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How to Easily Interpret Text Messages

Do you have friends who text-message you a lot, each time with more and more obscure abbreviations and short codes that are beginning to annoy you because you don’t know what they mean?

I know, it would be easier for your friend to just call you or send you a normal email instead of trying to thumb their way through a cell-phone keypad to tell you where to meet them for dinner.

Luckily, you can pop over to TRANSL8IT, type in the message you received, and have the site convert the undecipherable message for you into ordinary English.  Plus, if you have text-addicted friends and you want to look like you have a clue about how to text yourself, you can type in your plain-English message and have the site convert it into text-speak.

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Disney shopping

Improving Disney Shopping

Just read the latest post on Progress City USA, TEN WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR #8: OVERHAUL PARK MERCHANDISE.  I completely agree with the points raised about the depressing increase in  homogenization of merchandise available throughout the Disney parks.  

I too, remember a time when the Orange Bird was found at the Tiki Room, and where land-specific merchandise was available.  A time when Main Street, USA’s Emporium shop didn’t run the full length of the street (when Center Street was an actual street separating the two show buildings instead of what we have today).

I want to buy a “Walt Disney World” sweatshirt, not a “Disney Parks” sweatshirt.

I have found myself visiting both Disneyland and Walt Disney World on numerous shopping missions over the years, only to walk away empty-handed and with a full wallet.  There is no doubt that there are plenty of things to buy at the Disney parks, especially if you are a once-in-a-lifetime visitor — but there is often nothing new of interest to the Disney Fan to buy beyond pins.   (Pin collecting and trading is a wonderful hobby, but it does not appeal to everybody.)     And really, how many Duck Butt hats does one family need?

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Funny Music Websites

SleeveFace

Here is a new use for your old record albums:  SLEEVEFACE.

All you have to do is take a picture of yourself holding a record album cover up to your head (or other, appropriate part of the body… although, since this site is called SleeveFACE, you would think that a focus on the face would be the way to go).

The goal in the photo is to mimic the body gesture, photo angle, and any significant clothing in the album cover to make the image on the album sleeve appear seamless with the person holding the album cover up.

This is just another example of a great idea for a website being made into a book topic.  Who said that the Internet was going to make books obsolete?

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iPhone: Ocarina

I love how creative people can get when given access to the iPhone developer application.

Here’s a video of someone using the iPHONE OCARINA APPLICATION. An ocarina is a small flute-like instrument, sort of a cross between a fancy kazoo and one of those recorders you played in kindergarten. 

So some dude figured out a way to turn the iPhone into an ocarina. The touchscreen is a reasonable fascimile of the finger holes on the ocarina itself, but you make music by blowing into the iPhone’s microphone.  Brilliant!

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Giving up Facebook for Lent

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that many ADULTS ARE PLANNING ON GIVING UP FACEBOOK FOR LENT.

It seems to be a growing trend, with such Facebook groups as

  • Giving up Facebook for Lent
  • Can you give up Facebook for Lent…?
  • No Facebook for 40 days
  • Mike Gave Up Facebook for Lent, so Write on his Wall
  • James, be a bad catholic and come back to Facebook
  • I tried to give up Facebook for Lent… and failed
  • No, I didn’t give up facebook for lent

While giving up Facebook for Lent was an act mostly practiced by college students last year, as Facebook usage by older adults has increased over the past year, it is not a surprise that more adults have taken this pledge.

The justification is that Lent is to abstain from something that would be difficult to do.  One quote in the article said “it’s easy to give up clams, because I hate clams”. Facebook users have a bit more of an addiction to posting their daily exploits.

Because of the addictive nature of Facebook and other social networking sites, most users who are giving up Facebook for Lent are concerned that they won’t be able to make it through the 40 days.  So they’re already justifying in their minds what to do in case they slip up and fall back into their old habits.  As one interviewee stated: “It’s not like when I took a solemn vow to my wife,” he says. “It’s just Facebook, for goodness sakes. I’m not wearing a ring.”

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Michael Jackson Auctions Off His Stuff

April 22, 2009 can’t come soon enough for many people – that’s when MICHAEL JACKSON WILL BE AUCTIONING OFF HIS STUFF.

Sure, it will cost you $20 just to attend the freakshow, but you know that will be money well spent just for the opportunity to browse through the King of Pop’s underwear drawer. 

Bad example, perhaps.  Think of that more figuratively than literally, please.

The auction will be broken up into 5 different categories, each taking place on different days:

  • Garden Statues and Outdoor Furniture
  • Furniture and Decorative Arts
  • Antiques, Paintings, and Fine Decorative Art
  • Amusements, Arcade Games, and Disneyana
  • Memorabilia from the Life and Career of Michael Jackson

Individually numbered and signed copies of the catalog will be available for $500. 

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Gambling on Entertainment

With the Academy Awards this weekend, Dancing with the Stars gearing up in a few weeks, American Idol still whittling away singers, the NCAA Basketball Tournament coming up in March, now is a good time to take a look at who the oddsmakers are saying is going to win.

The bookies at BETUS have the following for Dancing:

And while some of these singers may be gone in a few weeks before the competition even gets rolling, they currently show American Idol favorites to be:

  • Danny Gokey – 350:1
  • Adam Lambert – 450:1
  • Matt Giraud  – 450:1
  • Anoop Desai  – 1000:1

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Weird Body Quiz

The New York Times, for all its supposed stuffiness, sometimes has some odd offerings on its website.

Today’s entry:  THE WEIRD BODY QUIZ, a 10-question test to see how well you know odd bits of human biology trivia.   Like, the best way for you to tell if your own breath stinks.

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