Quotes for Christmas

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* "I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."
~Charles Dickens.

* "I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

* Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~Christina Rossetti

* And she will bear a Son, and you shall
call His name Jesus, for it is He who
will save His people from their sins
Matthew 1:21

* "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to
the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the
old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport
the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
~Charles Dickens

* "Blessed is the season which engages the
whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

* Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Washington Irving

* From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews

* Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase

* Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

* A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue

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Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me :)

Zimbio Blogs and Social Networks

Zimbio.com is one of the most unique and interesting sites exploding across the Internet today. The slogan says "An Interactive Magazine With Over 10 Million Readers a Month" and I second that and add "The most inventive, automatic, categorizer of articles and blog posts I have ever seen" :)

In essence, Zimbio collects all the posts (text, video, photo, etc.) from every members blog submitted to Zimbio by the member (and any additional articles, posts, photos, etc. these members submit directly to Zimbio), slot them out into Video Games and Gaming, Blogs and Social Networks, Google, Historical Fiction, PC Games, Philosophy Articles, Free Advertising, Generic MLM Info, Internet Marketing, Current Events in America, Quotes, Supreme Court Rulings, Historical Jesus, Twitter, Free Stuff and Freebies, Social Bookmarkmarking, the list here is extensive. Each individual "grouping" of the posts then falls into this "category" or Wiki :) That was also created by one of the members of Zimbio :)

Brilliant, unique, and very clever of the creators of this wonderful Zimbio network. Zimbio has a company wikizine, check out the feed:

Zimbio - Recent Contributions - Zimbio

* John edited "The Role of the Editors" Note
* John added "The Role of the Editors" Link
* John added "The Role of the Editors" Note


With Zimbio, getting out the news, information, and relavent stories of the day is top priority. Get your Internet 411 right here at Zimbio.com.

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me

Happy Thanksgiving To Google :)

Google always has such lovely graphics for the special days, and even for the normal ones :)

Most appreciated, It really brightens up days and speads the sunshine around the net! Thanks Google and Happy Thanksgiving :)

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us :)

Blogs and Social Networks Sports News Blog

I wanted to get this link up before the show for an awesome post from Jason Peck for a listing of some great Sports Social Networks :)

"Building on my last list of sports social networks, 25+ Sports Social Networking Websites, here’s an updated list of sports-related social networks that reflects your feedback as well as some other sites I’ve discovered:

FYI, in some cases it is unclear how many members some of these communities actually have, but I at least wanted to provide this list because I think there is a growing opportunity for certain niche social networks (especially in sports, which is such a huge passion and part of daily life). While some of these sites may die, others will thrive and continue to be “passion hubs” for avid fans and participants of specific sports, teams and leagues." Read more :)

Listen Into Our Show on News Social Networks

"Blogs and Social Networks News Social Networks. Where to get the headline, sports, political, local, gamer, celebrity, and interesting news of the day right inside a social network setting. Social Networks geared toward the "need to know generation", which to go to for what kinds of news. Avatars United, the social network for gamers; Mashable, the techy blog social network for all thats new on the web; Newsvine, the headline news social network; Wetpaint and Ning News Social Networks; and more."

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter

Blogs and Social Networks Blog Nut Community

The Blog Nuts, Kathy Paquette and Linda Hoy, have gone above and beyond the usefulness stage with the Free to use Blog Nut Toolbar and created an environment for business owners, friend seekers, entrepreneurs, social network enthusiasts, and blog nuts alike! This explosive community of bloggers and social networkers is enjoying the perks, benefits, friendly members, and nutty fun with the Blog Nuts :)



Blog Nut Toolbar Blogs and Social Networks Group
Groups are one of the coolies offered over at the Blog Nut Toolbar Community so check out our Blogs and Social Networks group :) Free Advertising, Live Web Cams, Nut Chat, Happy Birthdays, Featured Nuts, Videos, Forums, Blog Areas, Photo uploads, Badge Sharing with other Ning Blog Social Networks, Featured Partner Nings, Who’s Online, Nut Chat, and much, much more :)

Come on over and join in on the explosion!

Stephanie and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and Teen Girls Radio Google Us )

Blogs and Social Networks Your Thanksgiving Pie

Get Squirrelly with the Blog Nuts!

Your Thanksgiving Pie

Click here: Pumpkin Pie - animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson

My Dad (Stevies Grandpa :) sent this link to us and it is such a joy, as is my Dad :)

Enjoy!

