Get into Harvard.

Beefing up your resume to get into a competitive college is SUMMA CUM HOT! The kind folks at whistleaway.com will teach you how to play the Irish Tin Whistle for FREE. Stick it on your college app, and maybe you'll be strolling among the ivy soon.

Shiny Happy Games

Happy is GLEEFULLY HOT. According to the psychologists that created them, the games at mindhabits.com can reduce stress and boost confidence. Hey, they're free to try. And its certainly better than lying on a couch complaining how your parents didn't love you enough for 50 minutes.

Ph for Phake

Fake photos are LINDSAY-LOHAN-LEVEL HOT. And one program can take all the credit - Adobe Photoshop. This program is so powerful at faking photos that its very name has become a verb and an adjective - from fashion models Photoshopped flawless skin to your nephew's obsession with Photoshopping Katie Couric's head on various nude bodies.

Well, now those fine folks at Adobe will give you the famed program - for FREE! Well, its not really Photoshop, it's a new product called Photoshop Express. But, then again, your cat can't really water ski, now can it? If fake Photoshop, er, I mean Photoshop Express isn't powerful enough to fake your pictures and you don't want to shell out any dough, you can always turn to open source. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is an open source photo retouching program supposedly similar to Photoshop. Photo by Kitty de Medici

Feed the Need

Helping people is HOT! This one is real simple. People are hungry, a few clicks on your computer can help them. Just go to freerice.com and donate rice at no cost to you while brushing up on your pathetic vocabulary skills.

Little boy you're a man, little man you're a king.

"All cultures have a similar rite of passage. Your people have a Bar Mitzvah."
John Redcorn, "King of the Hill", discussing a Native America vision quest

Coming of age, whether through a Native American vision quest to or a Jewish Bar Mitzvah, is HOT. Goodbye childhood, hello adult world. For those about to rock the Torah for the first time, we salute you. Plan your big day with a FREE JNF B’nai Mitzvah Program kit.