Holly War

Evangelical Christian pastor Jerry Falwell has a message for Americans when it comes to celebrating Christmas this year: You're either with us, or you're against us.

Mind Reader

Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior.

Extraordinary Mind

Live Science gives it's list of Leonardo Da Vinci's top 10 best ideas. I'm not sure how you limit it to 10.

The Evil Empire

WAL-MART: Rolling Back Wages, Workers’ Rights,and the American Dream

Age Old Question

How much is inside? - "With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths"

Unreal Death

List of fictional wars

Lady Marmalade

Kumquat Recipes - Small collection of recipes using this citrus fruit, including cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, cheesecake, glazes, marmalade, relish, and even a kumquat martini. From a kumquat grower.

War Prize

Who would bid for Saddam Hussein's uniform? The bid is currently at $5,254

You still have time.

Abandon Planet

The Deathstar passes Saturn

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

Federation Of Planets

A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.”

Papa Bear

Stan Berenstain passed away yesterday.

Line Of Succession

Line of succession to the British Throne - The list goes to 882 just to be sure. It would take quiet the accident to get HSH Prince Max of Schaumburg-Lippe on the throne.

Mr. Rendon Had Seafood

A Perception Management Follow-up a Response by the Rendon Group.

Key Combinations

ALT Codes - lists keyboard ALT codes to make special characters.

It's A Small World

Inner-net wrote an interesting post about a book by Jessica Williams: 50 Facts that Should Change the World.

Time After Time #2

Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies

Brother Can You Spare A Quarter

Celebrate the 50 states with the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters® Program. With this ten-year program, every 10 weeks you will see a new state's quarter - released in the order states were admitted into the Union.

Day Off

Here is a Web site that allows you to use the Thanksgiving calorie calculator to total your Thanksgiving-feast calories

Perception Management

John Rendon is a man who fills a need that few people even know exists. The Pentagon secretly awarded him a $16 million contract to target Iraq and other adversaries with propaganda. One of the most powerful people in Washington, Rendon is a leader in the strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired result. His firm, the Rendon Group, has made millions off government contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name -- the Iraqi National Congress -- and served as their media guru and "senior adviser" as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam.

Time After Time #1

TARDIS type 40 Manual

Wicked Weasel

Weasel Trek - Daniel and Sarah bought 15 plush weasels at IKEA. Their mission: to send weasels wherever people like weasels. Each weasel is mailed to someone somewhere in the world. When the host receives it, they take the weasel sightseeing and photograph it with local landmarks and vistas. The weasel gets put back in its mailing tube and sent on to the next deserving host. They then post the story and photos from each leg of the journey.

New Obsession

Kissables, tiny Hershey's kisses dipped in M&M-like color coating.

On Your Sleeve Follow-Up

Album Cover Art Collection of Links

Behind Bars

How to Read 12 Digit UPC Barcodes - tricks for deciphering U.S. bar codes, usually made up of ten digits at the bottom of the code and one small number to each side.

Disturbing Dissonance

Bad Vibes - research project attempting to identify the world's most unpleasant sounds. Hear and rate sounds like barking dogs, crying babies, or fingernails on a blackboard, and help scientists understand how we experience noise.

Unknown Source

Governpub - information on the Congress, President of the U.S., courts, founding documents, law, and the history of the United States of America.

(if anybody can tell me who publishes this, let me know)

Danger Will Robinson Danger

Your very own warning label.

Under Warrenty

Uzi Owner’s Manuals and Uzi Brochures and flyers

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Yiddish Curses

"May you be like a lamp: hang by day, burn by night and be snuffed out in the morning." More here

Bush Demands Recount

John Kerry Elected ... Jury Foreman

You Are Number Six

The Prisoner To Be Remade On British Television

Generosity Index 2005

How does your state rank in charity? - Using published data of individual tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service from two years ago to compare the rank of each state's average adjusted gross income (AAGI) to the rank of each state's average itemized charitable deductions (AICD).

