A California astronomer has discovered what he believes is the 10th planet in our solar system, a group of NASA-funded researchers said on Friday.
(He's not telling reporters the name he's proposed, does anybody have any guesses or suggestions for the name?)
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Planet Ten
Precognitive Science?
Astral Traveler - provides insight into energy fields, realities, precognitive sciences, healing, and other metaphysical topics and theories.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Blink Of An Eye
Eye to Eye - see photos from particular storms that Hurricane Hunters have flown in the past few years.
Keep On Walking
Localhikes - provides information on local hiking opportunities near both large and small metropolitan areas in the United States.
WTF
WhatTheFont - Have an image with text in an unknown font? Upload the image from your computer or elsewhere on the web and it matches the font for you.
Swiped from Pi at Words of Ether
Friday, July 29, 2005
Concert In The Park
Live Concerts combined with Google Maps - This great Google Map hack displays locations and gives the times of live concerts.
Mysterious Graffiti Underground
Piece by Piece - documentary that takes a journey into San Francisco's mysterious graffiti underground.
Monkey Suit
Pets in clothes - rate pictures of pets wearing clothes, or submit your own pet to be rated.
What Would It Take?
The Official United States Order of Succession. Since the Presidential Succession Act only covers 18 people, what would happen if something happened to those 18? We felt it important to continue the list for all Americans as a true contingency plan for Democracy. Here is your chance to join the list, should your country need you.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
And The Winner Is...
The Bulwer-Lytton Contest celebrates terrible fiction writing with an annual award.
Body Sound Archives
Hiccups Archive - extensive video and audio archive of people hiccuping.
Burps n' Farts - archive of body noises.
(further proof of my contention that you can find ABSOLUTELY everything on the internet)
The Night Sky
Billions and Billions - amateur astrophotographer specializing in deep-sky CCD imaging offers astronomical photograph galleries and provides advice on techniques and equipment.
ElectraWoman and DynaGirl
World of Krofft Online - showcases Krofft collectibles for fans of the classic children's television productions of Sid and Marty Krofft.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Bridging the Bay - The design and politics of six bridges of the Bay Area, including the Golden Gate Bridge.
Hienous Crimes
Catholic rebels with a cause. Two days ago, on a boat on the St. Lawrence River, nine Catholic rebels did something in direct defiance of the Vatican and now face the real prospect of excommunication by the Inquisitor Cardinal formerly known as Ratzinger.
Personal Darfur
Humanitarian hijinks - 'Sleepless in Sudan' describes herself as an aid worker in Darfur
Stinging Satire
Bill Maher on the Jay Leno show. - Bush has to stop saying, "Osama Bin Laden, you can run but you can't hide. Because he sure can hide, we can't find him anywhere." Bill Maher also talks about Karl Rove, John Roberts, and Bush appointees.
Found on One Good Move
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Entangled Ephemera #8
Hot Asian Rain - "Sexy, Dirty and Everything Flirty. Smart and sexy. It's as simple as that." Quyen Nguyen from Northridge, California blogs about her being a college student, her friends and just about anything that goes on in her life or at her job. She fresh and sassy willing to blog about life, love and sex. Alot of the fun chatter takes place in her comments.
Frank and Fritzy Show
How would you like to place a wiretap on the phone line of a mob leader and listen in whenever you want? You can't quite do this yourself, but you can listen to many hours of material recorded in 1985-86 from an FBI tap of mobster Federico 'Fritzy' Giovanelli, a Genovese crime family soldier.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Situation Darfur
In Darfur, My Camera Was Not Nearly Enough. 'Our helicopter touched down in a cloud of camel-brown sand, dust and plastic debris. As the cloud gradually settled into new layers on the bone-dry desert landscape, we could make out the faces of terrified villagers. "Welcome to Sudan," I murmured to myself, grabbing my pen and waterproof notebook.''A former Marine, I had arrived in Sudan's Darfur region in September 2004 as one of three U.S. military observers for the African Union, armed only with a pen, pad and camera. The mandate for the A.U. force allowed merely for the reporting of violations of a cease-fire that had been declared last April and the protection of observers. The observers sometimes joked morbidly that our mission was to search endlessly for the cease-fire we constantly failed to find. I soon realized that this was no joke.'
