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A few years ago, my dad and I were talking, and he was telling me that 'back in the day' before you wrote a paper, one step was researching to see if the research itself was already done on the topic. For example, you may need to go through ancient tomes and manuscripts to see what conclusion they come to on a subject, say, the effect of Persian attack on Sparta, so before you do that, check to see if someone else has already gone through the data and came to a conclusion so you don't have too. You'd go through books on the subject to see if the research you need on that subject has already been done before you even begin researching the subject itself!

But these days with the new fangledness of the Internet, that whole step in almost eliminated. With just a few clicks, you can easily find hundreds or even thousands of articled on the subject, assuming the research has been done.

One website that offers term papers, essays, book reports, and research papers is Peer Papers. If simplicity is something you enjoy in a website, Peer Papers will fit the bill. No crazy text, confusing layouts, and minimal advertisement makes this site easy to navigate and use.

The site boasts over 100,000 papers to read and research. To access the papers, a membership is required, but you can preview the papers before you read them. It will show the first few hundred words or so of the paper with an approximate word and page count of the whole paper. You can select papers you are interested in to be saved for later use. All papers can be printed.

Membership can be purchased on a monthly, 90 day, or 180 day cycle.

One thing I like about the site is you can browse and get reasonable samples of the papers before you join, so you can not only see if what you are looking for is available, but you can get a taste of the quality of the papers before you spend any money.

Before you start researching your research, you can give Peer Papers a visit and see if it will help you on your quest for knowledge.

I sent a link to this article to Bill Maus at Bill Maus Art and in less than 30 minutes, I got an email back from him.

This was his reply:

Thanks for the link! --and for the kind words in your review!
take care and look forward to seeing more on your page:)

Bill Maus:)

It's always nice to get feedback on articles you write. It makes me want to review more of his books specifically.

I checked out the site Furniture From Home and I was actually quite impressed. The layout was nice, had a nice 'hardwood floor' feel to it. It is very easy to navigate, and everything I managed to click worked.

The site delivers information well. For example, if you are looking at a whole set, it will list the general qualities of the set items, then the dimensions of each item. Also, each set and item appears to have a unique description. I did not see any identical descriptions.

Choosing items is easy. If it is a set, you can choose how many of each item, them add them all at once to your cart. You can either use plus minus buttons or edit the number on the list. Editing by hand isn't too obvious, since the number doesn't have a standard text box, but this adds to the look of the site and looks far better without the box that with a box. The price updates automatically as you add and remove items. The cart also allows you to remove all items from a set with one click. For example, if you add items from two different sets, you can remove all of one set, and leave the other set. You don't need to remove each item by hand.

Nationwide delivery is free! Can't beat that.

The search feature is nice. You can select which rooms to look at, which kinds of furniture, colors, fabric, etc. as well as a standard keyword search.

The site has many choices of furniture. You can get a bed, living room furniture, and even a microfiber couch.

There is one more really spiffy feature on the site. When you load the larger images of the sets and single pieces, you can zoom on very close and get very good details. Think like Google Earth, but instead something like Google Couch, and instead of getting fuzzy when you get in close, it has crisp detail.

I really enjoyed the features of the site, and the look and feel. Very professional.

When I started reading Hewoes, it took about 6 words to make my start laughing, and that's not counting the art before the first words. Hewoes is a parody of the the TV show Heroes. If you aren't a fan of the show, you might find this comic funny, but no where near as funny as if you've seen at least Season 1 of Heroes.

The artwork not only well done, it is very funny. The characters are recognizable and exaggerated. Think a quality caricature at a fair. It is all black and white aside from the cover art.

The story, jokes, and content in Hewoes are downright hilarious. And, much to my non-chagrin, it is all rated about PG. The jokes are clean and no foul language, so I can easily recommend this read to pretty much anyone. As I said before, you will want to have seen at least most of season 1 of Heroes to get the most out of the jokes, but they are silly and fun all by themselves.

I give Hewoes a sturdy two thumbs.

Here's an interesting thing: A college tuition sweepstakes from Proctor and Gamble, and it is sponsored by the shows Guiding Light and As The Word Turns. I guess soaps are at least good for something. It appears that if you watch the show at a certain time, there will be on screen instructions on how to enter the sweepstakes by answering some questions on the website and submitting the entry. I've never been one to watch soaps, but if I was needing College Education, it might be worth the effort!

I've been busy with my Interactive Fiction game, it is almost done. Several bugs have been fixed that were found in the beta testing. The game is still far from what I was hoping for, but I learned many things and I am happy that I finally finished one.

The Space Turtle has been pretty busy! Lots of posts lately. I've been working on Valentine's related post to try and generate some traffic, as well as I made a post about Lost, season 4, and that has generated some traffic.

My ChipIn Widget is empty, no donations. I tried to donate $5 to myself just so it's not empty, but I can't send money to myself. I can't bring myself to remove it though.

Our church had a swap/trade deal for baby clothes and gear. We didn't have anything to swap, but they let us go anyways {:0)

We ended up with a few clothes, a stroller/car seat combo, a Baby Bjorn carrying deal, and one of thems round play place seats. Were are talking a good amount of $ worth here, for free. It is all in good condition and the givers could have easily sold it on eBay or Craig's List, but instead gave it away. It was a total blessing to us, and to those who gave them away.

Lets see... some fun new posts on The Space Turtle, including a video. I'm finding it hard to top Professor Flame.

Still haven't got a Wowio review done, but I did start one. I've been busy working out the last bits of my interactive fiction game. I've got it in beta testing, some bugs have been found, and lots of typos.

This is a really neat video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo

I'm going to post on the Beanspiration now.

I went to a group at church for men. We had some physical challenges, like pull ups, obstacle courses, also some mental challenges such as what certain types of military objects like tanks and guns and planes. I got most points at my table so I got a hand grenade. Disarmed, unfortunately. I also got $50 for getting my head shaved, but I didn't lose much. {:0D I also took home a huge leftover sub sammich, party size! Woot!

My wife and I just watched The Last Mimzy. It was a really nice movie. Defiantly a family movie. No swearing, no violence, and reasonable people all around. The tale is about a young brother and sister who find a strange container and learn what the objects inside do. I wont tell more, since I like knowing as little as possible before seeing a movie. I give it 3.5 stars.