I’ve got three fun goodies for you for this week’s Weekend Diversions, a little bit of everything per usual. The first is a website called Kideo Player! which plays only kid-friendly videos that might be found on YouTube. You can watch old school Sesame Street clips, goodies from Noggin and a lot of other neat things, too. There’s no searching involved, just click over to the site and enjoy. You can use your spacebar to skip to the next video. My son had a great time invading my interent time with me while watching the Kideo Player. Thanks to GoodyBlog for mentioning this yesterday!
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Now if your brain is feeling kind of squishy and infantile after that video diversion, you can head over to The Eyeballing Game and test your ability to see and make shapes, angles and lines. I became quickly infatuated with this game over the course of the week, finally getting a high score of 3.94 (lower is better) before forcing myself to walk away. Just typing this makes me want to scoot over and beat my husbands score of something absurd like 2. Think you can beat my high score? Be sure to comment and let me know if you do!
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And now for a love story…
Typical. It takes wealthy tycoon dh eight years to pull himself away from his terribly important career in Paris, the City of Lights and come home for a divorce. And then he doesn’t even know who she is! Sure, Jen was a feisty schoolgirl when dh rescued her from a nasty family situation. But that’s no excuse for the man not to recognize his own wife.
And now the gorgeous wealthy tycoon thinks he’s going to hightail it with his final decree in hand. Uh-uh. Hopelessly Romantic Jen isn’t letting him off quite so easily. Not when she—now an award-winning writer—is finding him so irresistible.
Irresistible enough to get him to tie the knot again?
I “wrote” this story with the help of Harlequin‘s fun new Make Your Own Romance Story a pretty basic mad-lib deal with pretty hilarious results. Thanks to Karen @ Write From Karen for blogging about this yesterday. Her story was pretty terrific, too – you should go read it before making your own, which you will of course have to tell me all about!
4 responses to “Weekend Diversions: Kid-Safe YouTube, Mad Eyeballing Geography Skillz & Harlequin Mad-Libs”
Hey there! Thanks so much for posting about KideoPlayer.
– Tom (Creator of KideoPlayer along with POKE New York)
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@ Nancy : Oh gosh, now I feel super challenged to try again! I’m getting my butt whooped!
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I got 2.75 on my second shot! Go me. 😉
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That kideo player is going to be a must do for us. Wonder how I missed that one.
I’ll get on your other two diversions shortly. They look great. 🙂
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