How You Can Help

Here is a Web site that searches a database of charities to sort out who is doing what.

Here is a list of some of the many charities doing work in the aftermath of the storm:

American Red Cross Disaster services and relief. Click here for Red Cross financial information.

Humane Society of the U.S. Emergency preparedness for pets. Click here for Humane Society financial information.

New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity Assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina. Click here for New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity financial information.

United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area Helping victims of hurricanes locally. Click here for United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area financial information.

Who's Helping

Here is the Federal Emergency Management Agency Web site, which explains what the agency is doing and what it plans to do.

Emergency declarations for Hurricane Katrina:
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida

State Emergency Management Links (for local issues and concerns about evcauations, preparations, shelters and safety):
Louisiana
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama

The American Red Cross said it had thousands of volunteers mobilized for the hurricane.

The Environmental Protection Agency sent emergency crews to Louisiana and Texas because of concern about oil and chemical spills.

The Department of Defense dispatched emergency coordinators to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi to provide communications equipment, search and rescue operations, medical teams and other emergency assistance.

The Department of Health and Human Services sent 38 doctors and nurses to Jackson, Miss., to be used, where they are needed, and 27 pallets of medical supplies to Louisiana, with first aid materials, sterile gloves and oxygen tanks.

Serenity Now

Environment backround sounds

The New Iraqi Constitution

PREAMBLE In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Verily we have honored the children of Adam.

Preperation-H On Isle 8

Avoid those embarrassing moments. Order those hard to find, hard to buy items online at Over-The-Counter.

Page A Day #3

Tales of great Ulysses

Page A Day #2

Filboid Sudge

Page A Day #1

Notebooks of Da Vinci

Emergancy Phone

Since 1997, all cell phones are required to function for 911 calls, whether in paid service or not.
Get an old clunker from this web site free.

Lost In Space

See the Earth as dozens of satellites see it, in real time.

Emperors New Clothes

21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak

Halliburton Agenda

Army Whistleblower Draws Fire After Questioning Deals. 'Bunny' Greenhouse Asks Why No One Competes Against Halliburton.

After drawing fire, she has now been fired.

Dear Diary #4

Martha Ballard's historical diary

Dear Diary #3

Henry David Thoreau

Murphy's Laws Can Never Be Complete

The Complete Edition of Murphy's Laws

Dear Diary #2

W.N.P Barbellion's diaries

A Second Job

U.S. workers get less vacation days than European workers

Dear Diary #1

Kafka's Diaries

Where Do they Get These?

Hundreds of bits of Trivia

Here She Comes

Envisat sees whirling Hurricane Katrina from ocean waves to cloud tops. ESA's multi-sensor Envisat satellite has gathered a unique view of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico. While an optical image shows characteristic spiralling cloud patterns, a simultaneous radar observation pierces through the clouds to show how Katrina's 250-kilometre-an-hour an hour winds scour the sea surface.

Prayers For New Orleans

My prayers are going out tonight to New Orleans. I hope that things do not turn out as severe as they are predicting. I hope that my friends in New Orleans end up fine, and their homes intact. I am reasonably certain that at least one friend and her family is out of harms way, I wish I could say the same for her home.

I know that there will be need of the American Red Cross, please consider donating time or money to help those in need.

Here is a Katrina Storm Watch and news and backround information are being updated directly at Wikipedia.

NOLA.com: Hurricane Center - storm tracking maps, satellite images, strike probabilities, warnings, parish alerts, storm photos, and other resources for monitoring and preparing for tropical cyclones from the New Orleans paper.

Houston, We Have A Problem

Via BlogHOUSTON:

Last night during KHOU-11's Hurricane Katrina coverage, it was mentioned that many Houston hotels have put up their no-vacancy signs, with a notable exception: the city-owned Hilton Americas still had 600 rooms available (out of 1,200) and the going rate was $250 per night.

David vs. Goliath

Recording Industry vs The People - A blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people.

Mr. Potato(head)

How to bake a potato - Step by step instructions for the perfect baked potato.

America’s Most Literate Cities 2004

America’s Most Literate Cities 2004 finds a statistical answer for 79 cities, drawing on numerous data sources to measure the public’s propensity for reading. The information is compiled from U.S. Census data, newspaper circulation rates, magazine publishing, educational attainment levels, library resources and booksellers.

The Top 10
1. Minneapolis, MN
2. Seattle, WA
3. Pittsburgh, PA
4. Madison, WI
5. Cincinnati, OH
6. Washington, DC
7. Denver, CO
8. Boston, MA
9. Portland, OR
10. San Francisco, CA

Video Killed The Radio Star

The ten most expensive music videos

Grand Slammer

Fantasy Criminal League - instead of getting points by scoring touchdowns or batting in runs, the FCL's teams score points when their players commit embarrassing or criminal acts.

National Lampoon

National Lampoon magazine covers and for those who always want more, more, more...

Mikes' Very Large National Lampoon Site

And Not A Drop To Drink

World Water Source - foundation dedicated to funding projects to provide safe water, basic sanitation, and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.