Strange Tales Follow-Up

How to make asphalt mosaics

Blue Plate Special

The Smoking Gun has collected together License Plate cleverness through FOIA requests for "red lists" of banned tags, letters taking umbrage at supposedly offensive plates, official letters notifying drivers that their plate is objectionable, plate holders's passionate pleas to keep their beloved tags, and more.

In The News

Link Selection - features daily news from worldwide RSS feeds.

Hey Big Spender

The world's most expensive restaurants

Gobble Gobble

Alicia's Recipes: Leftover Turkey, Chicken and Ham Recipes - recipes for leftover ham, turkey, and chicken including casseroles, enchiladas, soups, salads, and more

Guided Tour

The Ultimate Guide to Google Services

Turkey's Tryptophan Truth

Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?

Cloud Nine

The Cloud Appreciation Society

Stalker Scene

Celebrity Maps - Combines the power of google maps with celebrity address found across the web.

The Big Secret

The Alibi Network - They provide alibis and excuses for their clients. "Whether it is spending a night out with a special friend, taking a day off from work, sending a discreet gift, avoiding your neighbor's birthday party or planning a surprise for the loved ones. Now it is all possible... And it is all discreet. We put you in control and let you choose between local and out of town alibis with the option to have alibis validated by live operators."

Thanksgiving Treats

Twinkie/Ding Dong/Ho Ho Recipes - Hostess® snack cakes are great anytime treats, but few people know that they also make great desserts.

The Universal Language

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5,000 Languages.

Artist License

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified what it has called the top 10 art crimes worldwide.

Rippin' A Riff

Guitar company Fender has created a prototype design for musicians living in the digital age. Technology built into the back of the instrument will allow rock gods to send a quick email in between playing songs on stage. Touring musicians will be able to record a riff in the back of a van and email it to their producer on the guitar.

Lost And Found

Lost has already made its mark on the small screen. The Emmy-winning series is launching its first spinoff, Lost Video Diaries, to play exclusively on mobile phones beginning early next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. And earlier this month, ABC announced plans to introduce a subplot to the show about a character named Gary Troup, a fictitious author who died in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but not before he dropped off a manuscript with his publisher. ABC teamed with Hyperion Books to publish the supposed manuscript, titled Bad Twin, which will be written by a name-brand author with guidance from show writers.

Places To Avoid

Hard to Remember - Locates over 27,000 fast food outlets across the country.

To Boldly Go

Spaceflight Now - Space flight news.

The Friendly Skies

Airchive - The webseum of commercial aviation.

I Have No Comment

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter The administration has refused to provide the Sept. 21 President's Daily Brief, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that it exists.

Tricked Out

Art Bikes

IMCDB

Internet Movie Car DataBase - Look and see if your make of car has been in the movies.

Consummate Professionals

27 Librarians Win New York Times Awards

A Better Mouse Trap

Inventor's Handbook

Hot 80's

99 Luftballons, Side by Side Comparison - A comparison of the German and English translations of Nena's 99 Red Ballons

Vampiric Hunter

Blade Script - contains the full script for the action thriller Blade, written by David S. Goyer. In plain text format.

Our House

State of the Nation's Housing 2005, report from Harvard's housing center at JFK School.

Circulation

Top 100 Daily U.S. Newspapers 2005

Hot Wheels

Stolen Vehicals - 2005's most-stolen cars from National Insurance Crime Bureau.

The Underground

London Topological - Urban exploration photos from underneath England.

Exit Stage Left

President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.

Queen Mum

The British Monarchy everything you ever wanted to know about the British Royal Family but were afraid to ask.

Not Necessarily The News

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

Cool Toys

PopSci's Best of What's New - 18th Annual celebration of innovation, the 100 most impressive technologies of the year.

Plug It In

EV Discussion List - a forum for the exchange of information on electric vehicles.

Is It Hot In Here?

Weather Bonk - Lets you view real-time weather information on a Google Map. All the way down to microclimates, in such areas as San Francisco. Clicking on the Web cams gives you a visual observation from a given location.

