Saturday, December 30, 2006

Explore Your World

Shelfari - Aimed at serious readers, you can create your own bookshelf, and then add friends with whom you can participate in discussions and easily recommend each other new titles.

That's All Folks

The 50 Greatest Cartoons as voted on by the animation industry in 1994

Geo Logic

Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

2006 Snapshot

TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2006

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

For Lisa And Pi

MacAppADay is your free source for apps for your mac.

In Summary

WikiSummaries - Free book summaries that anyone can edit! Provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents.

The Redcoats Are Coming

Forbes 40 U.K.: The United Kingdoms Fourty Largest Companies

A Private Affair

Locate a Private School - Database of U.S. private schools. Search by city, state, or zip code.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry Christmas

Lots of free movies, documentaries, cartoons, TV-shows, music and entertainment shows.

Mister Cold Miser

101 Classic Christmas Videos

Holiday Sing

Christmas Song Lyrics

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Conscription Surge

US tests call-up system but denies return to conscription. The Bush administration is planning a test run of America's emergency military call-up, stoking speculation about a return to a draft at a time when the White House is considering sending more troops to Iraq.

A Worthy Repeat

NORAD Tracks Santa

Preeminent Reservoir Of Knowledge

The Library of Congress Launches Six New RSS Feeds

Neat New Toys

PopSci's Best of What's New 2006

Friday, December 22, 2006

Last Night Of Hanukah Gift

It's not Heaven, though it may feel like Heaven to rock music purists. It's the Concert Vault, the world's greatest collection of vintage concert recordings. In 2003, Wolfgang's Vault acquired master recordings from the archives of Bill Graham Presents. These live concerts were recorded at legendary venues like the Fillmore East and Winterland between 1965 and the late 1980s. In early 2006, they augmented the Graham archives by acquiring the archives of the King Biscuit Flower Hour, the nationally famous syndicated rock radio broadcasts of live concerts from the 1970s and '80s. They also added the Silver Eagle Cross Country archive of country music concerts in 2006.

Checking It Twice

Listango - Create and share lists with people around the world

Entertaining Prospects

Women in Entertainment Power 100

Loosen Your Bible Belt

Top 10 Christian Tourist Traps

What A Pain

FDA proposes warning on acetaminophen painkillers 30 years after the fact.

If You Get Tired Of Me

Site Sift - Web directory and search engine that provides a human review for each listing.

Paper Ephemera

ephemera - Exploring the world of old paper

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Trivial Pursuit

Trivia-Library is a collection of interesting and useful articles on literally hundreds of of different topics.

Learn Something New

BBC's 100 things we didn't know last year

Festival Of Lights

Hanukkah Laws and Customs - Features the Jewish customs and instructions of lighting the menorah, playing the dreidel game. Also includes the Hannukah recepies.

Spinning Round

4096 Color Wheel

Please Reboot

Top Ten Servers in the Movies, a nerdy film list.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Find A Bookworm

LibWorm - Search Tool for Library Blogs and Feed

For Your Lovecraft

Cthulhu License Plate

Break On Through To The Other Side

All About Eclipses - SPACE.com's guide to lunar and solar eclipses with eclipse articles, pictures, and interactive features.

Fluff Notifier

Twitter - Send status notices through your cell phone, instant messenger, or via the Web, and notify friends and followers of the little things you're up to during the day.

Space For Disk Space

5MB Hard Disk in 1956. The first computer with a hard disk drive weighed over a ton.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Way Too Cool

MojoPac - Software that lets the user transform any iPod, USB hard drive, or flash drive into a portable PC. MojoPac works with a large range of Windows applications including business apps, games, messaging, multimedia, and email.

Oh Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah

Radio Hanukkah - XM 108, is XM's first-ever channel dedicated exclusively to Jewish culture. Airing for the duration of the Festival of Lights from December 15 to December 23, Radio Hanukkah features the best in Jewish music, comedy, Broadway, talk and kids programming.

Holy Baterang Batman

The Great Batman Equipment Archive

Cover Up

Coverdig - Search engine for covers of albums, dvds, games, and books.

It's Not All Fun And Games

Toy Story Requiem - Mash up of Toy Story and Requiem For A Dream

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Go To The Source

SourceForge.net - Claims to be "the world's largest open-source software development Web site," browse through the enormous catalog of available open-source programs and code, and you're bound to find something useful.

Lines Of Credit

Credit Card Statement Drawings - And no, it's not a drawing to get your credit card bill paid.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Oh Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel

Just Dreidels - Includes a dreidel history, gallery, art, and how to play the Dreidel game.

Trend Setter

Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. As a preview it's rough around the edges. May your love for data guide you.

The Changing Face

GUIdebook: Windows Gallery – a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing graphical user interfaces

Friday, December 15, 2006

Can't Get No Satisfaction

40 amazing facts about sleep

Happy Hanukkah

How We Celebrate Hanukkah - Information about Hanukkah, covering the history and meaning of the holiday and how to celebrate, complete with blessings, songs, activities, recipes for traditional foods, the meaning of "gelt," and a virtual dreidel game. Chag sameach! (Happy holidays!) From the Jewish Outreach Institute.

Typ3 In K3yb0@rd C0d3

How To Become A Hacker

Thursday, December 14, 2006

On The Flip Side

A Bunch Of Old R&B Singles B Sides

What Does 'Toad The Wet Sprocket' Mean?

The 50 Worst Artists in Music History - I disagree with about a third of the selection, but hey ear of the behearer or something like that.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Hypothetical Case And Real Conspiracy

United States v. George W. Bush et al. - Retired federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has written a hypothetical indictment for a hypothetical grand jury charging President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, thereby commiting a conspiracy to defraud the United States by tricking the nation into war.