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Calvin and Hobbes - Ever think about a specific Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, or a quote from one of the cartoons, but couldn't remember what book it is in? Consider your problem solved!
Spam Killer
Russia's biggest spammer Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day.
Dress For Success
Paperdoll Heaven is a online celebrity dress up game for girls (and boys) of all ages.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Silver Chariot
Stop the abuse - Shopping Cart Abuse is a watchdog organization that keeps track of the world's deadliest metal mangling masterminds.
Get Your Kicks
Jack's Historic Route 66 - links to attractions, events, motels, and restaurants by state, associations and clubs, books and maps, and other resources.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Logline
Query Letters I Love - Actual, honest to god query letters the author received in Hollywood. Extremely funny, and great comments.
Female Role Models
Girls' Series Books - provides information and links on series with female protagonists, including Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Friday, July 22, 2005
Fastest Pickle Eater
Speedeat.com - news, rankings, and more from the world of competitive eating.
And in case your interested in more (and I know you are)
Association of Independent Competitive Eaters - organization composed of independent competitive eaters who are interested in competitive eating as a sport and entertainment.
Big Hoop Earrings
Lost Bands of the New Wave Era - fantastic blog covering obscure bands of the 80's.
Look Who's Talking
People from the local community have been syndicated. Here are two examples:
Nashville
San Francisco/Oakland
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Essentials
essential facts - facts, facts and more facts about almost every subject you can think of. Finding this site made me dizzy with excitement.
The Afternoon Paper
FreePaperToys.com - A large collection of links to designs for paper crafts (paper airplanes, animals, origami, cars and motorcycles, and a lot more)
These 'toys' would last about 5 seconds with Ryan.
Predictable News
Prognosticate - Pick your favourite news topic. The current headlines will be displayed. Your chosen news story will be typed up on screen. When it stops, it's up to you to predict the next word. There are 20 missing words in each story. Look out for the hint icons
Summer Reading
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Who Is Altria?
Bad Corp - What do multinational corporations do once their dirty record gets around and people start seeing them for what they are? They change their names, of course.
(Altria is Phillip Morris)
Going For A Walk
The Gmap Pedometer is a little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout.
The Eagle Has Landed
Google Moon - Google Maps gets the Lunar treatment, in honor of the first manned moon landing. (Fun Hint! - try the maximum zoom level)
Bubblelicious
The Giant Gum Bubble Web Page - Everything a gum chewer needs to know about blowing gum bubbles, from best brands, correct temperature, to proper technique can be found at this site.
And Then There Were None
78 high-level bio scientists, who (coincidentally) are capable of developing antidotes to new bio-weapons, have been killed, or died mysteriously, around the world. All within the last 24 months.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Skip To The End
The BOOK Spoiler - Would you like to know how a book turns out but don't actually want to take the time to read?
Here is Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling, tempting isn't it?
We'll Always Have Paris
Cafespot is in an independent, user-drive site where people can suggest their favourite deli, restaurant or cafe in many countries. The tool now plots these locations on a Google Maps interface.
Turn Out The Lights
God Bless Americana - Charles Phoenix has been collecting found slides of other Americans' vacations from the 50s and 60s.
Obscure Reference
First launched in June of 2003, Television Obscurities began with only six features and only a few minutes of streaming media. Now, over a year later, we have more than fifty features, encompassing nearly seventy pages, with over 250 media clips, totaling over three full hours of rare audio and video from television's past.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Darfur Crisis History
Why the genocide started, how it is being carried out, and whether it is getting worse. Registration is required, but you can find a userid and password here.
Out For The Night
Sittercity.com - Calls itself the Match.com for child care, Sitter City provides an invaluable service at a reasonable rate: $40 gets you access to hundreds if not thousands of potential babysitters in your area (the site has 50,000 registered users in 10 U.S. cities, including New York, Boston and Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore).
The More We Learn
125 Questions: What Don't We Know? - explores 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century. Indepth feature from Science Magazine.
