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2008 Giant Squid Awards Ceremony

And now the moment you've been waiting for! The Giant Squid Organizers are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2008 Giant Squid Awards.

Every single lens that was nominated is outstanding so I'm sure that this was a really tough choice for every...

A CafePress Resource

CafePress.com is perfect for artists, authors, musicians or even bloggers. With a free basic shop you can upload your artwork or logo and sell print-on-demand t-shirts, mugs, stickers and so much more with the only cost being your time. Print-on-dema...

A Man Called "Screamer"

Standing thirty feet away or thirty inches, he spoke in the same loud voice. That's why we called him Screamer. "We" were hikers on the Appalachian Trail.

Each year, millions of people use those 2,174 miles of footpath extending from Georgia to Main...

A Million Ways to Go Green

Everyone that's going green has their own style, method and preferences, and most of them are willing to share it! Squidoo has a great number of green resources in the form of informational lenses. So many in fact, that they deserve a place they can...

Add Your Profile - Make New Friends

Social Bookmarking; Web 2.0; Squidoo - All great new ways to promote your content. Squidoo Lensmasters love to promote their lenses with these sites. Use this site to Add Your Profile address and find other lensmasters profiles on the respective book...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Ancient Celebration Of The Winter Solstice: The Best Yuletide Ever

"A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings food to the larder and gold to the pocket."

Yule, also referred to as Yuletide, winter solstice, and Christmas, is a solar festival of pagan origin that marks the time when the days grow longer...

Ancient Egypt & Egyptology on Squidoo Headquarters

Ancient Egypt & Egyptology on Squidoo

It's hard to find lenses on Ancient Egypt as Squidoo doesn't categorise culture very well. So here is a group to show off your lenses on Ancient Egypt or Egypology.

Antinoos

Antinoos (or Antinous or Antinoo) was the love of Hadrian, Roman Emperor (117-138 BCE)  He had Antinoos' likeness sculpted and delivered all over the Empire where it was to inspire the masses. Antinoos died in a tragic drowning in the Nile very...

Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?

Okay, I am sure you are all thinking, "What's the catch?" Don't worry, there isn't one. I promise. I am a stay at home mom and I will show you how Squidoo is helping me earn a monthly income while still being home to take care of my children.

What i...

Babbage Difference Engine

Videos of working difference engines, explanations of how they worked and more

This lens by Kate Phizackerley is about the Babbage Difference Engine - the very first computer. The picture shows a Difference Engine in operation during 2008 at the Com...

Barack Obama's Letter to a 9-Year-Old

Tucked among Lego models, sports memorabilia, and other treasures my 10-year-old guards carefully in his bed's built-in drawers is a letter from Barack Obama he got in July 2008, when he was 9. Long story short, it was in response to some peace-t...

Build It For Kitty

What does your fab furball want? A gift from you of course. A handbuilt gift from your hands to their paws is a purrfect way to show your love and maybe get them to stop scratching the furniture. Here are some resources from around the web to help yo...

Chocolate Covered Strawberries - Make Your Own

Chocolate. Yum. Strawberries. Yum. Put them together, and you get a double yummy treat! Chocolate strawberries are great fun to make with your kids (which is how we made this batch). They're also a wonderful way to spend time with your special someon...

Common Newbie Squidoo Mistakes

Making a Squidoo lens is easy. Making a good Squidoo lens, well, that's another story. A lot of Squidoo newbies ask veterans to critique their lenses, and most of these lenses are not nearly as good as they could be. (There are exceptions!)

Hopefull...

Communicating with Cats

Meow...mew...mrrah!
Welcome to the page dedicated to communicating with funky felines!

Cats make all kinds of sounds.Does the MEOW have meaning? Having shared life with cats of all colors and breeds, I have a strong opinion.
But read on, and then de...

Completely Free samples. No surveys. No offers to complete.

Find quality completely free sample offers from trustworthy sources. No offers to complete. Never anything to buy.

And cross my heart, no one will ask you to fill out any ridiculously long surveys.

Create a Backyard Haven Headquarters

Any lens featuring gardening, birds, landscaping and related are more than welcome to join this group. If it has to deal with the backyard, add your lens. Outdoor cooking lens welcome as well. It all ties into making your backyard a relaxing area.

CSS finder

While I was learning CSS, I found that the best examples were scattered across the web.

Over the years, I've collected a massive bookmark library, which I've consolidated into this lens.

If you know of any resources you think should be added, please...

Custom T Design - and More....

The perfect T Shirt design is the one you create for yourself and that is exactly what you can do with Custom T Design. There's a great range of T Shirts, Sweatshirts, Sportswear - and more - for everyone. If you are looking for high quality clothing...

Digital Art, the wave of the future

Although digital art has been around for a long time (they were using the computer in the 60's to make designs), it has really taken off with the turn of the century.  That is why I call digital art the wave of the future.  Let's...

