Wednesday Website of the Week: Dogster.com

Most of our WWW picks are intended to be useful or fun. This week's pick may serve as more of a warning that the end of civilization is creeping our way. Dogster.com is a site allowing you to... create an online profile for your dog (No cats allowed!) complete with pictures, name, age, weight, and sex. The dogs can vie for Dog of the day/week awards. In fairness, the site also includes lots of dog care tips, but that's not enough to erase the vision of the family retriever changing his status to "it's complicated."

Wednesday Website of the Week: NYPL Digital Gallery

You don't have to wait for the Google Library project to become reality to enjoy some of the vast collections in public libraries. For our website of the week, we're looking at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. All under one digita roof you can find over 700,000 images, including maps, posters, and of course photographs.

Here's one example from the collection from the 1939-1940 World's Fair in NYC:

Wednesday Website of the Week: ChildOfThe1980s.com

Smurfs, Slice, St. Elmo's Fire. All products of the 1980's. If you are too, or just want to revisit that decade then let me introduce you to ChildofThe1980s.com. This blog mixes all sorts of "remember whens" from calculator watches, to Rubik's Cube, all your 80's memories are there. For added fun, hit the "random entry" button at the bottom of the screen to get to an unexpected blog entry faster than Doc Brown with a flux capacitor.

Wednesday Website of the Week: DarkUFO

I am a huge LOST fan.  Really, a closeted obsessed fan.  And  LOST is coming to an end.  Soon.  While their is still time to obsess over every word and read into every glance Kate makes and try to solve the mystery of the smoke monster...I'll be heading to DarkUFO.  I have been visiting this great site for years now, studying every theory and generally over-thinking LOST.

The site is run by "Dark" and there are several good consistant contributors such as "E" who post episode recaps, theories, and more.  The best thing for me is the total lack of spoilers.  Althought Dark also runs a sister spoiler-based TV site, everthing posted to the main page is completely spoiler-free...including comments!  This is a huge accomplishment with a super popular show with tons of small and large spoilers lurking around every bend.  Spoilers aside, they just designed some nifty LOST tees, and have been having cool custom LOST-related  giveaways on the blog.

So be sure to check the site out, before the LOST fever winds down and I will have to turn my attentions to...Caprica??

Wednesday Website of the Week: Scribd.com

Best described as a youtube for text documents, scribd is an interesting mix of user-generated templates for Word, Excel, etc. along with an odd (and large) collection of text documents. Full books, corporate brochures / training materials. Much like Youtube, there's also a mix of leaked documents, and internal documents that may or may not belong to other copyright holders,. Whether you're looking for a holiday gift giving spreadsheet to stay organized, or a leaked memo from the bank bailout proceedings, you'll find everything in-between at scribd.