Hey everyone, thought I'd do something a little bit different today and share 10 of the many websites that I've bookmarked over the years. I'll also give a short explanation as to why I bookmarked them.
This is a great website if you want to make travel plans. It shows how to get from where you are to almost anywhere in the world. Probably not the best place to book plane tickets from or anything, but it's super cool for checking out possible routes and ways of getting places. It'll give you a list of transport options (eg. plane, car, train, etc.) as well as their estimated prices.
This may be a bit geeky, but I really enjoy checking the weather so I know what to expect when making plans. Weatherzone is generally fairly reliable as far as I can tell and has some cool features like wind maps and temperature records from previous years.
Another slightly geeky bookmark. I love Google Maps for finding directions to places, but it's also got that really cool feature known as Street View. You can check out 3D pictures from roads all over the world. In one day you can explore locations as diverse as Siberia, Indonesia, Ireland, South Africa, Brazil, and New Zealand. Not the same as actually traveling, but still pretty awesome.
This is a good place to go if you're not sure whether you should go watch a movie or not. The people at pluggedin write movie and music reviews from a Christian perspective, looking at things like sexual content, violent content, blasphemy, etc. I don't always agree with them, but I do appreciate their discerning spirit. My only caution is their reviews of Christian stuff- I think they're sometimes a bit too nice when it comes to bad acting and theological problems... :P
This is a Christian comic website. I think the comics are generally done quite well. Usually the focus is on making the reader think about a theological issue from a Reformed perspective. Because of the serious subject matter, most of the comics can't really be called "funny" but I like them because they make me think. My only big issue with the author is that he sometimes has depictions of Jesus, breaking the second commandment.
With this website you can watch airplanes that are flying in your area, or anywhere else in the world. I sometimes use it to see where a flight over my house came from and where it's going. Most of the time I use it to see where my parents are flying over when they're traveling.
I use this website to keep up to date on some of the major international issues facing the world. Usually their articles are quite interesting. The only thing I don't like is you can only read one or two articles a day, and there's always a pop-up window to subscribe when you first get on.
This is another geeky bookmark. This website shows snow and ice coverage for the Northern Hemisphere. I use it to see whether it has snowed back in Canada, and how far south the snow is reaching during the depths of the northern winter.
Yes, another slightly geeky bookmark. Kind of a common theme here. This website is super cool because it shows when the sun is going to rise and set on any given day. For example, Launceston will have 13 hours and 29 minutes of daylight today, with a sunrise at 6:12 AM and a sunset at 7:41 PM. Maybe not extremely useful information, but could come in handy if you felt like watching the sunrise or sunset.
One of the best websites defending young-earth creationism. Lots of neat articles that show how evolutionists and creationists can look at some of the same facts and draw different conclusions because of their underlying beliefs. All kinds of interesting trivia.
Well, those are 10 of my bookmarks! What kind of websites do you like to revisit?
