Saturday, March 31, 2007

Six Years Down, A Life Time To Go



Happy Birthday Buck-a-roo!

Court Of Public Opinion

RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Use the "Find similar RIAA-free albums" link next to any search result to find up to 10 RIAA-free alternatives to the albums you know you like.

Where Are The Instructions?

Toy Instructions is a collaborative wiki of deep links to instructions, user manuals, and building guides for toys and children's games.

Incoming

SFO Realtime

Friday, March 30, 2007

In A Day's Crimefighting

Classic TV Batman quotes

Barbulute Suits

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.

Give Me A Snapshot

Social Explorer, which combines a zoomable US map with a lot of demographic information, much of it drawn from census data collected during the last 60 years.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Obstructionist

Evading Investigation Through GWB43.com

Follow The Money

Euro Bill Tracker, the old world's version of Where’s George?

Save The Whales

Life Size Whale

Tin Roof Rusted

Classical Cat, a directory with over 4000 free to download classical performances, sorted by composer and work

Monday, March 26, 2007

Place That Name

Geonames, a new geographic name search.

Wine In A Mail Box

WineQ - The Netflix of Wine -- Queue up wines like movies and receive free shipping!

Pick A Book From The Shelf

The complete O’reilly bookshelves line

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Gather Your Thoughts

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) maintains a list of the top 1,000 works "most widely held by libraries," complete with cover art and links to help readers find each volume in a local library.

Good Taste

Ketchup Art

Exxpose'

Exxpose Exxon - Explains how ExxonMobil still refuses to invest in cleaner, safer, energy solutions or to pay the damages it owes to fishermen hurt by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Librarian Humor

Pimp My Bookcart Contest Winners in two parts

Force To Be Reckoned With

A New Force in Advertising - Protest by Email

Planning Ahead

The Time Travel Fund - The fund will be used to retrieve you, provide medical expenses, and provide a way for you to live, such as housing expenses and food, as well as educational expenses and what ever additional training or education you may need once you arrive in the future.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Ceratopsian Baramin

Is someone having some fun with Conservapedia's creationist contingent? As various paleontologists have noticed, someone's editing the purported reference site to make some claims that even the pseudoscientists ought to find funny.

No Retreat, No Surrender

Tom DeLay, the former House Republican leader who stepped down last year amid allegations he misused campaign money, defends his and the GOP's leadership during its 12 years of power in Congress.

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Picture Perfect

Every Stock Photo - Searching Over 1 Million Free Photos

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Jungle Boogie

Jungle Crazy - All the best Amazon deals in one place.

Old Fashion Anit-War Song

Tom Paxton has updated his Vietnam era Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

Time Warp

TimeSearch - Search the Web through Time. Enter a year and then Go.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Spy Who Couldn't Sleep

The Spy Who Billed Me is a blog with content centering on international politics and the private investigative community.

Lifting Two Pints

BeerMapping.com Never be without... beer. Features over 25 cities where you can find brewpubs and breweries.

Not A Day Over Thirty

The Ageless Project - Bloggers are grouped by the year they were born.

Friday, March 16, 2007

House Odds

House overturns Bush order on papers secrecy.

The Living Dead

Delutube, as its name implies, can serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

All In A Days Work

Corporate Investigator Deserves Kudos for "Outing" Covert Record Reclassification at the National Archives

And She Knows How To Use Them

Your Right to Know blog with info about public records (what they are, where to find them, and how to use them).

Tommy Can You Hear Me?

Librivox, a free audiobook service, boasts an ever-growing catalog of audiobooks on its website, from fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, poetry and short stories, and even books in languages other than English.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Pi Hole

Piday - Official web site celebrating the mathematical number pi, usually calculated to three digits 3.14 celebrated on March 14 or 3/14.

Nothing Stranger

An index of over 6,000 fiction magazines

Politics As Usual

According to an article in today's NYT, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez "admitted" that mistakes were made on the political firings of 8 US attorneys. Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein have again called for Gonzalez to step down. It's now clear that this issue was not a low-level administrative mistake. The House Judiciary Committee has a list of documents regarding the Attorney firings. One of the most bizarre things to emerge was that former Whitehouse Counsel Harriet Miers originally wanted to fire all 93 attorneys. The AP has more (via Huffington Post).

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Life List

Prapta is a next-generation social-network which contains over a million life experiences. Mark them off your "life list" or find new things to do. You can also blog, create a profile, and make friends!

And I Can't Get Up

Couchville lets you create an interactive TV listing guide for your local TV source.

The Fourth Estate

Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest report, The State of the News Media 2007

Monday, March 12, 2007

Spies Like US

A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (March 2007)

They Finally Noticed

And A Seventh Paper Gives The Hook To Coulter

A list of some of the 100 or so papers that carry Coulter's columns compiled by Media Matters can be found here.

(What is it about a Democratically controlled Congress and a Republican President that has finally fallen out of favor to sudden wake people up out of thier moral and social stupor?)

He Can't Hide

ALERT -- Tell Congress to restore access to presidential records.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Had It Been A Real Emergancy

Test Pattern - Tv, entertainment and pop culture gossip.

Geek Girls

Scientiae - Women in science and technology

Change The Channel

10 of the Most Awkward TV Interviews

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Corruption Trends

Global Integrity is an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Global Integrity uses local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness and accountability.

Bibliophile

Choose Books is a worldwide marketplace for Used, Rare, Antiquarian and Out-of-Print Books, Autographs and Ephemera Items.

Tea Totaller

Beginner's Guide to Tea

Friday, March 09, 2007

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Tired Phrases

The Cliché Rotation Project

Judging Others

The U.S. Department of State has just released the 2006 Annual Report on Human Rights.

Wize Acker

Wize - Wize offers unbiased consumer product rankings based on expert and user reviews.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Monday, March 05, 2007

More Than I have

How much does it cost to raise a kid?

Don't Take Wooden Tokens

tipstrs - Tips, tricks, and hints on a wide variety of categorized subjects. Share your brilliance with the world.

Completely Hidden

WSJ article about Hidden influencers

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Totally Dude

March 3 Total Lunar Eclipse - SPACE.com guide to viewing the first total lunar eclipse of 2007.

And I Feel Fine

Cerebro! "We Feel Fine is a software engine that harvests human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling'. The result is a database of several million human feelings, with about 20,000 new feelings added each day."

The Mole People

World Subway Maps

I'd Like To Thank

Oscars: Records & Curiosities

Friday, March 02, 2007

Not Easy Being Green

Greenest Vehicles of 2007

Nuts And Bolts

The Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) is a free, one-stop shop for learning Windows and Web programing fundamentals. It includes a learning path which starts with the absolute basics like how a Web browser works and builds on that with videos, tutorials, and downloadable sample projects using CSS, JavaScript, HTML, ASP.NET, VB, and C#.

Just Enough To Be Unlucky

How much beer does your country drink?

(Enough to elect George Bush... twice)