I especially enjoyed the I am feeling Gloomy playlist. That’s why I decided to feature below my favorite songs from that list, and I hope you will enjoy my ‘gloomy’ suggestions. More excellent playlists you should check out are I am working at the office (which I am listening to as I’m writing this very post), and I am having a birthday party at home. Think about it; if you are throwing a birthday party at home, you can save cash on a dodgy DJ and celebrate peacefully (or not) your birthday with friends and family. By the way, you can also drag-and-drop songs in each playlist to rearrange their order. Excellent website, great music. Simple.

I admire the idea behind Goby, but I must admit that some search results were a bit disappointing. To give an example, the suggestions for “fun activities in NYC” (i.e. things to do in NYC) did not seem like much fun to me (although they could very well be exciting for others).  Perhaps advanced search filters could do the trick… One suggestion I think could work is to add a search parameter of age groups. Despite my rants, I seriously recommend checking out Goby since I believe it has many adventure matches in store for most people.

In short, thankfulfor hits the benevolence nail on the head by offering a simple, inviting and collectively rewarding service. Using your Twitter login info or Facebook Connect allows you to post your ‘thankful fors’ and share them with your friends. It’s as if chivalry is back, big time, and it could really reach out to millions of users all around the world. We like that!

In terms of my favorite fact, it’s this one: “China invented ice cream, and Marco Polo is rumored to have taken the recipe (along with the recipe for noodles) back with him to Europe.” For this winter season, see below a video showing how to make ice cream out of snow.

Thanks to the numerous resources of graphic and web design available on the net these days (such as Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions), anyone can make use of the literally hundreds of online tutorials out there and learn to design websites for a living. InstantShift is a great resource for professionals of the industry, but will equally interest those who aren’t that familiar with the meanings of layers and CSS.

InstantShift offers everything you could possibly need or imagine, as long as it’s relevant to this creative field. Get the latest news, cute/sexy/rough icons and themes for your blog, amazing typography, freebies, tools and tutorials, just to name a few. Be sure to RSS to this one – you’ll be glad you did, even if the only thing that’s genuinely theirs is the textual content of each post… I enjoyed InstantShift’s links to beautiful iPhone wallpapers, a collection of icon resources, and also various cool freebies.

So why am I writing about a movie that came out back in 1999? The answer is simple: a Blu-Ray version of the movie is out (timed perfectly for Christmas and the film’s 10th anniversary), which means you can experience your top choice movie once more, only in a much more indulging way. And what a better way to market the Blu-Ray release than by throwing in users’ Facebook photos and personal information into the movie’s trailer? If you don’t mind the privacy issues involved, sign in with Facebook Connect and join the mayhem. To purchase the Blu-Ray version of Fight Club, click here.

Before entering this site I must warn you that it contains nudity and graphic images. Having that said, some images I found here reminded me of a poster by the Guerrilla Girls I saw this last summer (see below), at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and it’s titled Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? Do you think these numbers are disturbing? So do I. But for your information, the poster is from 1989. I don’t know where the current numbers stand but the poster I saw was part of the largest all-female art exhibition in the world, so I guess things are changing, and rightly so.