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us

Blogs and Social Networks Last FM

Looking into some of the coolest of music blogs and social networks sites we came across Last FM. With music, radio, events, and charts for top weekly artists, Last FM has a whole site feel for everything music :) From one of the favorites at Last FM, Jason Mraz, to Marilyn Manson, Beethoven, The Beatles, Hoobastank, and No Doubt with everything in between.

Just set up and sign up for free. Type in a few of your favorite artists (this is more important than it originally seems) because last FM will then base all your recommendations (and they are awesome!) from your list to create you a personal playlist :)

Feel free to add to and subtract from as you go along. Click settings and a photo or other profile information, then add to your music and artist selections.

Tag adding or keyword tagging is a big draw here at Last FM. Google and other search engines eat these keywords up so be sure to tag away.

Browse events by the actual event posters (this is cool :) Give events shouts and see the recommended for you events. This is one of the coolest things about Last FM, they give brilliant recommendations on everything for you based on your list of artists, so be sure to include all your favorites from the start :)

Last FM does a lot of the thinking for you really in addition to being a breeze to set up and navigate, a totally stress free way to enjoy your music.

Connect your ipod or media player to Last FM or get Last FM on your iphone. For Windows, a quick download will get you connected no worries.

Theres forums, friends, groups, contests and promotions, and (drum roll please :), wiki pages too!

Free to register, add music, and usee all the main features at Last FM and they offer promotional features that are purely optional at a minimal cost. Widgets that you can customize with your recently listed tracks, overall top tracks, top artists, change colors, and automatically add this Last FM widget to your Live Journal or Netlog pages or embed the code is also available for other sites like Blogger.

Theres a taste-o-meter widget to compare your tastes with your friends, a Bebo widget, Facebook, radio player, and quilt widget to show your top albums! Nice. Last FM has the widgets going on for sure with recommendations and much more.

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Teen Girls Radio and Wavecritter Google Us :)

Blogs and Social Networks Music Sites

Project Playlist and Humble Voice are two outstanding sites. Project Playlist has been around for some time and in my opinion is the leader in widget based, carry your music to your blog or web site, music creator list based sites :)

Having a newer version that you can choose at Project Playlist is yet another update of the Internet Blogs and Social Networks World that I find notable. Project Playlist is now easier to navigate and now you can have your blog area to blog away about music or whatever. With 100 songs per playlist and as many separate lists as you want to take to any site via the Project Playlist HTML widgets, this sites portability and choice are hard to beat. Gain buddies, search for music by artist or title, use the pop out features of any playlist when you want to listen in, but not remain glued to the site.

Humble Voice on the other hand is still presently in Beta but watch this site grow by leaps and bounds! This is not only a music based site but an "Artist" site. A well thought out site for the "Arts" not only musicians and listeners but for photographers, videographers, writers, and "Creators" in general :) When creating your initial profile here at Humble Voice, you can choose between a photographer, writer, musician, videographer, artist, or other. Editing your profile is an optional detailed adventure (which I highly prize, this will give viewers a larger view of you and your work) or you can skip things and just tell a bit to keep it brief. Humble Voice has options to send messages, add friends, instant message right from the site (this will save you from having many other messaging systems open and focus more on the site you are on :), forward your profile to friends, bookmark, or block other users for privacy. Choosing photographer, muscian, artist, or writer allows you to add on multiple pages for a bit of a "web site" creation to showcase your imaginations.

Visit HumbleVoice.com/TeenGirlsRadio to view my site and make friends :)

See You There!

Stevie Haile aka Teen Girls Radio and Blogheiress :)

Blogs and Social Networks IMVU

IMVU.com (free with a download) Now offering an IMVU prepaid credit card from Target and 7-11 stores.



Miss Greenbacks is the official banker here at IMVU and she also lets you know about the coolest of bundle packs available for your credit points and promo credits. The privacy settings are awesome at IMVU check them out and set yours up to suit you for open forum or total invisibility. Major kudos go out to the Fable Fans Group at IMVU. Ken Halo is an outstanding group leader so if you are interested in the game Fable, check out the members of this group at IMVU :)

IMVU has one of the sweetest YouTube videos for their bundle packs and promotions. Get new outfits, rooms, shades, jewelery, and more for your IMVU avatar.



IMVU inc will help you with security.



Charm gets you started making friends.



Lucky can show you how to make your avatar brilliant :)

You get started for free with a name Guest_Wavecritter (this is mine :) but yours will have the Guest_ part at first. If you purchase your avatar name, you can dispense of the Guest_.

