Abandon Planet

The Deathstar passes Saturn

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

Federation Of Planets

A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.”

Papa Bear

Stan Berenstain passed away yesterday.

Line Of Succession

Line of succession to the British Throne - The list goes to 882 just to be sure. It would take quiet the accident to get HSH Prince Max of Schaumburg-Lippe on the throne.

Mr. Rendon Had Seafood

A Perception Management Follow-up a Response by the Rendon Group.

Key Combinations

ALT Codes - lists keyboard ALT codes to make special characters.

It's A Small World

Inner-net wrote an interesting post about a book by Jessica Williams: 50 Facts that Should Change the World.

Time After Time #2

Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies

Brother Can You Spare A Quarter

Celebrate the 50 states with the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters® Program. With this ten-year program, every 10 weeks you will see a new state's quarter - released in the order states were admitted into the Union.

Day Off

Here is a Web site that allows you to use the Thanksgiving calorie calculator to total your Thanksgiving-feast calories

Perception Management

John Rendon is a man who fills a need that few people even know exists. The Pentagon secretly awarded him a $16 million contract to target Iraq and other adversaries with propaganda. One of the most powerful people in Washington, Rendon is a leader in the strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired result. His firm, the Rendon Group, has made millions off government contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name -- the Iraqi National Congress -- and served as their media guru and "senior adviser" as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam.

Time After Time #1

TARDIS type 40 Manual

Wicked Weasel

Weasel Trek - Daniel and Sarah bought 15 plush weasels at IKEA. Their mission: to send weasels wherever people like weasels. Each weasel is mailed to someone somewhere in the world. When the host receives it, they take the weasel sightseeing and photograph it with local landmarks and vistas. The weasel gets put back in its mailing tube and sent on to the next deserving host. They then post the story and photos from each leg of the journey.

New Obsession

Kissables, tiny Hershey's kisses dipped in M&M-like color coating.

On Your Sleeve Follow-Up

Album Cover Art Collection of Links

Behind Bars

How to Read 12 Digit UPC Barcodes - tricks for deciphering U.S. bar codes, usually made up of ten digits at the bottom of the code and one small number to each side.

Disturbing Dissonance

Bad Vibes - research project attempting to identify the world's most unpleasant sounds. Hear and rate sounds like barking dogs, crying babies, or fingernails on a blackboard, and help scientists understand how we experience noise.

Unknown Source

Governpub - information on the Congress, President of the U.S., courts, founding documents, law, and the history of the United States of America.

(if anybody can tell me who publishes this, let me know)

Danger Will Robinson Danger

Your very own warning label.

Under Warrenty

Uzi Owner’s Manuals and Uzi Brochures and flyers

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Yiddish Curses

"May you be like a lamp: hang by day, burn by night and be snuffed out in the morning." More here

Bush Demands Recount

John Kerry Elected ... Jury Foreman

You Are Number Six

The Prisoner To Be Remade On British Television

Generosity Index 2005

How does your state rank in charity? - Using published data of individual tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service from two years ago to compare the rank of each state's average adjusted gross income (AAGI) to the rank of each state's average itemized charitable deductions (AICD).

Strange Tales Follow-Up

How to make asphalt mosaics

Blue Plate Special

The Smoking Gun has collected together License Plate cleverness through FOIA requests for "red lists" of banned tags, letters taking umbrage at supposedly offensive plates, official letters notifying drivers that their plate is objectionable, plate holders's passionate pleas to keep their beloved tags, and more.

In The News

Link Selection - features daily news from worldwide RSS feeds.

Hey Big Spender

The world's most expensive restaurants

Gobble Gobble

Alicia's Recipes: Leftover Turkey, Chicken and Ham Recipes - recipes for leftover ham, turkey, and chicken including casseroles, enchiladas, soups, salads, and more

Guided Tour

The Ultimate Guide to Google Services

Turkey's Tryptophan Truth

Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?

Cloud Nine

The Cloud Appreciation Society

Stalker Scene

Celebrity Maps - Combines the power of google maps with celebrity address found across the web.

The Big Secret

The Alibi Network - They provide alibis and excuses for their clients. "Whether it is spending a night out with a special friend, taking a day off from work, sending a discreet gift, avoiding your neighbor's birthday party or planning a surprise for the loved ones. Now it is all possible... And it is all discreet. We put you in control and let you choose between local and out of town alibis with the option to have alibis validated by live operators."