This is a follow-up to a post that I found interesting and meaningful on Ray's Blog:

• Percentage of illness worldwide due to water-borne disease: 80%
• Number of people worldwide lacking basic sanitation: 2.6 billion (40%).
• Number of people without reliable access to safe water: more than 1 billion.
  
• Amount of additional annual spending needed to provide everyone with clean water: $1.7 billion.
• Amount of further additional annual spending needed to provide everyone with basic sanitation: $9.3 billion. (That is, $11 billion total to provide everyone with clean water and basic sanitation.)
• Amount spent worldwide on bottled water annually: $46 billion.

My wife and I have basically stopped buying bottled water for the home, we use a Brita filter, saving us around $20 - $25 a month.

Spin Me Right Round

Discography Guide - offers discographies for a range of artists featuring record labels, release dates, track lists, and CD covers.

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Punctuation - a brief history, correct usage, and examples of punctuation marks in English, from a copy editing workshop at New York University.

Heads Will Roll

Political killing in the cold war and thereafter - provides an outline of the after effects of assassinations, covert killings, state and judicial executions.

Calling All Cars #3

Police Codes and Abbreviations - commonly used codes by Law Enforcement departments throughout the U.S.

Calling All Cars #2

Directory of State Patrol and State Police - directory of links to the official sites for state and highway patrols for all 50 states. Web site includes homeland security links and state sex offender pages.

Calling All Cars #1

Police-Scanner.info - lists police scanner sites, frequencies, and audio feeds nationwide.

Explaining The Bush Cocoon

Under traditional news judgment, the lead paragraph in American newspapers on the morning of Nov. 12, 2001, should have read something like: “If all legally cast votes in Florida were counted in Election 2000, Democrat Al Gore would have carried the state and thus won the White House, according to an unofficial tally of disputed ballots.”

Indeed, the tally found that Gore would have carried Florida’s key electoral votes regardless of the standard used for judging so-called “undervotes,” ballots kicked out by vote-counting machines which could detect no presidential choice. Gore won even ignoring Florida’s other irregularities – such as the badly designed “butterfly ballots” and the improper “felon purges” – that cost him thousands of additional votes.

To put it more starkly, a recount conducted by a consortium of major media organizations had determined that George W. Bush, the guy in the White House, not only lost the national popular vote but should have lost the Electoral College, too. To be even blunter, a pivotal U.S. presidential election had been stolen.

Da Vinci Friction

Proving Da Vinci right at the atomic level. Renaissance painter, inventer, and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci theorized that friction was related to the surface structure of the opposing surfaces. Now, 500 years later, a group of researchers from Ames Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used unique materials called quasicrystals to prove the theory holds even at the atomic level.

Island Hopping

Omnipelagos.com - meandering search engine finds the shortest path between any two things.

Ad Vantage

Best Ads on TV - funny, clever, and weird ads from around the world.

The Non-Debate On The War

"Teach your interns the role of journalists is to question power, not propagate it." That advice arrived recently from retired New York Times columnist Tom Wicker. While Mr. Wicker's words are important for my journalism students, they're a timely reminder for the Baby Boom leaders of America's newsrooms — who should have learned more than they did in the '60s, when the best and the brightest gave us Vietnam. The most influential interpreters of our public affairs are accepting, rather than expanding, a noose-tight frame the Washington political culture is enforcing to limit permissible discourse on the war in Iraq.

Upper Classmen

The Princeton Review's Best 361 College Rankings

Death By Caffeine

Energy Fiend - blogging the world of caffeinated beverages, including a Death by Caffeine calculator that determines how many cups of your favorite pick-me-up it would take to kill you.

62 bottles of Buzzwater (The most potent stuff) would kill me (I wonder if my caffeine tolerence would make a difference?), only 12 bottles for my son Ryan.

Esquivalience

Turn to page 1,850 of the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia and you’ll find an entry for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a fountain designer turned photographer who was celebrated for a collection of photographs of rural American mailboxes titled “Flags Up!” Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die “at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.”

If Mountweazel is not a household name, even in fountain-designing or mailbox-photography circles, that is because she never existed. “It was an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your copyright,” Richard Steins, who was one of the volume’s editors, said the other day. “If someone copied Lillian, then we’d know they’d stolen from us.”

So when word leaked out that the recently published second edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary contains a made-up word that starts with the letter “e,” an independent investigator set himself the task of sifting through NOAD’s thirty-one hundred and twenty-eight “e” entries in search of the phony.

The Mega Penny Project

Have you ever wondered what a quintillion of pennies would look like?

Pangea

Continental Motion - travel through time and check out what the Earth looked liked in the far distant past or what it might look like far into the future.

No Kid(ding)

TV ads market junk food to kids, new study finds for young Americans, the "food landscape" in television advertising is packed with junk food. The study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the first to explore the nutritional composition of foods advertised to children using Nutrition Facts labeling.

Braised Sea Cucumber

Deep End Dining - blogging the unusual, the exotic, and the rarely ordered in cuisine.