Wielding A Pen

The White List - A list of writers, editors, and other publishing professionals that have LiveJournals or LJ RSS feeds.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Monday, December 11, 2006

Stay Focused

Security Focus - A vendor-neutral PC-security site, reporting on computer vulnerabilities, the latest security threats, and how to stay safe.

Creative Process

How the Firefox and Thunderbird logos were created.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Stake Your Reputation On It

The World's Most Reputable Companies

To Boldly Go

STARSHIP EXETER - A small independant studio is producing a webshow based on the original Star Trek series.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Gotta Get One

I want one of those! - Stuff you don't need, but really, really want.

Gourmet Oxygen

Why bother with energy drinks, when energy drinks can take several minutes to take effect and may contain substances banned from professional sports? Bix Ox goes straight to the source, bringing badly needed oxygen to starving muscles.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Church Of Latter Day Dude


The slowest-growing religion in the world - Dudeism, and get ordained as a Dudeist Priest.

Cost Of Free Speach

In a supreme twist of irony, Newt Gingrich, speaking at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner which honors free speech, said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Here's the story about the speech, and here's a link Keith Olbermann discussing Gingrich's comments with George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Famous For Fifteen Minutes

Warholizer - Turn youself into a pop icon

Seeing Is Believing

Pagebull - A visual Internet search engine

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Kringle Kaos

Things have reached Critical Xmas and Santarchy is now a global phenomenon

Long Road Home

After running 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 days, Dean Karnazes is now running home, from New York City to San Francisco

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Super Collider

The largest superconducting magnet ever built, in the Atlas detector at the Cern lab, has been powered up successfully. Engineers sent a current of 21,000 Amps round the coils. Atlas will analyze collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will recreate conditions just after the Big Bang. More about the ATLAS experiment plus a video explaining it. There will be a test tomorrow. You can also visit CERN next time you are in Geneva.

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Darfur Update

Dr. Ashis Brahma, a physician with the International Rescue Committee, about attacks on himself and those he works with in Chad, along the border with Sudan's Darfur region

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Eagerly Awaiting

What's Next? - Have you ever found yourself trying to figure out what is the next book in a series? Now you can do this with ease. Use the Author, Series title, or Book title to figure out what's next.

Now Showing

Search BBC Video search 31,780 video clips

The Back Of The Class

Open Questions - A place for everyone to explore on the frontiers of science. This site has been designed to organize scientific information, both on and off the Web, around a number of fundamental "open questions" - the questions that motivate leading edge basic scientific research. By exploring the pages here you can gain an understanding of many of the questions that still represent major mysteries even to top scientists. You'll find that you need not be concerned if you don't immediately recognize all the terminology of any particular field. Many of the resources collected here contain tutorial presentations which provide needed background. We've added a good deal of commentary of our own to get you started and point out the basic landmarks.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Book Worm

Search the Biblioblogosphere and Beyond... the librarian RSS engine. Over 1000 RSS feeds go in and exactly what you need comes out!

Shaken Not Stirred

James Bond Title Sequences

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Keep Digging

GovMine - For local, state and federal sites but only for .gov and .mil file types.

Government Google

Google Government Search - yes it is Google, but one of their "designer products"

Stealing Our History

Republican appointed Smithsonian bureaucrats appear to be trying to pull a fast one while Congress is in lame-duck disarray, and it could mean that you'll lose your rights to a lot of stuff kept in "America's attic."

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Quick Draw

B-western movie posters

Updated and Expanded

Nuclear War Survival Skills

A Bit Of A Time Slip

Does the brain tap into the future?

"I'd like you to conduct a short experiment. While looking at your feet, stomp on the ground. You will notice that your visual perception of your foot hitting the floor matches your sensation of touching it. This would be fine except for one thing: the speed of light is vastly faster than the conduction times and synaptic delays through the long nerves and spinal cord from your feet. As a result, you should be seeing the event before you feel it -- and the delay should be noticeable."

Monday, November 20, 2006

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Wikipedia 2.0

Scholarpedia - The free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.

Perpetually Lost

Top 50 Lost Loose Ends

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Monday, November 13, 2006

249. Post This List On Your Blog

248 ways to annoy people

Real People

The Thirteen Scariest People in America - From the scariest presidential candidate to the scariest billionaire to the scariest cop, these are some of the worst America has to offer.

Excuses Excuses

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile

Sunday, November 12, 2006

It's In The Mail

PodMailer, which allows you to share files by e-mail - regardless of their size - without clogging your inbox.

Easy Way Out

Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word - Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word helps you to create a suicide letter according to your preferences. Use professional design. Choose from a variety of styles. Make your letter look great.

Quick And Easy

dodgeit - free, receive-only, email, no set up.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Find Out

Virtual Chase’s Database of Sources page offers a simple search box that allows you to query the site’s excellent collection of resources “for finding legal or factual information or information about companies or people.”

PDF Pad is a place where you can download and print the high quality documents you need for work, school and play, free of charge or registration hassles.

You Name It

Get the Top 10 Bestsellers for more than 300 Book Subjects

Friday, November 10, 2006

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The Replacement Killers

Robert Gates - Look at his history in Iran-Contra

Vote Of No Confidence

Rumsfeld stepping down - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stepped down Wednesday, one day after congressional elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican Party losses.

Reject Pile

WikiDumper - The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects.

99 Luft Balloons

Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon (1956), now on YouTube

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Game Over

109 Reasons To Dump The Republican lead 109th Congress

Skeleton Keys

Two versions of Dubya's Yale grades - Grades publicly released for George W. Bush at Yale (1964-1968) apparently differ from grade records for Bush stored in his residential hall on campus. The published grades are better than the grades stored in earlier records.

Out Of The Way Gallery

Fallen Astronaut - A small statuette which is the only piece of art on the moon.

Pick And Choose

Which is the real logo?

Monday, November 06, 2006

Press Any Key

The Windows Key is useful after all

A Secret History

Santa Claus timeline.