Thanksgiving Treats

Twinkie/Ding Dong/Ho Ho Recipes - Hostess® snack cakes are great anytime treats, but few people know that they also make great desserts.

The Universal Language

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5,000 Languages.

Artist License

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified what it has called the top 10 art crimes worldwide.

Rippin' A Riff

Guitar company Fender has created a prototype design for musicians living in the digital age. Technology built into the back of the instrument will allow rock gods to send a quick email in between playing songs on stage. Touring musicians will be able to record a riff in the back of a van and email it to their producer on the guitar.

Lost And Found

Lost has already made its mark on the small screen. The Emmy-winning series is launching its first spinoff, Lost Video Diaries, to play exclusively on mobile phones beginning early next year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. And earlier this month, ABC announced plans to introduce a subplot to the show about a character named Gary Troup, a fictitious author who died in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but not before he dropped off a manuscript with his publisher. ABC teamed with Hyperion Books to publish the supposed manuscript, titled Bad Twin, which will be written by a name-brand author with guidance from show writers.

Places To Avoid

Hard to Remember - Locates over 27,000 fast food outlets across the country.

To Boldly Go

Spaceflight Now - Space flight news.

The Friendly Skies

Airchive - The webseum of commercial aviation.

I Have No Comment

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter The administration has refused to provide the Sept. 21 President's Daily Brief, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that it exists.

Tricked Out

Art Bikes

IMCDB

Internet Movie Car DataBase - Look and see if your make of car has been in the movies.

Consummate Professionals

27 Librarians Win New York Times Awards

A Better Mouse Trap

Inventor's Handbook

Hot 80's

99 Luftballons, Side by Side Comparison - A comparison of the German and English translations of Nena's 99 Red Ballons

Vampiric Hunter

Blade Script - contains the full script for the action thriller Blade, written by David S. Goyer. In plain text format.

Our House

State of the Nation's Housing 2005, report from Harvard's housing center at JFK School.

Circulation

Top 100 Daily U.S. Newspapers 2005

Hot Wheels

Stolen Vehicals - 2005's most-stolen cars from National Insurance Crime Bureau.

The Underground

London Topological - Urban exploration photos from underneath England.

Exit Stage Left

President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.

Queen Mum

The British Monarchy everything you ever wanted to know about the British Royal Family but were afraid to ask.

Not Necessarily The News

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

Cool Toys

PopSci's Best of What's New - 18th Annual celebration of innovation, the 100 most impressive technologies of the year.

Plug It In

EV Discussion List - a forum for the exchange of information on electric vehicles.

Is It Hot In Here?

Weather Bonk - Lets you view real-time weather information on a Google Map. All the way down to microclimates, in such areas as San Francisco. Clicking on the Web cams gives you a visual observation from a given location.

A Long Time Ago

Star Wars timeline

Suds And Duds

Facts About Laundry - Different types of laundering products exist to meet the needs and preferences of many different consumers.

Old Saint Nick

Scared of Santa Photo Gallery - view photos of sweet little toddlers screaming at the sight of the Jolly Old Elf.

A Bad Break

Thanatos Image Archive, pages of interesting X-Rays.

Back To The Future

Forbe's email time capsule. Simply fill out some fields, decide how long you want the capsule to be sealed for, and hit send.

Pupukahi I Holomua

Olelo No'eau: Proverbs of Hawaii - collection of ancient Hawaiian sayings and proverbs, with their English translations and equivalents.

Is This On The Exam?

List of Academic Lecture Podcasts

Your Own Hotspot

Turn a backpack into a portable, solar-powered Wi-Fi hotspot, and share a high-speed connection anywhere.

When Atari Was King

Pong Owner's Manual - photoset of pictures of the 1976 owner's manual for a Pong home game.

Geotactical Strategy

Play RISK using Google Maps.

The Number Four

Japanese superstition - Provides examples of what is considered bad luck in Japanese culture.

Hi, My Name Is Richard

Clutterers Anonymous (CLA) - fellowship of individuals who share experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem with clutter. Offers resources for recovery, including 12-step program, a quiz of 20 questions to help you find out if you suffer from too much clutter, and meeting lists by region and date.

