Websites You Really Ought To Visit

One cardinal rule of blogging is that you are never supposed to start a post with, "I haven't posted for the last (period of time) because..."

Well, to heck with that. I've spent the past few days with writer's block...somehow or other I just couldn't summon the muse and therefore haven't posted to this blog for...what...five days??? Good grief!

Plus, we've been busy with our friends here in lovely, warm, sunny Arizona. Who wants to be inside on the computer when balmy breezes are beckoning? DID I REALLY JUST SAY THAT????? (I think we can be reasonably sure that the world is coming to an end......)

I have, on the other hand, spent a few evenings (while Jack and Michael are glued to the television watching reruns of Brotherhood - Season 2) reading all my favorite blogs and websites. There's a lot of good stuff out there in cyberspace.

For example:

Have you ever checked out The Amazing Real Time World Clock? No? Well, you should...it's fascinating and it's at http://dalesdesigns.net/world_clock.htm.

Then there's my favorite photography website: Focus Wildlife. Click on http://www.focuswildlife.com/ for some of the most amazing photographs you've ever set eyes on.

Another website that is not only fun but also provides rice free to hungry people is Free Rice. It's a game, really, and if you're just sort of feeling blah and unproductive the least you can do is help feed the hungry while you're trying to talk yourself into a different frame of mind - ha!

I must admit that it can be addicting. Besides being fun it's educational, too...you are presented a multiple choice question about a certain subject and each time you answer correctly you are donating free rice to hungry people. There are about a dozen subjects that you can choose and each time you answer correctly you are filling the rice bowl at the side of the page.

To validate the real worth of this site, I should point out that it's a collaboration between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the United Nations World Food Program.

There are so many more worthwhile/amazing/fun/just-plain-silly websites that I could tell you about - and I will but not today. Don't even start me on the subject of Squidoo! One of these days, I'll post my favorite Squidoo lenses.

I can wile away hours searching for stuff online...