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Why do we call a dollar a “buck”?

The Indians taught the first European settlers the value of a buck. Like gold, deer or buckskin was used in trading as a unit of value against which everything else was assessed. “The buck stops here” is a different matter. That expression came from frontier poker, in which the buck was a knife made of buckhorn that was passed around the table to indi- cate who was dealing. When  a hand was finished, the dealer “passed the buck” to the next player.

Why is a severe  snowstorm called  a “blizzard”?

The word blizzard didn’t mean a snowstorm until 1870, when a news- paper  editor in Estherville, Iowa, needed a word to describe a fierce spring storm. The word blizzard had been hanging around with no par- ticular origin for about fifty years and was used to describe a vicious physical attack, either with fists or guns. After its use by the editor, what better word to describe a violent snowstorm than blizzard?

Why do we call luxurious  living a “posh”  existence?

In  the  days of their  empire,  British  tourists  travelled  by ship  from England  to  the  warmer  climates  of  India  and  the  Mediterranean. Wealthy passengers on these voyages demanded cabins shaded from the sun, which meant being on the port side on the way out and the star- board side  on the  way home. Tickets  for these cabins were marked “POSH,” which stood for Portside Out, Starboard Home, and posh stuck as a word that signified luxury.

Why  do  we  use  the  word  glitch to  define  an unknown  com- puter problem?

Along with  space exploration  came new expressions that  are now

everyday language. Astronauts said “affirmative” for yes, “check” to confirm a completed task, and “copy” to indicate that  an instruction was understood. “Glitch,” an unexplained computer malfunction, was first used to describe the Mercury space capsule’s frustrating tendency to signal an emergency when none existed.

Why are the sides of a boat called “starboard”  and “port side”?

In the primitive days of navigation, the helmsman stood at the stern of the ship, controlling the vessel’s direction by hand with a rudder, which was on the right side and called a steer board, or as the Anglo- Saxons called it, a “starboard.” The left side of the ship is called the “port” side, because with the steering mechanism on the right it was the only side that could be brought to rest against a harbour or port.

Why do we call the  first weeks  of marriage  a “honeymoon”?

The custom of a “honeymoon” began over four thousand years ago in Babylon, when for a full lunar month  after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the honey-beer he could drink. It was called the “honey month.” The word honeymoon didn’t enter our language until 1546, and because few people could afford a vacation, a honeymoon didn’t mean a trip away from home until the middle of the nineteenth century.

Why  do  we  say  someone  diverted  from  a  goal  has  been“sidetracked”?

Early railroads had only a single track between destinations. Problems arose when a train was met by another going in the opposite direc- tion or was about to be overtaken by a faster one. This dilemma was solved with the creation of sidings, short lengths of track built paral- lel to the main line where one train could pull over while the other

went by. The train had been “sidetracked,” meaning that, for a time at least, it wasn’t going anywhere.

Why do we say someone charming  has “personality”?

In the Greek and Roman theatres, actors wore masks to indicate the different characters they were playing. The Latin word for mask, per- sona, came to mean a personality other than that of the actor. Today, persona, or personality, still refers to the mask a person wears to hide his or her true character while playing a role for the outside world.

How did the  dandelion  and the  daisy get  their  names?

The dandelion and the daisy are both named for a particular physical characteristic.  The  English daisy, with  its small yellow centre  and white- or rose-coloured rays, closes at night and reopens with daylight

like the human eye, and so it was named the “day’s eye.” The dande- lion, because of its sharp, edible leaves, was named by the French “dent de lion,” the “tooth of a lion.”

Why are Levi denims called “jeans”?

In the 1850s, when Levi Strauss ran out of tent canvas for the pants he was selling to California gold miners, he imported a tough material from Nimes in France called serge de Nim. Americanized, “de Nim” became “denim.” The word jeans is from the French word for Genoa, where the tough cloth was invented.  Jeans became popular with teenagers after James Dean wore them in the movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Why  are  construction cranes  and the  mechanisms used  for drilling oil called “derricks”?

The derrick, an instrument used for heavy lifting, got its name from a famous London hangman. In the early 1600s, Godfrey Derrick built a sturdy gallows from which he would execute some three thousand souls by hanging. Because items hung and swayed from the cranes used to load ships, longshoremen called them “derricks” after the executioner’s infamous device.

How   did  the   word   curfew  come  to   mean   “stay   in  your homes”?