A Long Time Ago

Star Wars timeline

Suds And Duds

Facts About Laundry - Different types of laundering products exist to meet the needs and preferences of many different consumers.

Old Saint Nick

Scared of Santa Photo Gallery - view photos of sweet little toddlers screaming at the sight of the Jolly Old Elf.

A Bad Break

Thanatos Image Archive, pages of interesting X-Rays.

Back To The Future

Forbe's email time capsule. Simply fill out some fields, decide how long you want the capsule to be sealed for, and hit send.

Pupukahi I Holomua

Olelo No'eau: Proverbs of Hawaii - collection of ancient Hawaiian sayings and proverbs, with their English translations and equivalents.

Is This On The Exam?

List of Academic Lecture Podcasts

Your Own Hotspot

Turn a backpack into a portable, solar-powered Wi-Fi hotspot, and share a high-speed connection anywhere.

When Atari Was King

Pong Owner's Manual - photoset of pictures of the 1976 owner's manual for a Pong home game.

Geotactical Strategy

Play RISK using Google Maps.

The Number Four

Japanese superstition - Provides examples of what is considered bad luck in Japanese culture.

Hi, My Name Is Richard

Clutterers Anonymous (CLA) - fellowship of individuals who share experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem with clutter. Offers resources for recovery, including 12-step program, a quiz of 20 questions to help you find out if you suffer from too much clutter, and meeting lists by region and date.

Terrorist Sympathizer

There's a subtle campaign going on, abetted by several Florida bloggers, to pin talk show host Bill O'Reilly with a 'terrorist supporter' tag. Literally. They're urging bloggers and other websites to make a link to Reilly's web page from text saying 'terrorist sympathizer'. ( The actual coding is < href="http://www.billoreilly.com">Terrorist Sympathizer< /a>. Remove space between the <>) (See Bark Bark Woof Woof, and Why Now? for the story.)

This has been done before, by bloggers who linked the term 'failure' to the White House site; it's called a 'Google Bomb'. Eventually, Google will rank the O'Reilly site as the highest ranking site for this search term, if enough links are created.

Why are they doing this? O'Reilly recently made some comments that seemed to encourage terrorists to bomb San Francisco's Coit Tower.

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Britney's Baby

Is dreaming of a White Trash Christmas

On Your Sleeve

Worst Album Covers Ever

What Are We Doing?

Did the US military use chemical weapons in Iraq? An Italian state-run TV documentary says yes, a charge the US calls 'disinformation.'

Population Control

Texas town trades name for satellite TV

New Southern Reconstruction Era

Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch - News and commentary about the long road to reconstruction. There's also a database of contracts awarded for reconstruction projects, and research reports.

Want Some Candy?

Research finds cigarette manufacturers target youth market with candy flavored cigarette brands.

Deflector Beanie Technology (DBT)

A recent MIT study calls into question the effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies. However, there are serious flaws in this study, not the least of which is a complete mischaracterization of the process of psychotronic mind control. Lyle at Zapato Productions intradimensional theorizes that the study is, in fact, NWO (New World Order) propaganda designed to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) against deflector beanie technology, and aluminum shielding in general, in order to dis-embeanie paranoids, leaving them open to mind control.

Islands In The Strand

Sherlock Holmes in The Strand: Stanford University is now offering print or PDF Sherlock Holmes stories, serialized as they originally appeared in The Strand magazine.

Tube Out Of Order

Subways under construction

Ice Pick Lobotomy

On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On that day, he performed the first-ever transorbital lobotomy in his Washington, D.C., office.

One of Freeman's youngest patients is today a 56-year-old bus driver living in California. Over the past two years, Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy.

Light My Fire

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fire Extinguishers.

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A Show Of Hands

Say-So - Allows you to post a page for feedback from literally thousands of people all over the world in about a minute.

Checking It Twice

OrganizedChristmas.com - complete guide to organizing the holidays. Includes Christmas countdown, holiday grand plan, gifts & crafts, news, message board, and more.

