thing 19: web tools

so i went to the web 2.0 awards and i was totally overwhelmed by the number of web tools listed. so i just looked through the winners and tried to find something of interest. first i went to something called cocktail builder where you can type in what liquor you have at home and it magically tells you what kind of cocktails you can make out of it. it will also gives suggestions of what you could make with just a few more ingredients. for instance, i have maker's mark at home. you cannot make a cocktail with this without something else. so it listed some helpful suggestions of what i could go out and buy so that i could make a proper cocktail. this might be useful if i actually was the type of person that had ingredients in their home. but alas my cupboard is bare. thank you take-out restuarants!
so then i decided i'd like to try one of the games. wouldn't you know it, most of them are blocked by queens library. no fair. but then i found one called guess the google. this was fun, especially if you are a librarian who loves google and thinks she knows a thing or two about keywords. oh my god! that's me! so anyway, it's a game and in each round you look at a mosaic of 20 google images that all have ONE keyword in common and you have 20 seconds to guess said keyword. there are ten rounds per game. i played THREE times and i still haven't gotten on the list of top scores.
so i like web tools. i purposefully didn't pick ones that were useful because it is the day before thanksgiving and i'm not feeling up to thinking too hard, and i'm kind of depressed, and i really don't feel like hanging out with my family, and i wish i was ice skating and why do all the cool things happen when i'm out of town .... oh, sorry ... got caught up in a tangent there ...
what i was surprised at was how many things are considered "tools" that i use so very very often and totally take for granted. such as: feedburner, craigslist, 43 things, google maps (i LOVE maps), flickr, facebook (although as i already have stated, i prefer myspace), and youtube. who knew i was using so many tools!