Entangled Ephemera #2

In Search of Utopia: "Exploring the Hieroglyphics of Our Time." Utopia is a group blog with contributors from the left, the right, and the center of the political spectrum. They all seem to be trying to talk too each other, rather than at each other, with a goal to find practical responses to today's political questions.

I know I'm a day late on the second installment, but yesterday was a holiday.

News Hounds Manifesto

News Hounds started out as something else. "In early 2004, eight middle-aged citizens from different backgrounds and locations around the USA teamed up via MoveOn.org and the internet to volunteer our services for OUTFOXED, a documentary film by Robert Greenwald regarding Fox News Channel. For approximately three months, each of us watched FNC conscientiously for five or more hours a week and posted our findings regarding Fox's self-proclaimed mission of fair and balanced reporting. Appalled by our results, we, who would not meet in person until months later, banded together in cyberspace in concern and outrage over the failure of American media, and Fox News in particular, to relate the news properly. Rather than serve as the public's eyes and ears, Fox and other media conglomerates have become echo chambers for the rich and powerful with whom they have become all too cozy. This blog is an attempt to counter that alarming condition. We believe that a viable democracy depends upon viable media."

Here is a recent O'Reilly Factor "Inter(badger)view" which shows Bill has no use for facts.

European DisUnion

The result of Sunday's referendum in France to reject the EU Charter has plunged the 25-nation EU as well as France into crisis. Those problems are likely to deepen when the Netherlands holds a referendum on the treaty on Wednesday because opinion polls point to another heavy defeat.

I'm Your Zero

Significant Figures - Its writers are concerned with the misuse of numbers and scientific measurements.

Elevator Call

short movies taking place in an elevator.

Karama Karma

Karama C. Neal the creator of So what can I do?, which was highlighted in post here a few days ago has started another great blog, Open Letters. Karama has pledged to write one letter of concern each week.

"It's a small act that each of us can do enact positive social change, hold our elected officials and media accountable and claim person agency. I'll publish some of my letters here, along with the sources of information and other details I use to write them. I hope that you will use the information provided to write your own letters of concern."

I take the time to send my own letters to public officials every couple of months, I don't know how Karama (In case your wondering about her name I found this in a DUNE glossery, "KARAMA: a miracle; an action initiated by the spirit world.", not sure if it is at all related, bit it seems to fit.) , who is a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molcular Biology, finds the time to write these letters once a week and publish daily at SWCID? I know I will be visiting both sites regularly to see what I can do.

Drawn Together

Drawn! site is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing.

A Blind Eye

Rob Pepper's Daily Drawing Diary - All the drawings here are undertaken whilst making no eye contact with the paper.

Logorrhea

worthless word for the day

Halfbacked Ideas

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.

Lost

I don't watch the show (even though it airs right before Alias), but Rex @ fimoculous has found two sites that are the definition of Electronic Ephemera, he has located two viral websites related to the show: Oceanic Airlines (the airline in the show) and Drive Shaft (Charlie's band).

A Blog For Everything

A Hamburger Today

Happy Birthday

Anybirthday.com Birthdate Search Engine - Birthdate Search Service. Find Birth Dates by a First and Last Name.

(You could try putting my name in, if you knew my last name)

Enact Change

So What Can I Do? "My friends and I often get frustrated with the way things (politics, business, society, etc.) work. Soon we're all riled up and one of us will ask, "So what can I do?" This blog is a response to that question. Together, we'll explore ways to enact social change."

Good Graffiti

Senseless Acts of Beauty

The Amazing Catapult Watch

The only watch that's also a weapon.

The best thing since sliced bread?

http://www.clichesite.com/

Clichés, Euphemisms & Figures of Speech

Mac-heads Revisited

Be sure to watch the whole thing, it's truly UNBELIEVABLE

Jaw Breaker

Candy USA - A little of everything: chocolate trivia, recipes, holiday ideas, a history and timeline of candy, some survey data, etc.

Hyperfocus

Bar Code Nerds Blog

Spudnick

Global Potato News, your source of online potato information!

Express Limited

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age

You Could Still Go

The Time Traveler Convention

Amnesty International

Amnesty International Report 2005

Google Map Tool

Find Cheap Gas Map

Roadside Canada

Big Things - dedicated to the gigantic monuments of Canada.

