Ancestry.com, Cover Stories, Will Robots Take My Job? and other interesting websites

In nine years of blogging, I’ve called attention to 300 websites that I found interesting, informative and entertaining. What follows are some more sites worth noting.

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com is the world’s premiere online genealogy service, hosting a massive collection of historical records, documents and family trees.
I’ve been a subscriber for many years and should have included it on my list of favorite websites long ago.
Ancestry.com has more than 2.7 million subscribers who have access to 20 billion records from 80 countries, as well as 90 million family trees.
The Lehi, Utah-based company also sells AncestryDNA genetic testing kits that can tell you where your ancestors were from. The kit is now available for $79 for the holiday season, $20 off the regular price.

CalendarHome

CalendarHome.com lets you print out calendars for free.
I like to print out monthly calendars for planning purposes. CalendarHome.com is a simple but valuable resource. It was created in 1997 by Justin White.

Cover Stories

I love magazines and like tracking noteworthy magazine covers. I’ve previously mentioned Cover Junkie as a great resource. Another is Cover Stories.
Cover Stories, formerly MagLove, is a regular column on MarkLives.com by designer, writer and artist Shane de Lange of Cape Town, South Africa. Cover Stories deconstructs magazine cover designs, both past and present, and highlights the week’s best covers.
In addition to the column, Cover Stories is on Pinterest.

Will Robots Take My Job?

Advances in automation, computerization and robotics are taking their toll on the human workforce.
The website Will Robots Take My Job? answers that question as a percentage of likelihood. (See article by Business Insider.)

Car logos and car company logos worldwide

Recently I saw a truck with a logo that I didn’t recognize. Thanks to the niche website Car-Logos.org, I was able to find an answer: It was a truck built by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors.

Movie Heds

Movie Heds is a Twitter account that curates newspaper headlines from fictional movies. The novelty Twitter account is the work of Travis Greenwood of Portland, Oregon.
(See articles by AV Club and Laughing Squid.)

Jody Draws

I’m a fan of the artwork of Jody Nilson. She likes to illustrate pop culture subjects like actors and actresses from shows like “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead.” (Check out her work at JodyDraws.com.)
She first came to my attention sketching illustrations on the back of Netflix envelopes and posting them on Twitter.

Scientwehst

I’ve written several times about artists who dare to mix the worlds of art and pornography. (See “The intersection of art and porn” and “Porn-inspired art.”)
The latest example is a New York City-based artist named Giulia, aka Scientwehst on Instagram. She creates “brazenly-feminine digital collages.” Giulia likes to overlay images of modern architecture on pictures of the female body.
Giulia especially likes to superimpose church interiors and exteriors on naked women in erotic poses. These photo collages are seen as sacrilegious by some.
(See articles by Maxim, Office magazine and Highsnobiety.)