{"id":1882,"date":"2010-04-20T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:10:42","slug":"web-surfing-made-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/20\/web-surfing-made-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Surfing Made Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the Web I came across a website which makes focusing on your work all that much more difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/04\/stumblepromochrome2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1886\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/04\/stumblepromochrome2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>StumbleUpon is a website which leads you to other websites.<\/p>\n<p>The webpages you stumble upon could range from Government Fact Sheets, National Geographic Images, YouTube Videos, Flash Games, News Articles, Blog posts, just about anything you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>My first result was a great set of images which help to scale galactic objects in comparison to one another&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/9LspdV\/www.rense.com\/general72\/size.htm\">http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/9LspdV\/www.rense.com\/general72\/size.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that I stumbled on a game where you try to tranquilize sheep running from your herd. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1F2W83\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/sleep\/sheep\/reaction_version5.swf\">http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1F2W83\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/sleep\/sheep\/reaction_version5.swf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then an extremely interesting video from YouTube. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1mWEMo\/www.youtube.com\/watch%253Fv%253DlUMf7FWGdCw\">http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1mWEMo\/www.youtube.com\/watch%253Fv%253DlUMf7FWGdCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, a photo of Earth at Night from NASA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/2hI6DU\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0011\/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg\">http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/2hI6DU\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0011\/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You do not need to sign-up in order to use this site, but for people who do a lot of surfing I would suggest making a free account. 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