The  word curfew comes from the  French  couvre-feu, which  means “cover-fire” and was brought to England by William the Conqueror. The  original Curfew Law minimized the  tremendous risk of fire by ordaining that a bell be rung at eight o’clock each evening, signalling everyone to either extinguish or cover their home fires. During politi- cal unrest, the same curfew bell signalled the public to clear the streets and stay in their homes for the night.

What  is the  meaning of the  word factoid?

Norman  Mailer  introduced  the  word  factoid in  his  1973  book Marilyn. He invented it by combining the word fact with -oid, a sci- entific suffix that means “resembling but not identical to.” In other words, it’s  something that  looks like a fact, but isn’t. Factoids are built from rumours and used by irresponsible journalists to create a story when none exists.

Why is the  word mayday used  as an aviation  distress  call?

The distress call “mayday” comes from the French, who were leading pioneers in flight. In 1911 there were 433 licenced aviators in France, compared to just 171 in Britain and even fewer in the United States. Flying was a risky business, and it wasn’t until parachutes and radios were introduced that the French call “M’aidez,” or “help me,” became Anglicized to the modern international  distress call, “Mayday!”

Why is a surplus of anything called  a “backlog”?

While a backlog of work might be a burden, it’s better than no work at all,  and  in  business it  guarantees  survival. Before stoves, or  even matches, the kitchen fireplace was kept burning around the clock. This was done by placing a huge log, or back log, behind the fire that would keep smoldering once the flames had died down during the night. The embers from the back log could then ignite a new fire in the morning.

Why is the  paved runway of an airport called  a “Tarmac”?

The hard pavement  surface we now call asphalt was discovered by chance  when an Englishman named E. Purnell Hooley accidentally spilled  tar onto  some crushed stone.  Hooley named this new black pavement by taking the last name of Scotsman John MacAdam, who

had developed the use of crushed stone for a firm, dry highway, and pre- fixing  it with “tar.” Tarmacadam  was a mouthful, however, and was soon shortened to Tarmac. Hooley patented Tarmac in 1903.

Why  do  we  call  a  reaction of  coercion and  punishment  a“boycott”?

The  word boycott, meaning to  ostracize an  oppressor, originated in Ireland  in  the  late  nineteenth century.  As  punishment  for falling behind in rent, poor tenant farmers in County Mayo were being tossed from their homes by Captain Charles Boycott, who was acting as the agent of an absentee English landlord. The tenants  eventually forced Boycott’s downfall by refusing to take in the harvest, making the repos- sessed land useless to its English owner.

Why do we call a quarter “two bits”?

European settlers brought their  money with them  to America, and coins made of precious metal were accepted everywhere at face value. The  Spanish  peso was divided  into  eight  silver coins,  which  the English called bits, or pieces of eight. Two bits was one-quarter of a Spanish  dollar.  When  money was printed  and  minted  in  the  new world, although a dollar’s coinage was divided by ten, the expression “two bits” continued to mean one-quarter of a dollar.

Why is a select roast  of beef  called  a “sirloin”?

Legend has it that  in 1617, during dinner and after a few goblets of wine, King James I of England suddenly stood and drew his sword and, laying it across the entrée, declared: “Gentlemen, as fond as I am of all of you, yet I have a still greater favourite — the loin of a good beef. Therefore, good beef roast, I knight thee Sir Loin and proclaim that a double loin be known as a baron.”

Why  is listening  in on a private  conversation called  “eaves- dropping”?

In medieval times, houses didn’t have roof gutters to carry off rainwater; instead they had “eaves,” which are the lower wide projecting edges of a sloping roof. These eaves protected the mud walls from damage from the rain dropping from the roof. If, during a sudden shower, someone sought cover by standing under an eave, they could hear everything that the people inside were saying. They were “eavesdropping.”

Why is a large, controlled fire called  a “bonfire”?

On June 24, or St. John’s Day, early Britons lit chains of huge fires to support the diminishing sun. These fires were fed with the clean bones of dead farm animals and were called “bone fires,” which evolved into bonfires. There were bone fires, wood fires, and a mixture of both wood and bones was called a “St. John’s fire,” a name given, naturally, to the fires that burned heretics at the stake.

Why is natural ability called “talent?”

In the ancient world a talent was a unit of weight used to value gold and silver.  Today’s use of the  word comes from the  Book of Matthew, wherein three servants are given equal amounts of money, or talent, by their master. Two invest wisely and profit while the third buries his and doesn’t. That parable is how talent came to refer to the natural gifts we are all born with. The moral of the tale is that we must use our talents wisely or we will fail.