Dionysus, the Dual God : Tales of the Ancient Greeks

Loud-roaring Dionysus, the son of Semele and of Zeus, is said to have invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes. A handy god to have around indeed. He is not just the god of wine, but of the madness which can follow a few days of binge drink...

Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

Earth Hour 2008 - Earth Day

On March 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm millions of people, businesses and governments around the world switched off the lights for one hour during Earth Hour.

Did you join them and turn off the lights?

Earth Hour 2008 was a global event created to symbolize...

Educating Millennials in the Information Age

Millennials are the generation born from 1982-2000. Some people have referred to them as the iGeneration and the Net Generation due to their hardwiring for technology. They have also been called Generation Y because they are born after Gen-X (1961-19...

Fantasy Writer's A Nonny Mouse Headquarters

Fantasy Writer's A Nonny Mouse

A place for writers of fantasy. Unicorns, fearies, dragons, wizards, daring heros, and epic quests. Our group is for writers and anyone who dreams of becoming a writer. Our specialty is fantasy fiction. The lenses you'...

Free Advertising

This site is a reposting of some of the great free advertising listed in the cafepress forums - if you have something great to add to this let me know I will add it to this lens!!!!!

PS - if you love this lens rank it using the stars at the top and...

FREE Digital Photo Editing ★★★

This site shows photo editing tools that are fun and easy to use. Free web based photo editors, fun photo editors, photo tools like Photofunia, Picnik, FotofFlexer and more that will add bling to your photos - they are all here.  A few mention...

Funny Pennsylvania Town Names

Pennsylvania holds the record for funny town names. There's Bird-in-Hand, Climax, Hazard, Jugtown, Intercourse, Noodle Doosie, Paradise, Puseyville, Punxsutawney, Rough & Ready, and that's just for starters!

Did you ever wonder what people were thin...

FUNNY PLACE NAMES

What possessed anyone to come up with these daffy, delectable, or downright distinctive town names like Black Tickle (Newfoundland & Labrador), Humptulips (Washington), and Frog Suck (Wyoming)?

And quite frankly, who would want to admit that they ha...

Giddy Gabby's Random Facts and Daily Tips

Amuse-Bouche - Little bites of food to amuse the mouth, invigorate the palate, and whet the appetite.

From Art Culinaire, Fall 2003

Welcome to Giddy Gabby's Random Facts and Daily Tips. This lens is companion to Giddy's blog of the same name. Bo...

Good Squidizenship

The official mantra for this lens, taken from Squidoo's philosophy, is The Power of Personal Recommendation.

Welcome to my third lens about lens-building! Squidoo is a community site and interacting with the community is part of how you and your lense...

Google Adsense: Case Studies and Tools

This Site Recommends the Free Website Trade Publication - Website

Magazine In my lens I am going to share some of my own examples of Adsense monetized websites as well as Adsense tools that I currently use (or will use shortly) after a bit of plannin...

Groundhog Day Holiday

H
ere you will find the history of Groundhog Day and the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, facts about Groundhogs, pictures of Groundhogs, and even a gourmet recipe for Groundhog. You will also find Groundhog Day cards, ties, groundhog t-shirts, cuddly gr...

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens

Have you wished you could add one of those cool carousel widgets on your lens? Or a contextual product cloud? How about a big preview of your Amazon aStore?

Well, now you can. With a little (actually BIG!) help of Clearspring, the widget network, an...

How to Host an Ancient Roman Murder

Now here's a way to entertain your friends and, while giving them an event they will talk about for ages, have an absolutely wonderful time yourself.

How To Host A Murder is a fun-filled murder mystery game designed to keep party-goers guessing...

How To Make Sourdough Starter

Also known as levain or mother sponge, this humble mixture of flour and water becomes a fermented concoction that makes fabulous bread, rolls, muffins, pizza crusts, cakes and pancakes.

Known for their long life, when properly maintained, there have...

How to Monetize Your Website or Blog

The Internet today provides so many opportunities for ordinary people like you and me to make money from websites and blogs. These opportunities range from contextual advertising to affiliate marketing.

How to Prevent Getting H1N1 Flu or Swine Flu

On June 10, 2009 the World Health Organization finally raised the level of concern about the H1N1 Flu to a level 6. H1N1 Flu has become the first 21st century flu pandemic. WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan was quoted as saying "With today's ann...

How To Squidoo And Change The World

Creating a Squidoo lens can help make a difference in the world or your little corner of it. Would you like to raise awareness and/or money for a good cause? Find a missing child? Tell someone you love them? Get an animal adopted? Show people how to...