Follow-up to my post here titled: Roadside America

Whooops!

The slip-up archive, is concerned with entertaining slip-ups that are public and can be verified by others. 14,229 Slip-Ups collected so far.

Side effects may include...

"(...) use this database to access information concerning suspected adverse reactions to Canadian marketed health products of pharmaceuticals, biologics (including blood products and therapeutic and diagnostic vaccines), natural health products, and radiopharmaceuticals, as reported to Health Canada through voluntary and mandatory reporting measures."

Democrats Have No Spine

Priscilla Owen confirmed as federal judge

Uchronia

Uchronia: The Alternate History List - an annotated bibliography of over 2600 novels, stories, essays and other printed material involving the "what ifs" of history. The genre has a variety of names, but it's best known as alternate history.

Rewrite History

With a few keystrokes, an official U.S. brochure eliminated some historic arms-control deals, angered the champions of disarmament, and showed again that in the paper deluge of a global conference, what's left out can be as telling as what's put in.

Reduced to Color

Shadoyia Jones, 18-years-old, spent the past years concentrating on her studies, and the National Honor Society was her most cherished achievement. You can imagine how shocked the Waxahachie High School senior was when, instead of her name like all of the other students in the National Honor Society photo, the words "black girl" were printed instead.

Google Mirror Site

elgooG

Wasting Time

Nifty timeline clock

Sea of Cubicles

What will happen to me? My program? My career?


The Silicon Valley Tarot knows.

Hotel Life

Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog - Focuses primarily on books, art, and music created by former and current residents of the Hotel Chelsea -- A Bohemian Theme Hotel.

Drinking Liberally

Drinking Liberally

"Promoting democracy one pint at a time."

Canuxploitation

"Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film" explores what makes Canadian horror flicks and b-movies uniquely Canadian.

Want to see for yourself? Check out Canuxploitation for movie reviews, forums, updates on the latest DVD releases, etc.

Turning Fifty Today

Gumby's World

My Card

Business Card Collecting - Business card collecting facts, fun, and information. Links to business card collectors and traders around the world.

Southern Education

Dropout rates in the South from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, shows alarmingly high rates, especially among black men.

The 30 Years War

Chronology of the anti-gay rights movement from Southern Poverty Law Center.

Around the World

Globes of the 20th Century - Informational site for collectors of 20th century terrestrial globes. Globe manufacturers, how to date a globe, globe bibliography, globe links and a photo gallery of typical 20th century globes.

Attention Mac-heads

Apple may use Intel chips for Macs

Handy Wipe

Modern Moist Towelette Collecting - Homepage for the Modern Moist Towelette Collecting Newsletter.

Entangled Ephemera #1

A bit of trivia from gullible.info has inspired a new weekly feature for EE and a new sidebar called Entangle Ephemera. The tidbit was, the average shortest path from one blog to another is 12 links. Each week starting from the arbitrary point of Pedantic Pundit, I will click through 12 subjectively random blog links (or until I dead end as some blogs don't link, but then the next week I will start again at the last weeks blog) and write a blog review, then post that blog in the sidebar and then start from their for the next blog path. I will post 12 blogs under Entangled Ephemera and then rotate the oldest link off.

MightyGirl, famous among dozens. To quote her about page, "Hi, I'm Maggie Mason. I was born in 1975 and I live in San Francisco where I'm a freelance editor and writer." She writes creative little clips from her life, well turned phrases and often cosmopolitan insights.

Script Kiddies

The Washington Post has a story on the hackers behind Paris Hilton's Sidekick scam.

Blow Your Brains Out

Tissue Box Cover Collection - A collection of unusual tissue box covers.

Scientists Say Sunshine May Prevent Cancer

Some researchers think that wearing sunscreen may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents.

Googlextra

Xtra-Google - The Best of Google On One Searchable Page

Cold Shoulder

Icebox Memories - Collection of memorabilia associated with the way ice was harvested, stored and finally delivered in the early 1900s.

Restraining Myself

Handcuffs.org - A collectors guide to vintage handcuffs, featuring a gallery of handcuffs and related restraints as well as feature articles on handcuff collecting, Houdini and his fellow escape artists of the past.

Redux

Scandal? What Scandal? - Explores the media's lack of investigation into President Bush's appointment of former Iran-Contra "veterans" Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte and Otto Reich to key posts.