(Erin, don't read this it might give youu too many ideas)

l33t

Internet Slang Translator

Singin' In The Rain

Top 50 Musical Films - features a chart of the best user rated 50 movie musicals, as well as the most disappointing 10. From the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

January 20, 2009

Bush's Last Day

No Reverse Robin Hood Budget

Right-wing leaders in Congress are pushing a budget that literally takes the food out of the mouths of students and working families in order to provide more tax giveaways to millionaires.

Please ask your lawmakers to reject the right wing's attempt to put the interests of the most privileged ahead of ordinary Americans.

Indy 50

Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films

Prison Wine

Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can't eat fresh fruit at lunch. Learn how to make your own.

Incite To Violence

Conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is ready to scratch San Francisco off the map of the United States. Gone. Coit Tower? Terrorists can blow it up, and the rest of the country shouldn't care.

Should "terrorist" kidnap Bill O'Reilly and hold him indefinitely in a "detention" center while they "interrogate" him?

Can You Hear Me Now?

Cell phone reception and tower search - Consumers can search for the best carrier in their area. With the graphical tower location search, users can pinpoint nearby tower locations -- even to the exact rooftop -- with satellite imagery and the help of Google Maps.

Flight Delay

Looking for detailed flight info? This site takes airplane flight tracking to air traffic control levels. Be sure to check out the complete airport status

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes

People with synesthesia--whose senses blend together--are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain

Global Gender Gap

The Gender Gap Report quantifies the size of the gender gap in 58 countries, including all 30 OECD countries and 28 other emerging markets. The study measures the extent to which women have achieved full equality with men in five critical areas economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being.

Incoming

Astronomers have stumbled onto a runaway star inbound to our galaxy that might have been kicked out of our nearest galactic neighbor by a supermassive black hole.

Laundry Day

UNODC: International Money Laundering Information Network - clearinghouse for international money laundering topics

California Or Bust

California Tribes - Map of Native American tribes in California

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Exopolitics

This study provides an exopolitical analysis of the policy dimensions of an historic extraterrestrial presence that is pertinent to Iraq and a US led preemptive attack. It will be argued that competing clandestine government organizations are struggling through proxy means to take control of ancient extraterrestrial (ET) technology that exists in Iraq, in order to prepare for an impending series of events corresponding to the 'prophesied return' of an advanced race of ETs. The Columbia Space Shuttle may well have been a high profile victim of such a proxy war intended to send a message to US based clandestine organizations over the preemptive war against Iraq.

Not Safe For Consumption

US Army Chemical Corps Documents. - 'Reports from the biological, chemical, and radiological warfare program of the US, from 1950 to 1957.'

Shocking

America's Electric Chairs - photos of electric chairs from all the U.S. states that use them.

Scream Fest

100 Greatest Horror Movie Performances

Politics Trumped Science

Federal health officials didn't follow normal procedures in rejecting over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill — and some documents suggest the decision was made even before scientists finished reviewing the evidence, congressional investigators reported Monday.

And Yet It Continues

Meet Stewart Simonson. He's the official charged by Bush with "the protection of the civilian population from acts of bioterrorism and other public health emergencies"--a well-connected, ideological, ambitious Republican with zero public health management or medical expertise, whose previous job was as a corporate lawyer for Amtrak.

Know When To Fold

Extreme Origami.

The Cost Of Living

2004 American Housing Surveys - Reports available for more than ten metropolitan areas.

Noodles With Cheese

Pasta Shapes - In the world of cooking there are around 350 different types of pasta, and probably approximately four times as many names for them. New shapes are being designed and named every day.

Brotherhood Of The Green Flame

Servants of Tulzscha Homepage - "I am Brother Alpha, leader of the Servants of Tulzscha: Brotherhood of the Green Flame.This page is dedicated to the summoning of our master Tulzscha. Once this task is complete Tulzscha will rule Earth and devour its inhabitants. On the plus side, Tulzscha has promised to eat us last."

Virtuoso

A ukulele version of While my Guitar Gently Weeps.

