We’re adding still another new feature to our blog in hopes of saving you some time and effort in your day-to-day quest for success. Let me explain the title. The “Sore Eyes” may very well be what you experience from continuously searching for needed information to complete a task or assignment. A “Site” is what we hope to provide for you among the many we’ll be spotlighting in this on-going feature.
Think back to the days when you had to resort to a dictionary, encyclopedia, or library to research your concern or topic. Consider the total amount of time and energy you exerted time and time again to meet the demands of your job. Today, take a quick visit to Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, MSN, Ask, or any of the many other search engines on the Internet and, within seconds, you have more information than you can ever use. And yet, ironically, we don’t seem to have any more time than we had before these time-saving assets appeared on the scene. Of course, that’s because the new demands and challenges have appeared to claim that time and energy we freed up through the benefits of technology. And so it will continue.
Therefore, we now need even more resources and short-cuts to be utilized upon our arrival at those critical search engines. As we locate valuable resources, we’ll post them here for your convenience. Browse the listing, identify potential assets, make a quick trip to those sites you chose to see if they may be worthwhile to add to your Favorites.
If you happen to have resources you feel might be valuable to others, please feel free to send them to us, and we’ll certainly consider posting them as well.
The World Gazetteer
The World Gazetteer provides current population figures for cities, towns and places of all countries along with the largest cities of the world and current national flags.
Wanna Learn?
SoYouWanna claims that this service “teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.” Find cheap airline tickets, buy a cell phone, design your own web page, write a business plan, cure a hangover, use feng shui, change your name, flatten your abs or learn how to do hundreds of other interesting things. The opening page tells you just about anything you’re going to want to know about the site. It’s very easy to navigate and offers a wealth of information.
Save Time - Get Organized
Stressed for time? Who isn’t? I personally guarantee you can immediately find dozens—I’d say hundreds, but you’d think I was exaggerating—of tips and ideas to help you organize your home, your office, and your life. Maria Gracia is a home-organizing consultant specializing in helping people get better organized to live the kind of stress-free life they’ve always dreamed of.
State & County QuickFacts
The U.S. Census Bureau provides quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator works to guide intelligent giving. The site helps charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions by providing information on 2,500 charities and by evaluating the financial health of each of these charities. The site ensures its evaluations are widely used by making them easy to understand and freely available to the public. By guiding intelligent giving, the Charity Navigator aims to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace, in which givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome our nation’s most persistent challenges.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Included in the site are more than 12,000 web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics.
Top Inventions of 2007
From the phone that has changed phones forever, to futuristic cars, to a building made of water, to a remote-controlled dragonfly—a dazzling display of the many inventions that emerged last year are available on this site . For speed and convenience, inventions are arrange in a vast array of categories.
Mark Twain in His Times
This site focuses on how “Mark Twain” and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and others from his times said about each other, in ways that can speak to us today.
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