Why is socializing called “hobnobbing”?

When  the  Normans conquered England, they introduced  the  open hearth for cooking and heating. At each corner of the hearth  was a

large container for heating liquids. It was called a “hob.” Near the fire was a  table where the hob was placed for convenient  serving. They called this table a “nob.” When friends gathered by the warmth of the fire, they drank warm beer from the hob, which was served on the nob, and so they called it “hobnobbing.”

Why are notes taken at a business  meeting called “minutes”?

The reason the written records of a meeting are called the minutes is because, in order to keep up, the minute-taker wrote in a shorthand or abbreviation. The word used to describe this condensed writing was minute  (my-noot),  meaning “small,” and because the  spelling is the same, the minutes (my-noots) became minutes. The same circumstances apply to Frederick Chopin’s Minute Waltz: It’s really his small or minute (my-noot) waltz.

Why is extortion money  called “blackmail”?

If there is “blackmail” then there must be “white mail.” Mail was a Scottish word for rent or tax, and during the reign of James I, taxes or mail were paid in silver, which, because of its colour, was called “white mail.” During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, bandits along the Scottish bor- der demanded protection money from the farmers. Because black signified evil, this cruel extortion was called a black tax, or “blackmail.”

Why after a foolish error do we call someone a “laughingstock”?

In early English, a stock was a tree trunk, and by the fourteenth century it figuratively meant the family tree or the consequences of breeding. For example someone might be from “farming stock” or “good stock,” while an animal’s breeding line was traced through their “livestock.” If someone calls you a laughingstock, they are insulting your family tree as being one filled with fools from which you are the current crop.

Why are dining rooms called “restaurants”?

Up until  1765, diners were offered only what innkeepers chose to serve. But then, a Paris chef named Boulanger began offering a choice of nourishing soups to passersby and on a board hanging over the door he painted the word “Restaurant,” meaning “to restore.” Boulanger was so successful that throughout the world dining rooms still display his original sign, “Restaurant,” a promise to restore energy.

Why do we call a large timepiece a “clock”?

Like cloche in  French,  clock literally means bell. When  the  large mechanical clock was invented  in the fourteenth  century it didn’t tell time with a face and hands, but rather by sounding bells on the hour and eventually the quarter- and half-hour. This time device was named a clock because it told time by sounding bells. O’clock, as in twelve o’clock or five o’clock, is an abbreviation for “of the clock,” or “of the bells.”

Why, when we don’t understand someone, do we say they’re talking “gibberish”?

An  eleventh-century   alchemist  translated  into  Latin  the  original eighth-century  writings of an Arabian  alchemist named Jabir. If his work had been discovered he would have been put to death, and so he wrote Jabir’s formulas in a mystical jargon of his own creation. To any- one other than the author, the Jabir translations didn’t make sense. And so anything like it was “Jabirish,” which eventually became gibberish.

Why do we call the  perfect world “Utopia”?

The word Utopia was created by the English philosopher Sir ThomasMore in 1516 and was the title of his book that compared the state of

life in Europe at the time with an imaginary ideal society. Utopia is from Greek meaning nowhere. The thrust of More’s message was that an ideal world, or Utopia, will never exist, and that our only choice is to improve the standards of our existing society.

Why is noisy chaos  referred to as “bedlam”?

The word bedlam is a medieval slang pronunciation  of “Bethlehem,” and its use to describe a mad uproar dates back to a London hospital for the insane.  St. Mary in Bethlehem was incorporated in 1547 as the Royal Foundation  for Lunatics. Because people could hear but only imagine the chaos inside, they began referring to any noisy, out-of-con- trol situation as like that in “Bedlam” — Bethlehem hospital.

Why do we call a bad dream  a “nightmare”?

There are different degrees of frightening dreams, but the most terrifying cause sensations of suffocation and paralysis. Literature best describes the sleeper’s sensation in the stories of Dracula, but there was also a common female demon known as “the night hag.” Mare is an Old English term for demon and comes from the same root as murder; therefore the demon, or mare, who visits at night was called a “nightmare.”

Why   is  a  disappointing  purchase   or  investment  called   a“lemon”?

In 1910, the rotating slot machine appeared as a device for dispensing chewing gum and gave us the  symbols still used on slot machines today.  The  spinning flavours were cherry, orange, and plum. Each wheel had a bar reading “1910 Fruit Gum,” and three of those in a row paid off in a jackpot of gum. But, also like today, if any row came up a lemon there was  no payout at all, which gave us the disappointed expression, “It’s a lemon.”

