Interweb Wednesday - WFF and Amazon Student

To the none of you that follow this blog, I'm sorry I didn't post an IW last week. Guess what? I'll do two today.

First up, the launch of Wallet-friendly Foods. It's a website I created to help bring together recipes and ideas about healthy, cheap eating.  Still in development, but it's there and you can start frequenting it and commenting about how great it might be one day.

Secondly, I discovered Amazon Student the other day. It's amazing. If you know about Amazon Prime, it's the same idea.  Amazon Prime allows you to pay a membership fee and then get free two-day shipping on all eligible orders for the time of your membership.  Amazon Student, however is FREE for the first six months if you have a .edu address.  If you get textbooks and prefer to get them quickly, or purchase from Amazon often, this is the way to go.  I haven't decided if I'm ready to pay the $40 a year after the first six months to keep it, but you can't beat that free two day shipping for half a year.

Interweb Wednesday: Map of Online Communities

I've decided I'm going to start a series called "Interweb Wednesday" where I bring you fun or interesting things from around the web.

This week I want to show you something. Maybe you always know where you're going on the internet, but maybe you don't.  And if not, then I think this map by xkcd will help. The image is safe for all ages, but I make no guarantee about their website.

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I particularly like the associated references to other aspects of the said demographics. For example the ferry from Gaia(an MMO) to 4chan(a forum) and the fact that FarmVille and Happy Farm are bordered by the Dopamine Sea. But I think my favorite place is in the western portion of the country Facebook, where we find the "Plains of Awkwardly Public Family Interactions". Of course, being created last summer there are already areas that have changed.  For example there's no Google+.  What's interesting is that they created another map three years prior and had to update it massively for this one. The internet is a continually shifting landscape and I believe it is probably growing to encompass a larger portion of the megacontinent of spoken word.

Enjoy,

-j