On The Block
Bayraider ferrets out the strangest, freakiest stuff being auctioned on eBay and other auction sites.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Cream Of The Crop
TV Cream - a directory of television shows from the UK, US, Europe and beyond from the '60s to the '80s
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Going To The Corner
Lisa Salem is inviting us to walk LA with her, and encounter the city on a human scale at a human pace. She's video, photo and text blogging her experiences as she goes, and she's not going home 'til she's seen it all....
Year Of The Remake
Coverville - podcast, produced three times a week, that focuses exclusively on cover songs.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Going To The Mall
Malls of America - blog featuring vintage photos of shopping malls from the 1960s and '70s.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Somebody Is Watching You
eyesoflaura.org - weblog of a security guard at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Visitors of Laura's site can control security cameras from her work.
Movie Heavan
Hacking Netflix - Netflix news and information, plus details of new releases every Monday.
Shopping Lists UK Edition
Shopping List Compendium - collection of abandoned shopping lists from the U.K.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
A Prayer for the Dying
As a member of the bloggers Coalition for Darfur I recieve a weekly email, this weeks shocked me and is posted in its entirety.
As Mark Leon Goldberg of the American Prospect reported back in April, the Bush administration was leaning heavily on congressional leaders and managed to stall, and probably killed, the Darfur Accountability Act. As Goldberg explained, the bill
[E]stablishes targeted U.S. sanctions against the Sudanese regime, accelerates assistance to expand the size and mandate of the African Union mission in Darfur, expands the United Nations Mission in Sudan to include the protection of civilians in Darfur, establishes a no-fly zone over Darfur, and calls for a presidential envoy to Sudan.
Because of this pressue, the bill appears to be trapped in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Relations, presumably never to be seen again.
So what is Congress going to do now that sanctions, a no-fly zone and civilian protection are off the table? Apparently it has been reduced to "[encouraging] the people of the United States [to pray] for an end to the genocide and crimes against humanity and for lasting peace in Darfur, Sudan."
That's right, the US Congress has been reduced to calling on the American people to pray that somehow this genocide ends.
On July 1st, the US Senate quietly passed S.RES.186
A resolution affirming the importance of a national weekend of prayer for the victims of genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, Sudan, and expressing the sense of the Senate that July 15 through July 17, 2005, should be designated as a national weekend of prayer and reflection for the people of Darfur.
The House passed a companion resolution (H.RES.333) just yesterday.
The key portion of the resolution reads as follows
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) supports the goals and ideals of a National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection for Darfur, Sudan;
(2) encourages the people of the United States to observe that weekend by praying for an end to the genocide and crimes against humanity and for lasting peace in Darfur, Sudan; and
(3) urges all churches, synagogues, mosques, and religious institutions in the United States to consider the issue of Darfur in their activities and to observe the National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection with appropriate activities and services.
This resolution appears to be the work of the Save Darfur Coalition, a vital organization that has done a great deal to raise awareness of the genocide—but what does it say about the level of US commitment to address this situation when Congress is unwilling to do anything beyond simply asking the American people to pray for the dying people of Darfur?
If members of Congress are truly concerned about the deaths of nearly 400,000 Darfuris, or the fates of an estimated 3 million more, they are certainly capable of doing more than quietly declaring a "National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection."
Save Darfur deserves credit for getting Congress to even do this much, but this resolution cannot absolve Congress of its pathetic failure to adequately address the situation in Darfur. If anything, it only serves to highlight the government's utter lack of concern.
MoveOn PAC
"Last year, President Bush promised that anyone at the White House involved in the leak would be fired. We believe that the President should stick to his word. That's why we're calling on him to fire Karl Rove."
Sign the petition to Bush right now
Orwell Today
The Thought Police - A half-century after he wrote of dystopia in “1984,” George Orwell’s themes of control are scary as ever. This site blends fictional horror with contemporary life.
London Response
We'reNotAfraid.com - pictures and images in response to the London transit bombings.
Insider Trading
Article Insider - community where real-life specialists share their knowledge about a wide variety of popular topics.
