I Found the Strangest Things on My Way Here

If you should find yourself in the vicinity of LeRoy, New York, you simply must visit the Jell-O Museum. Somehow this one got under my radar. But it must be very popular because the site states "Reservations are encouraged." It's only opened to the public for six months (May-October) of the year. In case you can't get out there or can't get a reservation you can have the next best thing--the website. It doesn't have everything you can see at the museum but it does have the History of Jell-O, Historic Jell-O Recipes, and you can even enjoy some pictures of Bill Cosby's historic visit to the museum back in 2004. Don't forget to visit the gift shop.

For those soap opera fans out there we now have TikiBarTV. The current episode (#19) is titled Space Cadet and it doesn't take much imagination to figure out what or who is the major focus of this segment.

Stackopolis is similar in some ways to Tetris--yet totally different. With Stackopolis you are given some construction blocks and told you must create a particular form (building, park, landscaped mound, etc.) in a limited amount of time. You see the empty triangle at the bottom of the image above? That's where you start. Sounds simple? Give it a try.

We've all gotten error messages before. And we all feel foolish when we discover we made a simple mistake. But sometimes the error message is a little difficult to interpret. Take a look at these posted errors at the Daily WTF Pop-up Potpourri.

Remember when you were a kid and you or someone you knew got there hands on the 8-Ball? For those that don't know what that is, allow me to explain. The original 8-ball was round, water-filled ball. It was painted black and looked like an 8-ball from a pool table. There was a flat window that allowed one to look into and see a pyramid-shaped floating object. The idea was you would ask the 8-ball a question about your future, then turn the ball upside down, look to see what site of the floating pyramid came to the top, read the future. It might be something nondescript like "All signs suggest it will be so," or "Not in the near future." This electronic version is called a Magic Hate Ball. All the predictions are caustic and occasionally insulting.

Driver's License U.S. and others like it have been around for some time now. But maybe you have some friends that haven't seen this yet. Try it out on them. Send the URL along with words of doom and gloom such as: "This is an invasion of our privacy and should be stopped right now." or "With all the identity theft fears in the air how can the Internet allow a site like this to be available to anybody who requests it?" Of course the the first thing most folks will do when they get this message is check their own data.

Disclaimer: If you haven't been to this site before, there is nothing to be frightened about. It is simply a site with a single joke.

For those of you that are fans of the Discovery program "Dirty Jobs," you'll probably enjoy the BBC's "Worst Jobs in History." Instead of the dirty jobs of today, this show looks at the worst jobs of the past. How did the average, non-royal, person earn a living? Find out at this web site.

Electricity travels at the speed of light. Saturn is the only planet in this solar system with rings. Before Columbus, everyone thought the world was flat. Wrong! This comes from 10 Science Stuff You Got Wrong at School [sic]. It is part of a larger site called: Too Much Free Time to Spare. Visit the home page and link to such interesting trivia as: First Names You Didn't Know (Colombo, MacGyver, Sting, etc), Top 10 Greatest Imposters in History, 25 Most Bizarre Jobs, and more.

Tom Locke decided to gamble with $39.00 in postage stamps. He took 100 $.39 stamps and wrote 100 snail mail letters to 100 assorted companies and asked them to send him something for free. He usually asked for free product. Sometimes he received free samples, while other times discount coupons, and yet other times promotional items like hats, cups, or t-shirts. Some sent him nothing. At this time the total value of goods received is $272.93. That's not bad for a $39.00 investment. His site, The $39 Experiment, lists all the companies he wrote to, the text of each letter, and the results and estimated value of the freebie.