Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5792696/find-your-next-adventure-with-everytrailcom

Figuring out where you next adventure will be can be tough. Whether you are just looking for something fun to do this Saturday or something a bit more broad like a trip to a different country, Everytrail.com is an awesome tool for those who like to get out and go.

Everytrail.com takes geo-tagged information from mobile devices and Garmin GPS units to create an interactive map of trip you or someone else has taken, and once uploaded to their website you can add photos and commentary to your route and share it online for anyone else in the world to download, so they can relive the exact same adventure you did.

The online tool is super easy for creating a route yourself, but if finding a new thing to do yourself is more your style, they have a huge database of thousands routes worldwide. You can search by location, or activity, making it super easy to find something to do no matter where you are. (Here’s a route I uploaded.)

Everytrail.com

Source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5790566/gender-stereotypes-revealed-anew-in-toy-commercials-word-cloud

This is one of those things that won’t surprise, but it’s still certainly interesting. What you’re seeing in the image below is a word cloud, modeled after commercials for boy’s and girl’s toys. Stark differences laid bare, and all that.

I imagine many of the commercials that Crystal over at Boys, Masculinity, and Gender Stereotypes had to watch had their fair share of pinks, blue, hair brushing and explosions too, but again, this is fairly obvious stuff. What’s interesting are the specific words that advertisers are repeatedly using to target your children, based on their gender. Battle! Power! Love! Babies!

Hmm.

Quick! Someone corner the market on Battle Power Love Babies and get that shit on Saturday mornings, STAT! [Achilles Effect via via Boing Boing]