Web
Surfing
by Dick Kling
The Jewish Museum
New York City's Jewish Museum is one of the finest institutions in the world dedicated to celebrating and preserving Jewish culture. While the actual museum is located uptown right next to Central Park, those who can't make the trip to the Big Apple can log onto the official website and enjoy its many wonderful programs, exhibitions, and events.
Browse through the site to view some of the fascinating past and present collections, which encompass over 4,000 years of Jewish art and culture. The exhibitions are incredibly diverse and cover topics from Archaeology, Sculpture, and Painting to more modern mediums like Photography, Comic Books, and Multimedia Installation. Celebrated Jewish artists include such well-known individuals as Pissarro, Man Ray, Maurice Sendak, Max Weber, Andy Warhol, Marc Chagall and countless others.
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
Life Stories
Long before there were printing presses, digital recorders, video cameras, and the Internet, history was passed down from one generation to another through the simple art of Storytelling. StoryCorps, which began in October, 2003 with just one "StoryBooth" in NYC's Grand Central Terminal, has grown into an inspiring national project to preserve our Oral History.
Visitors will quickly discover that listening to the "extraordinary stories from everyday people" on the StoryCorps website is truly a special experience. These individual stories provide rare insight into large events like the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, 9/11, and Katrina, as well the intimate, personal memories that make up the fabric of everyday love, loss, and life.
Think Games
Stretch, exercise, and strengthen your brain with the help of this mind-bending website. Thinks.Com has a fun collection of online games, puzzles, and thinking challenges to help people of all ages keep their minds sharp.
The mentally challenging site boasts a wide range of array of brain games, including "Daily Diversions" of Crosswords, Chess, Code breakers, Sudoku, and Word Search. Other brainteasers include trivia games, as well as classics like "Mastermind", "Peg Solitaire", and the 19th Century French board game "Hare and Hounds".
Remember the Milk
Despite the help of mobile phones, email, PDA's, online calendars, laptops, and countless other technological tools, or perhaps because of it, it is still hard for many people to stay organized. This useful website, memorably titled "Remember the Milk", is one of the most popular and easy-to-use "personal calendars" on the Internet.
Check out RememberTheMilk.Com to see what this free "online to-do list and task manager" can do to help you keep your life in order. Features include the ability to receive "Reminders" in a variety of ways (IM, Skype, Text Message, Email, etc.), map out task locations, and "Quick Add" items instantly from the Web or your mobile phone.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Sports Clichés
Sports fans are all too familiar with the painfully predictable clichés players and coaches recite during pre-game, halftime, and post-game interviews. While the formulaic expressions have not changed much over the years, at least there is a cool website that faithfully documents and celebrates the timeless "Sports Cliché".
This extensive list of professional excuses was compiled by a dedicated team of sports writers, announcers, and other enthusiasts, who then divided the many sports clichés into categories such as "During the Game", "Fired Coaches", "Loser's Locker Room", "110 Percent", etc. Notable entries include such mindless mantras as "I was just doing my job." , "This team has overcome a lot of adversity.", and "That's too little, too late."