Thursday, June 30, 2005
Tea Time #4
The Tea Home Page - The Guild of Tea Shops, pairing teas with food, tea glossary, and an extensive list of resources for tea merchants, organizations, and individuals.
Tea Time #3
Read the Leaves - with feature articles, reviews, brewing the perfect cup, tea in the news, health, and more.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Re-Orientation
(The article is in the Onion, so is fake, but the picture is of my friend Ian who is a San Francisco comedian, he claims to have no idea who the kid is)
A Word From Our Sponsor
Once again Muse has found a way to take political action, one small step at a time. She and many others, myself included, has donated $50 to help start the Independent World Television News (IWTNews). Find out more about it and maybe by 2007 their will be news worth listening to.
One-Liners
100 Years . . . 100 Quotes - American Film Institute's ranking of the greatest and most memorable movie quotes of the 20th century.
Ray asked the question, "What is your favorite movie quote that didn't make the list?"
Mine is, "Next time somebody asks you if you are a g-d... You say YES!" - Ghostbusters
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Fight For Public Broadcasting
On Thursday, June 23, 2005 the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Obey-Leach-Lowey amendment by a final vote of 284 to 140. Eighty-seven Republicans joined 196 Democrats and one Independent in voting for the amendment, which restores $100 million previously cut from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Fiscal 2006 appropriation. House Members reported they heard from millions of public radio and television supporters from all over the country urging them to restore critical funding for CPB, whose Community Service Grants help local stations pay programming costs.
While the amendment approved yesterday restores CPB's appropriation to the full $400 million which had been advance-appropriated two years ago, it did not restore funds for public broadcasting’s digital transition, for renewal and replacement of public television’s satellite interconnection system, and for early learning initiatives such as Ready to Learn.
(Yesterday also brought darker news in the fight for public broadcasting. The Republican-dominated board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) hired a former Republican National Committee chair as the next president, injecting partisanship into the very organization designed to shield public broadcasting from political meddling. This is only the latest effort by White House ally and CPB board chair Kenneth Tomlinson to remake public broadcasting as a partisan mouthpiece.)
Thrill Of The Hunt
Letterboxing.Info - dedicated to the activity that combines elements of a scavenger hunt, hiking, orienteering, map reading, puzzle solving, and creative expression.
Entangled Ephemera #6
Southern Fried Girl - "This is my life - in all it's ugliness and prettiness. Her blog is about life, life as a wife and step mother working as a paralegal in New Orleans (I think there are a lot of bloggers there). As of late she likes to vent, but mostly she likes to read her friends blogs.
One Person's Junk
Retro Junk - a nostalgia-filled look into our past, offering a selection of '80s commercials, theme songs, and movie trailers
Monday, June 27, 2005
In From The Cold
Intelligent Spy Store - offers security cameras and spy gadgets as well as toys, games, and computer products.
Scavenger Hunt
Scavengeroogle is a scavenger hunt game where you use Google maps to find the location of a particular graphical clue.
Fair Share
The federal government is owed nearly $2 billion by its own employees.
To see a complete list of federal tax deliquents by department, click here
Closet Shoppers
The Bag Blog - all about bags, pocketbooks, purses, and what have you. And for those who want more, the history of handbags.
Personal Jesus
Katie Holmes' Missing Days, brainwashing is about the only thing that makes sense to me.
Don't Taunt Mr. Cruise
Operation Clambake: The fight against the Church of Scientology on the net.
What is all this talk about clams, and why is the site called Operation Clambake?
The short version of this is that the creator of Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, claimed humans evolved from clams in his book "A History of Man".
(An added bonus Scientology's Founder - The Smoking Gun presents documents from L. Ron Hubbard's FBI file obtained under the Freedom of Information Act)
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Brought To You By
Closing Logo Group SuperSite - image and video gallery signatures from Hollywood motion picture studios showing how studios' company labels and logos have changed over the years.
Radio Days
Radio Memories - daily podcasts of old-time radio shows. Includes Amos 'n' Andy; Fibber McGee and Molly; and big band music.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Speak Adûnaic
Ardalambion - the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are packed with fictional tongues -- he called language creation his "secret vice."