How to Write an Article that Powerfully Drives Traffic To Your Website

To People Who Want To Write - But Can't Get Started

Here is a process that is useful in creating articles that are designed to be of quality, high value and will have a higher rate of follow through by the reader.  This process will easily genera...

HTML Squidoo Tricks How To Lens with sample codes step-by-step

HTML Squidoo Tricks How To Lens with sample codes & step-by-step instructions to change fonts, background colors, table of contents, modules & images.

Iceland - The Dream Country

Iceland is the dream country for many photographers, for landscape photographers it is a heaven on Earth. I'm so lucky to be an photographer and living on this beautiful island which we call Iceland, and no we don't live in snow houses. :)

However,...

Imagination: Creativity, Success, Personal Development, Myth, Archetypes, and The Unconscious

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while  imagination embraces the entire world, and all there will ever be to know and understand." -- Albert Einstein

Go. T...

IN-N-OUT Burger

In-N-Out is a growing sensation. They are probably the best burger chain ever. This page is dedicated to the great tasting food that they make and to all the fans of In-N-Out.

I hope that you like this page...

Internet Fame for Your Cat

We all think of our cats as our children and so we are thrilled when they get recognition.

First we will look at photo hosting sites, then funny and cute photo places. Even a pet dating service! After that we will look at how popular blogs mixed wit...

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope is schedule to replace the aging Hubble in 2013. A joint effort by NASA, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), the JWST will look further back in time to show us the formation of galaxies,...

Kirk Gibson ~ Star Of The Greatest Moment In Baseball History

Kirk Gibson was the central character in the fairy tale written to be known as the greatest moment in baseball history.

Los Angeles California, Thursday the fifteenth of October, 1988. Dodger Stadium is hosting game one of the World Series. The mons...

Laguna Beach, California, the REAL L.B.

Laguna Beach California is many different things to different people.  It has been home to families for generations and it is the latest hot spot for the newest MTV generation.  Artists have been drawn here for decades because of...

Leonard Nimoy: Highly Illogical

Artist: Leonard Nimoy
Written by: Leonard Nimoy

Highly Illogical

From far beyond the galaxies I've journeyed to this place
To study the behavior patterns of the human race
And I find them highly illogical

Girl meets boy they fall in love
She says...

Lisadh Lensography

Squidoo is addicting! I started out with a few lenses and no real expectations almost two years ago. Now here I am, a Giant 100 Squid with more than 200 lenses, a nice supplemental income, and a few awards I never expected, including being nominated...

LITTLE LOO LIBRARY

Welcome to the "Little Loo Library" (better known in North America as the "Big Bathroom Bookshelf").

Considering the fact that one will spend a good deal of time during one's life ensconced in an ablution hut, bathro...

Living in Luxury in Ancient Rome

How satisfying it must have been to live in Ancient Rome in the first few centuries of our era. But only if you were rich! And a rich Roman was fabulously wealthy, as is to be expected in an imperialist society based on slavery.

Sumptuous homes, imp...

Mac Users

 

MAC USERS

that quirky 10% and
their unique user platform

Making Money On Squidoo

I plan to talk here about the technicalities and legalities of making money by building Squidoo lenses. I will describe the rules and policies regarding that issue that are detailed in the Squidoo Terms Of Services (TOS), FAQ (Questions And Answers)...

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

Mysterious Mastic Tree

Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 3-4 m tall, mainly cultivated on the Greek island of Chios, but it is also native throughout the Mediterranean region. The word mastic derives either from a Phoenician w...

Neti Pot Nasal Irrigation | Allergy Relief | Natural Sinusitis Treatment

The Neti Pot is a type of nasal irrigation which naturally relieves allergies, sinusitis, breathing problems, nasal congestion, post nasal drip; it can even help prevent sinus infections.

The Neti Pot was recently presented on the Oprah show by Dr. O...

Over the hill? 40th Birthday Gift Ideas

Is someone you know turning 40? Have they gone over the hill or are they still climbing? Whether you're helping them celebrate or joining in the commiseration, here are some ideas that will help you give them a gift they'll remember.

People's Choice Lenses & Lensmasters Headquarters

Headquarters Of The Winning Lensmasters & Lenses!

Poseidon, Lord of the Sea : Tales of the Ancient Greeks

Poseidon was the second most powerful god of the Olympians and yet another example of the dysfunctional male divinities who plagued Greece with their childish and boorish behaviour.



Despite his lamentable ways (or perhaps because of them), Poseidon...

Public Speaking Training by Broadway Actors - Digest

Public Speaking Training by Broadway Actors is a New York City based company of leading actors who give private training, workshops and master classes in public speaking. Among our ranks are actors who have won or been nominated for Emmy, Obie and Dr...

Rumi sayings and quotes

Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, and theologian and mystic.

Rumi's works are written in...