Got You Covered

ManHole.ca - Fine Sewer Art - Photographs sent in by visitors of various manhole covers from all over the world, as well as history and links. And another Covers To Discover

Up The Water Spout

Land of Noz - All about collecting antique garden hose nozzles.

Total Recall

Toyota Motor Corp., in one of its largest safety recalls ever, said Tuesday it is recalling more than 750,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles because of problems with the front suspension that could hinder steering.

Love Monument Dispute

Hindus and Muslims in monumental dispute over Taj Mahal

A Light In The Darkness

FlashlightMuseum.com - History of flashlights and images of flashlights with information. And another Flashlight Museum

Stuck On Bandaids

Fantastic Bandaid Collection - A colorful personal collection of the bandaids. Included are images, links and history. And another My Bandaids

Fan Films

Starwars Fanfilms and More

Exits Forward And Aft

Cabin Safety Cards - A collection of safety cards from airliners around the world.

Caveat Emptor

This provision tucked into the budget is potentially devastating.

Thank you to Automatt at smidgin for locating this article

Fly Me

Stewardess Uniform Collection - Photographs of over 300 different uniforms from different airlines.

Terraforming

Sprol is a planetary sightseeing blog. Visit some of the worst places in the world via satellite imagery. Thier mission is to use space imaging to show people the visual macroscopic effects of urban sprawl and pollution.

You Scratch Mine

Backscratcher - Collection of more than 130 Backscratchers.

Filibuster Fight

Concluding it was time to act, the Republican-controlled Senate began debating one of President Bush's most contested judicial nominations Wednesday in a showdown over whether the White House can place ideologue judges on the federal bench over the objection of minority Democrats.

Build A Better Beer

speculated that kudzu increases blood-alcohol levels and speeds up its effects. In other words, the drinkers needed fewer beers to feel drunk.

Thank you again to Jeff at Library Chronicles

The Color of Money

The color of Palo Alto?

Nevermind

Imagine if your early naked snaps were available to buy in HMV. Well, that’s the fate that’s befallen 14-year-old Spencer Elden who, as a four-month-old baby, was involved in a photo shoot that helped shape music history – Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Under Cover

Air Raid Sirens - Information on air raid sirens and other siren and warning devices. Features photos, sounds, projects, restoration, forum, and links.

You Dirty Rat

Antique Mouse and Rat Traps - This site includes photographs and information about collecting, and researching them as a hobby.

Before The Blogging Era

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London, England. A new entry written by Pepys will be published each day; 1 January 1660 was published on 1 January 2003.

Mirror Mirror On The Wall

The Mirror Project is a growing community of like-minded individuals who have photographed themselves in all manner of reflective surfaces.

Feed Your TV Need

TVSquad: Blogging Television

That Radio Song

To identify any song playing on a favorite radio station, just log onto yes.net. A sleek, clean tool bar appears. Simply find the city and the radio station. YES identifies the song and performer that is playing, as well as all the other songs the station has played over the past 24 hours. Select the CD, tickets for upcoming appearances, merchandise, and even tune into live auctions for products connected with the band or performer.

A Galaxy Far Far Away

Mark Hamill Reminisces on 'Star Wars'

You Gotta See...

Movie Lists, provides you with the lists of the 100 best movies in a variety of genres.

A Team Effort

The Sports Cliche List, a searchable collection of sports cliches, jargon, and lingo.

I'm In Big Trouble

Info-Mania - is it reducing your IQ?

Thank you to Liz at Infomaniac for alerting me to article. My obsession may be dropping my IQ through the floor.

(and just a comment, the article states, "This IQ drop was even more significant in men who took part in the tests." Yet the picture HP chooses for the article shows women on laptops and PDA's and the man with his hands free, and not paying attention to anything.)

Affected Erudition

Confusing Words is a collection of 3,210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

Walmart Watch

Muse should be joining us soon here at EE, and I look forward to her contributions. With that said I'm going to steal my last link from her blog (well probably not, as I sometimes find things for Pedantic Pundit there too).

walmart watch

Paraskevidekatriaphobia

The reasons why Friday came to be regarded as a day of bad luck have been obscured by the mists of time...