Friday, June 24, 2005
Planet trio
June 23-29 – Planet trio. The three planets that will cluster to within 5º of each other, low in the west-northwest evening twilight are Venus (magnitude –3.9), Saturn (+0.2) and Mercury (-0.2). Between June 23 and 29, these three will fit within a circle measuring just 5º across, the smallest circle (1.4º) occurring on June 26. As such, their rapidly changing night-to-night positions relative to one another should be most fascinating to watch. Individual conjunctions include Venus and Saturn (1.3º on June 25), Mercury and Saturn (1.4º on June 26), and Mercury and Venus (a mere 0.1º on June 27). A drawback for observers will be that these three planets will be visible for at best for only about an hour after sundown before they start getting too low to the horizon to be readily observable. Also during this time frame, take note of the "Twin Stars," Pollux (+1.2) and Castor (+1.6) of Gemini, which will be positioned roughly 6 to 10º above and to the right (west-northwest) of the trio
Caution: Watch For Rattlesnakes
Roadtrip America: Funny Signs - a collection of strange and amusing signs from across America.
Murderball
Murderball - documents the life of quadriplegic full-contact rugby players. Includes press, trailers, film synopsis, and more.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Condo In Arizona
The Boy King Returns: Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs - "Learn about the new King Tut exhibition opening in June 2005 that will tour U.S. museums for 27 months, and view a gallery of artifacts on display."
Geronimo!
Parachuting Picture Show - Click the picture to move on, hundreds of photos, and most are awesome.
Brick By Brick
Science Under Siege: The Bush Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom and Scientific Inquiry - American Civil Liberties Union report charging that the Bush Administration is stifling scientific inquiry by restricting the flow of scientific data and imposing unreasonable barriers to the use of scientific materials.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Into The Sunset
Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Weblog - follow along with mission events as they happen.
For My Sister
Rehab the Crab - a web site dedicated to the return of baseball's greatest and worst mascot ever.
McCovey Chronicles - weblog devoted to the San Francisco Giants.
Come Sail Away
Cosmos 1: Official Mission Tracking Site - mission control for the milestone spacecraft. Join them for the historic launch of this international, privately funded space mission.
Do Not Open
Surprising Expiration Dates - Useful list of how long you can keep various food and drinkstuffs
If Google Could Say, "WHAT?!?"
OddGoogle - Weblog featuring Google queries of interest to the author, many of which have been submitted by site visitors.
Too Perfect
Must not make joke about Catholic leader called Cardinal Sin.
Especially since he just passed away.
Monday, June 20, 2005
WonderTwin Powers Activate
Satellite Fun - quirky and funny pictures from google satellite images...
Entangled Ephemera #5
LuLu's World, "...sugar and spice and everything nice...". Lulu's world is a pleasant rendition of the web journal. The musings, meanderings and jottings of a woman, wife and mother in Altanta Georgia. She makes the common place more real with her updates about children, husband, memories, movie and book reviews and reporting of daily happenings.
Domestic Invasion
THEY may look like lovable pets but Britain’s estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people’s personalities.
Infected men, suggests one new study, tend to become more aggressive, scruffy, antisocial and are less attractive. Women, on the other hand, appear to exhibit the “sex kitten” effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun- loving and possibly more promiscuous.
Abbreviated Coded Rendition of Name Yielding Meaning
Esus has announced the release of Acronyma, a search engine with an index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. You may search in several different languages, and you may search by word or by acronym. Results are listed by relevance/importance or alphabetically as you prefer.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Tall Tales
American Folklore - choose from a selection of folk and tall tales, legends, and ghost stories from around the U.S.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Drop And Do 20
The Fitness Almanac is an all inclusive site featuring the latest and most up to date Fitness News, Nutritional Diets, Exercise Training Methods, and Information on becoming and finding Personal Trainers in your area.
Friday, June 17, 2005
DIY Publishing
Want to publish a book? Do it yourself on Lulu.com. Unlike most self-publishing sites, Lulu charges no up-front fees and requires no minimum orders. Just upload a word processing document and follow a wizard to choose the book's size, format, cover art, and price.
Serious Air Play
Matisyahu: The Hasidic Rappin' Reggae Superstar
Another update on this jewish phenomenon
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Entangled Ephemera #4
I'll get back on track with this (unless people think it's dorky).
