Day of the Week

I was mulling about at work today and mentioned something about Dickens and got to looking up Charles Dickens and the fact that he died from a stroke. Just being curious, I was wondering what day of the week his death was on, June 9, 1870.

It was a Tuesday for those of you that were wondering. However, me not being super good with numbers and also extremely lazy when it comes to thinking, it took me a while to find a website that could tell me the day of the week it was when supplied with a date. Most of the ones I found right away only worked with the 1900's.

The one I finally did find that works with any date is a great one. I found out that my two daughters and I were all born on a Wednesday. Is that crazy or what?! Anywho, the coincidences stopped there, but the site is a great site; with morse code translators and fantastic unit conversions.

Feel free to check it out and give a shout out in the comments below to let everyone know what day of the seek you were born on.

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HowTo: Make a Glass Beer Bottle into a Cup

What you need: Your favorite beer bottle, nail polish remover, string, scissors, water and a lighter.



Now you can make your favorite beer bottle, whether it be one of the major brands or some kooky looking microbrew, into a great pen cup for your desk at work. This would also make a great inexpensive present for one of your drinking buddies.

Feel free to submit pictures of your bottles in the comment section below!

[via geeksaresexy] video source

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Deal Days: Get upto 50% off of Indi DVD's at Amazon

Amazon.com is having a great sale on some fairly recent indi titles on DVD. Titles include Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, 28 Days Later and One Hour Photo. Those last two don't really seem to fit into with what is available, but it is nice to see there is a wide selection.


[via TheBargainist] Amazon

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Monoface: Time Waster and Freaky Screen Saver

This time waster is a twofer: you get to waste time and get a great screen saver that will be sure to freak out your cube mate as well as any passer-bys.

The people down at monoface took pictures of 15 people and made different parts of their face interchangeable; eyes, nose, mouth, head/shoulders. You can go over to their site and mix them all around and see what crazy faces you can come up with. You can also download the monoface screen saver. With the screen saver version, it will do the mixing up for you during screen saver mode.

I had fun on the site for a few minutes and am still having fun with the screen saver. Troy's tongue (pictured) is my favorite to put onto any of the faces. What's your favorite?

[via DownloadSquad] monoface

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Pancakes in a Can... Need I say more?

Ladies and gentleman, the wait is finally over! From the people that brought you cheese in a can, whipped cream in a can and any other freaky thing you can think of in a can, comes pancakes in a can.

It doesn't actually sound all that repulsive does it? And it saves you the time and effort of pouring the water and powdered instant batter mix into a bowl and mixing it together for about 2 whole minutes. Now, with Original Batter Blaster you can just shoot that junk into a pan and wait till syrup and butter covered bliss is obtained.

Please, for the love of God, let me know if you have tried this and how it tasted in the comments below!

[via OhGizmo!] Product Page

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Firefox Quick Tip: The Mouse Wheel

No matter how popular Firefox gets and no matter how many people use it on a regular basis, there are still people out there making slow use of something that is literally right at their finger tips; the mouse wheel.

Pop quiz hot shot; how do you open and close tabs in Firefox, and do you even make use of multiple tabs? I still catch people around the office right-clicking on links to open them up in a new tab, or clicking the red "X" button to close a tab (they might even have to select that tab then hit the close button), waisting precious internet time when they could be doing something more useful like testing the work's firewall to see if you can take a look at naked pictures of Caprica Six from Battlestar Galactica.

The correct answer to my pop quiz is by using the mouse wheel and yes. Stop with the right-clicking and just click the mouse wheel on that link and it will magically opne it up in a new tab. This even works in Internet Explorer 7.0! Then, to close down any tab, just do the same thing; mouse wheel click on it. The tab you wish to close doesn't need to be your active tab, you can just wheel click on any tab that is open and it will disappear.

Another nifty mouse wheel trick is nice to have when you have too many tabs open and auto tab scroll comes into play. Just place your courser on the tabs bar and scroll the mouse wheel. You will then be side scrolling from right to left over all of your open tabs. This bypasses the left/right arrows that pop up when you have too many tabs open.

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Flashback: Oz + Dark Side of the Moon

After taking a look at the list of movies that came out this week, I have decided that there is nothing work buying or even taking the time to get it by "other means." If you don't believe me, here is the list of movies released to DVD this week:

• Apocalypto
• Letter from Iwo Jima
• Epic Movie
• The Good German
• Venus
• Alex Rider
• The Italian
  

I'll admit that I didn't see the Rotten Tomato ratings till I just did this post for the above movies, but I did see the trailers for some of them (Apocalypto is one that sticks out the most) and they are just not my kind of movie.

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So, if some of you readers our there are like me, I say just grab something off of the DVD rack in your family room, Vincent's picks at the video store or get inspired to rent something at the video store that is from my up-to-date list of movies I own. Or you can sit back and watch the classic sync up of The Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard of Oz:





Either way, you will have something better to do until next week when something good, hopefully, gets released.

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Last Chance to Get Bejeweled Deluxe for FREE

As a Mother's Day special draws to an end, Bejeweled Deluxe is free until tomorrow (May 23). It is a bit tricky to get it for free, but just follow these easy instructions and you will be good to go:

• Go to the Popcap website and click BUY NOW
  
• Fill out the required information
• Scroll down and click "Click here" and add “FREE4MOMS” in the coupon code field.
• Click on “Click here to Redeem” before you continue
• The “Item total” should show a price of $0.00
• Click continue until you get to the download link
• Install and play

It is a good game and a great one to add to the usual Windows game lineup of solitaire and minesweeper. Once downloaded, installed and registered you can enjoy unlimited regular play as well as time trial.

[via ghacks]

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