Mini Me

Minimus - They have a full supply of small and lightweight salad dressing, tea or snacks, personal care, and pharmacy items for camping, backpacking, or hiking. The site is packed with hundreds of travel accessories, including travel size toothpaste, travel size shaving cream, travel size mouthwash and more.

(Inspired in me a strange fascination for very tiny products)

The Infomediaries Factor

Corporate Gibberish Generator - creates paragraphs of corporate gibberish suitable for pasting into your prospectus

Shoulders Of Giants

Sci-Fi Hall of Fame

Bolton Agenda

US Plans to Scrap U.N. well underway. The United States has only recently introduced more than 750 amendments that would eliminate new pledges of foreign aid to impoverished nations, scrap provisions that call for action to halt climate change and urge nuclear powers to make greater progress in dismantling their nuclear arms.

Anger Management

Things we are not angry about... "We are not angry at Bush for his war of choice in Iraq. We are not angry at Bush because 2,000 Americans have died in Iraq, together with many thousands of Iraqis. We are not angry at Bush because in Iraq "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Nor are we angry at Bush because the WMDs were not found.
Nor angry that the aluminum tubes story was not true. Nor angry that the drones story was not true. Nor angry that the bioweapons story was not true. Nor angry that the "yellowcake uranium" story was not true...." (and the list goes on)

Don't Be A Pogey

What Does That Mean? - user-built lexicon of English idioms, words, and catch phrases and rude or defamatory phrases from around the world.

Standing Room Only

They don't like you sitting on things in NYC.

Winter Of Discontent

Just as students are heading back to school, frustration with the federal No Child Left Behind education law is hitting new heights at the grass-roots level from Maine to California.

Stop Playing Games

The Arizona Republic reported on the movement to eliminate recess

Kaleidoscope Eyes

Lucy in the Sky With Shatner - unofficial animated video for William Shatner's cover of the Beatles hit.

The Perfect Egg(head)

How to Poach an Egg

It's A Bird! It's A Plane!

Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
It's Spandexman.

Altered States

Books altered to create poetry. "Altered books" is an art form which transforms pages from old books into works of art.

Cherry Pi

100,000 Digits of Pi

Raising The Bar

The Government Accountability Office, in a study [released this week], finds the average student spends nearly $900 on textbooks and supplies, or 26 percent of tuition and fees per year at typical public four-year colleges. At two-year colleges, which are cheaper but more likely to attract low-income students, the textbook and supply bill amounts to 72 percent of tuition and fees.

The report finds textbook prices have increased 186 percent since 1986, or about 6 percent per year. By comparison, consumer prices rose 72 percent over that period, and college tuition and fees rose 240 percent.

Promoting Intolerence

I Hate Pat Robertson your source for all stuff anti-Pat Robertson, anti-Jerry Falwell, and anti-Religious Right.

We Don't Want Him

Bush keeps S.F. at bay. President hasn't participated in 75-year tradition of visiting city -- and he has no plans to do so.

Bush Enviromental Solution

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer within 100 years, scientists say. If present trends continue, the current melting will accelerate, driving the Arctic to a new seasonally ice-free state unlike any the Arctic has experienced in the last million years, according to a report in the Aug. 23 issue of Eos. The research team could not identify any natural systems that would act as a brake on the increased warming and melting.

Four More Years

The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq _ well over 100,000 _ for four more years, the Army's top general said Saturday.

Rid'em Cowgirl

Daredevils and Rodeo Queens - profiles of the pioneering women of rodeo.

She's Breaking Up!

The Ejection Site - Resource of articles, facts, and crew reports, images and technical information about pilot escape systems.

Seen And Not Heard

Top 100 Silent Films

Rapid Transition

Beach Pneumatic - illustrated history of New York City's first attempts at rapid transit and their aftermath.

Fool Me Once...

No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program. Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined.

Midnight Train To Georgia

Old American hobo symbols.

OOooOOps, Gosh Sorry About That.

Roberts File Missing After White House Review.

Your Name Here

Author Neil Gaiman has spearheaded a GREAT project to raise money for free speech. Get your name in an upcoming book, 16 authors have donated a once in a lifetime opportunity. And it's all for The First Amendent Project.

Thank you to Muse for finding this awesome little tidbit.

Taro's Quest

The focus of Lost Levels is to shed some light on video games that, for various reasons, were never released commercially.

Your Homework Done?

Source: US Census
Fast Facts: Back to School 2005

Another Tax Holiday

Break On Foreign-Profit Tax Means Billions To U.S. Firms

'The Backstroke Of The West'

Chinese mistranslations of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Game Over

Mega64! - Live-action video games

More: Splinter Cell and Pac Manhatten

Ch-ch-ch-changes

History of Baby Diapers.

Believe It Or Not, I'm Walking On Air

Fuggled: 101 Greatest TV Themes Ever - audio recordings of famous television themes, ranging from A-Team to Yogi Bear.

Skinny Dippin'

Swimming Hole Guide to the US.