Polly Want A Cracker

A Web Site About the Wild Parrots of Brooklyn. Facts, lore, sound files, books, photos, and other information about Brooklyn's flocks of wild monk parrots.

Armagedon

The Apocalypse must be coming...
Jesus Spotted in Ultrasound

Thank you to Jeff at Library Chronicles for pointing me to the article.

Robodog Soccer

Robot dog soccer is one of five games that teams of scholars competed in during the 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open, held Monday at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The aim of the three-day competition, which ends Tuesday, is to develop software for better robots with the long-term goal of fielding a robot soccer team good enough to play a human team by 2050.

Call of Cthulu

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Junk Yard

NoveltyNet provides a repository for novel and interesting online content that has lost it's home due to the original author's neglect, dot-com bankruptcies, etc.

Enough Said

Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum
Airsickness Bag Collection
The Vomitorium
Airsickness bags
Bagland
Barfbag Collection
The Barfbag Page
barf-O-rama
FMD's Collection
Frank's Sickbags Collection
Fred's Airsickness Bags
Inflight
Maxs Barfbag Page
Michael D. Cooper Collection
Mike's World Wide Web of Barfbags
Needful Things
Ohayuni's Air Sickness Bag
Rasmus' Barf Bags
Rune's Barf Bag Collection
Sam's Airsickness Bags
Sick Bag collection
Spucktüten - Airsickness Bags
Steve's Sickbag Collection
Steve's Sickbag Website
Strange Hobby?
Zio Guido's Air Sickness Bag

Boulevard of Broken Links

MUSEUM OF E-FAILURE, this feature of Ghost Sites was launched in early 2000; it is an image gallery of some 1,250 screens captured from some 900 Web projects that for various reasons "went dark" during the years 1998 to 2004. Some had a chance to post a self-penned epitaph in the form of a "farewell screen"; others simply expired and drifted lifelessly, with no visible indications for their demise - often for many months. This collection provides a partial, but revealing look at the latter half of the Web's 10 years of existence. Annotations (Web Elegies) are included where possible in order to place each site in its historical context.

Cannes Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival has officially opened. The stars have ceremoniously climbed the legendary stairs, opening this 58th edition of the Festival. The entire jury made its appearance, led by its chairman, Emir Kusturica. He and jury members Nandita Das, Salma Hayek, Toni Morrison, Agnès Varda, Javier Bardem, Fatih Akin, Benoît Jacquot and John Woo saluted the crowd. Keep up to date with the news and events at the Cannes Festival Blog. You may want to wish some of this year's American entries good luck, including Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Gus Van Sant's Last Days.

Country Twang

The Democrat in Virginia's race for governor speaks with the bland man-from-nowhere accent of a game show host. The Republican front-runner? Think Gomer Pyle in wingtips. In this off-off-season election, how the candidates talk is becoming almost as much of an issue as what they have to say.

Stake Through The Heart

Dracula Blogged, Bram Stoker's vampire novel, published by its own calendar

Dear Anyone

Visitors are presented with an advise seekers submitted question, and then have the opportunity to select their advice of choice from four unique, varied and intelligent choices

A Musing

Surfing for Slang: the World's Cool Slang Link Bank

Net Hunting

Follow-up: Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.

Crime Scenery

Graphic Junkies is a site maintained by an active law enforcement officer in the state of Georgia. They work in the South West Atlanta area. All of the photographs on this site were taken by them while on duty.

Surfs Up, Dude

WaveWatch is a free surf forecast service that is run by experienced meteorologists.

The Leggo Bible

Brick Testament

Happy Mothers Day

Just in time for Mother's Day, an informal study conducted by Web site Salary.com shows that stay-at-home moms would earn an average of $131,471 annually, including overtime, if they received a paycheck.

Compare And Be Happy

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

How Stuff Works

In this edition of HowStuffWorks, you will have a chance to look inside a lightsaber and discover the source of its incredible characteristics.

Do They Shop For You?

Carts get smarter, New computers simplify shopping.

Storm Brewing

Ever since President Grant directed his secretary of war in 1870 to make "meteorological observations . . . of the approach and force of storms," the federal government has been America's official forecaster, providing weather information to the public.

That could change under legislation proposed by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., who says the National Weather Service has grown so sophisticated and technologically adept that it threatens the $1 billion-a-year private forecasting business.

