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Welcome to Trashopia.
It's the Dumpster Diversion Project that hooks you up to all kinds of interesting websites.
Visit the Reuse Artists, and be inspired by their creativity.
Turn used plastic bags into works of art or turn the mountain of bags into a comfy little bed for some sweet dreams!
How about some sweet music?
Strum away on a unique guitar!
All you need is to divert it from the dumpster!
If saving the world from evil beings is in your interest, then this site is for you.
The site, which calls itself the International Catalogue of Superheroes, has a detailed database of information about hundreds of superheroes from around the world.
However, don't expect to read about famous superheroes the likes of Superman, Batman or the X-men.
Instead, you can expect a wide array of lesser-known superheroes from outside of the United States including Indonesia, Canada and China.
There are also familiar faces, mostly from Japan, such as Ultraman and Sailormoon.
Get chicken just the way you like it. Literally.
This marketing campaign for Burger King's line of chicken sandwiches comes in the form of a person in a chicken costume performing a series of acts based on users' input.
There are more than 300 commands that the chicken will respond to - simple ones like dance, jump and fly, to more complicated commands including 'do the YMCA', 'imitate Shakespeare', 'do Michael Jackson's Moonwalk' and more.
So if you're feeling bored, or in need of a good laugh, or simply just looking for a chicken to order around, visit the website.
Those who have an interest in gardening, flower arrangements and floral art might want to have a look at how Chrissie Harten maintains her gardens.
You can also take a closer peek at what exactly thrives in her water garden.
And if you have a thing for flower arrangements, be sure to check out Chrissie's fascinating ideas. With 22 pages worth of unique ideas, you will be able to master the skill of arranging flowers sooner than you know it!
Tea.co.uk gives you a massive array of information about the brew, which the ancient Chinese philosopher, Laoz, described as "the froth of liquid jade".
With this site, you can learn to make the perfect cup of tea and one big tip, never use water that's been reboiled. It will also give you the recommended brewing times for each type of tea, and whether you should take the beverage with, or without milk.
Apart from drinking tea, you can apparently tell what sort of boss you have, by the way she or he holds the teacup.
Also, get your hands on all the facts about tea that have ever been compiled, for example other than tourism, tea is the biggest industrial activity in India and did you know that the recommended number of cups of tea to drink each day is four because that gives you the optimal health benefits of the beverage.
So, what are you waiting for? Go brew up that perfect cuppa, and visit the website.
If you are a coffee fan, this site will be coffee heaven for you.
Set up by a group of coffee lovers from all walks of life, the website not only seeks to educate you about coffee but also entertain you.
And besides serving the specialty coffee drinking population, and professional baristas, it is also for those who want to learn a bit more about the bean and the stuff that brews
Catch witty articles about the latest trends of coffee and coffee cafes reviews and you can also download instruction manuals on coffee makers.
If you want to exchange some pointers - then join the forum to chat with fellow coffee lovers.
Fooddiva.com is an online cooking school catering to anyone who wants to learn to cook but may not be too familiar in the kitchen.
It provides lots of interactive instructional cooking videos by Chef Maribel Linfield from Canada.
But this site is not about cooking recipes. Rather it's about teaching you the basics of cooking and Chef Maribel believes in giving you that kitchen confidence and diagnostic skills to try something new on your own.
And as she puts it - Food science, is thankfully not as hard as rocket science.
So for foodylicious lovers, click on this website and expand your horizon and start cooking.
If you're a follower of our book segment Off The Shelf, here's where you can find out more from this blog by our producer Deepika Shetty.
It centres around her key interest - books.
Whether its tracking an event in the news, a sale, it's bound to get you flipping a page or two.
There are several good reads, reviews, thoughts, after-thoughts and literary festivals featured on the blog.
Little surprise that, it draws readers all the way from Canada, Australia, India to Sri Lanka. So if you are looking for a riveting read, head here to take a closer look.
LOL, BRB, AFK, ROFL, BTW.
If you didn't get any of that, you are probably a 'newb' (internet slang for someone who hasn't been using computers or internet for long).
And even if you have been using the internet for a while now, there may still be some internet jargons that will leave you at a loss.
But worry not, for the next time a website begins to sprout strange computer gibberish, you can always refer to this site for help.
Besides the common IM (Instant Messaging) slangs, the site also explains other computer/internet acronyms like FTP, HTML, CMYK, ASCII, codec, and more.
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