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me :)

Social Toolbars and Virtual Worlds

In my questing for social toolbars and virtual worlds, I came across a virtual worlds site that had a host of online virtual worlds. VirtualWorldsReview.com This site contains a massive listing of cool virtual worlds sites like beta/Playdo.com.

What a nifty site! Place images or video over each other (layering) when creating your profile page here, reduce the opacity to make them transparent (need Adobe Macro Media Shockwave Player for this one) No worries :)

Visit beta.playdo.com/wavecritter for the page that I set up :)

SpineWorld.com with no download but with an option to upgrade to become a citizen of Spine World is a site geared toward younger virtual world explorers. Create your avatar, go on quests and make new friends. This site has an awesome parents area with security features, code of conduct, and more.

With every site that you join, be sure to state your correct ages, especially those under age 13, so the security measures can be used to watch your backs and protect you.

At Spine World, you get "Flown In", as you fly in you get a short tutorial to get you acquainted with game play. This is a fun site for all ages but really geared toward pre teens and teens.

No post on Virtual Worlds could be complete without OgreIsland.com. The very coolest social networks are the gaming social networks and Ogre Island has an interesting and pleasant group of regular players that are helpful and friendly. Respect them and they will respect you :)

As with any gaming social network, No Spamming, No Begging, and No Foul or Nasty Language. Be nice and you will be treated nice in return and always, no matter which forum, social network, virtual world, or community you join, Read The Guides and Rules before you begin to ask questions :)

Social Toolbars are downloadable toolbars for your browser window that also incorporate a "Social" factor. The most impressive in this arena is BlogNutToolbar.com. The social networking virtual world toolbar system that is also a website social networking community that offers free advertising, flash gaming, Google group, information, fast searches, one clicks to popular blogs and social networks, toolbar capabilities such as a radio and email notifier and much more :)

Onto a short list of some other choice sites:

DressUpChallenge.com (free to join)

Sims Online (Purchased)

CyberTown.com (30 day free trial and then monthly fee)

Disneys Toontown (free trial and then monthly fee)

Virtual Magic Kingdom (free)

Pirates of the Caribbean Online (free to download free to play)

IMVU.com (free to download and play) (more on IMVU in my next post)

Zwinky.com (comes as a download toolbar free) A virtual "Doll" that you can take to the "Mall" with head bubble chat. A world of fun all in one toolbar.

Yohoho Puzzle Pirates (An Online Pirate World of Fun! All Free!)

SecondLife.com (free access for one basic account) Read all the start up information under "What is Second Life?". Create your avatar and visit Second Life Lands requires a download with all info on site. This is a huge place with loads of information on how to become a resident here.

Well, here a but a few of the coolest in social toolbars and virtual worlds around the net. Enjoy!

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me

Space Shuttle Night Launch Endeavour Video

Here is the Space Shuttle Night Launch Endeavour Video I just uploaded to YouTube. Taken from my backyard :)

Zwani HTML Codes Comments Graphics and Layouts

For some unique, glittery, WOW, different graphics, comments, layouts, and HTML codes!

Even instruction like:

"Christmas Comments and Graphics Codes for Myspace, Friendster, Hi5
To use the free Christmas graphic comments: Copy the HTML code from below the graphic image and paste the code on your blog, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, MyEeos, Xanga, Piczo, Orkut, Multiply, TagWorld or other social networking profile page. You can also post the Christmas graphics code as a MySpace comment." READ MORE

Chistmas Graphic Comments

Chinese, Dutch, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Punjabi, and Tagalong comments :)

Online games for your profile, MySpace generators, profile icons, religious comments, holidays, themed, events, and more.

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter

Blogs and Social Networks More Web Widgets Info

For the Mac users out there finding web widgets is as easy as taking a visit to Apple.com/downloads/dashboard for your greatest selections.

Doing a Google search for Web Widgets and then one for Widgets will return to you a host of selections.

A few more sites:

Get Wordpress Web Widgets by installing the Automattic plugins and using a widget ready theme. This can bring you a popular customization. Visit Automattic.com/code/widgets

Opera Web Widgets at Widgets.Opera.com for desktop, mobile, and TV with new widgets added daily. You can browse, download, and share widgets on Operas Official Widget Site for small, fun, and useful web programs (which is really what a web widget is).

YourMinis.com widgets for your blog, web site, start page, and desktop. Check out the Shout Cast Radio by AOL, the home of Free Internet Radio. Tune into thousands of free online radio stations from DJs and broadcasters around the World.


