Jake of the Web

http://www.moanmyip.com/
There's lots of sites that will tell you your ip address. This one moans it to you in orgasmic tones. It's actually pretty ridiculous, but it makes me laugh.

http://adblockplus.org/

Adblock plus allows you to block all flash-based web ads. By and large, you won't even notice that the ads are even missing - quite seamless.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

http://www.overheardatthebeach.com/

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening things said by real people and dutifully reported by bystanders.

Some of the best are overheard cell phone conversations, people with their kids, or people on the subway. Or whimsical combinations of all three.

There's the woman who is loudly complaining on the subway to a friend about all the meds she has to take for her STD, while her mortified daughter standing nearby has to remind her that the meds are for SVT, a heart condition, and not for a sexually transmitted disease.

Or when a girl tells a younger boy that he's going to be a real lady killer when he grown up, and he answers: "Oh, I'll kill men, too. I don't care."

The Mom who tells her little boy: "You do not pee on somebody unless they ask you to!"

Or the boy standing in the ocean who yells, reminiscent of little Bill: "I CHALLENGE YOU, POSEIDON!"

http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/

The entire text contents of Wikipedia, downloadable and viewable on your iPod.
1.7 Gigs, currently updated every 6 months.

http://www.dialahuman.com/

A collection of the fastest way to make it through a phone tree to reach real person for almost every company imaginable.

http://vconvert.net/

Recommended by Jamie Winters

http://converttube.com/

Both sites are virtually identical. They allow you to save a copy of any online video. Can save it to Windows, Mac, Flash or iPod/PSP formats, as well as an audio only portion.

Dave Motta asked about animation software for his son to use in a school project:

The one I liked the most was Dog Waffle:

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/

It had excellent tutorial videos - http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/DanCDtutes/index.html

A great application for animating scanned images created on paper is MonkeyJam:

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/

Another very good application is 'Beneton Movie GIF' - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF/

Although you have undoubtedly seen a photomosaic before, you may not know what one is. A photomosaic is a picture made up of many smaller images. One of the movie posters for The Truman Show is a prime example of this:



There is software out there that enables you to create your own Photomosaic:

Photomosaic maker – Perhaps the easiest to use by virtue of gathering other people's images for you, 'Photomosaic Maker' collects pictures from Flickr.com and forms them into a mosaic of any image you upload.
Photomosaic Maker

A more intense (but therefore with more customizable results) is the downloadable photomosaic maker 'Andreamosaic'. Andreamosaic allows you to use your own pictures (select a folder or folders on your hard drive) to create the tiles of the mosaic.
Andreamosaic allows a lot more customization of the end result (number of tiles, what pictures to use, how often a picture can be reused, etc) but is relatively processor-intensive and can take some time.
Andrea Mosaic

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Language translators. Translate (more or less) any web page, sets of words or single words.

This site generates an 'ASCII' (letters and punctuation) drawing or picture based on any 60x50 pixel image you give it. It works best if you use pictures that are close-ups of faces, which are a little easier for the human eye to recognize if the image is a bit blurry. Because it requires such a small image, you may need to manipulate existing photos using something like Photoshop – GIMP (www.gimp.org) is a free alternative and should be more than sufficient. You can create color or black & white images, and use either ASCII characters or simple squares to create your image.

I created ASCII images of all of our favorite Radio from Hell personalities.

Kerry

Bill

Gina

Richy

www.virtualnes.com
Recommended by Matt Marcek

This site has a massive library of original Nintendo games. All of the Nintendo games I can remember and I ton that I don't – Wrestlemania games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all 3 Mario Games, and Spy Hunter and a million more.

www.onemorelevel.com/games3/double-wires.swf
or just search for 'double wires'

A ridiculous game where a rag doll person with spider-like webslinging abilities fights the good fight against gravity. Picture if Steven Hawking were spider man. Ugly but fun.

litsum.com

wikisummaries.org

www.cliffsnotes.com

www.antistudy.com

Free cliff notes, summaries of books, characters, bios of authors and more cool stuff to make studying and homework a lot easier.

Jarrod asked about modding Sidekick IIIs.

Although not 'modding' per se in the same way as with other phones, I found a few sites dedicated to personalizing your Sidekick:

www.hiptop.com

sidekick3.blogspot.com

www.sidekickwallpapers.com

Another friend of the program asked about sending text messages to someone's cell phone anonymously:

Anontxt.com
textforfree.net

Also has an option to embed a window into your myspace page or other blog. This is obviously best for sites with a security restriction on 'friends only'.


Also, you can send text to people from the web page of their service provider. A few major ones are:

Verizon: https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

Sprint: http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/compose

T Mobile: https://wmg.tmomail.net/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

AT&T allows you to send from the web, but you must have an account and log in in order to do so.


Now, just because they don't see your name on the text message doesn't mean they can't find out who you are – especially if you are harassing or threatening, so be good.

www.chorewars.com
Online text-based role playing game that allows you to create a character and then build that character up by doing chores in real life. This would be especially good, I would imagine, for families with 2 or more kids, where chores could become a game and a bit of competition to make chores more interesting. I suppose kids fighting over who gets to clean the bathroom is not such a bad thing.

Firefox Add-on of the week:

http://tools.google.com/firefox/sendtophone/index.html
Google's 'send to phone' addon places a small icon on your Firefox toolbar. From here, you can type or copy/paste any text into the window and send data or any other info to your phone (or any other phone, provided you know the number and carrier of the person you are trying to reach)