AstroMech
Astromech.net - official web site of the R2 builders club. Includes FAQs and articles, droid parts lists, a droid registry, and other droid building resources.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Blowin' In The Wind
Hurricane Blog - talks about tropical weather, preparedness, and hurricane topics and allows readers to interact with Palm Beach Post staffers throughout the 2005 season.
Entangled Ephemera #7
Summer is the Shizzle - A page full of sizzling southern style! Finally I clicked through to somebody I know! I've been reading Summers blog for a while, she's a fun, sassy southern girl. She blogs about life, ninja turtles, cosplay, love and sex. She is currently going through a set of darkside astrology posts, so go on over a find out about my evil twin. To quote her about blurb, "I am obsessive-compulsive, smart, not over-rated, and f*cking gorgeous! Oh, and I'm humble also..."
Water Fight
Super Soaker Central - features water fight information pertaining to Super Soaker modifications, forums, reviews, and steps to building a water gun.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Neigborhood Resturant
ToEat.com - Uses Google Maps to allow you to search your local area for over 400,000 restaurants in the U.S.
Poetic License
Darwinian Poetry! The goal of this project is to see if non-negotiated collaboration can evolve interesting poetry using (un)natural selection.
It's All Relative
Is It Normal? - ask the world about your situation, friend, habit, or observation today and find out exactly where you stand.
Out Of The Park
Major League Baseball 2005 Home Run Derby - news and facts for the MLB hitting competition. Held July 12, 2005.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Hello World
The Hello World Collection - "Hello World" is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language. This collection includes 190 Hello World programs in many more-or-less well known programming languages
Bad Girls
Villainous Vamps - dedicated to the evil women of the Batman universe: Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn.
Radio Hour
Underheard.org, bringing you the best of independent and community radio. They are your source for over 120 hours of high quality podcasts and downloads every week, showcasing the best noncommercial radio shows from more than twenty stations in North America.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Rock You Like A Hurricane
This is not the first Hurricane Dennis. In 1999, another Dennis hit the Carolina coast. How do storms get their names? Here is the answer.
Hurricane Dennis has everyone around the Gulf of Mexico nervous. In the days to come, you will hear a lot about storm surge, one of the big concerns in Category 3 hurricane conditions. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a wonderful Web page with animation that explains this danger.
Since three of my readers are in Dennis's path in Louisiana, I'll show a page listing Louisiana's hurricane history.
Relavent Today
NPR: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial - 2005 audio report looking back at the Scopes trial, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath.
Drop Zone
RideAccidents.com: want to be put off ever visiting an amusement park or fairground again?
Mixology
BarBrews.com - Large selection of cocktail and mixed drink recipes in addition to a bar supply shop.
Panoramic London
The London Map tour of London contains over 100 panoramic 360° high quality images of attraction in Central London linked to an interactive map. See major places of interest - Buckingham Palace, the museums, Tower of London, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus and Barnsbury Park.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Barefoot In The Park
Mexican Footprints - details research of 40,000 year-old, fossilized human footprints discovered at Cerro Toluquilla in the Valsequillo Basin in Central Mexico.
Mean Mister Mustard
The condiment collection - The condiment packet museum prides itself on celebrating the design and innovation, as well as the contents of condiments.
Red Ink
Effective Writing Marking Guide, The - providing index of common writing errors with corresponding tutorials on each grammar error.
Not Long Forgotten
Dan's 20th Century Abandonware - personal collection of now historic application software which was used by businesses, schools, home users, and others from the early 1980s to 2000.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Heart Goes Out To London
I reconize that EE is not a source of fast breaking world news, but I would not feel right skipping a post on this:
Brian Paddick of the Metropolitan police said the first blast occurred at 8.51am on a tube train about 100 metres into a tunnel from Liverpool Street station. Seven people died. The second blast, with the highest confirmed death toll so far, came five minutes later on a tube train on the Piccadilly line near King's Cross. Police confirmed 21 deaths.
At 9.15am, a third explosion hit a train in Edgware Road station, blowing a hole through the wall of a second train and possibly affecting a third. The explosion killed five people.
The final blast came half an hour later on a number 30 bus at Tavistock Square, near Russell Square. Mr Paddick said people had been killed in that attack, but did not confirm how many.
My sympathies go out to the people killed and injured, and thier families.