Bit By Bit

We're All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA. Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.

Place The Name

US Map of Hate Groups - Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2005

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Get Your lab Coat

The International Society of Mad Scientists - dedicated to disseminating information about unusual projects in any field.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

One, Twohoo, Three... Crunch

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

A Mile In Your Shoes

Take a walk through actual days in the lives of professionals in top careers with Vault's Day in the Life profiles.

Writers Plot

Plot-o-Matic - get a jump start on that plot for your next book.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Writers Block

10 best literary hoaxes

Height Of Hypocracy

Guess who used Nude Youth Summer Camps as a key part of his re-election campaign in 2003?

Arachniphobic

Spider Bites

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Knowing Is Half The Battle

Retrevo - Consumer electronics search

On The Horizon

Green Flashes - Sunrise and sunset phenomena

Thier Dog Astro

Astrofind

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Reboot

10 Biggest Computer Flops of All Time

Paul Is Dead

Undeniable Proof that Paul McCartney was replaced with a Look-Alike

Rich Get Richer

Pigs at the trough, just look at the numbers.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

A Hole In Your Theory

Bagel history

Unshredable

Enron Explorer contains a searchable, graphically relatable database of all the emails firing about Enron revealed in the course of the investigation into the energy trader. You can seach globally on full text or sort by individual and then drill down or even render a web of their contacts with others.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Expiate

Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America - Whether you find the government oppressive, the economy on a devastating course, or if you simply want adventure, you’re not alone. Over 300,000 Americans emigrate each year. Getting Out walks you through the world of the expat: the reasons, the rules, the resources, the tricks of the trade... where you can most easily gain residence and citizenship, where can you live for a fraction of the cost of where you’re living now, and what countries would be most compatible with your lifestyle, gender, age, or political beliefs.

Who Is Mr. Peabody?

List of Peabody Award Winners - winners and honorable mentions by year.

Where Men Chunder

US bans Vegemite

Monday, October 23, 2006

Fit To Print

Screw CNN - Daily Kos asks, "Which is the worse sin, presenting biased news and commentary, or providing total fluff and non-news and masquerading it as actual news?"

By Your Own Standards

Fantasy Congress

Watching The Watchers

The Observing Surveillance Project documents the presence of video cameras placed in Washington DC after September 11

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Late Night Mechanic

Jay Leno's Garage Archive

Conformity Cub

Be loyal, kind and don't steal movies - Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn an activity patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music. The movie industry has developed the curriculum.

Oneself Online

iWhat - Share yourself

Gotta Laugh

This is everybody but Bill Gates laughing: http://www.ie7.com/

Saturday, October 21, 2006

That's Ranked

30daytags provides a fresh approach to organizing and searching for data on the Internet. While traditional search engines provide results based on proprietary algorithmic collection methods, 30DayTags allows for user-contributed content and ranks results based on visitor feedback.

Count Down

Top 10 College Pranks

1 In 10

10 Worst Congressmen

Friday, October 20, 2006

You Grew Some

U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: 300 Million - To spotlight the occasion of the U.S. population reaching 300 million in 2006, "the Census Bureau steps back in time by comparing contemporary life and statistics to those in the time periods in which the nation reached other noteworthy population milestones in 1967 ... and in the year 1915." Includes comparisons of population, education, life expectancy, prices (gasoline, milk, postage stamps, and more), earnings, and other data.

Ask Your Doctor

Public Citizen has released its 2006 ranking of state medical and osteopathic board web sites. It gives a score and details on what information is made public.

Broadcasting The News

The Center for Public Integrity has relaunched its media tracker database, which will tell you, by ZIP code, who owns the local media, including television stations, radio stations, cable franchises, broadband providers and newspapers.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Keep Out

13 Haunted Houses - Compiled here are the 13 best American haunted houses, and each has its own specialties in gore and fear.

Parliamentary Proceedure

Guido Fawkes' Blog - Blog of parliamentary plots, rumors, and conspiracy in the United Kingdom.

Rogue Scholar Responds

Libraries: Limited & Obsolete?

Monday, October 16, 2006

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Three, Two, One

Query Nuclear Explosions Database - Geoscience Australia maintains a database of nuclear explosions with the location, time and size of explosions around the world since 1945.

Clear Vision

CICLOPS - Cassini imaging

The Great Detective

221 Baker Street

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Say Cheese

Celebrating the iconic cheeseburger and everything that goes with it. Check out the cheeseburger recipes section for some great ideas and keep an eye on the stories section for all the latest cheeseburger news.

Next News Thing

Newgie delivers the news that matters to you most. Newgie's news database is continuously updated with news stories from thousands of the most respected news providers. You then have the ability to sort through these news articles using a variety of Newgie's proprietary organizational tools

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Larger Than Life

The Superheroes Fanlisting - Online list of fans of superheroes.

An Action Hero

The BBC's Science of Superheroes - Explores related scientific facts based on the most popular superheroes, including Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Superman.

Last Train To Clarksville

I Luv the Monkees - Fan site for the Monkees including biography, history, TV show, episode guides with summaries, and photo gallery.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

For Your Perusal

Comic Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book covers for comic book fans to explore & enjoy, there's also links to find out more about individual comics or to buy them.

The Crying Game

Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don't have to register. Select input and output formats, submit the form.

Like A Lead Balloon

Rock Band Name Origins

Monday, October 09, 2006

Hiring The Bosses Son

Adage has build this impressing Media Family Tree, showing ownership and relationships among the top 100 media brands.

Corner Newstand

Top 100 Newspapers
Top 100 Newspaper Web Sites
Readership Data for the Top

The Sunset Palette

Color Palette Generator - Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Step Right Up

Blog carnivals - Find one you like, then either get on, or sit back and enjoy the ride.

Marital Vows

"Congressional Spouse Project" - Identifies members of Congress who, "by hiring their spouses, in effect use their campaign treasury to supplement their own bank accounts."

