Showing posts with label pedantic pundit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pedantic pundit. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Monday, October 13, 2008

Selling The Presidency

Since 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. Initially, WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 75 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. For the 2002 electoral cycle, the project increases in scope to the 100 largest media markets. This unique database contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Power To Oppress

The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence provides chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field.

Monday, September 08, 2008

An Informed Citizentry

Daily Analysis - Analytical briefs written by Council on Foreign Relations online staff on issues of the day with links to the news, analysis, commentary, and primary source materials.

Also from the CFR, this candidate profile outlines Barack Obama's statements on an array of foreign policy issues. This one looks at McCain's.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

In Limited Release

SnagFilms - Has the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and is making these films available to the wide audience these titles deserve.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Stop The Presses

OUPBlog - The Oxford University Press Blog

Saturday, July 12, 2008

DoCA&A

Dictionary of Cartographic Abbreviations and Acronyms - Attempts to decode abbreviations and acronyms that have been found in a variety of publications

Friday, July 11, 2008

Somebody's Watching You

Real Time Satellite Tracking - Track all kinds of satellites and follow satellite and Space Shuttle news.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Eye For An Eye

The complete text of Hammurabi's Code of Laws.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

To The Stocks

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Get All Medieval On You

Mostly Medieval - Exploring Middle Ages History online.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hallowed Halls

New Search (BETA) -- Library of Congress - This simple tool lets researchers search just the Library of Congress website, U.S. historical collections, Library of Congress online catalog, prints and photographs online catalog, the THOMAS Legislative Information System, or all 5 at once.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

State Of Denial

Statescape Billfinder finds bills in state legislatures by topic.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Check Out These Numbers

The Numbrary, a searchable depository for statistics, and The Numbrary Blog, news of new stats releases.

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Friday, November 02, 2007

You Grew Some

Global Compendium of Weeds - Over 28,000 names that have been cited in specific references as weeds

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Study Partner

StudySpy.com - A peer driven website for free educational content including course notes, lecture slides, textbooks, academic journals, and more.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Babble On

Languages of the World - Information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members.