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.

Balance Of Power

U.S. senators, who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks, have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.