Bottom Of The Barrel

ASPO-USA Denver Conference Report. Views on Peak Oil from a wide range of panelists in Colorado this week, including the mayor of Denver "who has joined that brave but small band of honest and courageous politicians willing to go anywhere near the issue of peak oil".

Warning

Feral Robotic Dogs.

Let's Go For A Walk

Freddie's Blog: Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff! - ruff! Find out what Freddie the Dog did today

Incheroo

Measuroo - information on units of measurement, conversion, dimensional analysis, and related topics.

Not Literally Literary

Literally, A Web Log - An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”.

Video Game Ambiance

Arcade Sounds.

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Pick Yours

A gallery of Poison bottles

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Pedantic Pundits

Archaeologics - provides information on top archaeologists and artifacts. Archaeologics also covers the history and various disciplines of archaeology.

Food Is The Medium

Food Embossing Products

Watching You

On Monday, the clock starts ticking for broadband and Net-phone providers to make it easier for law enforcement to conduct surveillance on users of their networks.

Hot Butter

Popcorn-Song - Tracing the evolution and development of Gershon Kingsley's 1972 instrumental dance hit Popcorn.

Vanishing Point

How to disappear in America without a trace.

Pope Goes The Weasle

Even though the Pope doesn't read them himself, why don't you e-mail Pope Benedict and tell him whats on your mind.

The War Machine

Art of War by Sun Tzu - The oldest military treatise in the world.

VHEM

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Beady Eyes

Find out the results of Scott "Dilbert" Adams' "weasel poll".

Office Politics

2005 Public Officials of the Year

Very Scary

CIA's Homepage for Kids - games for children in grades 6-12, historical highlights about famous Americans, a world geography quiz, links to other Federal Internet sites with pages for children.

Child's Play

Your average gamer these days is in his late 20s—young enough to still find new ways to destroy brain cells, old enough to worry about bills and 401ks, and wise enough to reminisce about the good ol' days of videogames. But was the age of Pong, Atari, Mattel handheld football, and Donkey Kong really all that great, or are we just blinded by fuzzy, warm nostalgia?

That's the question we asked—and answered—back in the November [2003] issue of EGM, in which we rounded up nine children of the PlayStation generation—ages 9 to 12—and forced them to play a variety of titles from the late'70s to the mid-'80s.

Play At Your Own

Risk via Google Maps - experimental online version of Risk, the board game of international warfare, using Google Maps. See how far you get in conquering the world.

We Don't Need No Education

The Department of Education just released new data on how many high school freshmen graduated "on time"

Phantom Time

When Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz introduces his paper on the “phantom time hypothesis,” he kindly asks his readers to be patient, benevolent, and open to radically new ideas, because his claims are highly unconventional. This is because his paper is suggesting three difficult-to-believe propositions: 1) Hundreds of years ago, our calendar was polluted with 297 years which never occurred; 2) this is not the year 2005, but rather 1708; and 3) The purveyors of this hypothesis are not crackpots.

Gravitational Waves

Many expect it to be one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our age: "There'll certainly be a Nobel Prize in it for somebody," says Jim Hough.

Tip The Scales

Balanced Politics - A website that summarizes the basic arguments pro and con of Big Issues.

California Special Election Terminated

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger found his box office appeal and rhetoric as a reformer couldn't convince California voters that his special election initiatives were critical to the state's future.

Photo Finish

Visions of Science Photo Winners 2005

Rare Fruit

Make Wine - Provides several recipes for wines made from unusual ingredients such as raisins, pineapple, mandarin oranges, papaya, mango, grapefruit, and lychees.

Lost Revived

The Tail Section - features gallery, forums, episode guide, and downloads of the show.

A Hole In The Head

International Trepanation Advocacy Group (ITAG) - Trepanation a procedure that involves drilling into the skull for all sorts of dubious medicinal and spiritual reasons.

Lost And Found

How to Find Lost Objects - step-by-step method for finding your keys, wallet, or other possession that has mysteriously disappeared. From Professor Solomon, a self-described "findologist."

