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• Tie-a-Tie

Tie-a-Tie.net is for all the guys out there who have to tie a tie but either never knew how or have forgotten. This site has instructions for the Windsor, the Half Windsor and a few others. It also information about tie accessories as well as some tips & tricks. If you're looking to buy a tie then Neckties.com or the Tie Guys can help you out. Finally, for those rare occassions where a bow tie is necessary, go to eHow.com to find instructions on tying a bow tie.

• Baseball Park Online Tours

Digital Ballparks is "an online digital baseball stadium museum." The site has photo slideshows tours for many of the baseball parks in the country. Nice pictures and interesting tidbits about the various parks and surrounding areas. Beware...they prefer the Metrodome to many of the new "Retro Parks". Their reasoning is not bad, though.

• Minnesota Gas Prices

Minnesota Gas Prices lets users log gas prices at stations throughout Minnesota. That information is stored for 36 hours and helps consumers to view the stations with the lowest gas prices, the stations with the highest prices or even a county-by-county comparison. The data is searchable by station, location or grade of gas. There are maps with the prices of stations on the map. No more filling up your tank only to find that 2 miles down the road gas is 10 cents/gallon cheaper.

• Baseball Contracts

Cot's Baseball Contracts is a clearinghouse for MLB contracts, named for Cotton Tierney, who was the NL's fifth-leading hitter in 1922 & played the next season for $5,000. You can find the details of the contracts for Major League Baseball players and managers. Incentives, options, amounts...it is listed on this blog. It is a well organized blog and should be the first resource when looking for player or team salary information. Great site.

• Sudoku Explainer

Sudoku Explainer is a Sudoku solver written in Java. It explains how to solve any sudoku puzzle in an interactive way: give it a sudoku that has a unique solution, and it will solve it step by step. At each step, a description of the technique that is used, with a graphical illustration, is given. Want to learn advanced solving techniques? This will help. Wonder if there really is a solution to a puzzle that is kicking your tail? This will answer that question.

• Faro Shuffle Simulator

NateDog.com's Faro Shuffle Simulator recreates perfect Faro Shuffles. You can customize it as well. What is a Faro Shuffle? Most of you perform them when wiki:Shuffling cards. A perfect faro shuffle, where the cards are perfectly alternated, is considered one of the most difficult sleights by card magicians, simply because it requires the shuffler to be able to cut the deck into two equal packets and apply just about the right pressure when pushing the cards into each other. If one does perform eight perfect faro shuffles in a row, the order of the deck will return to the original order, if there are 52 cards in the deck and if the original top and bottom cards remain in their positions (1st and 52nd) during the eight shuffles. If the top and bottom cards get weaved in during each shuffle then it takes 52 shuffles to return a deck back into original order (26 shuffles to reverse the order of a deck containing 52 cards).