Darfur Drawn
In February of this year, Human Rights Watch workers traveled through the refugee camps clustered along the Sudan-Chad border and interviewed those fleeing the massacres in Sudan's western region of Darfur. When the researchers visited with families, they offered paper and crayons to the children who gathered around. What those little ones drew will terrify you: Pictures of Janjaweed invaders, villages under fire, bombs falling from planes, executions. Most of the images include a brief, harrowing description by the child, such as this 13-year-old describing the rape of women and girls ("They are forcing them to be wife"). Each drawing conveys the horror of Darfur with an immediacy that is heartbreaking. This is "the visual vocabulary of war." Witness it though the eyes of children.
(This is copied directly from Yahoo Picks, it conveyed the sorrow of the site so well.)
Mind Of A Murder
This blog, which was written by Joseph Duncan, who's being held for murder in Idaho.
I wasn't sure if I should have posted this, but I was reading it obsessively with morbid fascination.
Spin Off City
Crossovers and Spinoffs Master List - devoted to spinoffs of shows and crossovers between shows that create a shared reality
Deep Impact
Deep Impact - Images from the successful probe of a comet, a detailed explanation of the mission, and lots more.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Early Adoptors
100 oldest dot-com domains - Interesting list of 100 oldest domain names in current use; these were all registed in the mid-1980s. From Jottings.com, a blog about domain names.
Close To Home
Iraq Casualties Map. US military casualties from the Iraq war. Each click of the (+) displays 30 more casualties, starting from the beginning of the war. Each soldier is shown in at their home town.
Andrew S. Dang, 20
Lance Corporal
Foster City, California
3/22/2004, Ramadi
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
The Pusher Man
Who pays Africa's bribes? - Dominic Nutt from Christian Aid on the links between corruption in Africa and the G8 countries.
Pedal Power
CyclingtoSydney.com - travel dairy of two sisters on a 25,000 kilometer bike ride from London to Sydney.
Monday, July 04, 2005
Don't Cry For Me, Numenoria
What would "The Lord of the Rings" sound like if it had been written by someone else?
Not Sun Tzu
The Art of War - exhibit from The National Archives (U.K.) of war illustration, propaganda, and artists.
Every Hollywood Waiter
Drew's Script-O-Rama - collected hundreds of scripts from Hollywood films and TV shows.
Cherry Bomb
State Laws for Fireworks - can you buy firecrackers in Florida or sparklers in Spokane? Get the answers from the National Council on Fireworks Safety.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
By The Watercooler
AintItCool.com: This gossipy site has become one of the most popular movie stops online. Find out in advance what's going on at movie sets and what the buzz is.
Bacon Bits
Oracle of Bacon - Based on the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game (trying to link a Hollywood actor to Bacon in the shortest number of movies), the Star Links game allows you to connect any two actors or actresses to each other.
Big Bang Bash
4th of July Fun - directory of major U.S. cities offering special events for the holiday.
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Bean Counter
The Abacus - Instructions on how to use a real abacus, and a chance to play with the online Java model.
Friday, July 01, 2005
(Unique) Road food
Going on a road trip? Tired of stopping at chain restaurants and want to find some local flavour?
Check out Roadfood
"Great regional meals along highways, in small towns and in city neighborhoods. It is sleeves-up food made by cooks, bakers, pitmasters, and sandwich-makers who are America’s culinary folk artists. Roadfood is almost always informal and inexpensive; and the best Roadfood restaurants are colorful places enjoyed by locals (and savvy travelers) for their character as well as their menu."
Eh, Canada
Happy Birthday, Canada! Today marks the 138th birthday of the Great White North.
Culture.ca - provides an in-depth look at everything related to Canadian culture.
Dereliction Of Duty
Abandoned - a photogallery of abandoned and unfinished buildings and industrial sites in the former Soviet Union
In The Dead Of Night
Vampire Moon - community of vampires, goths, and Wiccans/Pagans offering information on real vampirism and HLV's (human living vampires), vampire myths and legends, and discussion forum.
Armchair Treasure Hunter
Quest4Treasure - community created for armchair treasure hunters and puzzlers.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