Terrorist Sympathizer

There's a subtle campaign going on, abetted by several Florida bloggers, to pin talk show host Bill O'Reilly with a 'terrorist supporter' tag. Literally. They're urging bloggers and other websites to make a link to Reilly's web page from text saying 'terrorist sympathizer'. ( The actual coding is < href="http://www.billoreilly.com">Terrorist Sympathizer< /a>. Remove space between the <>) (See Bark Bark Woof Woof, and Why Now? for the story.)

This has been done before, by bloggers who linked the term 'failure' to the White House site; it's called a 'Google Bomb'. Eventually, Google will rank the O'Reilly site as the highest ranking site for this search term, if enough links are created.

Why are they doing this? O'Reilly recently made some comments that seemed to encourage terrorists to bomb San Francisco's Coit Tower.

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Britney's Baby

Is dreaming of a White Trash Christmas

On Your Sleeve

Worst Album Covers Ever

What Are We Doing?

Did the US military use chemical weapons in Iraq? An Italian state-run TV documentary says yes, a charge the US calls 'disinformation.'

Population Control

Texas town trades name for satellite TV

New Southern Reconstruction Era

Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch - News and commentary about the long road to reconstruction. There's also a database of contracts awarded for reconstruction projects, and research reports.

Want Some Candy?

Research finds cigarette manufacturers target youth market with candy flavored cigarette brands.

Deflector Beanie Technology (DBT)

A recent MIT study calls into question the effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies. However, there are serious flaws in this study, not the least of which is a complete mischaracterization of the process of psychotronic mind control. Lyle at Zapato Productions intradimensional theorizes that the study is, in fact, NWO (New World Order) propaganda designed to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) against deflector beanie technology, and aluminum shielding in general, in order to dis-embeanie paranoids, leaving them open to mind control.

Islands In The Strand

Sherlock Holmes in The Strand: Stanford University is now offering print or PDF Sherlock Holmes stories, serialized as they originally appeared in The Strand magazine.

Tube Out Of Order

Subways under construction

Ice Pick Lobotomy

On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On that day, he performed the first-ever transorbital lobotomy in his Washington, D.C., office.

One of Freeman's youngest patients is today a 56-year-old bus driver living in California. Over the past two years, Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy.

Light My Fire

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Fire Extinguishers.

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A Show Of Hands

Say-So - Allows you to post a page for feedback from literally thousands of people all over the world in about a minute.

Checking It Twice

OrganizedChristmas.com - complete guide to organizing the holidays. Includes Christmas countdown, holiday grand plan, gifts & crafts, news, message board, and more.

(Erin, don't read this it might give youu too many ideas)

l33t

Internet Slang Translator

Singin' In The Rain

Top 50 Musical Films - features a chart of the best user rated 50 movie musicals, as well as the most disappointing 10. From the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

January 20, 2009

Bush's Last Day

No Reverse Robin Hood Budget

Right-wing leaders in Congress are pushing a budget that literally takes the food out of the mouths of students and working families in order to provide more tax giveaways to millionaires.

Please ask your lawmakers to reject the right wing's attempt to put the interests of the most privileged ahead of ordinary Americans.

Indy 50

Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films

Prison Wine

Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can't eat fresh fruit at lunch. Learn how to make your own.

Incite To Violence

Conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is ready to scratch San Francisco off the map of the United States. Gone. Coit Tower? Terrorists can blow it up, and the rest of the country shouldn't care.

Should "terrorist" kidnap Bill O'Reilly and hold him indefinitely in a "detention" center while they "interrogate" him?

Can You Hear Me Now?

Cell phone reception and tower search - Consumers can search for the best carrier in their area. With the graphical tower location search, users can pinpoint nearby tower locations -- even to the exact rooftop -- with satellite imagery and the help of Google Maps.

Flight Delay

Looking for detailed flight info? This site takes airplane flight tracking to air traffic control levels. Be sure to check out the complete airport status

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes

People with synesthesia--whose senses blend together--are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain

Global Gender Gap

The Gender Gap Report quantifies the size of the gender gap in 58 countries, including all 30 OECD countries and 28 other emerging markets. The study measures the extent to which women have achieved full equality with men in five critical areas economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being.

Incoming

Astronomers have stumbled onto a runaway star inbound to our galaxy that might have been kicked out of our nearest galactic neighbor by a supermassive black hole.

Laundry Day

UNODC: International Money Laundering Information Network - clearinghouse for international money laundering topics

California Or Bust

California Tribes - Map of Native American tribes in California

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