Scavenger Hunt

It’s been a while since my last blog entry. Anyway last Wednesday, Nov 19, we had a Scavenger Hunt in our TINST207 class (Living and Working in a Virtual World).
Professor Andrew Fry gave us a list of items that we need to gather and seek out online. It was a lot of work and searching but in the long run, it was fun and amusing. Here are some of what I’ve found during my web hunt.
I discovered lots of matchmaking websites depending on your religion or your intelligence status. I found 2 dating sites exclusively for atheists: freethinker.com and atheistpassions.com. So for pagans, agnostics, and other non-religious free-thinkers who are looking for partners, these websites are for you! Then, there are Catholic online dating sites for singles who want to search lifetime partners who are as devotedly religious and pious as them. These catholic sites are: 4marks.com, catholicmatch.com and avemariasingles.com. On the other hand, there are dating sites exclusively and strictly for very smart, brainy and mensa-like people. In order to become a member, you have to take a very tough IQ test and you can take it only twice. These specific websites are: intelligentpeople.com, GoodGenes.com, educatedsingle.com and rightstuffdating.com (for graduates and faculty of top-ranked universities). So for lovelorn nerds and even scientists out there (scientificsingles.com) who are looking for compatible special someone, you can check these sites out!
One of the items is about general search engine sites that are NOT Google, Yahoo nor MSN. I found three great sites: ask.com, about.com, and the new search engine on the web block, gigablast.com. There are also search engines sites that are geographically limited to certain countries such as Yehey.com (Philippines), Sohu.com or Sogou.com (China), and Exalead.com (France). They are all quite fascinating and entertaining!
These are only some of the interesting websites that can evoke curiosity and awe. Living and working in a virtual world is, indeed, very exciting, fabulous and, stupendous! Our next class activity is our class book presentation.