Now Stay The Course

A majority of Americans want the opposition Democrats to take control of the US Congress, a poll released on Saturday found.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Watch Where Your Going

Art History Directory

Arteographia

Art News Blog - The posts are International art related stories with a focus on the visual arts. New stories, reviews, guides, articles and more are found online and shared each day.

Cartographia

The Map Room is a blog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Seven Ring Circus

Transcripts from "The Chicago Seven" Trial.

Dead Or Alive

Wanted Poster of John Wilkes Booth on eBay. Only 1 of 2 known in existence

Bring Home The Bacon

Indeed lets you "search salaries from over 50 million jobs in the past year." A companion for the government salary databases.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Channel Z

Network 2.0 - A fairly comprehensive list of original shows on the internet that's organized and has a user-friendly interface.

Buy That For A Dollar

Rent-o-meter - Paying too much for rent? Enter your rental information and find out!

Darfur Update

The legal Web site, Jurist, maintains an in-depth collection of information on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, including news articles, Web sites, commentary and documents.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

And More

Everything you could possibly want to know about Leave It To Beaver

Stuck To A Wall

Despair, Inc. introduced Demotivators® in 1998, satirical products reverse-engineered from the most powerful motivational posters ever inflicted upon mankind. And now, they bring to you the Parody Motivator Generator.

An Order Of Degrees

The Structure of Freemasonry.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Monday, October 02, 2006

Day TRIPper

Advocates of evidence-based medicine want medical decisions to be based on the best scientific evidence, not tradition, anectdote or untested belief. The TRIP Database, once a subscription service but now free, says it offers "the Internet's leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine" and allows "users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources."

Answer A Few Questions

Myster Pollster is a blog about polling.

The Friendly Skies

Kip Hawley is an idiot

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Four Questions

Interviews A-Z - Some of the best BBC Newsnight interviews

WEB2DNA

Art Project where it will take a website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.

Red Reign Is Comin' Down

The Historical Political Development of Soviet Rock Music, Trey Drake, at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

The former home of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett up for sale

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How Did I Get Here?

Show Me Where - Lets you create your own Google maps, with labeled points and lines, by pointing and clicking, not coding or geocoding.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Spy Vs. Spy #3

Intelligence Programs and Systems

Spy Vs. Spy #2

World Intelligence and Security Agencies

Spy Vs. Spy #1

US Intelligence and Security Agencies - This resource is an index of United States intelligence and security agencies. In addition to the sixteen agencies which formally comprise the U.S. Intelligence Community, it also includes selected tactical military intelligence and security organizations, as well as those responsible for security responses to transnational threats, to include terrorism, cyber warfare and computer security, covert employment of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, and international organized crime.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Did You Catch It?

It looks like Google put a dirtbike video on their home page for a short while & without explanation a few weeks ago.

Walking On Air

SHOCKING news hit the fashion world in early September when organizers of the Madrid Fashion Week, the most prestigious fashion show in Spain, announced that they would ban models considered too skinny for the runway.

D'oh

Top 392 Greatest Lines From Television.

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Dickensean Turn Of Speach

Early 19th Century Vocabulary

The Sign Of The Evil Eye

Twilit Grotto Esoteric Archives = Occult symbols and esoteric web graphics

To Find Thee

Shakespeare Searched - A search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Too Much Time On My Hands

Time Management Resources - Find time management resources from Day-Timer to help effectively manage your day.

More Power To Him

Endurance 50 - follow Dean as he runs 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. Doubt he'll have time to keep up his blog.

The Office Pool

Weekly Picks

Thursday, September 21, 2006

50 Ways #3

Love Stinks: Being Dumped - Read real-life stories of funny, sad, and just plain mean break-ups and submit your own relationship demise, whether you were a Dumper or Dumpee.

50 Ways #2

Pickup and Breakup Lines - some suave words to nab the woman and then break her heart.

50 Ways #1

iBreakUp.net - not sure how to break up with that not-so-special someone? Send 'em an email. (Pull-down list of reasons included.)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Day Late And A Dollar Short

Arrr! It be a Pirate Glossary! - "Ah've compiled a comprehensive glossary for th' seaworthy folk!"

Torture Is Good, he he he...

David Gregory vs Bush on the so-called 'Torture Bill' A decent question is asked, a reply with almost no substance is returned.

Valuable Assets

LegiStorm - "The Web's only source for congressional staff salaries." "Who is employed by Congress, and how much they are paid, is often a source of fascination for the politically aware," the site says. "Prior to this site's creation, members of the public needed to visit the document rooms of the House and the Senate in Washington, DC to discover who was being paid what. Now, all this information is available on the web - for residents of Alaska or Zanzibar - at the click of a mouse."

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

How Sweet It Is

Sugar and Sugar substitutes

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Under No Circumstances, Speak

Male Restroom Etiquette

Internet Writing Group

You Write On is a "free website to help new writers develop, and to help talented writers get noticed and published." The premise is simple: you review and rate another members opening chapters and then your opening chapters are sent randomly to another member to review and rate.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception

Have You Seen This?

Viral Video Chart - Tracking the most viewed and downloaded videos on YouTube, MySpace and Google Video.

Darfur Update

Darfur Information Center - Dedicated to providing news and resources about political violence in Darfur, Sudan.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Calling All Cars

The Radio Scanner Guide is a comprehensive, free reference on scanners. It explains how they work, the differences between police, fire, airplane, auto racing and other scanners.

Exterminate

A Spotting Guide to the Common Dalek

High Score

Arcade World - Free unlimited online games, with prizes for the highest player.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

It's In The Air

Thumbstacks and Zohoshow are two examples of web2.0 presentation managers, like powerpoint light. Sign up, log in and create, store and share your presentations on the web.