Scottish Words and Phrases

Scottish words and phrases can be a source of bewilderment to those who don't live there. Even native Scots can fail to understand some of them, due to regional variations of words and dialects. Upcoming generations, learning from tv imports and text...

Shakespeare Animated Tales Video Showcase

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales is a BBC television program of 12 episodes, each episode showing an animated half-hour adaptation of one of Shakespeare's plays.

These shows are a great way for children to experience Shakespeare's stories and become...

Shih Huang Ti, First Emperor of China | Qin Shi Huang

Shih Huang Ti (or Qin Shi Huang Ti) was heir to the throne of Chin, a powerful feudal state in northwest China. On his accession he set about uniting China, annexing the other feudal states with ruthless efficiency, aided by espionage, brib...

So, You Want to Become a Freelance Writer?

If you're thinking about writing for a living, you've got a lot to consider including your ability to write, ability to sell, and ability to run a business. Yes, freelance writing is a business, so get used to that fact right from the beginning! You...

Squid Theory

Some further thoughts, a bit of "squid theory" you might say.

As a follow-up to the Free Squidoo Guide, here are some things I've learned about lens building and Squidoo that weren't really written down all in one place... until now! (insert your own...

Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo

Historical Adsense Payouts, Buying and Selling lenses, Affiliate payouts and more make up the mountain of ways you can make a few bucks using squidoo. Here is the history of these things and how they evolve through the life of Squidoo.

Squidoo Graphics For Your Lenses!

Here's some Squidoo Squid graphics to jazz up your lenses! I've dressed up Squidoo's squid logo in different ways to use as clipart. Feel free to use these or change them! All I ask is credit and a link.

Other Squidoo lensmasters are doing this too:...

Squidoo Payday Questions & Answers

It never fails, every month on payday the same questions are being asked in the SquidU forum. Most of them by new lensmasters, but surprisingly, there's also quite a bit of confusion among some who have been around for a while.

Figuring out how the...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lensmasters

My blog post The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lensmasters stirred some interest among the Squidoo community, even prompting a couple of responses from Squidoo HQ.

I wrote, or rather, sought the feedback of a select group of prominent Lensmasters, an...

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic.

Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.

Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to.

So, what now? Read on for the (...

The Best Squidoo Lens NOT To Do

Oh, yippee yay! This is all about me and my Website and what I want you to buy. I am not going to add any of my personality or give you any information on the lens topic, because that would waste my time! In fact, I don't have a topic! After all, all...

The Big Island of Hawaii

Aloha! E Komo Mai!

Hele mai! Hele mai!

The Big Island of Hawaii, also named Hawaii, is the most diverse of all the Hawaiian Islands. You can travel around the Big Island of Hawaii in one day and go from white sand beaches to snow capped volcanoes;...

The Space Giants

Before anime went mainstream, before Power Rangers and Transformers, even before Robotech and Speed Racer, there was... THE SPACE GIANTS!

Few adults would admit to liking this awful, awful television show when they were children. Yet there is somet...

The Top MacOS X Software. Period.

A no-holds-barred software smackdown!

There's plenty of sites which give you lists of software, recent updates, and reviews. But here, only the very best programs make it to the top.

 You decide which program is worthy!

Pick your favorite Mac soft...

This group was awarded the Great Group Award

This lens was started because I just got tired of all the groups out there that just aren't great. So this is dedicated to groups that ARE great.



These groups are ALL great - but within the collection I would advise anybody to join especially t...

Tutorial: Fix the Most Common Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Mistakes

QUICK CURES FOR "SPELLING AMNESIA."

Nothing shoots your image in the foot faster than typos and spelling mistakes in your public documents. If you have to stop and think about which spelling to use for THEIR, THERE or THEY'RE; ITS vs IT'S;...

What I Look For In A Lens! by a Squid Angel

First off, it is an honor to be one of the first Squid Angels on Squidoo and I take this responsibility very seriously. There are a great many lens makers here on Squidoo that are keen on improving their lenses; to increase traffic, lens rank and pos...

What To Do With All Those Seashells?

If you're like me, you find it very difficult to return home from a beach vacation without at least a few shells.  And, generally I lug home way more than "a few".  And, this is all great and wonderful, I love seashells and love h...

What You Need to Know Before You Hire a Notary Public in California

You've undoubtedly seen notary public signs in your community, and have probably even required the services of a notary at some point. But how much do you really know about notaries? Quite simply, a notary public is an officer appointed by state...

Working with Squidoo

This lens describes three ways to work with Squidoo. As you can see from this graph, our traffic is trending up... and we're finding partners to share that traffic with.

Write Good With Help From William Safire's Fumblerules

Years ago, way before I was cornated as a Giant Squid, folks was always trying to illicit my good writing secrets. Heck, what was I suppose to do? Hoard them like a greedy miser in my chester drawers? Anyways, I could care less about there getting be...