The Chicken

Official Mascot Hall of Fame - The mission of the Mascot Hall of Fame is to honor great mascot performers, performance, and programs that have inspired tradition and positively affected their communities.

Cherry Blossom

Atlas of Japanese Festivals.

Coo Coo Water

A Brief History of Drinking Water.

Pre-Fad Items

Unnovations - Tomorrow's outmoded artefacts today

You're Fired!

Simply Fired - if you don't laugh, you'll cry. Stories of people getting fired.

Down The Rabbit Hole

A brief glimps into the strange and twisted thinking that is my mind:

Start: An explosion in San Francisco's Financial District this morning believed to have been caused by a faulty electrical transformer blew off a manhole cover.

Which led to this: METAFLITER: Explosion & Fire in Downtown San Francisco Just happened. Could be a gas line - at this point, no one knows.

Which led to this: Photos from the scene.

Then the left turn: Frank Chu

Sorry Gotta Go

When you absolutely have to get off the phone.

Trivia Dual

Past Master - History Channel quiz game that can be played by one player alone, or head-to-head online.

Spitting Nails

Finger Nail Art Gallery - featuring creative and innovative fingertip designs.

Slow Down

Light that travels… slower than light! A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light – both slowing it down and speeding it up – in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to the fiber-optic telecommunications industry.

Baby Got Backpack

Sir Mix-A-Lot still loves... backpacks? Click the girl with the backpack and you will hear Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" retooled as a Target jingle for backpacks.

Down Under

Security officers at the Australian Parliament House are once more free to use the word 'mate' as a form of address, with the ban introduced yesterday overturned today.

Free License

ACME License Maker - pretend you're in prison. Make a license plate from any state in the USA

Top Blog

Feedster Top 500 blogs - quick, check if your blog gets a mention. Nope, mine neither.

Super Models

Martin Bower's Model World - Official site of Martin Bower, professional model maker on Space:1999 and the movie Alien. Features his work on Alien, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Capt Scarlet, Flash Gordon, Capt Zep, Dr Who, Tripods, Outland, and Space:1999

Second Skin

Wild Rose Tattoo Shirts

Ribbons In Her Hair

They're soft, strong, and very, very long. Large, transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes can now be produced at lightning speed. The new technique should allow the nanotubes to be used in commercial devices from heated car windows to flexible television screens.

Good Night And A Happy Tomarrow

Here's a new news site with just happy news.

Application In Darfur?

A International Studies Quarterly study shows some types of military interventions can slow or stop genocide A new study shows that interventions that directly challenge perpetrators of genocides and politicides save lives.

Like A Virgin

Madonna Song Index

Beam Me Up

Two tech companies have announced plans to boldly go where no wireless phone company has gone before, with the release in September of a mobile telephone that resembles the communicators featured on the popular 1960s television series ''Star Trek.''

In The Navy

US Navy Recruiting Posters. 'This page features a special selection U.S. Navy Recruiting Poster images. It also provides links to other pages offering more extensive coverage of recruiting posters and similar forms of recruiting advertising.

(I am in no way suggesting that anybody should join Bush's Navy, nor any other branch of his military, but the history of these posters is pretty neat.)

Workin' For A Livin'

Salaries of America's favorite TV dads - Who knew George Jefferson made more than Jed Bartlet?

Poor Children Left Behind

Study finds that school-funding loopholes leave poor children behind. The major funding arm of President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Program is hampered by loopholes that prevent the money from reaching low-income children, researchers found.

HULK SMASH

Hulk Diary - Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry.

Burnout

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass. Frustrated undergrad's lab report.

'O' Ring

Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that Saturn's majestic ring system has its own atmosphere - separate from that of the planet itself.

Wish You Were Here

Disneyland Postcards — "I have been collecting postcards from the park since the mid 80s', I have acquired over 800 postcards, dating from the first one ever printed, to the current ones sold today."

Twain Wreck

Letters from the Earth -Mark Twain's controversial piece on christian religion, not published till 1962

The Red-headed League

221B Baker Street -Sherlock Holmes, his stories, pictures, links

Holy Comic Book Kookiness Batman!

What WERE They Thinking? - focusing on the unintentional humor to be found in comics of years past.

For Ray

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix)

Real Woman

For Everyday Products, Ads Using the Everyday Woman.

Follow up to 'Summer of Dove' Post

Ryan Kindergarten 2006

Public School Directory - provides full listings of all public schools in the United States. Includes school reviews and statistics.

(I don't even want to look at the reviews for San Francisco Public Schools, much too scared)

Best Money Can Buy

The Abramoff 6

Flash Of The Absurd

99 Rooms

A/V Geeks: cheesy old educational films treasure trove

(Link and description snagged from De)

A/V Geeks

..."specializes in preserving the nuttiness that is educational film, i.e. those awful audio/visual lessons about everything from the wonders of industrial arts to morality plays on cheating and good posture."

Who Is Under There?