It's Worth Less

Inflation Calulator uses statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States and Statistical Abstracts of the United States to calculate inflation for given amount during the period 1880-2500.

Constituent Dynamics

Majority Watch

Friday, September 15, 2006

The New Pentagon Papers

Ellsberg Calls on Insiders to Leak Details of Alleged War Plans with Iran.

Cold Winter Nights

How to Make Mulled Wine - Offers simple instructions on how to make mulled wine.

A Woman's Touch

Forbes Lists & Rankings: The Worlds Most Powerful Women - Annual listing of the 100 most powerful women in the world is based on a power ranking that is the composite of visibility (measured by press citations) and economic impact.

Your Move

BoardGameGeek is an online resource for learning about, discussing, buying, selling, and trading board games.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Emble-matic

The Official Seal Generator. Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and click the 'Go' button.

Spiked!

When the Levees Broke - Spike Lee on Katrina.

Quintuplets

They say things happen in threes, but on 5ives, you'll find some of the oddest lists in fives.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Darfur Update: Action Plan

Bob Dole and John McCain predict: "At some point we will step in to help victims in Darfur and police an eventual settlement. The question is whether the United States and other nations will act now to prevent a tragedy, or merely express sorrow and act later to deal with its aftermath." They propose six things the U.S. can do now:

  • First, the United States should reject out of hand Khartoum's demand that the African Union force leave and should insist that it stay, with broad international support, until the introduction of a robust U.N. force in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1706.
  • Second, the United States should call on the European Union to impose financial sanctions against the Sudanese leadership and to pursue the immediate imposition of similar sanctions by the U.N. Security Council.
  • Third, NATO should immediately establish and enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur to ensure that Khartoum ends its offensive military flights and bombing raids, as the Security Council has already demanded.
  • Fourth, the United States should intensify efforts to persuade U.N. members to commit troops and funds for the U.N. force in Darfur, and it should develop plans for U.S. logistical support. The administration should push the United Nations to draw up firm plans for the entrance of a robust force into Darfur and contingency plans for the force to enter without Sudanese consent.
  • Fifth, U.S. and allied intelligence assets, including satellite technology, should be dedicated to record any atrocities that occur in Darfur so that future prosecutions can take place. We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes in Darfur and that Sudanese leaders will be held personally accountable for attacks on civilians.
  • Finally, the United States should increase pressure on countries friendly to Khartoum — and particularly our allies in the Arab League — to abandon their support for Sudan's refusal to accept the U.N. force.

Here's something you can do now: E-mail your congressional representative and your two senators — right now — and urge them to push for these actions.

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Tiki Muse

Critiki - Worldwide guide to tiki bars, Polynesian restaurants, and other sites of interest to the mid-century Polynesian pop enthusiast.

Steaming Hot

All Penn and Teller Bullshit episodes

Pill Poppers

Crazy Meds is a helpful guide to psychiatric medications written by the people who use them, with blunt honesty, more scientific rigor than you'd expect, and a very dark sense of humor. Before you start popping Paxil (or anything else), go to Crazy Meds to check out the pros and cons.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Time After Time

Google's News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News Archive Search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time.

Search results include both content that is accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events.


Start exploring with... cold fusion, ansel adams, amityville horror, woods hole, civil rights, karl marx, carlton ritz, arctic circle, martin luther king, gene hackman, bmg sony, groucho marx, baseball twins, career guidance, jay leno, kennedy

Dead Or Alive

From western movies and TV shows to wild west comics, pulps, album covers and arcade cards - Wanted Cowgirls is here to help you track down 'The Most Wanted Women in the West!

Time Will Tell

How old would I be on another planet?

Monday, September 11, 2006

In Memory #3

This Is What We Said While It Happened This is truly the essence of online community. A transcript of the first two hours of posts on Echo, a 16-year, New York-based internet community, on September 11, 2006. And at Metafilter.

In Memory #2

Random Event Generators Predict the Future - This is a classic Damn Interesting article which originally appeared on 10 December 2005.

"For the past seven years, random number generators have been running all over the world, electronically flipping 200 coins each second, with the intention of measuring a global consciousness. The Global Consciousness Project (GCP), originating from Princeton, have named these random event generators Electrogaiagrams (EGGs) and are using them to test whether a human consciousness extends a field around the earth which can change the results of random events. They claim that when an important event occurs, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack or the Indian Ocean tsunami, the random event generators start to display patterns that should not exist in truly random sequences. Not only does the GCP detect spikes of less-than-random activity around some important events, but according to the project it actually predicts them, too."

In Memory #1

The September Project is a good place to look for ideas on how to commemorate 09/11. It describes itself as a "grassroots effort to get people together on September 11th to talk about issues that matter.

Doomed To Repeat It

Cheney Clarifies Iraq, Afghanistan on Meet the Press. For the first time in three years, Cheney appears on Meet the Press. "We?ve never been able to confirm any connection between Iraq and 9/11[,]" but Iraq "...was a state sponsor of terror" and "while they found no stockpiles...[the Duelfer report claimed that] Saddam did in fact have the capability and that as soon as the sanctions were ended?and they were badly eroded?he would be back in business again." "[T]his was the place where, probably, there was a greater prospect of a connection between terrorists on the one hand and a terrorist-sponsoring state and weapons of mass destruction than any place else." "...if we had to do it again, we would do exactly the same thing..." Transcript here.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Hang 10

Riptionary - Online source of surf lingo, jargon, terms, sayings, and definitions.

Burning Down The House

RadioFire - Internet radio station broadcasting local musicians online. RadioFire features streaming music from underground or unsigned bands and artists.

Countdown To The Weekend

Is it friday? - Find out here.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Random Roundup

Used FAQs - This blog provides a roundup of answers to popular, important, and not-so-important questions asked around the Web.

Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve

Dirty Coast Press -New Orleans specialty T-shirts. (or better yet spend the money from the t-shirt on a NOLA charity)

Tales Of Tyrants

Boss Bitching

Friday, September 08, 2006

Mad Jack #3

Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London - examines the social conditions that led to the creation of Jack the Ripper.

Mad Jack #2

Jack the Ripper's Modern London - current photos of the locations of the Ripper murders.

Mad Jack #1

Casebook: Jack the Ripper - repository of Ripper-related articles, documents, speculations, and experts.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Fall TV

TV.com: Fall Schedule 2006 - Browse the new shows for the 2006 Fall TV Season by day, with links to each show's main page on TV.com.

Late Night Movie

TCM Movie Database - Database of classic black and white films, from Turner Classic Movies (TCM), includes original trailers and video clips from thousands of movies. Browse by decade, title, performers, and TV specials.

Darfur Update: Got Questions?

BBC News: Sudan's Darfur Conflict - Background information and related news stories about the rebellion in which the Janjaweed militia are reportedly targeting black African peoples such as the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa, as well as the Baggara.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Clever Ploy

Help make google images more descriptive by labeling images and trying to match up labels with an unseen partner.

"Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images and help improve the quality of Google's image search results. Each user who wants to participate will be paired randomly with a partner who's currently online and also using Google Image Labeler. Over a 90-second period, both participants will be shown the same set of images and asked to label each image based on what they see. They'll also be shown words that can't be used as labels. Both participants can add as many labels as they want until one of them matches a partner's label. After there's a match, they'll see a new image and continue the cycle, until time runs out. Contributors will also see points they've earned throughout the session."

Free Is Good

The Assayer is the web's largest catalog of free books.

Blowing Up The UN

Bible scholars claim to have fixed the bug in their decoding that caused their earlier mistaken predictions. As a result they have so many different scriptural calculations leading to the same month for the UN bomb, that "coincidence is no longer an option" for their research team. See for yourself at true bible code.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Cliff Notes Version

Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold

A Late Fee

Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century
"In this survey of the public, we find Americans prize public library service and see libraries as potential solutions to many communities’ most pressing problems, from universal access to computers to the need for better options for keeping teens safe and productive. But few Americans are aware of the increasingly tenuous financial picture faced by many libraries. Forty-five percent give an "A" to their local community for maintaining well-run libraries, far ahead of any other community institutions, including schools, parks and police. Those who think public libraries are primarily used by folks who can't afford bookstores are clearly mistaken -- higher-income families are even more likely to use public libraries than low-income families. Prepared with support from the Americans for Libraries Council and funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

Candy Coated

Candy you ate as a kid

Saturday, September 02, 2006

23 Erisian Points Of Light

On Discordian Mysticism - New and improved with Footnotes!

Secret Senator

In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.

1,874,034 To 1

The National Safety Council gives the odds of dying by various causes.

Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst

Appendix 5 of Warren Commission Report available at NARA - Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Kerry W. Thornley - Orleans Parish Grand Jury Transcript, Testimony of Kerry W. Thornley

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Finding the Good Stuff

Head Butler reviews all the cool stuff (music, books, movies, products) that might otherwise go unnoticed in today's information overload.

This plugged-in cultural concierge will tell you about the New Good Stuff (such as Little Miss Sunshine, a must-see movie) _and_ the Great Old Stuff (such as Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain).

You can subscribe and get these friendly recommendations right in your inbox, or visit the web site.

Let the discoveries begin!

Vulcan Philosophy

Quotes From Mr. Spock

In Real Life

Vader Sessions - Star Wars and James Earl Jones mashup with all of Darth Vader's scenes in Star Wars: A New Hope overdubbed with James Earl Jones' voice from his other movies.

Midnight Snack

GopherNow - Listing of restaurants open late into the night in major metropolitan areas of the United States.

It's Not The Drugs

I think the reason George Bush stumbles, ends sentences midway through to jump to another thought, rattles off non-sequiturs, and makes up words, is that George Bush is breaking under the strain of lying almost all the time about almost everything.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A Pirates Life For Me

Ahoy! Ye came lookin' to become a pirate, eh? Ye came to the right place. Ye be at Cap'n Eli's Online School of Swashbuckling, the finest institution on the seven seas for pirate-tutoring and pirate-teaching. Located on secret pirate internet island, our fine school of swashbuckling carries the pride and knowledge of a thousand generations of pirates. Whether ye still be getting ye sea legs on or whether ye be a scurvy scurve, ye can benefit from Cap'n Eli's Online School of Swashbuckling. Navigate using the stars, your compass, and the toolbar on the left.

Pink Sinatra

Another Boot In The Wall

Be It Resolved

Impeach the President - Michael Moore's cut and paste template for applying to impeach Bush.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Ain't That Strange

Top 15 Strangest Coincidences

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Whiskey And Blues

The Single Malt Guitars - Built using timbers reclaimed from the scottish, malt whisky industry, each instrument is created as an individual, according to the available timbers and the customer's requirements.

Air Time

Farecast's goal is to help you predict when is the cheapest time to buy an airline ticket.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Darfur Update: The Final Decision

"There is Paralysis at the UN as Khartoum prepares to resume genocidal onslaught."

-Eric Reeves August 25, 2006

The final moment of diplomatic truth for Darfur has at last arrived. All evidence suggests that the international community is prepared to acquiesce before the military onslaught Khartoum’s National Islamic Front is preparing for North Darfur, an offensive that will target both rebel military forces and non-Arab civilians who do not support the deeply flawed “Darfur Peace Agreement” (May 5, 2006, Abuja, Nigeria).

Blink Of An Eye

The Guardian's 15 Websites that changed the world

¡Ay, Caramba!

Aranjuez Guitar Quartet plays Danny Elfman's Simpsons theme.

Make Things Helpful???

