Merry Christmas #3

Santa's Christmas Blog 2005 - Frequent Updates From North Pole, Inc. Chairman & CEO Santa Claus On Preparations For Christmas FY05

Merry Christmas #2

Santa Track - NASA's Marshall Space Center also gets into the St. Nick act with a map of the jolly old man's course.

Merry Christmas #1

Santa On Radar - The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) celebrates 50 years of tracking Santa Claus by radar on his big night.

The Revolution

Women in a Croatian village have seized power from their lazy menfolk in local elections.

Eight Years, Two Americas

Operation Eden - "A personal chronicle of what hurricane Katrina has done to my poor proud people."

"But I'm glad this person half-assedly referred to the Red River Flood of 1997 in particular, because it can remind us all just how low our government's been brought, in such a short time. We can compare what an effective, competent 1997 FEMA looked like before it was gutted, neutered, a foppish good-old boy installed asleep at its 2005 controls."

My common sense tells me that I'd be far better off in the America that helped Grand Forks in 1997, not the America that says "We don't owe you a damn thing" to New Orleans in 2005. What a difference eight years makes. Which America do you want to live in?"

Oracle Eye

Plausible Futures Newsletter - news and analysis about futures studies and scenario planning. Browse Plausible Futures articles on topics such as information warfare, nanotechnology, and habitat, or see the latest newsletter.

Three Sizes Too Small

Mr. Grinch's Blog - Ho...Ho...Ho.. and all that crap.

It's Only Polite

The Emily Post Institute offers etiquette advice and manners advice

Dooms Day

A Brief History of the Apocalypse

Ghost Of Christmas Future

Future Wiki - user-written reference to futurism and future studies. Includes predictions, scenarios, timelines, as well as overviews of future progress in areas such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence.

Merry Christmas Alaska

The Bridges to Nowhere are back Alaska's Congressional delegation celebrates the Season of Taking.

Nessie's BACK!!!!

The monster of Loch Ness has been spotted again.

Dreaming of A Streaming Christmas

Play Christmas music through your computer RIGHT NOW! You never have to be without it.

Show Me The Money

A Washington Posts chart outlining Abramoff's cash flow and a daily Kos diary pointing out some omissions in the chart.

Approach The Bench

Wikilaw - user-built legal information database focusing on U.S. law. Includes reader-contributed articles about treatises, case briefs, legislation, and motions, as well as a legal dictionary and a collaborative law review.

I'm Listening

The storm of controversy notwithstanding, Friday's revelation that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless eavesdropping in the United States should come as no surprise. The press tends to shy away from covering America's largest and most secretive intelligence agency, fearing precisely the kind of scolding President Bush delivered to the New York Times. But the truth is that the NSA—which has an estimated $6 billion annual budget bigger than those of the CIA and the FBI combined—has a decidedly checkered history when it comes to playing by the rules. Both before and after Sept. 11, 2001, the secrecy surrounding the eavesdropping agency has obscured a dangerous institutional tendency to overreach.

Fringe Movement

A Biblical Blue Makes a Comeback. A Dye Born in the Glands of a Snail Colors the Corners of Prayer Shawls.

Most Wanted

Lycos Top 100 Searches of 2005

Real Terrorist

CIA Chief Goss finally admits to American use of torture after six-hour beating with a hose and electrocution from a car battery.

Another Abramoff Deal

Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, facing trial on fraud charges Jan. 9 in Florida, is negotiating a possible deal with the Justice Department, in which he would agree to plead guilty and cooperate in the wide-ranging political corruption investigation focused on his dealings with members of Congress and executive branch officials, people familiar with the talks said last night.

Grounds For Impeachment

The AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, an alliance of over 100 grassroots organizations, has launched a new campaign called CensureBush.org in order to support new legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers that would censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney and create a select committee to investigate the Administration's possible crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment.

Please Hold

Order your Santa Call Today!

Evil Twin

Letters From Bad Santa

New World Order

New research by economists Professor Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick, and Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee at London University's Institute of Education, reveals that the more daughters a family has the more likely the parents are to vote for left of centre parties. Sons, by contrast, make people more right-wing.

The Art Of Dying

LifeArt - Encourages people to explore the creative and special ways they remember your loved ones. "We hope LifeArt coffins enable you to focus on the life being remembered and cherish."

Still Searching

Top Ten Alternative Search Engines

Executive Order 13233

A new executive order issued by President George W. Bush (Presidential Records Act Executive Order 13233) restricts access to the records of former presidents. The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association (ALA) and The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) urges libraries to alert their patrons and the public about this effort to close the public record. The ALA has created an ongoing list of historical works that would have been affected by Executive Order 13233

Winner Takes All

UK Gameshows - Gameshows on British TV, past and present.

It's Not Easy Being Green

Muppet Wiki - Muppet Wiki is a collaborative project to create an encyclopedia for everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets.

Taking Liberties

The pharmaceutical industry is bracing itself for criticism when the film 'The Constant Gardener' opens next month. But Jeremy Laurance reports that away from the Hollywood script is a true story of how multinational drug companies took liberties with African lives with devastating consequences.

False Start

Post On My Forum - provides a team of qualified posters to post new topics or replies on your forum, message board or community. Our posters are selected in regards to your specifications. Our deep and diversified team allows us to provide you with posters who have a genuine interest with your website’s topic. They will join your forum and interact with your members, hence stimulating discussions and enhancing interest on your boards.

Public Broadcast

Public Radio Fan - Features program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Follow the audio links to hear your favorite programs and discover new ones.

Underhanded Dealing

In a dramatic endgame strategy, Senate Republicans are using the calendar and a must-pass Defense spending bill to move some of the most controversial issues of the 109th Congress.

God Bless Minigolf

San Jose officials are still wondering how a miniature golf course landed on a federal list of the most attractive terrorist targets.

A New Hope

Wookieepedia, a Star Wars database

A Brand New Car

Buried Belvedere - On June 15, 1957, a new gold and white 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe was buried in a time capsule in downtown Tulsa, OK. The time capsule was part of Golden Jubilee Week: Tulsa‘s celebration of Oklahoma‘s semi-centennial. The car is buried under the sidewalk in front of the Tulsa County Courthouse, approximately 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue.

What You Really Really Want

Most Popular Internet Search Terms of 2005 Revealed

Your Hired!

Santa's Little Helper - Inspired by his favorite reality programs, Santa Claus invited eight elves to the North Pole for the purpose of selecting one as his new protégé. Through a series of rigorous holiday competitions, Santa has whittled down the group to the final two candidates - congratulations, you're one of them! Now you must manage a rag-tag team of previous cast-offs in one final competition. Succeed, and you will have earned the coveted position of "Santa's Little Helper".

All For Me Grog

Arrr!!! Sea Shanties and Drinking Songs.

One Trillion Dollars

The annual list from Forbes of America's Largest Private Companies.

Lacking In The Administration

Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2005

The Man

Tim Berners-Lee has a blog

I Wish

I Resign - 'Guarantee a stylish and dignified exit by using one of these template resignation letters. You can now customise each one before printing, to fit your own circumstances...'

Twentyfour Little Hours

Every Day A Holiday - The Earth Calendar lets you know there is something to celebrate every day.

And Many More

Everything Birthdays - offers birthday party themes, games, and recipes.

Fill'er Up

Clean Car Maps - location information for clean fuel stations including ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, natural gas (CNG and LNG), and electric charging stations for EVs.

Egg-tastic

Perfect Scrambled Eggs

Just Can't Get Enough

The TV Commercial Blog - Three new TV commercials from around the world every week day. This blog features TV ads and commentary about them.

Lock, Stock And Barrel

How to Stock Your Bar for a Party

Beautiful Sunset

Sixteen provisions of the USA Patriot Act expire December 31 if not renewed by Congress

Yet Another Absinthe Update

The Virtual Absinthe Museum - An extensive reference collection of original artifacts documenting every aspect of the history of La Fee Verte, from its use as a medicinal elixir in ancient times, to its heyday as a fashionable aperitif in the 19th century and its prohibition at the beginning of the 20th.

Taking Liberties

Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

The Bush Bubble

Bush likes to say that his hero is Ronald Reagan, a true-blue conservative who knew his own mind. But Reagan also knew when to compromise, and when he got into trouble early in his second term, he reached out for help, making a moderate, former senator, Howard Baker, his chief of staff. The chance that George W. Bush will give a top White House job to an establishment moderate (say, Brent Scowcroft, his father's national-security adviser) is about the same as that Texas will become a province of France.

Ping Pong

Celebrities Playing Table Tennis.

Break Away

How To Make Fake Glass

Total Cost Of Ownership

Green Car Journal - coverage of vehicles and technologies that takes environmental performance into account.

Generosity Update

The Generosity Index is a hoax. Please see wabash's analysis at the Progressive Indiana.

Vewy Vewy Qwiet

A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says.

Like Father

Jenna Bush’s infamous ID-gate videotape is raising more questions than the Zapruder film. According to a source who has seen the footage—which features a self-described downtown coke dealer relating his late-night run-in with the First Daughter, and brandishing her college ID as a souvenir—the man insinuates that the two shared more than just drinks.

Ghost Of Christmas Past

Penguin books has put a podcast of Dickens' A Christmas Carol online, read by actor Geoffrey Palmer. Episode one is available for download now, and you can subscribe to get the next episodes delivered to your feed reader. You can also get the 'casts in ITunes.

Haim Yehudi Bar-Anders

Jack And The Beanstalk - Rabbinical Interpretation

Hitchhikers' Guide

Hitchhikers' Guide to Hitchhiking is a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia for the needs of hitchhikers. It's a compilation of tips about good hitchhiking places, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities in different countries, general knowhow about what to pack and when to go, what to eat and how to stay safe. The project has just started. So far we have 40 destination guides and other articles written and edited by hitchhikers from around the globe.

An Academic Autopsy

In May 1993 David McCullough, the Pulitzer-prize winning biographer of Harry Truman, warned the graduates of the University of New Hampshire that we are becoming "a nation of historical illiterates ...losing our past, losing our story." "To aspire to quality citizenship demands an understanding of our background," McCullough cautioned, adding that "Truman once said the only new thing in the world is the history you don't know."

Where The President Isn't

Reporting that President Bush steered clear of the White House's own Conference on Aging yesterday -- making him the first president ever to do so -- fell to the regional newspapers and NPR, not the big guys.

The Perfect Gift

Romeo Shops ('because guys can't shop')

Waste Of Time

Productive Strategies - Time management and personal productivity resources blog.

Flip A Lid

Bottle-Cap Monument

Darfur Update

Spotlight On Darfur

Exploding Cars

40 Things That Only Happen In Movies

Subversive

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans? Secret database obtained by NBC News tracks ‘suspicious’ domestic groups.

I'd Like To Thank

2005 Golden Globe Award Nominations - press release contains the 2005 nominations for the 2006 Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Inalienable Rights

Whatever else he is, Jose Padilla is an American citizen. That inescapable fact explains both the Bush administration's decision last week to charge him with a crime — and the importance of the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on whether to hear his case.

Where Was Yours?

First Kiss

Take A Toke

The lead attorney in the government's landmark racketeering case against the tobacco industry retired from the Justice Department yesterday, saying her politically appointed bosses showed little support for her or her team's work on the case.

Sharon Y. Eubanks had led a group of career government lawyers who this summer recommended a $130 billion penalty against the tobacco industry, in part to fund smoking-cessation programs for millions of Americans. Her supervisors, appointees at the department, scaled back the proposal to $10 billion.

The Religious Left

When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them.

Long And The Short Of It #2

Pencil Carving

Picture This

Find 74 bands in this picture...

Sold!

Way Out Auctions - Watching the Wild & Wooly Auctions Going On At eBay.

Partisan Politics

A law that will make democracy all but moot in Ohio is about to pass the state legislature and to be signed by its Republican governor.[with the lowest governor approval on record (5%-8%)]Despite massive corruption scandals besieging the Ohio GOP, any hope that the Democratic party could win this most crucial swing state in future presidential elections, or carry its pivotal US Senate seat in 2006, are about to end.

Birth Right

For nearly 140 years, any child born on U.S. soil, even to an illegal immigrant, has been given U.S. citizenship. Now, some conservatives in Congress are determined to change that.

Pre-Emptive Strike

Israel's armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.

That Is The Question

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

Reach Out

Write a Senior Citizen

On The Wall

Top 100 Beers

Happy Holidays

December Holidays - A directory of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa related sites, includes sites with activities, games, stories, recipes, and more.

Who Owns Stock?

A Harvard grad student is charging that the U.S. government is hyping the threat of the annual (non-avian) strains of influenza. Specifically, Peter Doshi says, the estimate of 36,000 flu-related deaths a year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is unsupported by the available data.

Under The Hood

Complete PC Maintenance Checklist

Got Lost?

LostPedia - The Lost Encyclopedia

B Side

Christmas carols reviewed

A Good Idea?

Strange New Products

The Bottom Line

AlterNet's 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers

Don't Pass Go

Print your own Monopoly money

The Dead Body Guy

Help Me Live My Dream -- Let Me Play Dead

Parking Space Roulette

It's the holiday season, and the parking lot at the mall is busy. You're looking for a parking space. What's the best strategy for selecting a "good" spot quickly?

CUT!! Take Two Hundred

The 30 most mistake-filled movies

Enter The Dragon

About.com Guide Picks - Top 10 Chinese Martial Arts Movies

Pre-Screening

Rolling Stone's Top 25 DVDs

A Phone Box

The Salisbury TARDIS Builders Guild - The site gives you easy access to tardis plans and a guide on how to put it together.

Yeomen Of The Guard

The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.

Now I'm Found

The Internet Lost and Found is the largest and most comprehensive website devoted exclusively to the recovery of pets and personal property.

Misheard Christmas Lyrics

Joy to the world! The Lord has gum!

Four Score

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln - Full text of a 1953 eight-volume set.

'B' Girls

Cult Sirens - Hammer horror actresses, Bond girls and other classic cult film beauties.

Outsource It

One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money. The people working at this clandestine locale are "gold farmers." Every day, in 12-hour shifts, they "play" computer games by killing onscreen monsters and winning battles, harvesting artificial gold coins and other virtual goods as rewards that, as it turns out, can be transformed into real cash.

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...

A large archive of first lines from books, alphabetized by author.

Blinded Me With Science

A Compound Microscope - An article that shows you how to construct a very simple low-cost compound microscope.

He Wants You

Uncle Sam Image Gallery - 'Pictures and historical information about an American legend.'

Drifting Away

Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday.

What if...

The Christmas cult classic "A Christmas Story" re-marketed as a horror film, called "A Christmas Gory."

Downtown

A Brookings Institute analysis of Who Lives Downtown giving population, household, and income trends in 44 selected cities from 1970 to 2000.

Cruise Control

Tom Cruise probably will sue South Park over this clip

High Society

A list of the members of Yale's Skull and Bones

Xoogle

Xooglers - A gathering spot for ex-Googlers to reminisce and comment on the latest developments in search.

Up In The Air

Federal Air Marshals website.

Potty Break

Restroom Ratings - ever-expanding public restroom reviews from around the world.

What They Want To Hear

Truth in advertising - vintage cigarette & tobacco ads.

Making A List

Santa's Journal

Darfur Update

The Greater Darfur Crisis

Blast Off

Dawn - Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft. Your name will be recorded onto a microchip that will be placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the asteroid belt.

Record High

According to Bankrate.com's latest survey of large banks and thrifts, ATM fees have hit a record high and, despite rising interest rates, interest checking accounts still don't add up. In short, consumers are finding that money sometimes comes out of their checking accounts faster than it goes in.

The study's key findings are:

• The fee for using the "wrong" automated teller machine - one owned by a bank where you don't have an account - hit an all-time record high. You'll be hit twice for a single withdrawal once by that other bank's ATM fee and once by your own bank, for a total average fee of $2.91. Bankrate.com estimates that American consumers will pay more than $4.3 billion in withdrawal fees for using ATMs not owned by their own bank in 2005.
  
• Bounced-check fees have gotten sneakier. While the average insufficient funds fee fell a few cents, from $27.13 to $26.90, Bankrate found more banks are instituting tiered fees that ramp up the more often you bounce a check or leave a check uncovered. Even at $26.90, the bounced-check fee remains the second-highest recorded since Bankrate began surveying checking accounts in 1998.
  
• Interest-bearing checking accounts remain an unattractive option, where you have to pay a lot more to open an account and lock up a lot more money to gain a pittance in interest.

High Court

Clash over military recruiters on campus. The Supreme court must decide if schools can discriminate against military if it discriminates against gays.

It's What's For Dinner

South Dakota State University has outlined the formula for determining the amount of meat one gets from an average cow.

Andromeda Strain

List of fictional diseases.

Nazi Computer Worms

iDefense, a division of Verisign, reports the next planned attack of the Sober worm is slated to start on January 5th, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack coincides with the 87th anniversary of founding the Nazi party.

Grounded For Life

How To Do Stuff - "WARNING: Some things described on this site are potentially dangerous/illegal. The writers of this site assume no responsibility for the consequences that may result from attempting the activities described here."

Darfur Update

African Union: The Situation in Darfur

At Your Service

Corporate Consumer Contacts - offers contact information for more than 650 company corporate headquarters. Allows customers to file complaints with the right department and/or person.

Look It Up

Alphabetical index of facts

History Repeats

Ford Motor Company embraces homophobia in order to appease the religious right

Ad Hominem

A professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he sent e-mails deriding Christian conservatives was hospitalized Monday after what appeared to be a roadside beating. University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki said that the two men who beat him made references to the class that was to be offered for the first time this spring. Originally called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies," the course was canceled last week at Mirecki's request.

Darfur Update

The need to interfere in Sudan's Darfur Region

The Long And The Short Of It

Pencil Revolution - A pencil blog.

Widow's Son

Secret Masonic Handshakes

When The Tigers Broke Free

An original and complete analysis of Pink Floyd's The Wall

Booking Billions

Forbes Magazine brings you the world's top 15 super-rich people who don't exist

What Is Perception?

Rendon Group Wins Hearts and Minds in Business, Politics and War

Smells Like Nirvana

Ragnar Bjarnason and Rumal Noorkuu do very original spirited covers.

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Nightly Reading

The New York Times Ten best books of 2005

Greasy Spoon

Diner City - photos, reviews, and guides to diners near you.

None Of Your Business

America's Largest Private Companies, annual list from Forbes.

Velcro Veep

The most powerful vice president in American history finds himself at the center of storms these days over prewar intelligence, a proposed ban on prisoner torture and the CIA-leak investigation that has ensnared his top aide. Critics say he has helped shape an administration that — on the war, energy policy and other issues — is unwilling to admit mistakes, wedded to secrecy and increasingly embattled.

Trade School

GlobalCPR - features information on national income, globalization, international organizations, green economics, and international trade.

Formal Affair

ToTieATie.com - Every thing you needed to know about tying a tie.

Darfur Update

Peacekeeping a struggle in Sudan

So Called

Airquote.org - Is an organization that was founded by citizens concerned over the improper use of "airquotes".

Stinking Rose

Garlicster - garlic recipes galore

Nouveau Gauche

Julie's Tacky Treasures.

Deep Space

SPACE.com gives it's list of the Best Space Movies of All Time.

True Lies #2

Eye Movement and Lying - How to tell if someone is lying based on the movements of their eyes.

True Lies #1

How to Detect Lies - Learn the secrets to become a human lie detector.

Death Row

1,000th Inmate Executed Since 1976. Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, was executed by lethal injection in Raleigh, N.C. at 2 a.m. local time, after Gov. Mike Easley rejected a request for clemency.

Where Will They Go?

Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

Survive An Airplane Crash

Popular Mechanics Archives: Worst-Case Scenarios

If I Only Had A Hammer

Nailhunter - a pictorial guide to date nails

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I Call Shenanigans!

A memo from the Department of Justice in Texas' voting division reveals that, back in 2003 during the Texas GOP's redistricting push, the division unanimously agreed that the redistricting plan sponsored by the state GOP and Rep. Tom DeLay was illegal under the Voting Rights Act. The plan was pushed through anyway, being the most effective in securing additional House seats for the GOP.

Gimme A Break

Lunchclock is a JavaScript clock that distorts time to give you a longer lunch hour. Lunchclock discreetly runs fast in the morning, runs slow over lunch, and runs fast again in the afternoon.

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Rock Paper Scissors

Paper Forest

Ever Expanding

The 2005 List of Lists from Fimoculous

Number Five

America's Most Literate Cities in 2005,

Thank you Ray for the find.

Trapped In A Box

I Hate Mimes - The official site for people that are annoyed by, or just plain hate, mimes.

Follow The Foot Steps

Wikipedia Blog - Wikipedia is an open-source encyclopedia. It's radically open -- anyone can edit it as much as they want -- and increasingly relevent. This (unofficial) weblog tracks its progress.

Final Resting Place

Pat's Presidential Places - a look at the gravesites of US Presidents, Vice-Presidents, presidential and vice-presidential hopefuls, and New York Stae Governors.

Table For Two

OpenTable - Find restaurants and make reservations

Approaching The End?

History Magazine: Survivor - The History of the Library - article traces the history of libraries through the ages.

Per Gallon

The price of gasoline remains one of the cheapest liquids available for sale. Here are 47 liquids and their prices, in order, from cheapest to most expensive.

Though I bet this get skewed differently if you figured out average usage per day and calculated a price per day.

(In California the price of gas per gallon moves to number 5, in between Clorox bleach and lowfat milk)

A New Flavor

TV Scoop - a new British TV blog

Doctor Doom

Dispatches From Latveria - the online journal of Victor Von Doom, Lord of Latveria

Holly War

Evangelical Christian pastor Jerry Falwell has a message for Americans when it comes to celebrating Christmas this year: You're either with us, or you're against us.

Mind Reader

Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior.

Extraordinary Mind

Live Science gives it's list of Leonardo Da Vinci's top 10 best ideas. I'm not sure how you limit it to 10.

The Evil Empire

WAL-MART: Rolling Back Wages, Workers’ Rights,and the American Dream

Age Old Question

How much is inside? - "With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths"

Unreal Death

List of fictional wars

Lady Marmalade

Kumquat Recipes - Small collection of recipes using this citrus fruit, including cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, cheesecake, glazes, marmalade, relish, and even a kumquat martini. From a kumquat grower.

War Prize

Who would bid for Saddam Hussein's uniform? The bid is currently at $5,254

You still have time.

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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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.

Mansion On The Hill

Find Haunted Houses - provides a directory of haunted houses and Halloween attractions, listed by state, zip code, and type.

Dress Up

Lauren's Halloween Page - dedicated to the costumes she and her friends have sported through the years.

The Great Pumpkin

Monster Pumpkin - grower log for two backyard gardeners growing Atlantic Giant pumpkins in Northern California. With photo galleries and giant pumpkin FAQs.

Vampire Stakes Anyone?

Halloween Trivia Quiz - online Halloween trivia quiz to test your ghoulish knowledge.

Catch The Spirit

Old Haunts - blogging the history of Halloween in 20th-century America with photos, costumes, and memorabilia.

Jack O'Lantern

Pumpkin carving

IEEEeeEEEeeEEEEeeee

Scary Halloween Sounds - collection of scary sound clips including goblins, graveyards, heartbeats, screams, and much more.

Pumpkin Artists

Extreme Pumpkins Site

Boooooo

Researcher says Halloween no laughing matter for many youngsters

Monster Page

Monster Page of Halloween Project Links - collection of do-it-yourself instructions.

The Living Dead

Zombie Guide 2005 - handy guides to what you should know about zombies, how to deal with the fast and slow varieties, and lots of information on zombies in pop culture.

Haunted House

Ghost Haunts - ghost exploration site that lists haunted houses, cemeteries, ghost stories, and more.

Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Halloween Ghost Stories - scary Halloween tales, classic ghost stories, real life hauntings, and urban legends.

Distilled Spirits

UFO-Free Paranormal Page - This page is home to the oldest true ghost story archive on the net (with stories dating back to 1993) as well as the net's original Ghosts and Hauntings FAQ.

In The Shadows

Dark Side of the Net - Directory of websites about spooky, occult, and Goth matters. Includes thousands of links in such categories as Halloween (including haunted houses), literature, art, computer applications (fonts, screensavers, wallpapers), entertainment, discussion groups and chat rooms, horror, movies, music, and vampires.

The Monster Mash

Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge - A collection of 60s Halloween novelty records.

Geranimals For Adults

dress kevin - "I didn't know what to wear, so I made a web site."

Hi Norm

Buy Him a Beer

Agree To What?

RTF EULA - Excerpts from End User License Agreements.

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Face Off

Mars is set for a close encounter with Earth, approaching to within 69.4 million km (43.1 million miles) of our planet in the early hours of Sunday.

Everything Is Better With Beer

''Just add beer!''

Jive Talkin'

Slang Search - online dictionary of English slang, street terms, and trash talk. Browse insults, drug terms, police jargon, and sex slang.

Great Minds Think Alike

Dynamic Einstein picture - You can change the text on this image to whatever you like.

Air Drop Service Extra

Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

At Your Service

Windows Services That Can Be Disabled - This reference sheet lists each Windows XP SP 2 service, describes each service's function, specifies whether you can safely disable the service, and outlines the ramifications of doing so.

Good To The Last Drop

Single Serve Coffee - the one cup coffee lovers weblog.

Bipartisan Pressure

The Bush administration on Wednesday yielded to growing bipartisan pressure and agreed to reinstate a workers rights law - the Davis-Bacon Act - that had been waived in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Lexiphanicism

Grandiloquent Dictionary - collecting and defining the most rare, obscure, and pretentious words in the English language.

Rock And Roll Fantasy

Classic Bands - Lists Rock and Roll artists of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Where are they now, what were their hits and their stories. Learn about the stars' real names, read Rock and Roll interviews, and fascinating facts. There are lists about the 100 most played songs, the 100 best selling records, the top 40 songs from 1956 to 1980 and information about every musician who has died and gone to Rock and Roll heaven.

Pennies From Heaven

Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time.

Wilma: Political Storm

"In Florida, we consider it a high priority and it's a bottom-up system." Jeb Bush said. "In Louisiana, it was left for the federal government to fill the void, and you can see the consequences." By Wednesday, Jeb changed his tone, as accounts poured in of Floridians waiting for hours seeking water, ice, and meals that never showed up. Jeb Bush shifted his stance to take some blame off his brother and FEMA, ”We did not perform to where we want to be.”

One Down

Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post.

Conspiracy Theory

One day he sledded through the snow off into the sunset, never to be heard from again... Has someone found Calvin?!?

Internet Puzzle

Tricky's Riddles - All you have to do is change the URL (the link in the address bar) in such a way to get to the next level.

Subsidies For Corporations Or The Poor?

The Senate decided Wednesday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.

Fitzmas Eve

Twas the night before Fitzmas, and in the White House
Every one was scared shitless, and Bush was quite soused
The indictments were hanging like Damoceles’ sword
As verminous oxen prepared to be gored

Two All Beef Patties

The Secret MacDonald's Recipes - The McDonald's® regular hamburger is the one that got it all started in 1948. It's as basic as can be...yet the ones they serve today don't even taste CLOSE! Make em exactly as instructed, and you can enjoy that long-lost flavor once again.

Don't Ask Why

San Francisco in Jell-O

Dagwood

The sandwich project’s aim is to collect the world’s favourite fillings between two pieces of bread. The site has an archive of 2,273 sandwiches?

Doing The Time Warp

In July, theoretical physicist Amos Ori of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, proposed a provocative new model for a time machine.

The Big House

Prisoner's Dictionary - dictionary of prison slang and terms used in the U.S. penal system.

Keef To Read

Surfrikan Slang - dictionary of South African surf slang and street terms. Includes words from Afrikaans and English.

Sense Of Security

United States to Require RFID Chips in Passports.

Exemptions

Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees

No Limits

Autopsy reports reveal homicides of detainees in U.S. custody