National Underwear Day - Event to get people to sign petitions by sending male and female models out onto the streets dressed only in their undergarments

Enduring Meaning

Great Seal of the United States -its official meaning and symbolism

Growing Up With Kung-Fu Theater

Asian Cinema - special feature from the Shu Qi Movie Database featuring reviews of Asian movies, both old and new.

Clinton/Walken 2008

Walken2008 - biography, politics, and more from the campaign to draft the actor for president.

Shelf Life

The Twinkies Project

A Wink Over The Stacks

ConnectViaBooks - This is a website that connects readers who like the same (or similar) books.

Cutting Room Floor

How it Should Have Ended - because sometimes movies don't finish the way we'd like.

Aarrggh Matey!

Talk Like A Pirate Day - description, history, and advice about the day celebrated on September 19, inspired by Dave Barry. Arrr!

Wrath Of Kirk

Khaaan.com - Captain Kirk's most famous scream preserved as a Flash animation.

The Man Of The House

National Do Not Call Registry - Have you registered yet?

TeleFantasy

Science Fiction and Telefantasy Databanks - episode lists, plot synopses, and music for dozens of British and American cult and science fiction television shows.

Let's Add One

Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed, 1789-2004

Come To Order

Famous Trials - in-depth accounts of some of the world's most famous trials. Presented by the UMKC School of Law, and Professor Doug Linder.

You First

Authentic military hand signals. - "I'm not going in there!"

Growing Language

Do chuggers bother you when you want to rock up to a restaurant with your cockapoo to hoover a supersized ruby murray?

Confused? Then you need to refer to the new Oxford Dictionary of English to understand a host of new words that appear for the first time in its latest edition.

Are We There Yet?

'Breakthrough' for scientists hunting Aids cure

Personal Feedback

letters to the president - This blogger has been and will be sending emails to the white house every day for all four years of Bush's second term.

(I'm not certain why I didn't notice that this blog has been abandoned, but is still amusing to read. Somebody should take the idea back up, because it is a clever device for catching political detail.)

Earth Girls Are Easy

Picking Up Girls Made Easy: "The Pick-up System No Girl Can Resist"! 32mb MP3 recording of the genuine 70's article.

Collectivism

Collective Nouns - real and proposed collective nouns for describing groups of animals, people, or things.

No Means No

20 Ways to Say No - lists and discusses ways to turn down projects gracefully.

Latinus Graffittius

Ancient Graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. And some more.

Till Death Do Us Part

The Bardo State - A general historical and comparative review of the various philosophical, religious and esoteric-occult conceptions of the nature of the after-life.

More fun stuff from Lisa

Left Or Right?

Setting the Table - This "diagram shows a full-blown table setting for a fancy dinner party," including proper placement for cutlery, dishes, and glassware.

Dooh!

Guide to Springfield USA - "A highly detailed map of the Simpsons' hometown," useful for resolving questions about episodes of this popular animated television show.

Play It

Guitar Blog - news and reviews of guitars and basses, from a longtime collector and renovator.

(For Pi)

Stardate 14921.76

Daystrom Institute Technical Library - storehouse of information on all things Star Trek.

Fascinating

dancing on Reagan's grave, then posts photos on net,

Somebody Is Watching You (II)

FBI Files on the Famous

They Hate Our Freedoms

There is no such thing as a lie as perfect as the truth. That is why it is necessary to construct an alternate reality in which to house it.

Let's start with 9/11.

We were told that 9/11 happened because "they hated our freedoms."
People who up to then knew they lived in an imperfect society where even their votes didn't count, where lobbyists bought Congress and corporations bought elections, whose 14 percent of the population had disproportionately high representation in prison and on death row, whose work force had been removed from jobs by the tsunami of globalization, whose illiteracy rate was one of the highest in the industrial world, whose country was the stingiest donor in the industrial world, whose 40 million uninsured lived in fear of getting sick, all these various people were suddenly collectively made aware that they were the object of envy for something they hadn't known they had—a really spiffy country.

Time To Burn?

How accurate is Eric Idle's Galaxy Song?

Westworld

Android World - Everything you would ever want to know about anthropomorphic robots

Your Home Is Your Castle

Unusual Homes

Kingdom Of Heaven

Rapture Ready - Do you 'Believe'? The creators of this site do.

Piece Of The Pie

Trivial Pursuit - online version

Bush's Next Vacation

Could be in Siberia, soon it will be as hot as Texas.

Climate warning as Siberia melts

WWRD

How many people do you think would buy a custom made 'Live Strong Spirit' bracelet? Maybe 1000? It would ONLY cost $640 to get them made.

Pi how much are you selling them for?

Record Breaker

Thieves tunneled into a Brazilian Central Bank branch to steal 65 million US dollars, officials said. The country's biggest-ever bank heist was one of the largest in the world.

Darfur A Humanitarian Crisis

It is widely accepted that Darfur is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. It didn't get that way over night. Physicians for Human Rights has warned that "a genocidal process is unfolding in Darfur." The United States Holocaust Memorial's Committee on Conscience has issued a "genocide warning." The U.S. war-crimes ambassador, Pierre-Richard Prosper, has testified that "indicators of genocide" exist in Darfur. How many "indicators of genocide" do there need to be before the genocide is officially recognized and the international community fulfills its legal responsibilities?

