I’m still posting lightly for the next week, but I had some time to Stumble a bit, and here’s what I’ve found.

• Winston’s Lego Computer: This guy built a computer out of Legos. Pretty cool stuff.
• The Meaning of Colors: Interesting page that explains the symbolism behind colors. Did you know that people are more productive in blue rooms?
• Fonts 500: I love fonts. Here are some freeware ones that you can download for designs and documents.
• Weird Facts: Interested in useless trivia? Here’s one for you: Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
• Homemade Obstacle Course: Wow, I thought this stuff was only fictional like in Back to the Future. This video shows some pretty impressive tricks.
• The Most Amazing Images from StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon lets you see some pretty impressive images. This guy took the best of 20 or so and put them all in one page for you to enjoy without sorting through hundreds of pages to find the best.

I just saw interesting report via MicroPersuasion. A recent study showed that Web 2.0 has a very great reach within large companies. A study done by Clearswift did a survey with 827 individuals in large companies (1,000 employees and up) and found the following:

• 43% of office workers access social media sites from their work computers several times a day
• 51% spend an hour or more a week on the sites; 13% spend five hours or more
• 46% have discussed work-related issues on social media sites
• 46% regularly access Wikipedia during work hours
• 50% believe they have a right to use work computers for personal internet access

What do you think of these findings? Do they come as a surprise to you? Are they representative of your surfing behavior?

Another week, another bunch of stumbles:

• Google Image Ripper: Nice little site that bypasses the Google Images interface and takes you directly to the large-sized images.
• Instant Eyedropper: I was looking for a plugin on Twitter which could provide me with the hex code of any color on a web page. I’m still looking for the specific plugin that would do exactly this, but shortly after I asked, I stumbled upon this application which does the same thing — just not in plugin format.
• Body-Mass Index, Waist to Height Ratio, and More: I found this calculator helpful and timely, especially since I just wrote about my fatblogging experience.
• Before and After Magazine: How to Design Cool Stuff: A simple yet elegant website with some amazingly useful tutorials on design.
• Top 12 Weird Japanese Inventions: I’ve seen some of this before, but it’s still just silly.
• Fractal Gallery: Wow, this gallery features some beautiful and colorful art.
• PhobiaGuide.com: Did you know that Gamophobia is the fear of marriage? Well, today I found that out. I celebrated my 2nd wedding anniversary on Tuesday, so I don’t think I’m afraid of such a commitment. In any event, here’s a dictionary of all fears.

As always, another great week of stumbles. Here are some of the precious gems that caught my eye this week.

• Interactive Photo Mosaic: I’ve always had a soft spot for the creativity of photo mosaics. This one is brilliant. It kept me busy and engaged for a pretty long time.
• Photoshop Tutorial: Web 2.0 Buttons: Just about everything Web 2.0 can be done by yourself. Here’s how you can create “Web 2.0 style” buttons using Photoshop CS2.
• Mac Products Buying Guide: I’m not a Mac user in the slightest (I sold my iBook awhile ago on eBay), but for whatever reason, StumbleUpon serves me a ridiculous amount of Mac pages, probably because I am always thumbsupping the Mac sites. This one happens to be rather cool. It tells you how long Apple typically goes before releasing a brand new product “update,” advising buyers to either wait until a new release is about to come out or to buy now since the product has just been updated. For example, for the iPod Shuffle, which has just been updated (2nd generation), it says “Buy now, product just updated,” but for the full-sized iPod, it says “Buy it only if you need it - approaching the end of a cycle.”

I must have first heard of Quizlet through Lifehacker. Studying my SAT words (believe it or not, vocabulary is not one of my strong suits) is not as much a distant memory as it is for others who have been out of high school for 8 years. I remember taking classes, buying flashcards, and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. Fortunately, for students who do, 17-year-old Andrew Sutherland has already gone well along on his way to make learning big words a little more exciting.

I was reading a recent interview with Andrew, who built the application out of a passion and a need — I don’t think anything like Quizlet exists anywhere else. I know that whenever I go to the house where I grew up, I end up finding a bunch of flashcards that I no longer want to see anymore (man, what a waste of paper!) I also remember being “elected” as the note-taker in high school; one of the easiest ways to absorb lecture notes and book notes was to type up questions and answers in a frequently asked questions document and ask myself the questions again and again. I definitely could have seen myself “quizletting” back in the late 90s… too bad Andrew was only about 8 years old then.