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Hotlist of Interesting Web Sites for Shad

• Comparing the major search engines. For my money, Google rules!
   
• Hoaxes and some good advice on how to spot them on-line.
   
• A brief inventor's handbook from the nice people at M.I.T. who run the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention and Innovation.
   
• How do Pop Rocks work?
   
• A great big list of How Stuff Works.
   
• Edward de Bono's official web site is a little defensive (and heavily littered with TM's) but this is the guy who coined the phrase "lateral thinking." Someday, when your own ideas are widely used and abused, you'll be grateful to people who refer back to the original source.
   
• This cheat sheet of creative thinking, this index will certainly cure you of any notion that there's only one model or method of creative thinking!
   
• Jakob Nielsen, has good stuff about effective design... including Web useability. This guy works with Donald Norman, author of Design of Everyday Things.
   
• Bad ideas in the bad-design hall-of-fame.
   
• Odd ideas in Chindohgu, the art of the "unuseless idea."
   
• Donald Hoffman's got some great visual illusions.
   
• The Painter's Eye Movements project tracked where a portrait painter looks while working, and even put him in an MRI while drawing.
   
• Someday I wanna be in The National Inventors Hall of Fame. There's a special award for collegiate inventors, too.
   
• The story of Hard Candy nail polish is all about initiative, kitchen table chemistry, and baby blue toenails. Plus it's become big big business.
   
• Trevor Baylis invented a wind-up radio so health information could be better broadcast in developing countries.
   
• How a songwriter invented Magnetic Poetry, one of Linda's favourite creativity toys.
   
• Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1990. Think an individual can't change the world?