MoOM

Museum of Online Museums - Links from thier archives to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions.

We're Not Going To Take It Anymore

The League of PISSED OFF Voters is doing national voter-organizing out of New York City. Our mission is to engage pissed off 17-35 year olds in the democratic process to build a progressive governing majority in our lifetime.

I Can't Hear You

American Sign Language 'Dictionary' in Animated GIF.

Do It On The Web

I want to... - A useful list of links to online services when you need to do something.

Ethics 101

Bush orders staff to attend ethics briefings

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If Only We Could

Ask George Bush - As Presdient of the United Stats, I feel it is my dudy to keep my constituants—compasionate conservatives—informed with what's going on at the White House. I seek your questions and hope to answer them as truthfully as posible.

Repelling Media

Best Rejected Advertising - A selection of challenged - and banned - advertising.

Everybody's Favorite Neighbor

Hundreds of hours of unedited interview footage with television personalities. From the Archive of American Television, now available via Google. I present my favorite, Mister Rogers.

Natural Selection

2005 Darwin Awards.

Even The Vatican

A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.

Poupard and others at the news conference were asked about the religion-science debate raging in the United States over evolution and "intelligent design." Intelligent design's supporters argue that natural selection, an element of evolutionary theory, cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms. Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of the Vatican project STOQ, or Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul's 1996 statement that evolution was "more than just a hypothesis."

Star Wars: Episodes I-VI

The greatest postmodern art film ever

Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning

The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election.

Paper Case

Paper CD Case Generator - Uses that origami design, and includes a database of tracklistings.

Jedi Popstar

The Yoda hip hop dance.

Extra Bright Comets

Keep a lookout for the Taurids this month. The Taurids can be seen until 25 November.

Egghead

How to cook an egg using two mobile phones.

Cold Medium

Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery

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Spinning Vinyl

WXPN's Top 885 albums of all time

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Mother Goose

Nursery Rhymes - The origins of most nursery rhymes reflect events in history and where available this site has included both the meanings and origins of everyone's favourite nursery rhymes.

Ready For Action

Complete Guide to G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Vinatage Ephemera #10

Modern Moist Towelette Collecting - includes gallery of moist towelettes from airlines, hotels, and general manufacturers. Also includes the MMTC theme song.

Vintage Ephemera #9

Premiere Issue - a collection of the first issue magazine covers with notes and background on the publications.

Vintage Ephemera #8

Ivory Project - a collection of print advertising for soap products in America covering the years 1838-1998.

Vintage Ephemera #7

Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts - transient art and artifacts.

Teflon Falling Off

For the first time in his presidency, a majority of Americans questioned President George W. Bush's personal integrity as his approval ratings on key issues fell to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post poll published on Thursday.

Fleeting Memories

Campaign 2000. - US presidential election ephemera.

Play Dress Up

The insanely great wardrobe of Steve Jobs

Blinders On

Bush may be besieged by charges of cronyism, but they don’t seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters.

President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fund-raisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals from the private sector who advise the president on the quality and effectiveness of U.S. intelligence efforts.

Vintage Ephemera #6

POV Online: TV Tickets - sizable ticket stub collection with commentary, culled from attending live sitcom, game show, and talk show tapings across Hollywood.

Right To Privacy

An explicit Right to Privacy Amendment? Dan Savage asks: why can't we have one?--...Here we are, decades after Griswold, and social conservatives and liberals are constantly arguing about whether or not the right to privacy, which is a popular right (naturally enough), and one to which most Americans believe they're entitled, is actually a right to which Americans are entitled, constitutionally-speaking.

The Perfect Bird

Turkey Help from the editors of Cook's Illustrated.

Vintage Ephemera #5

An American Time Capsule - the Library of Congress provides a look at three centuries of broadsides and other printed ephemera. Allows you to browse images by genre or geography.

Mona Lisa Revealed

A Worth1000 photoshop contest - If the renaissance took place in more recent times, and the models were famous movie monsters/aliens, what would the artwork have looked like?