Why is a ten-dollar bill called  a “sawbuck”?

Among the many slang expressions for denominations  of money are deuce, originally a mild curse of the devil when the number two showed up in dice or cards, and the Yiddish fin for a five. Sawbuck for a ten comes from the frame of a sawbuck, or sawhorse, on which farmers held logs to be cut into firewood. This frame rested on two X-shaped sup- ports that  resembled the  two roman numerals for ten  found on the early American ten-dollar bill.

Why does  criss-cross mean  back and forth?

Schoolchildren  in  the  sixteenth  century  worked lessons on  a thin wooden board that hung from their belts. On it were printed the alpha- bet, the numbers, and the Lord’s Prayer. Because it was preceded by a Maltese cross the alphabet was called the Christ-cross-row. Students reciting from the board always began with the prayer, “Christ’s cross be my speed.” Two centuries later, Christ’s cross had become “criss-cross.”

Why  are  the   secondary consequences  of  a  greater  event called the “aftermath”?

The chain of events set in motion by a major occurrence is often called an aftermath. Math is from an old English word meaning “to mow.” The second, smaller crop of hay that sometimes springs up after a field has been mowed is called the aftermath, or “after mowing,” and although it is next to useless, it is a problem that has to be dealt with for the good of the fields.

Why is a concise promotion called  a “blurb”?

The word blurb, meaning an inspired recommendation, comes from an evening in 1907 during an annual trade dinner of New York publishers

where it was customary to distribute copies of new books with special promotional jackets. For his book, humorist Gelett  Burgess caused a sensation with a cover drawing of a very attractive and buxom young woman  whom he named “Miss Belinda Blurb.” From then  on, any flamboyant endorsement would be known as a blurb.

 

If you are a college student or getting ready to make the jump into your university, you’ve probably experienced the Facebook phenomenon. This social networking site has taken not just your university, not just your nation, but the entire world by storm, and now it dominates a huge part of the college student’s life. From choosing schools to making friends, to networking with future employers, this site is not only unavoidable, it’s essential for today’s undergrad. The good thing is, it’s more useful, entertaining, and fun than ever before, thanks largely in part to these awesome applications:

Choosing a School

Worried about making the right choice? Get feedback from current students, statistics, and other important information, all delivered right to your profile page.

1. Bible College Directory: A searchable database of accredited bible colleges in North America.
2. Check My Campus: An online community that allows college students to share photos and videos of campus life with high school students looking at colleges.
3. College Prowler: Research colleges and share your experience with friends.
4. College Toolkit: Search for schools, test your college IQ, and see others interested in the same colleges.
5. Connect at College: Connect with other Facebook users trying to find a college and those who’ve been to college who can give insight into their school.
6. Gradzilla: Uses data from U.S.News & World Report’s listing of best graduate schools and colleges to offer you information on disciplines, location, and school contact information for applying.
7. SkoolPool: Talk about colleges with your friends and classmates.
8. What College Best Suits Your Personality?: Do you belong at a small or large school? An institute of higher learning or a party school? This quiz will let you know.
9. College Rivalries: Sometimes, when you’re stuck choosing between two schools, a good look at their sports teams is the way to go.
10. College SuperFans: Show your school spirit by adding your favorite college logo to your Facebook page.

Find a Place to Live

Getting a roommate, whether it’s your first, second, or twentieth, is always a daunting task. Make sure your personalities and lifestyles match up to avoid total domestic chaos.

11. Cribs4Students: Search and post for apartments, rooms and sublets near colleges and universities.
12. MyNewPlace: Search for an apartment or home, and see what your friends think about the places you like.
13. Roomster: Search apartments, roommates and sublets in the US, Canada and the UK.

Find Stuff to Buy

You probably have a job, or at least a loan, to help you with expenses. If you manage to budget right and end up with some pocket change, spend it here:

14. iList: A classifieds service allowing you to post a listing and promote it across your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Pownce and Craigslist accounts.
15. Marketplace: Marketplace powered by Oodle.com classifieds.

Pick Classes

Make sure you end up with the best professors and the most effective classes to further your education.

16. CourseTopia: An online tool for helping college students build semester schedules.
17. My Courses: Find classes with your friends, and design your ideal class schedule.
18. What College Course Fits You Most: Take this quiz to help find the college degree that best fits you.

