COOL LINKS
http://www.cardsformoms.com/ Have you ever needed or wanted to give out your contact information but didn't have a piece of paper or a pen? Check out these cool "mom business cards"
Clorox.com Check out the Healthier lives tap.
Learn Tricks 5min.com Five-minute videos teach you how to do all kinds of stuff: solve a Rubik's Cube, cook pad thai, make your lips look plumper...
GET CREATIVE IN 60 SECONDS OR LESS picbite.com Upload a photo, drag and drop a speech bubble onto it, then enter snarky text. E-mail it to a good-humored coworker
Be Greener greeniq.com This quiz measures your carbon and environmental footprints, then offers personalized planet-loving tips.
MAKE A LIFE LIST 43things.com At 43 Things, you can enter your goals (from "buy new socks" to "learn German"), and some of the 1.2 million users will post comments cheering you on. For inspiration, search out those with similar goals
KILL TIME WITHOUT KILLING BRAIN CELLS damninteresting.com Random knowledge makes you a good party guest. Dive into the History Channel-style summaries on this site for fodder like this: In the '30s there were attempts to replace the postal service with unmanned rockets. We'll take another G&T...
FOOD
#1 COOKING SITE www.foodnetwork.com Need a recipe for dinner tonight? This is the site and your sure to find one that your whole family will love.
PLAN A WEEK'S WORTH OF MEALS whatsfordinner.net This site posts a recipe for every day of the week. Click on the ingredients you don't have on hand to generate a printable grocery list.
EAT LOCAL eatwellguide.com Search by zip code to find restaurants and stores—from Whole Foods to little farm stands—that sell locally produced eats.
MUST-READ FOOD BLOGS chow.com and chezpim.typepad.com Check, please! Feed your hunger for great eats.
TECH
LAUNCH A BLOG tumblr.com This is blogging for slackers. Posting pics, links to your favorite sites, and maybe a line of text requires exactly zero tech know-how. We had a post up in 90 seconds.
SEARCH SMART mahalo.com This search engine's results have been compiled by humans, not generated by computers, so you actually get useful links. We searched for 'hiking' and the results page included their top seven links to places like the National Park Service, as well as how-to links and tons of gear-related sites, among other things. All spot-on.
FIND 800 NUMBERS hardtofind800numbers.com No more digging around a company website to find a buried 800 number. This site organizes companies alphabetically and lists direct lines for specific departments
SNAG A COOL PHOTO (LEGALLY) flickr.com/search With millions of photos under Creative Commons licenses (there's no charge for noncommercial use), Flickr is the place to find a picture to use on your website or in your presentation
AVOID BAD TECH howitsucks.com This site rates how bad products are. Odd? Not really. Trash talk can be more helpful than all the BS about how great something is.
TRAVEL
SAVE ON FARES yapta.com Airlines will refund the difference if prices drop. Give Yapta your flight details and it keeps an e-eye on the ticket price. If the fare sinks, you get an e-mail alert that also tells you how to claim a refund.
TRAVEL AT THE 11th HOUR lastminutetravel.com Last Minute Travel lists the best depart-ASAP deals—from $99 hotel rooms in Miami's hot Art Deco district to $79 round-trip tickets mid-winter from Chicago (brrrr... to Los Angeles (ahh...).