Interesting ideas to redesign San Francisco public transportation signage

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Darfur Update

Wikipedia: Darfur Conflict - User-created, hyperlinked article on the ongoing Darfur conflict in western Sudan. Includes a history of the conflict, maps, and related links.

Raising Cost of Education

A Guide to Free and Low Cost Textbooks

Some Mad Scientists

Pluto has been demoted.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Canary In A GovMine

Govmine: The Alternative Search Engine is a government-oriented search engine that ranks documents "based on relevance, not just popularity."

Speaking Out Of Synch

Nippon Cinema - Features Japanese movie related news, reviews, trailers, and a forum.

Is This Thing Working?

The Gettysburg Address in Powerpoint,

Friday, August 25, 2006

They Planned This?

The History of the California Master Plan for Higher Education site "provides access to digitized historical documents, images, and analysis related to the development of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California," which helped guide the expansion of California's higher education system (community colleges, state universities, and the University of California). Features a timeline (1849-1960), overview of past and current law, and biographies of key participants. From the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lucky Lotto

Lottery Report: Links to Various Sad but True Winners Stories - read more about the misfortune of lottery winners.

Wink Wink Nudge Nudge

Understanding Body Language - Explains the types of nonverbal cues others communicate to us and how to read them. Details the differences between kinesic, haptic, and proxemic communication and looks at the Mehrabian study on how your facial expressions and tone of voice convey more meaning than the actual words you speak.

Life Explained, On Film

VideoJug - Hosts instructional videos created and uploaded by people just like you.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

From Here To There

HopStop - This incredibly useful site provides step-by-step directions via bus or subway in four cities: New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco. Plug in start and end points and you get clear instructions, alternative options and maps. The site factors in service changes and provides alternative routes.

What Is It Good For?

How Many and Where Were the Nukes? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

On The Chalkboard

50 Popular Science Blogs (written by scientists)

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

A Place To Park

Central Park - This comprehensive, interactive guide to one of the world's most famous public spaces offers up-to-date information on 43 different attractions, from the Carousel to the Conservatory Garden, Strawberry Fields to the Swedish Cottage.

Citizen's Manual

50 State Bluebook Guide - Table with links to "blue books" for most U.S. states. These books are directories to each state's government, with material on topics such as branches of government, departments, and elections. Compiled by Daniel Cornwall, a librarian at the Alaska State Library.

High Flying

DEA: Drug Information - Fast facts and news about illegal drugs and drugs that are abused in the U.S., such as OxyContin, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, LSD, steroids, methamphetamine, ecstasy (MDMA), ketamine, and other "club drugs." From the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Darfur Update: Plain And Simple

How hard are your congressional representatives working to end the genocide? To find out, click here. (It was scary to see the partisan split in CA, the Democrats got generally grades of B's and higher while the Republicans got D's and worse, with a handful of C's but none higher).

Appearently there is a test for good and evil.

Thank you Ray for reminding me of my coalition commitments.

Do You Believe?


Science has just published a short comparative study of international acceptance of evolution. Thirty-four countries were polled, and guess what? We score 33rd - edging out Turkey for last place.

Reference is, Jon D. Miller, Eugenie C. Scott, and Shinji Okamoto (2006) "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Science Aug 11 2006: 765-766.

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Infornt Of The Screen

Torrent Search - Scrape Torrent

One Banana, Two Banana

Banana Splits (6 videos).

Monday, August 21, 2006

33rd Degree

How to become a Freemason.

Light Up The Sky

A list of forthcoming close approaches to the Earth by minor planets and comets.

Red Rubies

The Gemstone Files, the beating heart of conspiracy from the early 50's to the late 70's.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Beware Of The Cashless

DigitaMoney - Information resource covering digital currency, digital gold, Internet fraud, and related security technologies.

Anybody Out There?

Others Online - Toolbar that shows people relevant to the user's web browsing and other interests, on every page visited.

FreeBird!!!

Festivals.com - find festivals in your area with the kind of music you like.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Approach The Bench

vLex.us: Supreme Court Opinion Search - Features a searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Really Really

ReallyReady.org - A emergency preparedness resource, from the Federation of American Scientists, designed to correct inaccuracies in the Ready.gov website.

UFO Highway In Nevada

Why not scope out some of the weirder spots of the globe?

Friday, August 18, 2006

Your True Calling

Popularity Dialer - Schedule a call to yourself and take part in a fake conversation, right when you need it.

Red Hot MILBs

Minor League Baseball

Not Hardly

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Provides information on the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, the free festival held every fall in San Francisco.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Next Of Kin

Katrina Information Network (KIN) - KIN is an activist network that shares viewpoints and action updates from the communities that have been devastated by Katrina, with up-to-the minute news and analysis.

Pick Of The Litter

Dems4Pres - Potential Democratic candidate analysis and ranking.

Through The Gates

WikiPortals - Different views on the Wikipedia

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

True Talent

Hoff Blog - can anyone be as talented as David?

My Lucky Shoe

Sports Superstitions - whatever you do, don't step on the foul line!

Glad Somebody Knows

How Dreams Work - Includes an intro on how dreams work, lucid dreaming, nightmares, and dream interpretation.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Super Stereo

HOW-TO: Replace your car stereo with a Computer

Super Hero

Powers and Abilities of Superman

Good Stuff

A Behind the Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy - The Purpose of this Online Guide is to answer questions about the environmental and social impacts of the products you buy and use. It contains many of the tips, facts, and links you'll need to start making more informed purchases that benefit your health and the environment.

The Worldwatch Institute publishes a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Blister In The Sun #3

In Broad Daylight- Daily updates of corruption in the news.

Blister In The Sun #2

Dollarocracy - A citizen's guide to the money-in-politics complex.

Blister In The Sun #1

Under the Influence - A real-time investigation of money in Washington politics.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

High Flying

Airline portal is directory of websites. You can use the website to access thier database by alphabet, by regions, or by code.

