether you long for a nice liquer, beer, non-alcoholic drink, cocktail or coffee (and more!), this will provide you with everything you need.
The huge number of recipes come from every corner of the world and are detailed with exact ingredient specifications, nutrition facts, user reviews and other notes. For the most ambitious bartenders, they even have instructions on the type of glass to put it in for best effect.
Moreover, for each ingredient listed in the instructions, there is a quick link to a unique ingredient page, filled with a brief description, nutrition facts as well as popular brands and drinks that can be made with the ingredient.
And navigation through all this is easy with a relatively good search system and categories that drinks fall under.
Adding to that, there are multiple other points of interest that you might want to check out: These include a few bartender tips, games to play at parties, terminology and a little information on glassware. But if you're a bit inexperienced in the area of drinks, there are great drink and ingredient recommendations (most popular/featured). On the other hand, if you are knowledgeable in drinks, share that by submitting your own recipes that will be on display for the world to see.
Of course, if you register, you will also have a handy "cabinet" to "store" your favorite drink recipes in. So go on and register and enjoy the plentiful drink recipes on Drinks Mixer

The History of Food: The Food Timeline

The Food Timeline can be a highly useful website during any school project or other research thing.
This page contains a huge number of resources that will impress a culinary master.
One of these is the long detailed timeline of food right from the beginning, at water and ice.
Also, there are descriptions of the histories of a number of foods such as pasta and popcorn in convenient links on the timeline.
Supplementing to this list, there are fifteen other intriguing pages regarding everything from historic food prices to traditional meals organized by decade. And for the teachers, there are interactive lesson plans. For the aspiring chefs, there is a great list of digital cookbooks for each time period.
But if you still don't trust the information, let me just tell you that their several renowned encyclopedias and other publications that are cited as resources.
So if you're ever bored or have some type of assignment related to food, The Food Timeline can be a real factor in determining your success.

On My Watchlist: Zoocasa Real Estate Search

Recently, I was surfing and clicked on ad just out of plain curiousity. It led my to Zoocasa, a seemingly new real estate search that runs only in Canada.
When I arrived at the homepage, I found it to be very clean and uncluttered. To add, the design of the page is much like that of Google but it is much more appealing to the eye.
So I decided to try its search system as this was obviously its main component at saw what it could do. As with top real estate search engines, Zoocasa had several customizable features such as price range, number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms as well as the location.
Naturally, my first instinct was to just type "Toronto, Ontario" into the box and not change anything else. This gave me over 5000 different homes on sale, pretty impressive for something just starting out. All of these listings included a price, location, short description and image and were quite organised. Adding to that, you could sort your results to make finding the perfect home even easier.
Another tool that was provided was the research, that displayed average housing prices in Toronto, organized by number of bedrooms as well as an article about the city.
Lastly, if you make an account with them, you can also track areas or homes, which can be helpful with home-buying.
So there are some minor issues such as the slow loading and non-global/continental search but I think Zoocasa will soon expand so put this site on your watchlist too because it might be big one day. You never know.