(Clipped from a post at the Coalition for Darfur)

Not A Gag Site

The non-moving Earth & anti-evolution web page

The Search For Atlantis

Plato's account of how the fabled city of Atlantis sank below the surface of the ocean does have scientific grounding, according to a seafloor survey of an island west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Plus 21 Years

Orwell Today - Comparing the world George Orwell described in "1984" with the world we are living in today, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Confectionery Varietals

Jelly Belly Wine Bar

For Your Fashion Sins

Lisa quietly slip this fantastic find into a post about how she doesn't have time to post, so I will deliver to you Dress-up Jesus.

I Want My MTV

cliptip - music video blog.

Know It All

WiseGeek - Clear Answers for Common Questions

And Counting

The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count has breakdowns of the casualties of the Iraq War and Occupation, by home city of record, name, branch of service, rank, and cause of death, and other statistics such as ethnicity, as well as a printable list of all fatalities to date.

There are also lists of civilians and Iraqi Police and Guardsmen.

Weather Balloon

Franklin's Forecast - build your own weather station, learn about today's sophisticated weather technologies, and check the weather right now

Command Tower

Travelocity Flight Tracker - multiple-airline flight tracker offering real-time flight status around the world.

National Health Care

The news that Toyota is locating its next North American auto plant in Canada rather than in the U.S. shouldn't have come as such a shock to American bigwigs.

Anyone who has been paying even a teeny bit of attention to the problems plaguing American auto companies knows that their No. 1 financial problem is the cost of health insurance. There's even concern that General Motors will find itself filing for bankruptcy if it can't get its UAW workers to pick up a larger share of health insurance costs.

That's a problem that has beset more and more American businesses in recent years as the cost of health care far outstrips inflation and the ability of companies to pass those costs to consumers.

So, if you're Toyota, why wouldn't you spurn generous offers from U.S. cities and locate in Canada, where the government provides everyone with health insurance?

Dynamic Duo

Bayport Gazette - newsletter devoted to the Hardy Boys detective series features humor, pictures, news, interviews, and more.

Oink Oink

Grionk - The Pigsty: A fun but informative website for anybody who wants to find out absolutely anything about pigs

Garage Sale

Picasso for sale at Costco. It's the second Picasso to be offered online by Costco since it began featuring fine art on consignment from dealers in March 2004. Costco's first online Picasso, priced at $39,000, sold in January.

Every Object

Every Object Tells A Story

Open Letter To Kansas School Board

Intelligent Design v. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

Tiny Bubbles

The Bubble Burst - British pop culture icons of times past - where are they now?

Divided We Fall

Passage of energy bill highlights lack of united Democratic opposition

Red Shower

2005 Perseid Meteor Shower - know where to look as Mars joins the Perseid meteor shower for a beautiful display on August 12th.

What Would You Say?

The Dead Letter Office - The premise is simple: You are now dead. This is your opportunity to write one letter to the world. You may say anything you want.

Up In The Air

Powered Model Airplanes - offers reviews and photos of three generations of powered model airplanes including free flight, control line, and radio control.

Level Twenty

VG Maps - gamer-compiled video game atlas, including maps for both current and vintage games.

New Game Sensation!

The Arcade Flyer Archive - searchable collection of promotional flyers for arcade games from 1971 to the present.

Clean Up Already

EPA Superfund National Priorities List Sites in the United States

Give Up The Ghost

The Top Dead Celebrity Earners For 2004

Loose Lips Sink Ships

World War II Posters at the New Hampshire State Library.

Fair Share?

America's Largest Corporate Taxpayers

Riding On The Metro-oooohhhh

Metro Logos of the World.

Entangled Ephemera #10

Kill The Goat - "Blogging is just masturbating without the mess. Believe it or not, I haven't gone blind yet, nor are my palms any hairier than usual." Kill the Goat is a true weblog the author journals about a range of topics with delightfully long posts. Her name is 'Jay' and she is from Smalltown, Ontario, Canada and her profile states, "A writer, a thinker, a candle-stick maker. A lover, a baker, a booty-shaking entertainer. I'm bossy and stubborn but worth the effort. And no, Mom, I don't play well with others." But she does write extremely well and I might have to move her link to a more permanent location.

Picture Shares

Stock Exchange - Stock photos of pretty much anything can be found here. Need a picture of a farm? Some office equipment? This great site has thousands of images ready for you.

Snapshot

Formerly 669. A polaroid a day, every day.

What Honey??

Men really do have trouble hearing women, scientists find.

Roshambo

Rock Paper Scissors - The Film - documentary film about the world of competitive Rock Paper Scissors.

Bewitched

The Burning Times - lists names and death dates of historical individuals executed as witches.

Radio Days

Old Time Radio: Sherlock Holmes - episodes of the 1940s Sherlock Holmes radio program, in MP3 format.

