stumble upon more interesting websites in my pursuit for knowledge

I’m still so new to all this blogging stuff, so I can’t tell you how happy I was to come across The Blog Bible at http://probuzz.wordpress.com/

It really is a great site and I have relied on it heavily over the last two weeks as I’ve been setting up my own travel blog. It has lessened the amount of time I spend trying to post entries and has showed me the ins and outs of the blogging world.

I thought this website was pretty nifty, as you can click on any country to see how Christmas is celebrated around the world. http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm

I found it particularly interesting, as my email list keeps growing and growing every year. I have friends celebrating all around the world. Just yesterday, I recieved Christmas wishes in my inbox from friends in India, Thailand, China, Turkey, Canada and the United States. Today, I heard from a friend in Argentina. This doesn’t even include all the wonderful people I’ve met here on 43things!

For me, Christmas is not about religion or gift-giving. It’s about spending time with family and friends, and spreading kindness to those around us. Where ever you are, and whether you celebrate this time of year or not, I hope you do so joyfully and with love. Happy holidays and best wishes to all of you here!

I had every intention of adding this entry under my botany goal, as I thought it would be interesting to learn about the different kind of trees that are used during the holiday season. Then, I stumbled upon this website and quickly realised that it most definately belongs under this goal instead.

In addition to having loads of interesting and fun facts for Christmas tree lovers, it features ‘a tree of the day’ and is also organizing the donations of Christmas trees from Christmas tree growers and online donations to be shipped to U.S. troops and their families over the holidays. This website gave me warm fuzzies all over. Check it out at http://www.christmastree.org/home.cfm

This photo is from their featured trees list. It’s an Eastern Red Cedar.

at www.lightamillioncandles.com

I was watching TV this morning and saw a commerical for an organization that is trying to stop child pornography on the Internet.

This website is an online petition to encourage politicians, governments, financial institutions, Internet service providers and law enforcement agencies to put a stop to child pornography. It only takes a few minutes to stop by their website to light a candle. They are aiming to light at least a million candles by December 31, 2006.

This is an incredible website of living and functional art. Arborsculpture is the art of creating living sculptures from trees. This website features arbor sculptors from around the world as they shape and mold living trees into intricate designs, functional furniture and even houses made from ficus trees.

http://www.arborsmith.com/world_tour.html

Can you believe it? I am seriously lagging in this stumbling upon business as I have, once again, stumbled upon one of MomWoolsey’s suggestions. Thank you! This is a wonderful website about how we can perform random acts of kindness within our schools and communities. It’s worth checking out and it brought a warm fuzzy glow to my heart.

MomWoolsey suggested this site while we were chatting one day. It’s a collection of stories about what adults used to believe in when they were kids. It turned out to be a great suggestion, because most of them are really funny.

this isn’t going as well as I thought it would because I keep stumbling back to 43 things. I think I’m addicted to all of you! However, I figure I’m still learning and still pursuing knowledge through all the wonderful entries I read and people that I meet on 43Things.

THANK YOU!!

Surfing the Internet can sometimes be frustrating. I like surfing but when I have a specific goal in mind. I often can’t find what I’m looking for or I spend ages sorting through unrelated or unhelpful websites. I want to be more productive in my pursuit of knowledge so I’ve found a new website at www.stumbleupon.com and I’ve added it to my favorites. Maybe this will help me stumble upon other ideas that I haven’t thought of yet!