The Rambler - Tim Rutherford-Johnson has created a music blog that is witty and interesting for reasons other than the music, and the music info and news is pretty cool too. The quote from his blog blurb, "I'm a PhD candidate in musicology, an occasional writer and teacher on music, and in the gaps I work as a freelance editor. I live in London and sometimes it shows. This blog covers new music, often classical, and includes live reviews. Simply because I want to."
Who Is Mr. Beller?
Since its founding in the Spring of 2000, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood has published nearly seven hundred pieces of writing, been nominated for a 2002 Webby Award in the Print and Zine catagory, and published a book, Before and After: Stories from New York.
The site combines a magazine with a map. It uses the external, familiar landscape of New York City as a way of organizing the wildly internal, often unfamiliar emotional landscapes of the city dweller.
Bloomsday
Bloomsday in Dublin - Annual ceremony marking the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Luggage Labels
Vintage Labels: The Lost Art of Travel - A collectors site dedicated to the study and collection of vintage luggage labels from the worlds great hotels, airlines, oceanlines and railways.
Pleadge Bank
Pledgebank is free and easy to use. Once you've thought of something you'd like to do, just create a pledge which says "I'll do this, but only if 5 other people will do the same".
Geoff Wilkins will complete a 100Km sponsored walk in aid of Oxfam's Make Poverty History campaign but only if 10 other people will sponsor me £10. (28 days left, 8 more signatures needed)
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
A Couple Of Hundred $
Put in a bid and go to that Time Travelers convention I mentioned last month.
Found the auction via Krixfort
(P.S. EBay has since removed the "Time Machine" that was up for auction)
I'm A Rock Star!
Climbing - This magazine's site offers a sampling of recent articles, tech tips, equipment reviews, a photo gallery, message boards, and lots more for dedicated climbers.
(The title of this post is from a direct quote of my four year old son, Ryan, upon reaching the top of a very large rock during a hike.)
A Sudan Story
The scene : A home in Washington, Christmas 2005.
Son : Dad, tell me again how you helped save all those people's lives -- mostly kids.
Another Brick In The Wall
The wall has come tumbling down.
After nearly a quarter century of acrimony, the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, including band cofounder and creative force Roger Waters, will reunite to perform at the all-star Live 8 concert in London on July 2.
The Great Divide
The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself.
Is that a liberal's talking point? Sure. But it's also a line from the recent public testimony of a champion of the free market: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
A Secret Movie
This montage comes from secrets that have been mailed into PostSecret.com. It was created by Andrew Volk from the website created by Frank Warren. The reviewers have panned the little movie, but it's a great chance to remind you of an awesome site, and beautiful ephemera.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Official Website
Official Find is a Search Engine that makes it easy to find the Official Web Sites of top brands and companies.
One Pot Cooking
One-pot cooking used to be the exclusive domain of bachelors, campers and college students just moved away from home. Meals were quick, simple and often right out of the box. The concept was great - just one pot to wash. Here are a few variations on the "one-pot" theme.
More Than S'mores
Campfire Cooking - find recipes that make cooking over an open fire "downright civilized."
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Texas Tea
Peakoil.com is published and maintained by private US citizens in an effort to educate and promote awareness of global hydrocarbon depletion.
Distributed Computing
There are at least 60 distributed computing projects listed at distributedcomputing.info. Among them are:
SETI at Home - Analyzes radio signals to search for extraterrestrial life
Climateprediction.net - Seeks to improve the accuracy of long-term global climate prediction
Einstein@Home - Search for evidence of gravitational waves, predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, but not yet detected.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Bar Room Ballgame
WhatIfSports.com was created in 1999 as a site designed to simulate games between past and present sports teams.
Friday, June 10, 2005
The Great Debate
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog (SCtN) is a new blog from Goldstein & Howe, P.C. It is meant as a sister blog to SCOTUSblog. SCtN is intended "to serve as a clearinghouse for information on the process of nominating and confirming a Supreme Court Justice. Some of our posts will simply attempt to keep up with all of the relevant press coverage and interest group advocacy. But we will also add our own coverage and analysis"
Culture Vulture
The Playgoer - Theatre Reviews, The Life of the Drama & other passing glances at the current cultural scene
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Roller Coasters
ThrillRide - reviews, photos, news, and articles about coasters.