Thank you to Jeff at Library Chronicles for pointing this article out.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Hate married people? Tired of engagement news? Still want to sleep with your ex but don't know if he/she is in a new relationship? Breakup News is the place to get the announcements that really matter. Get the skinny on recently ruptured romances. Announce to the world that you're back, and looking for nub in all the wrong places.

Vitavitavegimen

VEGBAY.COM is a free online auction for the Veg/Green/Animal Rights communities. Sell or buy vegetarian, vegan, hemp, fair trade, yoga, new age, health & beauty, organic, recycled, and miscellaneous items and services while supporting fellow veg-friendly individuals, businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Natural Bridges

Billions of Butterflies Descend on California

Coming Out

OutNotes.com this site is about you. it is about your friends. it is about your family. it is about your loved ones. chances are you or someone you love has struggled with their sexuality. this site is about these people breaking out of the shackles of an oppressive society and reaching out to the ones they love.

Fish Young Cannibals

EU states should stop using fish as feed in tuna farms, which risks spreading exotic viruses to the Mediterranean, environmental group WWF said on Wednesday.

Hubcap Central

Hubcap site dedicated to research and information about new and used hub caps wheel covers and center caps, and for easily locating the picture and number of the hub cap or wheel covers needed.

Parody of PBS

The Old Negro Space Program

Speaker for the Whales

Greenpeace Co-Founder Bob Hunter Dies

Mummy, I'm Home

A superbly preserved 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brightly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at Egypt's Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo.

Coat Tails

Fashioned after Overheard in New York, two follow ups...
Overheard in Dublin and Overheard in Cork.

A Can't Do Company

Wal-Mart when it started small in Arkansas, perhaps the company felt it had no choice but to create primarily low-wage jobs that offered few, if any, benefits, to successfully compete. But isn’t it high time to rethink this view? Couldn’t Wal-Mart provide family-sustaining jobs and be the General Motors of the 21st century?

I fixed the link in this post as this is referenced by Muse

Wanted Poster

Posterwire.com is a movie poster weblog. From images of the latest Hollywood one-sheets to vintage movie posters, this film poster weblog hopes to offer a bit of insight into film key art.

Thank you to Rex at Fimoculous.com for the find.

The New MTV

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. is latching onto the "podcasting" phenomenon, launching a show later this month that will feature a daily selection of the increasingly popular do-it-yourself audio programs.

The show, which Sirius was expected to formally announce on Monday, will begin broadcasting weekdays on May 13. It will be hosted by Adam Curry, the former MTV personality who helped create the technological tools that allow podcasting to work. The show will be broadcast on Sirius channel 148, a talk-radio station that does carry commercials, unlike Sirius' all-music channels.

Pavitr Prabhakar

Spider-Man comic. swings cross cultures into Bombay

Daily Dose

Martha brings you an art history blog. The format is simple and the purpose is to show you a piece of art, give you a little background, and leave the rest up to you.

Hood Ornaments

From Streamline to Jet age 1933-1966

Republican Agenda

Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases

Desperate Houseflies

"In the backdrop of a picture-perfect neighbourhood called Diphtheria Lane live six suburban houseflies whose lives are anything but perfect." Yes, soap fans, it's Desperate Houseflies.

No Soup For You!

The brusque New York chef who was lampooned on "Seinfeld" as the "Soup Nazi" plans to open a chain of takeout soup stands across North America. But don't expect the authentically rude New York treatment.

Signs will be posted in each of "The Original Soup Man" franchises bearing chef Al Yeganeh's strict rules for ordering, such as "Have your money ready!" and "Move to the extreme left after ordering!"

The Greatest

Greatest American is a seven-hour primetime program to be telecast this summer, Americans nationwide will vote for their #1 choice for the person who has most embodied the American dream, having the biggest impact on the way we think, work and live.

They have setup a blog which is posting all the profiles they are writing up.

Mobius Loop

I am stealing this from Pi22/7, even as I am trying to convince him to post here on occassion, so until he does I will risk the blogsphere collapsing in on itself.

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster, Journal of Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith and Servant to His Supreme Excellency the Emperor Palpatine.

Prison Work

LicensePlates.cc seeks to create an engaging forum where license plate hobbyists can interact with each other.

Forgotten NY

The infrastructure of a forgotten metropolis