Rising Tide

Rising Gasoline Costs - As of July 28, the national average per gallon was $4.01. How did we get to this point? Watch as gas prices rise and fall from 1993 up until now.

But Barbie Says, "Math Is Hard"

Girls' and boys' math performance now equal

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

A comprehensive guide to snakes.

Come Fly With Me Right Into The Sun

LyricsFly - A user-contributed music service for searching lyrics. Find lyrics for your favorite songs by artist, song and album name, or search using phrases from the lyrics. In addition to lyrics text, LyricsFly also returns related YouTube videos, links to stream songs online (from Seeqpod), MP3 download links and CD covers.

Area 51

Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps

How Do You Know It's Summer Time

Backyard Cooking: A Guide

How to Perfect Seafood, Avoid Kebabs, and Build a Grill
The Fuego 01
Bratwurst 101, Grill Comparison, The BBQ Playlist

Divided We Fall

UN Counter Terrorism Handbook

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.

Stay Tuned

The Early Television Foundation and Museum

Worst Nightmare

Think Tank Calls For Bush to Be Dictator For Life

Tee Time

HideYourArms - 133 t-shirt blogs + 24 new additions = 157 t-shirt blogs

Just Picture It

oSkope - Five different views for books on Amazon - grid, stack, pile, list, and graph.

It's Out There

70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube

Fail Safe

The Top Ten Passwords.

Night Shift

Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long. A scientist looks at how the only non-supernatural superhero would operate in real life.

Junior Birdman

Point Niner - Satisfying an unnatural infatuation with airplanes and rockets.

All That Glitters

10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Fortunes.

How to How-to

10 Essential Sites for Tips and How-To’s

Stop The Presses

OUPBlog - The Oxford University Press Blog

DoCA&A

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

Somebody's Watching You

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

Tomorrowland

Modern Mechanix - Yesterday's Tomorrow Today

Refreshment

Lemonade Remade - Four fresh takes on summer's classic beverage

Hell Is For Children

Hello Kitty Hell - A circle reserved for the most evil and vile. This man must have done something horrible in this life or a previous one.

Ephemera Collected

Swapatorium - A Journey Through Junkland. Flea markets, thrift stores, antique shops, garage and estate sales, found photographs, collecting, odd finds, swaps and more

A Mothers Curse

The Housewives Tarot

An Affected Effect

Confusing Words - A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

Is That A Banana In Your Pocket?

Tattooed Banana - The only site you will find dedicated to the emerging appreciation for banana art.

Whistlestop Tour

Google Maps Elections Gallery

Chick Voyeur

Hencam - Where you watch chickens

Tightening The Belt

The price of food: 2007 vs. 2008

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Once Upon A Time

Dipity - A web tool that you can set up to keep track of all your feeds (including RSS, Twitter, Flickr, blogs, Last.fm, and more) and Dipity will make a visual timeline of what you do with your life. The timeline doesn’t have to be personal either; you can create one about a topic and invite others to add to the timeline.

DJ JazzE E

Hobnox’s Audiotool - A flash based web application where you can create your own music, using the same tools many of the DJ’s in real life use.

A Melting Pot

Wikimedia Cookbook - A collection of recipes from around the world.

There Was A Man Named Jed

History of Energy in the United States

4.5 MicrowaveOvens

Sensible Units - Convert boring units to real objects as you type!

Set The Agenda

On Day One - A platform for gathering and sharing your ideas about what the next president can do on the first day of his or her administration to help address the world's most pressing challenges.

The REAL Story

It took five years, the deaths of 4,100 US soldiers, and the wounding of 30,000 more to make Iraq safe for Exxon.

A Voice From The Pew

Religion in American Culture - Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public.

Questioning Authority

Lexxe - Type in your question to this search engine, which pulls answers from its database of URLs added by users.

Republic Of Texas

Can we rescined statehood for Texas? Please?!?

Bibliograpiphobia

EasyBib - A bibliography formatter tool where you can easily compose, format, alphabetize and print out your citation list.

Happy Days Are Here Again

Central bank body warns of Great Depression

Failure Is An Option

FAIL Blog - Fail and Epic Fail Pictures and Videos


(and if I don't thank Corey for finding and sending this link, he'll leave some anonymous message claiming credit)

Standing On A Street Corner

How to compete with other lemonade stands.


More How-to's for the young entrepreneurs:
How to Open a Lemonade Stand
How to Make Great Lemonade
How to Make Fizzy Lemonade

Up Against The Wall

Odd Wall

You Are What You Eat

Zeer - A grocery product community that helps people "believe in what they buy." They connect people to product information, communities full of like-minded people, and buying advice.

In The Round File

Where is my user guide?

Your Number Is Up

Old Calculator Web Museum - Devoted to preserving, documenting, and sharing the technology of desktop automatic calculating machines

Man On The Moon

The full Moon of June 18th is a "solstice moon"

On The Other Side

Glassdoor - A new site that provides company ratings, exec salaries and reviews, details on over 2000 companies so far.

Summer Reading

Notable Children's Books An annual list compiled by the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.

Top Ten Lists of "All-Time Classics" ALSC created this list of classics that parents and children can read together for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for national KidsDay (August 2001). There is one list for preschool to age 8 and one list for ages 8-12.

100 best paperbacks A list created by ALSC for Reading is Fundamental (RIF).

Newbery Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children from books released in the previous year.

Caldecott Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished American picture book for children released in the previous year.

Pura Belpré Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses two works (one for narrative and one for illustration) that best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Coretta Scott King Award Books Each year, the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table chooses two distinguished books, one by an author of African descent and one from an illustrator of African descent, that promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."

Robert F. Sibert Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

Mildred Batchelder Award Books. Each year, ALSC honors an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Booklist Editor's Choice Lists including "Books for Youth" compiled by editors of ALA's review magazine, Booklist; with grade levels suggested.

Must Read Books

100 Essential Books for any Man’s Library.

Test Of Skill

The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master (and probably woman too).

Calculated Risk

The thirteenth of the month is slightly more likely to be on a Friday than on any other day. Here’s the mathematical proof.

Food For Thought

Thought Blend - The Good Idea Database (ummmmm maybe, but you can create a good Idea from something there)

Good Bye Main Street

205 Most Endangered Archive - America's 205 Most Endangered Historic Places, each year 11 more get added

Two, Two, Two Twit's In One

TwitBuzz and Twiddict

Pane In The Glass

The 50 Best Pun Stores

Take My Wife... Please

Instant Rimshot - If you need quick access to an ironicly-placed rimshot sound to mock your friends.

Confessional

There are some neurotic people in the world.

Think Anybody Will Notice?

Photoshop Disasters

Livin' Large

100 Ways to Scale Down Your Life.

Can't Keep My Big Mouth Shut

Index on Censorship is one of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues.

Imagine That!

Street Anatomy - The blog on medicine, art and design!

Are You Feeling Down?

Online gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug advertisements.

Do-dad

Oobject is somewhere between a blog and a directory. They provide topics for lists of gadgets . People then suggest items to go into them by tagging things as Oobject in wists. Visitors then vote on items to create something like ‘Billboard charts for gadgets’, voted by everyone.

Licensed To Kill

The Ultimate James Bond Wiki

Where The Internet Makes You Stupid.

Something Awful has been mocking itself and the internet since 1999, bringing you reviews of the worst movies, video games, and websites to ever exist. If it's something and it's awful, it's probably on Something Awful,

Speaker For The Dead

Museum of Talking Boards (Ouija)

You've Got Mail

Lydia's AOL Disks - A substantial collection started in 2000 with over 2,500 unique diskettes and CDs, from Version 1.0 to 9.

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Welcome to h2g2

You Can't Escape

A Collector's Guide to Vintage Handcuffs

Free Air Drop Shipping

The Original Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

I Feel A Disturbance In The Force

The Secret History of Star Wars.

Tonights Top Ten List

Listanity is simply a website that aggregates lists on the web. All sorts of lists, lists of data, facts, fiction and plain madness.

Information Pack Rat

Buru - A platform for people to collect and save the actual web contents based on their interest and also made for people who search for these topic related collections.

Is Your Refrigerator Runng?

Telephone Prefix Locator - Want to identify where a mysterious telephone number is calling you from? The prefix locator allows you to enter both the area code and next three digits to find a fairly precise location of your mystery caller.

What in Bloody Heaven Was That?

UFO files from the U. K.'s National Archives: "The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start."

The latest release of documents can be downloaded free of charge for a limited time. The National Archives also holds other UFO files that have already been released by the U. K.'s Ministry of Defence. You can download these in PDF format for a small fee. The files contain details of numerous UFO sightings as well as Winston Churchill’s views on UFOs.

Crack Of Dawn

Sunrise and Sunset Tracker - Find out where in the world the sun is currently rising and setting with this map.

Just Shoot Me

Flickrvision - Combining Flickr’s API with Google Maps, Flickrvision shows the most recently uploaded photos from around the world in real-time on a map

My Hobby Horse

Bush Link to Kennedy Assassination

If Wishes Were Horses

Twistori - A Twitter-Based Social Experiment. Filters the public feed by means of passionate types of communication. I wish, I believe, I hate, I love... find out what others think, might even find something profound.

Another Brick In The Wall

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

Four Years, Seven Months And An Odd Number Of Days

An episode-by-episode list detailing whether Kirk got lucky.

Have Not Forgotten

Eyes on Darfur

It's Magic

How to start a fire without matches.

A Place To Remember

The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

Eye For An Eye

The complete text of Hammurabi's Code of Laws.

BBWW

The Big Beautiful Wonder Woman Blog

Secret Agent Man

8 Essential Gadgets For a Secret Agent.

The Final Frontier

SLOOH - Watch a Live, Online Observatory From the Comfort of Home

Too Much Time On My Hands

The Library of Things That Never Were

Win Lose Or Draw

XSketch - Online Multiplayer Pictionary Game

That's So Retro

retro and vintage design - Ads, illustrations, book covers, pins and posters from 1920-1980s.

Locked Away

Prison Post - Blog about prisons, inmates, and crimes.

Slip Out The Back Jack

50 Ways to Use Bacon

Younger Than That Now

Young Me - Now Me

BRB ROTFL L8t3rz

English to kids text message translator

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.