When I was a kid, I always loved going to airport cafes, many of which allowed you to plug your headphones into small boxes where you could listen to the air traffic communications as they occurred. Though I never learned to fly (and in all honesty, HATE flying), I was always curious as to what exactly was going on between the pilots and ground control. So years have passed and never did I imagine I’d be able to listen to pilot to ground communication over the internets, but hey, it *is* the future. LiveATC is a great little community site for aviation enthusiasts, aviation students and flight-sim enthusiasts to monitor live communication from various airports around the world, letting you know exactly how French pilots communicate with Korean air traffic controllers and what exactly angry pilots sound like when their takeoff spot gets scooped up by millionaires in private jets.

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We all know that the US is strange, but, this takes it to a new level. Just a few minutes looking at StrangeUSA.com, a database of strange places in the United States, one would think the whole country is one giant haunted, zombie-infested ghost town. StrangeUSA consolidates all the information it can find on haunted buildings, spooky cemetaries, unidentified monsters, ghost towns and all the scariest places they can find, collected by users and urban explorers to give you the best darn database of haunted stuff your side of the Mississippi. Oh look, that church whose bells I used to hear down the street, haunted. Super.

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With Valentine’s Day approaching this week what better way to let someone know that you’re against everything that Valentine’s Day has become than with an, er, anti-Valentine? If you think Valentine’s Day has been overly commercialized by chocolate manufacturers and greeting card companies then take part me(ish)’s organized virtual protest, by sending your loved (or hated ones) a mini virtual protest card declaring you want them to be your anti-valentine.

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If you’re anything like the morons we seem to be, you’ve sat in front of your computer for hours trying to get a good deal off of that shiny new iPod being flogged on eBay, only to have it sniped from under your mouse finger with 3 seconds to go. Bypass all that mess and get straight to the auctions that are going cheaper than you can imagine using Auction Intelligence, a search engine which checks your search term (the item name or type) against the common misspellings, providing you with a juicy list of auctions that few can find and at a price you can actually afford.

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