Meritline has got a few great deals today that are worth mentioning. All of these deals start today at 5AM PST and last for a limited number of uses. You must use the coupon codes and order the products indicated to get these deals! Read More

I’ve written before about how much I don’t approve of violence in films, and how G-rated films (such as Ratatouille, The Princess and the Frog, and many others) contain violence—even guns!—while a single curse word can give a film a PG-rating. I’d much rather my child hear the word “damn” or even see a glimpse of a breast rather than guns and violence, but for some reason filmmakers (and many parents) believe otherwise. Read More

Daily Steals is offering a great deal on the New Targus Stow-N-Go Media Remote Control Card With USB Receiver for today only! This is another one o f those great deals where the item is free and you only pay for the shipping, so $4.99 total! I am not really super familiar with products like this but I love these little gadgets and at this price I cant pass it up - if I can't find a use for it I am sure it is something I can "gift" to someone. This is the same product that would be sold at your... Read More

Are you in need of a great, inexpensive, gift for one of those creative (nerdy) types or a special child in your life (suitable for children over the age of 5)? Maybe you are needing something for yourself to stay occupied - instead of serial killing? Well you are in luck! You can get a set of 164pcs DIY Assembled Robot Bricks for only $3.99 - with free shipping from Meritline. When purchasing you just need to use coupon code MLC400592090233AL1 (limit 800 uses) during checkout to take advantage... Read More

As if there weren’t enough wonderfully addictive, challenging, and downright fun things for writers to do on the Internet, I’d like to present you with 100 Words. This writing game challenges you to come up with a 100-word entry for each day of the month—as well as for some specific challenges, such as “100 Words About Summer” or “100 Words About Swine Flu”—just to get you to get something on the page every day. Read More

Oh the drama! Gmail, Google's free mail provider is now offering free phone calls using VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and it is doing so for FREE (Us / Canada) - at least through the end of the year. I can think of no other time when the saying (it is a saying, right?) "what a tangled web we weave..." can be be applied any better. The new Google Voice (Chat) feature being offered may literally kill Skype in on fell swoop. Google may take the entire VOIP market right out from under them... Read More

I have to admit, I really lost patience with the Firefighter career track long before my Sim got to level 10.  One problem with the way that jobs work in Sims 3 is that you can't get promoted until you go to work.  And the higher you climb the career ladder, the fewer days you work, and thus the longer it takes before you can get back in to get promoted.  In The Sims 2, once you had all the boxes ticked so to speak, then boom: promoted.  This is how so many of us got all... Read More

I love that the old arcade games that I played as a child—from Frogger to Pitfall to Pac Man—can all be played online these days. I still miss playing them with a joystick—staring into the little television in my grandmother’s kitchen, taking turns with my sisters and cousins as we all got our 20 minutes of game time. Read More

Firefighter is one of the last Ambitions professions for me to try out.  I was putting this one off because I had heard that it requires a lot of work on the part of the player.  I tend not to be a very "hands on" player.  I often prefer to sit back and watch what happens.  You get a lot of really interesting, unpredictable, oddball stuff happening.  (Plus I get a lot of knitting done!  True story: I finish about one pair of hand-knit socks a month just while... Read More