This is a good way to exercise your brain and divert your attention for five minutes from working or studying or watching whatever naughty stuff it is that you watch on the web. Every day at www.thefreedictionary.com you can play a brand new game of Match Up (scroll down a bit, right side). Match five words with their definitions. That’s it. Good luck!

One of my new favorite blogs, www.foodimentary.com, serves up a daily dose of food knowledge, history and insight. What I love most about it is the lack of recipes. Recipes send me spiraling down a slippery guilt-trip slope. Recipes remind me that I eat out too much. Recipes are to my adult self what calculus was to my collegiate self. It’s as if Foodimentary understands my angst and salves it by offering up a heaping helping of culinary inspiration. I’ll go back for seconds.

Oh, and Happy National Bagel and Lox Day!

And you can be, too. As this beautiful infographic from Column Five illustrates, bacon and weight loss can go hand in hand…it’s that pasta and beer that’s doing us all wrong.

(via fastcodesign.com)

He:   So we have three movies, two for you and one for me.

She:   But aren’t they all movies for us?

He:   No. If it’s a movie where I can’t eat and watch at the same time because it has subtitles, that’s a ‘you’ movie. If it’s a movie where you’re gonna fall asleep half way through, that’s a ‘me’ movie. If it’s a movie that one of us tried to put in the queue and couldn’t, because the other had already put it there, that’s a ‘we’ movie.

She:   Oh. Well, let’s watch one of mine. If you’re not hungry.

I love it when I stumble upon something on the Internets that will really, truly help me in a pinch. Check out Wantist…an online gift-giving site that will help point you in the right direction when you need to get a birthday gift for the friend who’s all that and a bag of chips and happens to have everything.

Over the years I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the workplace. How to deal with bad morale. How to deal with an aggro coworker. How to navigate the company toilet. Well, here’s a beautifully crafted tale of a frustrated company man who took matters into his own paws.

Happy Humpday!

(via Nearly Normal)

And other neat hugging tips I never thought about.

(photo via vir4l.com)

(photo via offbeatink.com)

An Iranian man who decided to get a tattoo where the sun don’t shine seems to have found himself with a permanent side effect. I’m sure, when the novelty wears off, he’ll wish he had gone the temporary route.

This video make a good case for doing so.

(via sharesomecandy.com)

From the obviously talented Teresa Wozniak comes this beautiful New Year’s Resolutions chart. Now, if my intended tidbits of self-improvement were laid out in such a beautiful way, perhaps I’d still be paying attention to them come July. (Although, I did already accomplished one of Teresa’s resolutions a couple months ago.)

Good luck, Teresa! And when you figure out how to make things more fun, please share!