FreeSignUpCompanies.info and Widgets-Gadgets.com are two great blog sites full of cool web widgets and information.

Theres BraveNet.com for free websites and web tools because "Everybody Loves Widgets"!

Get some cool Web Widgets to add interactivity to your sites today :)

Listen into our Blogs and Social Networks Web Widgets Show!

Stevie and Stephanie haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter

Blogs and Social Networks Yahoo Widgets

Onto Yahoo Widgets

Find and Create web widgets at Yahoo Widgets.

A site that explains exactly what web widgets are complete with a search for particular web widgets. Check out the latest, newest, and top rated widgets here at yahoo widgets.

Going to the "Get Started" area about half way down the home apge on the right hand side will be a good place to start. This is where you can take a tour of yahoo Widgets. Then choose from thousands of weather based, game widgets, web cams, time savers, and more.

Blogs and Social Networks Widgipedia

If you are looking for Desktop Web Widget Platforms, this site is definitely a one stop for you. Widgipedia.com

Get web widgets from the biggies here at Widgipedia. Yahoo Widgets, Opera, Dashboard, Sidebar, DesktopX, Google Widgets, AveDesk, Samurize, MySpace, Blogger, KlipFolio, and more. Web Widgets searches and Mobile Widgets ( a new feature here at Widgipedia ) also widgets for the iPhone.

On the home page with the widgets gallery, you can see all the widgets available from Widgipedia.

Widgipedia has complete tutorials, answers to questions in the FAQ section, answers well the "What's a Widget" question, has a Widgipedia Forum where you can request a widget, get widget tutorials, tips and tricks, and post your own information, a Widget Libraries Forum, and News about Widgets.

Widgipedia is a site dedicated to web widgets for all platforms that you can use in your web pages or on your desktop combined with a great community of Widgipals for the added feature of friendage. A true shiner in the Blogs and Social Networks community.

Blogs and Social Networks WidgetBox

Let's talk about a site called Widget Box. "The Worlds Largest Widget Marketplace" with widgets for Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Bebo, Typepad, Wordpress, Xanga, Freewebs, and more. WidgetBox has a community of tens of thousands of widget makers and tens of millions of widget users. WidgetBox is free to use and free to sign up as a member.

The "About Us" section of the site will better explain finding, getting, making, and explain what a widget is. They have their own blog site full of their own cool widgets at Blog.WidgetBox.com

Get your own free account and save items of interest in your My Widget Box to use later or to keep track of the ones you use.

Stephanie and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and Blogheiress Google Us :)

Blog Talk Radio Blogs and Social Networks Web Widgets

Remember, a web widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML (a web page) that adds content to a page that isn’t static, meaning it automatically is adding fresh page content as it refreshes.

Web widgets are quite common and used by Bloggers, Social Networkers, and personal website owners. Like I previously mentioned above, home page sites like IGoogle, NetVibes, and Page Flakes are made to be easiest to create a home page for yourself of widgets to stay in touch with what is important to you :)

Apps or widgets placed on a third party web site via embedded code, then the widget brings “right now” information and added content like links, images, and advertisements from the other third party sites without the web site owner having to update as often.

Keep in mind that widgets can also be used for detrimental purposes transporting viruses or other negative reasons like enticing people to download adware.
Listen into our Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Show on Widgets for more.

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me

Blogs and Social Networks Spout

Spout is a site along the lines of Flixster where they base the excitement on Movies! The latest Movies, current Movie reviews and new Movie trailers all in a Blogs and Social Networks setting!

Spout - Find Movies you'll love!

Watch the top 5 trailers, read news and reviews, listen to Movie based podcasts, write reviews, share Movie lists, rate Movies, find friends to discuss your favorites with.

What Spout is watching today:

The Rules of the Game 1939

"Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut the movie from 113 minutes to a mere 80. It was banned as morally perilous during the German occupation and the original negative was destroyed during WWII. It wasn't until 1956 that Renoir was able to restore the film to its original length. In retrospect, this reaction seems both puzzling and understandable; at its heart, Rules of the Game is a very moral film about frequently amoral people. A comedy of manners whose wit only occasionally betrays its more serious intentions, it contrasts the romantic entanglements of rich and poor during a weekend at a country estate. André Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio). Robert, however, has a mistress of his own, whom he invites to a weekend hunting party at his country home, along with André and his friend Octave (played by Jean Renoir himself). READ MORE

Check out, Discuss, and have fun with Spout!

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter