WWTFFD (What Would The Founding Fathers Do?)

Why the Founding Fathers Would Be Appalled at Tom DeLay's Call to Impeach Judges

Invisible Friend

"I used to believe" is a collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children.

McSpotlight

McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard.

Conversation Starter

File this under "good conversation for a party", you always seem smart if you can talk about art and science, with Leonardo you can talk about both.

80's Quiz

Can You Beat 160?

Woody Woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker, once prized for its plumage and sought by American Indians as magical, was thought to be extinct for years.

Arnie Takes a Hit

Schwarzenegger Approval Rating Down

I would like to suggest you read ArnoldWatch.Org if you are interested in California politics.

Big Art

The Big Easel is coming to selected cities around the world! Artists will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to paint their masterpiece on this enormous, ever changing sculpture.

Fix It

The Museum of Unworkable Devices

Call to Action

I have been trying to use this space to post about that ephemeral electonica that passes so quickly out here in cyberspace. Those things that only have meaning in the topica of the moment, the flashes of news, mp3's, animations and even jokes. I expect that years or even months down the line many if not most of the links will be broken. I have been posting on the topic of electronic ephemera and the efforts to preserve it. I have asked a few people to join me in making posts, I had hoped to create a community of posters and readers, and encourage people to comment and interact with the posters. I would like to put out an open invitation. If you would like to post, just leave a comment or email me at electronicephemera @ gmail.com and we'll see if we can work something out.

Wal-mart Juggernaut

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now offering customized music CDs for its online customers. The world's largest retailer launched the new service Tuesday.

"I think they (Wal-Mart) are going to be disappointed. The price isn't that attractive. It was tried before" by a few startup companies in the dot-com boom and was not successful, Leigh said. Also, other companies, like Apple iTunes, offer downloadable music that provides consumers "instant gratification."

Islands In The Sand

Sand Castle Central

Heads or Tails

Hoping to cash in on the popularity of the state quarter program - which has generated $5 billion in revenue and turned an estimated 140 million Americans into coin collectors - the House of Representatives began debate Tuesday on legislation that could turn the dollar coin into a collectable.

AWOL in Texas

A university professor who skipped out on jury duty got a grown-up version of detention today when a federal judge gave her a choice: 10 days in jail or 10 days at the courthouse.

This Just In

When News breaks, they bust it.

Swizzle is the Shizzle

swizzle sticks are my passion

He Said What?

BrainyQuote, offers a blogging service.

Signs of Life

A close flyby of Saturn's big moon Titan by the international Cassini spacecraft revealed an upper atmosphere brimming with complex organic material, a finding that could hold clues to how life arose on Earth, scientists said Monday.

On Demand Airline

DayJet, of Delray Beach, Fla., will marry two advanced technologies: Very Light Jet (VLJ) aircraft, which can seat four passengers and operate at half the cost of today's small jets; and sophisticated computer databases that can determine the most efficient ways to route those aircraft to pick up customers.

Google Games

In Guess-the-Google the game picks the keywords for a google image search, the player must then guess what keyword made up the image - it's surprisingly addictive.

Roadside America

Your Online Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions

The Klingon Language Institute

The Fastest Growing Language in the Galaxy

Way Cool

Here's someone who's combined Google Maps and Craigslist to find lists of houses for sale/rent/room by city with maps. Also makes fascinating use of the satellite feature.

Asteriod DANGER!!!!

Asteroid Danger Scale Revised to Be Less Alarming

Gay Union

Gay rights proponents had been hoping that Connecticut would follow the lead of neighboring Massachusetts by allowing same-sex couples to marry. That's why they were pleased but still unsatisfied Wednesday when Connecticut offered civil unions to gay couples, becoming the first state to do so voluntarily, without being forced by the courts.

Happy Passover

Find out more about Seder at Answers.com

PlayboyStation

A New Kind of Video Game

Hang'em High

Museum of Coathangers

New Orleans Icon

Anne Rice's house in Kenner is up for sale

Que Up

Lining Up for the New Star Wars movie

I'm Hooked

Old Fishing Lure

Pope Profile: First Act is Condemnation

Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage between homosexuals.

Here's a Story...

Brady World

On Location

The worlwide guide to movie locations

Elwood "Woody" Norris

Inventor Creates Soundless Sound System

Spam Hoax

'Our Gang' Curse

I just received an email, from a source I will keep anonymous, and thought I would post the refutation of this user driven virus here as an example. Please don't send that, "somebody emailed me and told me this is true" email, it's always a hoax.

Hasidic Reggae

Hasidic Reggae Star Not Just a Novelty

Follow-up to: Cultural Mashup

Since 1974

What Eric W. Leuliette has read.

Ad Space

Introducing the most technologically advanced piece of clothing since the Hypercolor t-shirt ... the LED scrolling belt buckle.

Shotgun Guide

The first person to yell "SHOTGUN" gets to ride in the front seat.

Theater in the Round

Live Jail Cam: Anderson County Sheriff's Department

Motorola i860

GEOsnapper.com is the birthplace of GPS photography. When you take a photograph, you are capturing an image of a particular place and time. GEOsnapper makes it a snap to share those experiences with others.

Pope Profile: Divisiveness

In a June 2004 letter to US bishops enunciating principles of worthiness for communion recipients, Ratzinger specified that strong and open supporters of abortion should be denied the Catholic sacrament, for being guilty of a "grave sin."

He specifically mentioned "the case of a Catholic politician consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws," a reference widely understood to mean Democratic candidate Kerry, a Catholic who has defended abortion rights.

Pope Profile

Pope Benedict XVI, officially in Latin Benedictus PP. XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger (born April 16, 1927) is Pope of the Roman Catholic Church since April 19, 2005. In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the episcopal see of Velletri-Segni in 1993, and was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals in 2002, becoming titular bishop of Ostia. One of the most influential men in the Vatican and a close associate of the late Pope John Paul II, he presided over the funeral of John Paul II and also presided over the Conclave in 2005. During the sede vacante, he was the highest-ranking official in the Catholic Church.
Long considered a front-runner to suceed John Paul II, the College of Cardinals elected him pope on April 19, 2005.

Day Two: New Pope

It was one of the fastest elections in the past century: Pope Pius XII was elected in 1939 in three ballots on one day.

And the winner is Pope Ratzo.

No Cats Were Harmed

Screen Cleaner

Euripiddes & Eumeneddes

'Lost' classical manuscripts give up their secrets after 9,000 years.

Day One, Gone

The smoke started to get darker... and within minutes, the Vatican confirmed that the cardinals ended the day the way nearly everybody had expected, with a first ballot that produced no pope.

MSNBC's David Shuster is blogging from Rome.

Flea Circus

The Show Must Go On

Totally Tiny

"CrashBonsai," little living car crash sculptures.

Pope Ratzo

Dan Brekke at the Infospigot:

I haven't been following the ins and outs, but suddenly Joseph Ratzinger, the ultra-orthodox-sounding German cardinal who under JP2 was officially in charge of putting the fear of (G)god into the faithful, is suddenly looking like a serious pope candidate.

Bounty Update

UPDATE: Dead or Alive: A $10,000 bounty for the magaizine that contains Moore's Law.

A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine in which Moore's Law was first announced, a University of Illinois engineering library noticed that one of its two copies disappeared.

Napkin Air

The Airline Napkin Wipeoreum

(as long as we've got an airline thing going, why not make it a theme?)

Boxed Lunch

Airlinemeals.com: largest site about airline catering and nothing but that...

Incoming

Flight Tracker

Cinderella Post

SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating

(Not big enough for Pedantic Pundit, but somewhat out of place here, yet to useful to just forget)

Tax Return

Tax History Project keeps a database of presidential tax returns. George W. Bush's and Richard Cheney's 2004 tax returns have been posted.

Because It's There

While climbing Mt. Everest, Gavin Bate will be blogging away.

Bookie Catechism

The Conclave begins Monday, but will the new Pope beat the spread?

Blog Post Generator

The Generator Blog: This blog is not about those machines used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It's about software that creates software. Software to play around and have fun with.

Hot Topic: Censorship

THE 2005 JEFFERSON MUZZLES GO TO ...

GWB Playlist

In case you haven't been paying attention to the recent New York Times story listing the songs GWB carries on his IPod. A more contructive list has been compiled by The Guardian of songs GWB should be listening to.

Trivial Pursuit

An estimated 1.3 trillion pictures are taken each year.

This tidbit and more delivered daily at Gullible.Info.

The Trixie Update

This site is about human babies. Specifically one named Trixie MacNeill. These pages contain tons of data regarding the sleep patterns, feeding schedules and diaper habits of a newborn baby. They also have a Trixie Picture of the Day for those who don't like to think about human babies in exclusively clinical terms. The site authors name is Ben MacNeill. He's Trixie's stay at home dad. He started this blog a few weeks after she was born, which was July 31st, 2003. They kept track of her diapers for a couple of days to make sure she was drinking enough. The enormous number she went through was shocking and he continued collecting diaper data on little scraps of paper. He later built a web application that automated the process and displayed the results on the site.

(I sent this site out to my old Funsite regulars a long time back, before Pedantic Pundit, it really belongs here.)

Speed Racer

For the second time in a row, the good old cassette-player we all have sentimental feelings for, receives a brand new mission: A race vehicle, so screw on the wheels and go for it in "fast forward": Powering it with the tape transporting motor.

Portraits

The Snowsuit Effort: A Detriot photographer takes close-up portraits of regular people and posts a new one everyday.

A Blanc Slate

VoiceChasers has an extensive database (under the Browse menu) revealing who's who in the voice-over world. Plus all the latest news from the world of animation.

Act for Change

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill to permanently repeal the estate tax this week. Urge your representative and senators to vote to retain the estate tax.

Ephemeral Dedication

622 Music Video's

Penny for Your Thoughts

Pictures of Pennies, this is in fact the sort of thing engineers do when they get bored.

Bush's Healthcare Plan

Drug Costs Jump 7.1 Percent in 2004

Definitively Not Ephemeral

University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.

Freebird!!!

Stop Playing These Songs! - An awesome idea for a blog, providing alternates for the bar band cover standards.

It Slices, It Dices

Informercial-Reviews.org, it’s an online encyclopedia of infomercial products.

Bush's Privacy Policy

Government steps up electronic surveillance

Dead or Alive

A $10,000 bounty for the magaizine that contains Moore's Law.

Couldn't Have Been A Woman

Mary Schmich became a regular columnist for the Chicago Tribune in 1992. She grew famous unexpectedly when one of her 1997 columns, a collection of wry advice to college graduates, was e-mailed around the nation identified as an M.I.T. commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. The false attribution was never explained, but the column became an Internet favorite; it was later set to music and released on an album by Australian director Baz Luhrmann.

Caps For Sale

bizarrebids.com launched April 2005, bringing you all the weird and wonderful auctions from around the globe. With so many auction sites popping up all over the web more and more strange items are going up for sale every day.

Armchair Phileas Fogg

Around the World in 80 Clicks

De-homogenizer

The Starbuck's Delocator

Leave A Message

OK!, I am demanding that each and every one of you leave some sort of comment. If it wasn't for the fact that I see your little footprints in my site tracking info, I would say I'm blogging in the dark here. And with that bit of complaining over and done with, I promise I will update my right sidebar with all the new ephemera.

Google Sightseeing

Why bother seeing the world for real?

Bad Moon Raising

museum of bad album covers

Mmmmmm, Cupcake

All Cupcakes, All The Time

A Great Start

Mr Breakfast and Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

True Names

Find your Hobbit and Elven names

Worth A Thousand Words

The Untitled Project. It gives tired billboards and advertisements a fresh look by stripping out the text.

Watch Out!

Psychopaths at the Wheel!

Penny Dreadfuls

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, provides an overview and description of Stanford University Library's Dime Novel and Story Paper collection, with essays on printing processes and genre conventions. Gallery of more than 2,000 cover images, title catalog, and selected fulltexts are presented. The collection includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night.

Omen

Sun to darken on day of pope's funeral

Partial Eclipse

Residents in parts of the United States will have a chance to watch the Moon partially eclipse the Sun on Friday, April 8th.

Guillemot Egg Collector

The Worst Jobs In History

Wished for Sequel

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League

Must Pop Bubbles

Bubble Wrap Game

Hello, operator

The payphone project: stories, pictures, phone numbers and news from payphones and public telephony

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

The home where the classic holiday movie "A Christmas Story" was filmed has been purchased on eBay by a California man for $150,000.

Common Ground

Hunting by remote control draws fire from all quarters

Gore Invented Internet TV

Gore's TV network set to launch with Google tie-in

No Musician, No Cry

A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.

Yahoogle

Yagoohoo!gle

Fool's List

Sites that pulled April Fool's jokes for 2005

Stupid Human Tricks

Clientcopia : Stupid Client Quotes...

Doing the Pan

Pan-American Exposition of 1901

Spell with Flickr

Another ransom note generator

Junk Food Junkie

The Golden Era of Junk Food

Gotchya!

Play computer tricks on your friends!

Libby's Libby's Libby's

An Unsolicited Commercial Love Story - get all the way to the end of the story to understand the post title

Google Gulp

Quench your thirst for knowledge.

April Fools

Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

Pedantic Revenge

Pedantic Destruction

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