Double Points

Cheat Codes in Video Games

It's A Bird, It's A Plane

Famous Firsts in Aviation

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Bottom Of The Barrel

Suicides and Suicide Attempts - Collection of articles about suicides and suicide attempts published in The New York Times.

Blackstone Stamp Of Approval

The Scrutinizer is a single page from which you can run dozens of different tests on the content of any page in your site. Available tests run the gamut from HTML and CSS validation and link popularity and rank checks to pings and traceroutes, plagiarism checks, site speed tests, and more.

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Colbert Truthiness

Wikiality - If enough people believe something is true ... it is.

"I love Wikipedia, any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."

- Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Important Questions

Do bubbles in Guinness go down? We are used to seeing bubbles float up in a glass of beer, but bubbles in Guinness appear to break the rules. Do the bubbles really sink in Guinness, or is it just an illusion?

Chased Aounrd The Desk

The 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.

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Frigid Libations

How to Keep Beer Cold

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Things Just Popped Up

With PopUp Politicians you embed a little code in a Web page and it creates a popup with information about a politician, including links to background information (from Congresspedia), campaign finance history (from OpenSecrets) and voting records (from the Washington Post). From the Sunlight Foundation.

Sizzling

What to do about Extreme Heat.

That Time Of The Month

Observances & Commemorations

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Teach The World To Sing

50 Albums that changed Music

We're The Kids In America

The Almanac of Hunger and Poverty in America 2006 , from America's Second Harvest, includes statistics by state.

Eureka!

The subject of this website is a manuscript of unique importance to the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest. This tenth century manuscript is the unique source for two of Archimedes Treatises, The Method and Stomachion, and it is the unique source for the Greek text of On Floating Bodies. Discovered in 1906 by J.L. Heiberg, it plays a prominent role in his 1910-15 edition of the works of Archimedes, upon which all subsequent work on Archimedes has been based. The manuscript was in private hands throughout much of the twentieth century, and was sold at auction to a private collector on the 29th October 1998. The owner deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, a few months later. Since that date the manuscript has been the subject of conservation, imaging and scholarship. The Archimedes Palimpsest project, as it is called, has generated a great deal of public curiosity, as well as the interest of scholars throughout the world.

Follow along on the Exploratorium presents a live webcast as the Stanford Synchotron Radiation Laboratory x-ray examines the 1,000-year-old document

Friday, August 04, 2006

Nuvah Den

Judaica Sound Archives - 7,000 different sound tracks produced between 1901 and the mid-1950s

Extra levels

All you ever wanted to know about Space Invaders on the web and a Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders

Sand Storm

The many influences of Herbert's Dune on Lucas’s Star Wars

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Form Of A Question

The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news. NiemanWatchdog.org seeks to encourage more informed reporting by putting journalists in contact with authorities who can suggest appropriate, probing questions and who can serve as resources.

Extended Dance Mix

The Prisoner (Free Man Mix featuring MC No.6)

Got Time?

Watch grass grow is it ALWAYS greener of the other side (I've always wondered if optimists feel the grass is always browner on the other side)? Or watch water evaporate is it half full or half empty (or is there just not enough to drink)?

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Tailgate Planner

International Sports Calendar - Browse by date, year, country, and sport. Content thru 2010. Provided by General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) via IOC.

Excuse This!

The Urban Etiquette Handbook

Excess Cash

2006 Investment Company Fact Book - 46th Edition of A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

A Neighborhood Walk

The New York City Map Portal provides you with access to New York City data and NYC.gov applications with address level data and maps. Find building, property, and community information as well as neighborhood statistics with ease.

That's Hollywood

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed

On The Dole

Archer Daniels Midland: A case study in corporate welfare

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Support Your Local

Bookwormz maps indie bookshops

You Gotta Read This

Top City Books is a geo-lense on Amazon.com - This mashup uses Google Maps to assemble the most popular books from the world's biggest cities in the world. Pins are spread around the world Google Map for 150 cities and lists the most popular books from the Amazon database in 8 subjects.

By The Book

The Google Maps Atlas of Fiction - A great book maps concept which is best described from the site itself: "..Even writers of fiction often set their stories in real places. From Dickens' London to Joyce's Dublin to the New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James, great writers have borrowed the associations and resonances of real-world places to lend color and depth to their works. The Atlas of Fiction uses the Google Maps interface to show these locations. You can use it to get new insight into the geography of your favorite writer's works; or you can see what writers have drawn inspiration from your own home town, and maybe even your own street."

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Hiding Underground

Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places in the UK. Cold War related material is covered separately here: COLD WAR -Bunkers etc. Subterranea Britannica brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souterrains to subways - see the sites pages. As the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground excavations that are of particular interest to members

Infinity

Pictures within pictures...

Magically Delicious

12 concept albums

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Complete Guide

The Complete Guides to The Monkees and The Beach Boys. Also The Complete Guide to Sinatra.

Travelogue

TurnHere - "Short films, cool places," shows video guides to travel, restaurants, hotels, local events and music.

On The Street

Overheard in New York is a hilarious compilation of verbal exchanges from the streets of New York, and Overplot plots them on a Google map of New York.

Monday, July 24, 2006

BAM

Bay Taper is a multimedia blog and podcast featuring original live music recordings, videos, and photos sourced directly from the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.

Got Your Number

ISBNdb - A database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, librarians, scientists, etc. The site takes data from hundreds of libraries across the world.

Re-Inventing The Wheel

If you have to build a database for a specific purpose here's a large Library of Free Data Models you can use. The author will even email you an Access database based on one of the models if you ask.

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Over Extended

Problematic extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Bad Science Fiction

Scientology Orientation Videos

As Above

ThothWeb - The next step in the development of the legendary Book of Thoth. The site incorporates the wisdom of Ancient Egypt, Magick and the Tarot with philosophy, creativity and a quest for the truth.