Tim Ferris: The 4 Hour Workweek Guy

Tim Ferris is a pretty neat character. He experiments with many aspects of his life and shares the results - sometimes on his blog, sometimes in a book, sometimes on a video. He is a businessman, a breakdancer, a champion kickboxer, a Guinness World record holder in the tango, and many other off the wall things. Tim has designed his life so that he can pursue whatever activities he is interested in pursuing (ie. he took 6 months off to learn tango from a champion dancer). Wouldn't any of us like to be able to take 6 months off to pursue a hobby?

His blog is full of interesting and offbeat ideas about many topics. Take some time and check out his blog here. You won't regret it.

Buying And Selling Websites

Ever thought about buying or selling a website? Do you like shopping for deals? Check out Flippa. This site is a marketplace for websites. You can sometimes find good deals (like a site that pays for itself in 3 months), but you must be willing to dig a little bit. And for those of you that have a site that you are neglecting, how about selling it and getting a little cash for yourself?

Take a few minutes and browse Flippa.

Free Movie Rentals

Redbox seems to be everywhere these days. Renting new release movies for $1 per night is a pretty good deal. However, it just got even better. Redbox has discount codes that allow you to get discounted (even free!) rentals if you have the right codes.

InsideRedbox solved the problem by having a central location where you can get the latest Redbox discount codes. All you need to do is sign up and they will email you information every week. That is pretty cool if you rent movies from time to time.

How Secure Is Your Password?

Check here to find out! It will tell you if your password is one of the 500 most common and give you an estimate of how long it would take a computer to crack it.

In my case, I had some that would take mere minutes to break. So, if you'll excuse me, I have some passwords that need changing . . .

Fast Free Website SEO Grader

I came across a useful free tool that evaluates a website and gives a grade based on SEO optimization, social buzz, Google indexing and more. They do have a more comprehensive set of paid tools (I have not evaluated them and so have no recommendation), but the free tool is pretty interesting stuff. Check it out.

Great Deals In Your City: How About A $29 Hour Long Massage

Sometimes you just find a cool site and want to share it with the people closest to you. I found a site that I want to share with everyone because it works better that way.

Groupon gets local deals for goods and services in your city for at least 50% off. In my town, recent deals have included an hour long massage at a salon for $29 (regularly $70-$125), 55% off everything at a trendy clothing store, a $300 car exterior dent repair and detailing package for $69, and much more. Every weekday a new deal is offered. If enough people take it, everyone gets the deal. So the more people that sign up, the better the deals are for all of us.

All you do is provide an email address and they will send you the daily deal for your city. No spam or other unwanted stuff . . . just the daily deal. Go sign up at Groupon.

Complaint Letter Generator

Short post, but this is cool. Here is a way to nearly automatically generate a complaint letter about a person or a company by filling in some blanks in this handy template. Check it out here.

It really is fun, and I'm sure you know just what you want to complain about . . .

Facebook Privacy Concerns?

Facebook has had a lot of negative publicity lately with users having a lot of concerns over privacy issues. Many have quit Facebook or stopped using it altogether. However, there may be another way. Reclaim Privacy has developed an open source application to test your personal privacy settings on Facebook. I found this very enlightening and it is free to use. Check it out here.

Free Movie Tickets To Screenings

You might (and might is the important word here) get free movie tickets to screen popular movies before the big opening. Here is the site where you can do it, but there are limited tickets and they seem to go fast. But hey, it's worth a shot. Click here and enter your zip code.

Technology Deals

Everybody likes a bargain. And, there is certainly no shortage of sites out there with the latest deals. Here is another that you may want to consider TechDealDigger. Their site was laid out well with an intuitive category navigation menu on the side. But what really caught my eye was the deal "hotness" rating. When I first visited the site, I saw a $2400 tv listed for $1000. To me, that's a pretty hot deal!

Check it out here.

Social Bookmarking Made Easy

SocialAdr is a social bookmarking site. As you select other member's sites to bookmark, you generate credits that are used when others bookmark your sites.

This is not a spam mechanism. You choose which sites you want to bookmark. The site also supports spinning of titles and descriptions to avoid duplication. Once your accounts are set up, the system does all of your bookmarking automatically. Best of all, it's free. Check out SocialAdr.