Choose a Major

This is perhaps one of the hardest choices a human being ever has to make: what am I going to do with my life? What am I going to be? Don’t rush into anything without evaluating your decision with these apps.

19. College Major Quiz: This quiz determines the five best college majors that fit your interests.
20. My College Major: This quiz matches your personality with an appropriate college major for you and provides a detailed personality report.
21. What Major Should You Choose?: This quiz will help you choose which major you should study in college.
22. What Should You Study In College?: Another quiz to help determine what you should major in.

Buy Books

Once you have your major and your classes picked, you’re going to need a book or two. This often pocket-emptying experience doesn’t have to be as excruciating as it used to be, because Facebook has your back

23. BookMooch: Swap books with other BookMooch users.
24. Cheap Textbooks: This app compares textbook prices at your school and on dozens of websites to find the lowest prices.
25. DormTrader: A marketplace to help you find the best prices for textbooks on campus and online.
26. School Soup Book Search: Book search and price comparison tool.

Manage Classes

Wait, was that essay assigned in psychology or sociology? Is my test on Tuesday or Thursday? Who can I call for notes? Never fall victim to an overwhelming workload again. Keep your life and your studies in order on Facebook.

27. Courses: Check out who’s in your classes, let your friends see your course schedule on your profile and create study groups.
28. Courses 2.0: Display your class schedule, look at your friends’ schedules, and see who will be in your classes.
29. CampusBuddyCourses: See official grade distributions, rate professors, see who’s in your classes, who lives close to you, and who likes hang out where you do.

Classroom Tools

Learn a new language, have a works cited generated for you, or increase your vocabulary, all with these academic apps on your side.

30. Box files: Provides 1 GB of free online storage, where you can store files in various formats.
31. Calculator: A functional calculator app.
32. CiteMe: Formats bibliographic citations in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA or Turabian style.
33. Dictionary: Use this dictionary like, well, a dictionary.
34. DoResearch4me: Put notes or a draft of a term paper into the box, and this service supposedly does the research for you.
35. Google Docs: Monitor your Google Docs from within Facebook.
36. Google Translate: Get help in language classes with this app that translates Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Czech, Croatian, Hebrew, Swedish, Turkish, Thai and more.
37. Language Exchange: Connect with language exchange partners teaching more than 70 languages, with lessons managed through your Facebook profile.
38. Learn 10: Daily content designed to help you learn one of 20 different languages.
39. LibGuides: Access content from your library within Facebook. View research guides related to your courses, chat with reference librarians, or search the library catalog.
40. Planetarium: Explore the stars and planets through your web browser.
41. Typing Speed Measure your current typing speed, and practice to get faster while competing with friends.
42. Vocabulary: An online audio-show that teaches you two words per show.

Keeping Track

Stop forgetting birthdays, assignments, and events. Everytime you log onto your Facebook profile (which is probably several times per day), you’ll get nifty reminders from these apps.

43. Calendar: Your personal calendar and to-do list for Facebook. Share all or part of your schedule.
44. fbCal: Generates iCalendar (.ics) files of your friends’ birthdays and Facebook events for use with iCal, Sunbird, Google Calendar, etc.
45. Weekly Schedule: Allows you to post a graphical display of your courses or other weekly activities for all your friends to see.

Business

The creators of Facebook are trying to prove exactly how useful the application can be by turning it into a businessman’s best friend. Make it yours, too.

46. Define Me: Displays a cloud of words others use to describe your business. This could be your best friend or worst enemy depending on your business and customer service.
47. GL Print Business Cards: A flashier business card; gives you options to create your digital business card.
48. iEndorse: Testimonials are a great way to build the value of your company. This app allows Facebook denizens to endorse your company or find it via the IEndorse business database.
49. My BusinessBlinkWeb: Create a widget that promotes your business and that others can place on their profiles. This basically turns your friends, clients, or customers into your advertisers.
50. Professional Profile: Create a tab on your profile for all of your professional contacts, information, and activities. Very useful if you want to separate the two sides of yourself.
51. Posted Items: This is one you can find on the upper right side of your profile and it allows you to share anything you find on the Internet by posting it to your profile. Videos, blogs, or even articles about you or your company or anything else you find interesting.
52. Testimonials: Like IEndorse, it’s a way to gather customer testimonials, but it doesn’t have the business database for searching businesses.
53. Smart Phone: Phone to phone calls and even some conference call features that are all handled from your FB profile.
54. Voice Mail: Voice messaging, voice chat, voice enabled wall posts, and more. Add some sound to your profile or just make it possible to leave voice messages.
55. Telephone: Talk, IM, or leave voice messages.

