Balance Of Power

U.S. senators, who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks, have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.

Mansion On The Hill

Find Haunted Houses - provides a directory of haunted houses and Halloween attractions, listed by state, zip code, and type.

Dress Up

Lauren's Halloween Page - dedicated to the costumes she and her friends have sported through the years.

The Great Pumpkin

Monster Pumpkin - grower log for two backyard gardeners growing Atlantic Giant pumpkins in Northern California. With photo galleries and giant pumpkin FAQs.

Vampire Stakes Anyone?

Halloween Trivia Quiz - online Halloween trivia quiz to test your ghoulish knowledge.

Catch The Spirit

Old Haunts - blogging the history of Halloween in 20th-century America with photos, costumes, and memorabilia.

Jack O'Lantern

Pumpkin carving

IEEEeeEEEeeEEEEeeee

Scary Halloween Sounds - collection of scary sound clips including goblins, graveyards, heartbeats, screams, and much more.

Pumpkin Artists

Extreme Pumpkins Site

Boooooo

Researcher says Halloween no laughing matter for many youngsters

Monster Page

Monster Page of Halloween Project Links - collection of do-it-yourself instructions.

The Living Dead

Zombie Guide 2005 - handy guides to what you should know about zombies, how to deal with the fast and slow varieties, and lots of information on zombies in pop culture.

Haunted House

Ghost Haunts - ghost exploration site that lists haunted houses, cemeteries, ghost stories, and more.

Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Halloween Ghost Stories - scary Halloween tales, classic ghost stories, real life hauntings, and urban legends.

Distilled Spirits

UFO-Free Paranormal Page - This page is home to the oldest true ghost story archive on the net (with stories dating back to 1993) as well as the net's original Ghosts and Hauntings FAQ.

In The Shadows

Dark Side of the Net - Directory of websites about spooky, occult, and Goth matters. Includes thousands of links in such categories as Halloween (including haunted houses), literature, art, computer applications (fonts, screensavers, wallpapers), entertainment, discussion groups and chat rooms, horror, movies, music, and vampires.

The Monster Mash

Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge - A collection of 60s Halloween novelty records.

Geranimals For Adults

dress kevin - "I didn't know what to wear, so I made a web site."

Hi Norm

Buy Him a Beer

Agree To What?

RTF EULA - Excerpts from End User License Agreements.

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Face Off

Mars is set for a close encounter with Earth, approaching to within 69.4 million km (43.1 million miles) of our planet in the early hours of Sunday.

Everything Is Better With Beer

''Just add beer!''

Jive Talkin'

Slang Search - online dictionary of English slang, street terms, and trash talk. Browse insults, drug terms, police jargon, and sex slang.

Great Minds Think Alike

Dynamic Einstein picture - You can change the text on this image to whatever you like.

Air Drop Service Extra

Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products

At Your Service

Windows Services That Can Be Disabled - This reference sheet lists each Windows XP SP 2 service, describes each service's function, specifies whether you can safely disable the service, and outlines the ramifications of doing so.

Good To The Last Drop

Single Serve Coffee - the one cup coffee lovers weblog.

Bipartisan Pressure

The Bush administration on Wednesday yielded to growing bipartisan pressure and agreed to reinstate a workers rights law - the Davis-Bacon Act - that had been waived in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Lexiphanicism

Grandiloquent Dictionary - collecting and defining the most rare, obscure, and pretentious words in the English language.

Rock And Roll Fantasy

Classic Bands - Lists Rock and Roll artists of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Where are they now, what were their hits and their stories. Learn about the stars' real names, read Rock and Roll interviews, and fascinating facts. There are lists about the 100 most played songs, the 100 best selling records, the top 40 songs from 1956 to 1980 and information about every musician who has died and gone to Rock and Roll heaven.

Pennies From Heaven

Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time.