Vintage Ephemera #4

Miss Mary's Emporium of the Quaint and Curious - exhibit of antique photographs (some restored or altered in Photoshop), postcards, ephemera, curiosities, and custom tiles.

Inside Joke

President George W. Bush, who has barely acknowledged the CIA leak investigation in public, left no doubt that he has mastered journalistic rules for anonymous sources.

In a briefing with Latin American journalists on Tuesday before his trip to Argentina, Brazil and Panama this week, Bush was asked a question about Argentina and the International Monetary Fund by a reporter quoting sources. "Please don't tell me that the government leaks secrets about conversations to the ..." Bush said. "Well I have my sources," the journalist replied. "You do? Well I'm not going to ask you who they are of course," Bush said, adding with a chuckle, "Inside joke."

Pushing The Agenda

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose department has been criticized for inadequate immigration-enforcement efforts, yesterday announced an initiative to better secure America's borders and reduce illegal immigration.

(apparently one of "Homeland Security's" biggest issues is undocumented workers, rather than detecting terrorist)

Gender Jihad

Gender Jihad - The struggle against male chauvinistic, homophobic or sexist readings of the sacred texts in the Islamic framework.

Vintage Ephemera #3

American Package Museum - aims to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century. Also aims to create a community for interested collectors.

Let's Talk Turkey

Turkey Basics: Including the Ultimate Brine - everything you wanted to know about preparing turkey: how much to buy, how to defrost, how much time to allow, and the basic methods for brining, oven-roasting, and cooking on covered barbeque grills.

Just Find A Candidate

Voters turn against Schwarzenegger - A majority of California voters said they are unlikely to support Arnold Schwarzenegger for re-election as governor next year, mostly because of his call for a special election next week, according to a state-wide survey.

Sick And Tired

The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

Gamer Geek

Façade - artificial intelligence-based game and an experiment in electronic narrative.

Robert Zimmerman

Dylanbase - The unofficial Bob Dylan Database

Every Penny Counts

Tips To Save Gas - offers visitors hints and tips on how to save gas and money each time they drive their car.

Vintage Ephemera #2

Scrap Album - triubute to albums and scrapbooks of the Victorian era.

Vintage Ephemera #1

Ephemera Society of America - nonprofit organization devoted to furthering the collection, study, and preservation of ephemera.

Troubled Waters

Lethal Beauty: Beauty and an easy route to death have long made the Golden Gate Bridge a magnet for suicides. This graph shows suicides by location.

Orangina

Orange Man Project - one man's experiment to discover if your skin really does turn orange if you eat too many carrots.

Under The Mask

I Heart Walmart - I'm Evil Smiley, and this is my blog -- where I plot to destroy the world, research my targets and generally just brag of my incredible accomplishments.

Movers And Shakers

The 100 Most Influential People in the History of the Movies - offers a list and the careers of the 100 people listed in the book by Scott Smith

Mechanical Adepts

Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards 2005

Not To Blame

Bush Says War in Iraq Isn't Cause of Rising Terrorism.

The Green Menace

Breaux has made understanding Absinthe his life's work. He has pored over hundred-year-old texts, few of them in English. He has corresponded with other amateur liquor historians. The more he's learned, the more he's felt compelled to use his knowledge of chemistry to crack the absinthe code, figure out exactly what's in it, puncture the myths surrounding it - and maybe even drink a glass or two.

The Tiki Totem #2

Humu Kon Tiki - tiki reports from Humuhumu, an intrepid tiki explorer.

The Tiki Totem #1

Book Of Tiki - Sven Kirsten's site dedicatd to spreading the gospel of tiki. Features news, photos, and event listings.

Ho Ho Ho

Delight your child this Christmas with a personalized letter from Santa Claus that they will remember for years to come. Click here to order your kids letter today!

The Blame Game

Who will be blamed for Iraq? It’s easy for politicians to point fingers at each other. But ultimately, the buck stops at the Oval Office.

Checking It Twice

Kids choose top 10 toys.