# Things you think are awesome and other dopers should know about **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208 "2011-01-19T16:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/61 "2011-02-03T22:23:53Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > If you’re a knitter or know a knitter, you should know 2 sites: > > [ravelry](https://www.ravelry.com/account/login) - Great yarn-oriented community, lots and lots of patterns - many of them free. I’m not a big pattern follower, but I’ve done all kinds of improvisations based on patterns I’ve found there. Also, you can organize and track everything you’re knitting and/or crocheting. You need to be a member to look at patterns, but it’s free. > > [Knitting Help](http://www.knittinghelp.com/) - Also has some nice forums, but the biggest asset is the free video collection; lots of brief videos that very clearly explain knitting techniques. Amazing resource. Thanks gt! I’ve now got these both on bookmarks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/62 "2011-02-03T22:51:53Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) and the (Irish?) TV show called Mock The Week. (Featuring Dara O’Briain as the host!) _Mock the Week_ isn’t Irish, but Dara did used to host a show called _The Panel_, which is Irish (based on the Australian show). ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/63 "2011-02-03T23:14:36Z")
[Mom’s Journal of the Zombie Years](http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=35300&sid=b054a2c0b70483fd1c432648793616d0), it’s a long running thread on Zombiehunters dot org (332 pages!) that details the experiences of a Florida family during a Level Four zombie outbreak Initially, the author started it as a kind of “how to prepare for adversity” prep thread, sprinkling it with anecdotes, recipes and such but it rapidly mutated to, quite simply, one of the best bits of zombie fiction out there, it’s good enough to be an actual physical book, right up there with Steven King and Max Brooks A few problems though; The author is overly fond of cliffhangers She has currently not updated the story in months, but she has a lot of real world duties vying for her time It’s INCREDIBLY addictive, and when you reach the final page (at 330+ pages it’ll take a while) you will have joined the ranks of the “Moar Zombies” as well, be warned… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/64 "2011-02-04T00:35:50Z")
Oh, has anyone mentioned **[QI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI)**? Hosted by Stephen Fry, it’s a quiz show to end all quiz shows, and meant for the doper demographic. They give negative points for going for obvious right answers that are actually wrong, and points for answers that are interesting, regardless of being correct. And it’s funny as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/65 "2011-02-04T00:52:32Z")
[$50 iPhones](http://www.att.com/wireless/iphone/) [The best USB item ever made](http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/usb%20humping%20dog.jpg) [Michael Silver’s Tuesday Trippin’ article](http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-morningrush013111) ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208/66 "2011-02-06T11:44:19Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > [Radio Paradise](http://www.radioparadise.com/). Free, Commercial free, listener supported Internet radio. Smooth and GOOOOOD music. I forgot to come back to this thread to say: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I’ve been listening to RP quite a lot after clicking on that link. For some reason, I can’t stream it at work, but at home, it’s on a good chunk of the time, and I’ve discovered lots of music I never knew about. So you’ve generated at least one more devoted listener! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-awesome-and-other-dopers-should-know-about/568208.md?page=3)