Quizzes

You’ve probably seen quizzes all over your friends’ profiles. Though not always the most productive of applications, these offer a decent study break when you need one.

56. Movies: Test your knowledge with this never-ending movie quiz.
57. Quiz Star: Take quizzes to analyze your personality.
58. Friend Quiz: Flow through over a million different user generated quizzes, to discover your internet identity. See where you belong in your social circle.
59. Crazy Quizzes: Thousands of quizzes to take and share with your friends.
60. Horoscopes: Whats in store for you? Will today be the day? Find out by adding a RockYou horoscope to your page and get updates covering all zodiac signs.
61. Make a Quiz: Making a Quiz has never been easier!
62. What Kind of Athlete are You?: What kind of athlete are you? This quiz was originally created by Carson Steve Hunter.
63. QuizTree: QuizTree has many quizzes for you to enjoy and allow you to invite your friends to join. Come and take the quiz now! It’s FREE and FUN.
64. Birth Week: What does the week you were born say about you?
65. Which Greek God Are You?: 13 gods, all with a specific power. Which one is yours?

Utilities

These miscellaneous apps are not only fun to use, they’re more helpful than you could imagine!

66. Birthday Cards: Facebook already tells you about upcoming birthdays in your network, so what’s next? Send your friends virtual birthday cards to make their day special.
67. Family Tree: Showcase your genealogy with this cool app that includes relatives both on and off Facebook.
68. SocialCalendar: SocialCalendar allows you to quickly import, organize and get reminders for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and more.
69. NetworkedBlogs: Bring your blog to Facebook, and Facebook to your blog.
70. Windows Live Messenger: Connect with your friends instantly while on Facebook.
71. Twitter: Take your Tweets to Facebook and vice versa!
72. Moods: Share your mood with friends using emoticons- the original emoting app with the most users.
73. YouTube 3GP: Download YouTube videos 3GP format and play them into your mobile phone without the need to convert them.
74. CountDowns: Add countdowns to your profile! Choose from lots of different skins to find just the look you want. Share countdowns with friends and others in your network.
75. Yobombo: Foreign languages are not barrier to make new friends.

Games

76. Farmville: See why this viral game has 59,336,983 monthly active users.
77. Mafia Wars: Start a Mafia family with your friends, run a criminal empire and fight to be the most powerful family.
78. MindJolt: Play over 500 games.
79. Pet Society: In the world of Pet Society you and your pet can have a great time!
80. Texas Hold ‘Em Poker: Play poker online.
81. YoVille: Host a party, chat, play games, send messages or gifts, shop, and work–all in YoVille.
82. Restaurant City: Create your own restaurant right on Facebook.
83. Bejeweled: A special version of the classic gem-swapping puzzler created just for Facebook.
84. Sorority Life: Play Sorority Life and discover fashion, friends and fun!
85. Bumper Sticker: Make up your own! Stick your friends with funny stickers!
86. Friends for Sale: Buy and sell your friends as pets!
87. Geo Challenge: Geo Challenge takes you on a tour around the world as you put your geography knowledge to the test.
88. Brain Buddies: Detect your brain’s weight. Are you smarter than your friends?
89. Word Challenge: Word Challenge by Playfish is the addictive new word game everyone is playing.
90. Vampire Wars: Obsessed with vampires? You’ll love this game!
91. Biotronic: A puzzle game that features colorful biotechnology.
92. Pillow Fight: Have a pillow fighting frenzy with your friends!
93. Chug It!: Join a virtual chug off by slamming down drinks for your friends to chug. If they don’t drink up and send a drink back in 2 days, you win!
94. Know It All Trivia: Are you a trivia god? Find out with this awesome app!
95. Waka Waka: Guide your yellow friend through different kinds of mazes using power ups to defeat the ghosts and eat all in his way.

Online Communities:

96. Ask a Teacher: A community of teachers and professors to answer your questions.
97. Course Hero: An open online study community for students, teachers and self-learners to publish and view academic resources online: outlines, solutions, study guides, exams, presentations, notes, formula sheets, essays and other works.
98. CourseFeed: A virtual classroom with free and open courses from colleges and universities.
99. Sclipo: A social learning network to learn, teach and connect with people with common educational interests.
100. Supercool School: A social learning network where users participate in live and interactive online classes.

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