Joyrides - large image galleries of roller coasters around the world.
UltimateRollercoaster.com - information on record holders and a history of thrill rides.
Walmart Campaign
Wake-Up Wal-Mart - campaign to make Wal-Mart live up to its responsibility to its employees, families, communities, and the nation.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Oscar the Grouch
Dumpster World - forums for dumpster divers and junkaholics.
Dan's Trashy Page - includes a dumpster diving manifesto, legal information, diving tips, and found treasures.
Attacking Coporate Power
ReclaimDemocracy.org - dedicated to restoring democratic authority over corporations, reviving grassroots democracy, and establishing appropriate limits to the realm of corporate influence.
Of particular interest is their campaign to revoke corporate personhood.
Google Who?
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Darfur Update
Defence chiefs from the United States and Europe will seek at a NATO meeting on Thursday to end a weeks-long dispute threatening to delay air transport vital to boosting peace efforts in Sudan's Darfur region.
The snag is a turf-war tussle between Washington and some European capitals over who should coordinate offers of help to the African Union as it seeks to triple its Darfur mission to some 7,700 troops by late-September.
Podcaster
Podcast Alley - Podcasts continue to explode in popularity. However, finding the newest, hippest prerecorded audio programs can take some effort. Podcast Alley simplifies the search by categorizing almost 3,000 podcasts.
Bush's Approval Rating Hits A Low.
President Bush's approval ratings for handling the economy, Iraq and Social Security have fallen to the lowest levels of his White House tenure, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday.
Satisfaction with congressional Republicans also has sagged. By 47%-36%, those polled say the country would be better off if Democrats controlled Congress. That's the best showing for Democrats since the GOP won control of both houses of Congress in 1994.
Golden Age Ephemera
For the entire 2005 year, kiddie records weekly, will be featuring weekly stories and songs from the golden age of children's records, a period which ran from the mid 1940s into the early 1950s. This era produced a wealth of classics, headed by Capitol's Record-Readers and the RCA Victor Little Nipper series. Each one of these recordings has been carefully transferred from the original 78s (plus a few 45s) and encoded to MP3 format for you to download and enjoy.
Entangled Ephemera #3
For The Record: "Reality-based information, opinion, and activism concerning national and international affairs." Quoting the about page, "We (Jessica Wilson and Benj Hellie) are assistant professors of philosophy at the University of Michigan and Cornell, respectively, who are interested in and worried about current national and international affairs. One goal of this blog is to keep a (partial) record of articles, opinions, sites and so on striking us as worthy of attention in the course of our news- and web-surfing; another is to periodically write longer posts focused on analyzing and/or understanding the historical and ideological underpinnings of current events (see especially the 'Foundations' and 'Capitalism and Its Alternatives' categories in the Archives). Yet another goal is to call readers' attention to certain opportunities for activism. "
Monday, June 06, 2005
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Walmart Watch 2005 Annual Report
While Walmart is holding it's yearly shareholders meeting, Walmart Watch issued it's report, "Low prices at what cost?"
Friday, June 03, 2005
Schmoogle It!
Schmoogle offers up Google results in random order. It asks the question what if the result you were looking for was hiding in page 53?
National Geo Graphic
Geograph British Isles - The project aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles and you can be part of it.
Measure of a Man
Fifty Feet will feature writings and statistics about measurements and metrics, and how they relate to our lives.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Papal Suppression
A liberal American Jesuit has been forced to resign as the editor of a Roman Catholic magazine after several years of tense relations with the Vatican doctrinal office that was headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI last month.
Thank you to Ray at Minor Wisdom for following such things.
Coalition for Darfur
For nearly two years, the government of Sudan and Arab militias known as the Janjaweed have rampaged through Darfur, raping women, killing thousands, destroying hundreds of villages as well as the agricultural economy and displacing more than 2 million people. Hundreds of thousands of people are in dire need of food, shelter, and medical care, but a lack of security is making it nearly impossible for international organizations to reach those most in need.
Join the blogger coalition to spread the word and raise awareness.
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