Sounds of Yesteryear - audio files of radio programs from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Water Balloon Wars

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pop a water balloon in space? (Check out this page for more videos)

Gumball Rally

Gumball 3000 Rally - The official site of the Gumball Rally. News and information about the up coming rally.

Gumball Sportsmobile - Follow Car 54 along the 2004 Gumball 3000 every step of the way, daily updates and lots of fun.

Passing The Mashup

GoodBlimey Blog has a tunes page with a collection of mashups, or bastard pop (info about mashups) that you can listen to, and download.

Candle In The Wind

Tapes said to reveal Marilyn Monroe's secrets.

Now And Then

Then and now shots of celebrities.

Retrotech

The Museum of Retrotechnology

Check Mate

Chess Guide - history, rules, strategy, news, and other information about the game.

The Beast Master

The Beast Blender - I created a Ring-tailed Rhimosquitagator

Deal Me In

PokerZone - features strategy articles, glossary of poker terms, news and more.

Cool Toys

PCWorld.com - The 100 Best Products of 2005

1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

An outbreak of flu in rural south-east Asia could spread around the globe in three months and infect half the world's population within a year, unless strict measures to contain it are introduced, scientists said yesterday.

Wiccin Of The Great White North

Wiccan Web - news for wiccans and pagans from a Canadian and global perspective. Includes articles, forums, and a community from all over the country.

(muse don't you have an article or two posted there?)

Crash Test Dummies

SaferCar.gov - crash test and rollover ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Say Cheese

photos not taken

Fixr

Fixr photographs recreations of moments when you didn't have a camera, then sends you a photo.

Mayday

semaphore alphabet

The Ultimate Dysfunctional Family

Journal reveals Hitler's dysfunctional family. Beaten by his father, the future dictator used to bully his sister.

Earth To Bush

Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

Music Spin

Sound Opinions - Great site for finding out about newly released music or discussing bands with like fans!

The Four Horsemen

Hours before President Bush announced his Supreme Court nominee, a White House reporter from a major daily newspaper was on the phone with one of "the four horsemen." The horsemen--former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, Federalist Society pooh-bah Leonard Leo, and Jay Sekulow, best known as Washington's most prominent Jew for Jesus--had earned their nickname because they were the four outsiders who worked most closely with the White House on the Supreme Court nomination. If anyone knew who Bush was about to pick, it would be one of them.

Summer Of Dove

Are the women in the company’s new ad campaign too big to sell beauty products, or have our minds gotten too small?

School Daze Revenge

RateMyProfessors.com - where U.S. and Canadain students can grade their higher education college teachers and professors.

22 y/o SWF ISO

30 First Dates - weblog of a female in her early twenties who decided to date five new people a month for the six months.

Aren't You...

Celebrity Look-Alikes - for hire!

Eye In The Sky

Best Of World Maps - The best images of sites around the world from satellite photos.

ET Phone Home

Spaceweather PHONE - an astronomy alert service that will give you a ring when auroras appear, spacecraft pass over head, planets align, and other celestial events occur.

Gothic Martha Stewart

DIY Home Decor for the Morbidly Inclined

Compass & Square

Freemason Information - a conpendium of masonic knowledge and information available to anyone who is curious.

"Ah, Borneo" She Said Long Windedly

Lyttle Lytton Contest - contest challenges writers to produce the worst and shortest opening line for a novel, limiting entries to 25 words or less. (A shorter version of the Bulwer-Lytton contest)

Important Things To Do

Department of Homeland Security issues ban on video game

Double Negative

Grammar Hell - offers grammar help and spelling tips, served with a dash of humor.

Judicial Think Tank - Or A Plot?

On its face, the Federalist Society is just another think tank in a town awash with them. But critics see something more - a well-oiled juggernaut out to remake the courts in the image of Robert Bork, the Supreme Court nominee rejected by the Senate in 1987, who predicted that a new generation, "often associated with the Federalist Society," would transform the legal profession.

Let It Ring

Orgasmatones.com - "I'll have whatever she's having"

Picture This

Worth1000 does it's literal song meanings competition for Photoshop.

Stop The Insanity

The National Rifle Association is urging its 4 million members to boycott ConocoPhillips gas stations and products because the oil giant is trying to block an Oklahoma law that allows employees to keep guns in their cars when parked in company lots.

Lights, Camera, Action!

A War Story - How The Current Wave Of Global Islamic Terrorism Was Precipitated By A B-Movie Actor.

Sudan Gang Violence

Sudan has suffered a third day of violence, with gangs of southern Sudanese and northern Arabs attacking each other with clubs and Kalashnikovs.

Planet Ten Follow Up

New Scientist: Join the Battle of the Planet Names - what would you name 2003 UB313? Submit your ideas for the tenth planet's permanent name.

Maud Dib

Dreamers of Dune - Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi masterpiece comes to life in this fan site. Check out the Lexicon, a detailed encyclopedia of all the terms in the Dune series.

