This is our sixth installment of a new feature designed to assist you in your efforts to save some time and effort in your day-to-day quest for information. 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 choose 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 me at the e-mail address listed here, and we’ll certainly consider posting them as well.

Top Events from Coast to Coast

Planning a vacation or a weekend get away and want to make certain you’ll do something of value? This site will, at the click of your mouse, reveal what’s going on from coast to coast as far as the top events and festivals.

One click will show you a simple list and description of the top 20 events in the country, including a description, place, times and dates.

If you want to narrow it down to your own state alone, you simply click on your state on the U.S. map, and you’ll immediately find the top 10 events taking place within your own area.

If you have a special category of interest, another click will reveal the location and date of the top events from coast to coast in your category of choice. Categories include: arts & crafts, ballooning, barbecue events, blues music, Celtic culture, Christmas, film, fine arts, fishing, flower events, fruit, German heritage, history, Independence Day, jazz, marathons, maritime events, parades, rodeo, Scandinavia, seafood, state fairs, unusual events, wine, winter, and winter sports. 

Weird Things

If you enjoy things a little off beat, you’re going to find something of interest on this site because it contains almost anything that falls into the category of being weird. In their ongoing quest to find the weirdest things on earth, they provide you a number of options from which to draw: funny videos, other strange & bizarre, weird animals & creatures, weird cars, weird facts, weird food, weird gadgets, weird games, weird inventions, weird jokes, weird laws, weird names, weird news, weird pictures, weird science, weird sites, weird sports, weird tattoos, and weird toys.

The Top 10 Everything of 2008

Have a longing to review last year’s important happenings? Here we have a compilation of Top 10 lists that covers just about everything that could have happened. From a groundbreaking American President to a historic economic collapse—with everything from the Olympics to Puppycam in between—TIME magazine in partnership with CNN provides a comprehensive look at the year that was. Here is a full list of the categories offered: albums, animal stories, awkward moments, best biz deals, best performances, breakups, buzzwords, campaign gaffes, campaign video moments, children’s books, crime stories, editorial cartoons, election photos, fashion moments, fashion faux pas, fiction books, financial collapses, fleeting celebrities, food trends, green ideas, iPhone apps, late night jokes, magazine covers, medical breakthroughs, movies, museum exhibits, news stories, non-fiction books, oddball news stories, Olympic moments, open mic moments, outrageous earmarks, photos, plays and musicals, political lines, quotes, religion stories, scandals, scientific discoveries, songs, sports moments, T-shirt worthy slogans, TV ads, TV episodes, TV series, underreported stories, video games, and worst biz deals.

Listropolis

While on the subject of lists, you may find this site a great resource. The good folks from Listropolis noticed an obvious lack of sites that accumulate the many lists available on the Internet. Thus, this unusual web site was born. They will be adding random lists as they find them across the web, or lists submitted by their readers. Their growing list of lists currently includes: blogging (11), career (5), design (35), Disney (2), education (4), entertainment (3), Facebook (3), featured (13), finance (4), Firefox (9), fitness (4), Flickr tag fun (3), fonts (5), food (4), free (10), Friendfeed (4), funny (19), games (5), Google (7), GTD (3), health (21), inspiration (15), interesting (8), Internet (6), iPhone (9), Lifehacks (12), logos (5), Mac (6), manliness (4), movies (6), music (8), people (3), photography (5), Photoshop (4), politics (7), productivity (4), resources (4), science (7), social media (8), sports (5), strange (4), tech (3), Twitter (7), uncategorized (124), videos (1), wallpapers (5), Web tools (11), and WordPress (6).

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