This week’s website is one of the many websites that I use to satisfy my never ending thirst for all knowledge geeky/nerdy!  It’s Slashdot.  As Slashdot itself says it is “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”  It’s a website that allows users to submit news stories related to a variety of tech and then users can comment on them.  It is such a popular website that having a story posted on it can cause the Slashdot Effect (or more commonly known on slashdotting)  This happens when a hot story is posted that causes people to click through to the website the story, pictures, etc. is on and the server can’t handle the mass influx of traffic and the website goes down.

Slashdot breaks down the news stories by category so that if you are only interested in certain topics you can view the topics of interest to you.

So if you are looking for a way to keep up some the “News for nerds.” check out Slashdot.  (Keep in mind if you visit it today, April 1, of what day it is – so don’t believe everything you read for today’s stories.)

Keeping with the theme of humor – this week’s website is Jumbo Joke.  This website has a vast collection of jokes about all subjects with new ones being added every few days.  The search for the archive of jokes is a bit hidden on the lower right hand side, but with the search you can look for jokes about your favorite category.  Not much else to say about it – but check it out if you aren’t getting enough laughs from last week’s website!

You’ve heard that the customer is always right – right?  Well today’s website shows that is only the case if the customer actually has a clue and is not wacko!  Not Always Right is a website where people in the retail or service business share their stories of customers that show that the customer is not always right.  The stories are so crazy and funny – they just have to be true because no one in their right mind could make this stuff up.  There are 5 or 6 new stories a day – and provide a nice chuckle or laugh for the day.  So – check it out and get ready to smile and laugh – or commiserate if you’ve had similar stories happen to you!

This week’s website is Common Craft.  I got the idea for this website from another website – which will come up on a later Wednesday.

The Common Craft website has videos that explain tech/web concepts and information in a way to help the non-techy people understand what the concepts are. Or as their tagline states “Explanations in plain English.” Items like Twitter, RSS Feeds, Social Networking, Wikis, etc. are covered.  So next time you hear some new fangled technology or web concept and not sure what it is all about – check out Common Craft and see if they have a video explaining it!

This week’s Website Wednesday is Earth 911 at earth911.com The site allows you to search for an item you want to recycle and your location and it will show you places in your area that will take that item for recycling.  So before you throw something out – check out Earth 911 to see if you can recycle it.

There are also resources on there to learn more about what you can recycle. For example check out http://earth911.com/paper/ to watch videos on how paper is recycled, how you can get started recycling paper, what recycled paper is used for, and lots more.  Makes you think twice about a piece of paper and how useful it is when you are done with it!

So help save the Earth by calling on Earth 911!