Heeeere's Joooonny

Tucker Carlson and Jon Stewart are going head-to-head

Swords To Plowshares

Iraq vets running for public office

3 are running as Democrats looking to unseat Republican incumbants. 1 as a Republican looking to unseat a Democrat. so with Paul Hackett that makes 4/5 Operation Iraqi Freedom vets to run for Congress that are running Democrat..... What does that tell us?

Bullseye

Slave To Target - A blog about Target stores.

Bush Vacation Policy

Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record. With Long Sojourn at Ranch, President on His Way to Surpassing Reagan's Total

80's Horror

Mullets Galore - provides a guide for vocabulary, classification, and hunting of the mullet. Pictures are provided for the connoisseur to hone his or her skills.

Do A Little Dance

Here is a collection of mini organs.

Unencrypted Broadcast

Pentagon Channel - broadcasting military news, Department of Defense briefings, interviews, and special reports.

(For my reader from the DoD Information Center, though they probably already get the information)

Burrito Central

Burritophile - providing enthusiasts a place to voice opinions, post reviews, and read updates regarding burritos and taquerias.

Women In Chess

Starting a little after 10 a.m. EDT Monday, chess grand master Susan Polgar walked from chess player to chess player in The Gardens Mall, making move after move in her quest for the world record of most chess games played simultaneously. It will end today. And by now, chances are good she has succeeded.

Reel Bomb Secrets

In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years all but a handful of newspaper photographs were seized or prohibited.

Bush's Physical Fitness Routine

The White House this weekend announced that President Bush received good news during his annual physical. Doctors pronounced the President to be in "superior" physical condition, which media reports attributed to his rigorous, six day a week exercise routine. While President Bush has made physical fitness a personal priority, his cuts to education funding have forced schools to roll back physical education classes and his Administration's efforts to undermine Title IX sports programs have threatened thousands of women's college sports programs.

Voltron

You've been served

Cover Shot

Sexy album covers.

Day At The Museum

Museum Directory - Virtual Library Museums will help you find whatever you want, whether it's art, history, science or a natural park.

Bush's Non-Think(ing) Tank

President Bush had a ready answer when asked in January for his view of adoption by same-sex couples: ''Studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman," the president said.

Bush's assertion raised eyebrows among specialists. The American Academy of Pediatrics, composed of leaders in the field, had found no meaningful difference between children raised by same-sex and heterosexual couples, based on a 2002 report written largely by a Boston pediatrician, Dr. Ellen C. Perrin.

But Bush's statement was celebrated at a tiny think tank called the Family Research Institute, where the founder, Dr. Paul Cameron, believes Bush was referring to studies he has published in academic journals that are critical of gays and lesbians as parents. Cameron has published numerous studies with titles such as ''Gay Foster Parents More Apt to Molest" -- a conclusion disputed by many other researchers

Google Yourself

Logogle, the Google Logo Maker.

Meat!

The 20 hamburgers you must eat before you die, a definitive list from GQ.

And I Feel Fine

Exit Mundi - features various apocalyptic scenarios. Like this one:

"Look around. See that world out there? Well, it is about to change - forever. Think of wars, famine, diseases and worldwide turmoil. That’s what’s coming down, as we pass a nasty spike in the statistics called the ‘Oil Peak’. In fact, we may just have passed it already."

Like A Pipe Out Of Hell

The Governator's 1985 film Commando was not going to win any Oscars. But at least it spawned a page of tortuous songs written by fans.

Entangled Ephemera #9

The Last Girl On Earth - The wacky musing of a girly New York musician who is attempting to prove that you don't have to be a 19 year old anorexic model babe to be successful. Her bio blurb states, "I am a singer/songwriter and classically-trained violinist who quit the classical world early in my career because I hated having to wear black and sit still! I played Lilith Fair with my very own band, and have either recorded or performed with REM, Sarah McLachlan, Cyndi Lauper, Gravity Kills, Chris Whitley, Daniel Lanois, & Robyn Hitchcock and a whole bunch more. " Her blog is fun, and funny with a sharp wit that you would want from the last girl on Earth! She posts cleaver, snarky essays about NY musician life, with a fun new "ALL REQUEST – LAST GIRL ON EARTH – MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA!" where she travels NY streets filming strangers reading comments from her blog.

Moohahaha #7

Evil on a Budget - a guide to threatening the free world on fifty dollars a day.

Moohahaha #6

Chip's Guide to Being an Evil Overlord

Moohahaha #5

The Top 100 Film Heroes and Villains

Moohahaha #4

Villains Fanlisting - a fanlisting for book and movie villains.

Moohahaha #3

Malice - fanlisting for the villains of Harry Potter.

Moohahaha #2

James Bond Villains - profiles of the various adversaries 007 has faced.

Return To Dino Island

The oldest fossilized dinosaur embryos ever found reveal how the creatures grew from tiny hatchlings to become such giant land beasts.

Moohahaha #1

Dark Side, The - fanlisting for Star Wars villains.

Senate Gets Dissed

President Bush bypassed the Senate today and installed John R. Bolton as his ambassador to the United Nations over strong Democratic objections that he was abusing power and undermining the credibility of the United States.