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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Height Of Hypocracy
Guess who used Nude Youth Summer Camps as a key part of his re-election campaign in 2003?
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
Tweaker
Tweaking Companion Version 3.2 - The complete system optimization guide for Windows XP users.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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.
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?"
Watching The Watchers
The Observing Surveillance Project documents the presence of video cameras placed in Washington DC after September 11
Sunday, October 22, 2006
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Rank And File
The American Association of Public Opinion Research's Press Room offers a collection of resources on understanding surveys and judging their quality.
Members Only
The Male Privilege Checklist and the The Pirate Privilege Checklist (One serious and another not so).
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.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Family Fun House
The Nietzsche Family Circus - Pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Sunday, October 15, 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.
Friday, October 13, 2006
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
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.
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.
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."
Saturday, October 07, 2006
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
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
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.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Information Freedom
Scott A. Hodes, who writes the FOIA Facts column for LLRX.com, has started The FOIA blog.
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."
Sunday, October 01, 2006
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