Author: Diana Adams
Creative Inspiration: The Toy Army Men With A Message
I've played with toy army men for as long as I can remember. The army men they sell these days are a lot different from when I was young. Now you can get fancy army men that snap together into a team, kind of like Lego blocks. But, my favorite ones will always be the old-fashioned, 2-inch tall gr ...
Decadent & Delicious Meat Photography
I love meat. I can eat any kind of meat, preferably rare, everyday. I know it's controversial and a lot of people I know think it's wrong, but I am definitely a carnivore. It's just who I am. I remember when I wrote this article called How To: Kill A Lobster In A Humane Way, I got a ton of nasty ...
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The United States of Awesome and Shame [Infographic]
If you live in the United States like I do, you know that some states do things more or less than other states. For example, I live in the south, which is the Bible Belt of the country. It's no surprise that down here there are the most churches and the highest rate of church attendance compared t ...
The Titanic Movie Explained In Less Than 2 Minutes
The movie Titanic is the ultimate chick-flick. I know this because every time I watch it, I boo-hoo like a big baby. And, I'm talkin the big kind of cry, the kind that gives you a headache for two days. You'd think I was going down with the ship.
I've never met a guy that would willingly watch ...
Star Wars Typography: Darth Vader Created With His Quotes
They say all good things come in threes, and since we've featured two articles so far with Star Wars inspired typography, I thought I'd top it off today with a third. Although Richard's articles about the Boba Fett Typography and the Star Wars Ad Campaign Typography were awesome in their own right, ...
Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal Like You’ve Never Seen
As Randy Jackson says on American Idol... "Dawg pound, we got a hot one tonight!" This unbelievable video has only been on YouTube for ten days, and it has almost 2 million views. I'd say that certainly qualifies as viral, and boy does it deserve it!
We are all familiar with Michael Jackson's S ...
Fascinating Tree Bark From Around The World
Trees are truly one of Mother Nature's many miracles. If you do a quick Google search for tree facts, you'll find some very interesting information that you probably never knew before, or at least I did.
Back in 2009, I remember seeing the Redwood tree on the cover of National Geographic. That pi ...
Recycling: Old Plastic Toys Get A New Life As A Dog
If you have young children, you probably know what it's like to have itty-bitty toys all around your house. Whether it's little plastic numbers, pieces of broken figures or used crayons, that stuff just seems to accumulate everywhere. My son, who is ten years old, has gotten to the age where he is ...
Photography: Abandoned and Lonely World War II Bunkers
Normally the words "beautiful" and "war" do not go together in the same sentence. However, this stunning photography of old abandoned World War II bunkers is truly beautiful, in a historic kind of way.
When I was attending University, for a short while, I was a history major. I changed my studi ...
Egypt: A Nation Forced Offline
Since this is not a political blog, we don't usually write about what happens in the governments around the world. However, we do write about social media, and when the government in a country completely shuts off access to not only Twitter and Facebook, but all the Internet, it becomes almost our ...
How To: Make a Beating Origami Heart for Your Valentine
Valentine's Day will be here soon, and if you are like most people, you haven't yet figured out the perfect gift for your sweetheart. We tell our sweeties all year long how much we love them, but then the one day comes when we are supposed to show them with a gift, and suddenly it gets all stressfu ...
A Wedding In Cold Water: Would You Get Married Here?
When you spend all day surfing the Internet looking for interesting material, like I do, you come across some pretty unusual things that people do. I always say that after some of the things I've read, nothing surprises me anymore. However, usually as soon as I say that, I read something that make ...
This Family Unplugged For 6 Months & Lived To Tell About it
Hmm... unplugging for six months? Are you kidding me? I can't even imagine unplugging for one week. I'm so connected to my online world that I sleep with my phone. I'm not the only one though, as it turns out, it's a habit that a lot of people have. Technology and our gadgets are no longer part of o ...
Add Some Happy Sunshine To Your Life Today!
If there is one thing I will always remember about the winter of 2011, it will be the unseasonably cold weather. Here in the south, we aren't used to it being so cold for so long, and I'm very excited for spring to come back! Yesterday, we got a glimpse of it. It was sunny and beautiful outside. ...
Why Knot? The Geek Way to Tie a Necktie
Have you ever noticed that a lot of times in movies, the woman makes a romantic gesture to her man by seductively walking up to him in the morning and tying his necktie? I've always been fascinated by that because I don't understand it. I actually don't understand why some men have to wear ties in ...