Wilma: Political Storm

"In Florida, we consider it a high priority and it's a bottom-up system." Jeb Bush said. "In Louisiana, it was left for the federal government to fill the void, and you can see the consequences." By Wednesday, Jeb changed his tone, as accounts poured in of Floridians waiting for hours seeking water, ice, and meals that never showed up. Jeb Bush shifted his stance to take some blame off his brother and FEMA, ”We did not perform to where we want to be.”

One Down

Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post.

Conspiracy Theory

One day he sledded through the snow off into the sunset, never to be heard from again... Has someone found Calvin?!?

Internet Puzzle

Tricky's Riddles - All you have to do is change the URL (the link in the address bar) in such a way to get to the next level.

Subsidies For Corporations Or The Poor?

The Senate decided Wednesday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.

Fitzmas Eve

Twas the night before Fitzmas, and in the White House
Every one was scared shitless, and Bush was quite soused
The indictments were hanging like Damoceles’ sword
As verminous oxen prepared to be gored

Two All Beef Patties

The Secret MacDonald's Recipes - The McDonald's® regular hamburger is the one that got it all started in 1948. It's as basic as can be...yet the ones they serve today don't even taste CLOSE! Make em exactly as instructed, and you can enjoy that long-lost flavor once again.

Don't Ask Why

San Francisco in Jell-O

Dagwood

The sandwich project’s aim is to collect the world’s favourite fillings between two pieces of bread. The site has an archive of 2,273 sandwiches?

Doing The Time Warp

In July, theoretical physicist Amos Ori of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, proposed a provocative new model for a time machine.

The Big House

Prisoner's Dictionary - dictionary of prison slang and terms used in the U.S. penal system.

Keef To Read

Surfrikan Slang - dictionary of South African surf slang and street terms. Includes words from Afrikaans and English.

Sense Of Security

United States to Require RFID Chips in Passports.

Exemptions

Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees

No Limits

Autopsy reports reveal homicides of detainees in U.S. custody

“I Am Your Father”

The 25 Most Shocking Moments in Movie History

Start Of A Revolution

Rosa Parks Bus - The story in the back of the bus. Includes a chronology of Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement.

Up Beat Tempo

The ska band O'Phil has decided to release their two out-of-print albums for free online.

Annihilate

The official Dalek Builders' Guild web site.

Laying In Wait

Speed Traps - The police may be out in the open, hiding behind bridge abutments, or passing overhead in an airplane. Fortunately, you know about the speed traps on your regularly traveled routes, but what about those times you are on unfamiliar streets and highways?

Stay-Puff Marshallow

This marshmallow gun will surpirse you with its accuracy, range, and ease of construction.

Oil Alternatives

A Car That Makes Its Own Fuel - A unique system that can produce hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as magnesium and aluminum was developed by Israeli company Engineuity. The system solves all of the obstacles associated with the manufacturing, transporting and storing of hydrogen to be used in cars. When it becomes commercial in a few years time, the system will be incorporated into cars that will cost about the same as existing cars to run, and will be completely emission free.

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Fourth Estate

U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index.

Strange Tales

In 1992, Bill O’Neill, in Philadelphia starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in local roads. They were generally about the size of a license plate, and each had some variation of the same strange message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUbricK’s 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER.”

Rest In Peace

Rosa Parks, civil rights icon, dead at 92

Blowin' In The Wind

Home Wind Turbines

Propeller Head

Science Toys - Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.

The Gospel According To Anne

The queen of the occult has been gone awhile. What's Anne Rice been up to? Getting healthy, finding God—and writing a novel about Christ.

How To Build...

A One Atmosphere Plasmoid - A very simple experiment that you can conduct yourself with common material that you already have in your house. This experiment will allow you to see and check by yourself that a stable Plasmoid ( an artificial Plasma Ball ) can be created in air ( at a pressure of one atmosphere ).

First Of Many

Warmest September (globally) since record keeping began

John Titor

John Titor was the name of a purported time traveller from the year 2036. He posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001, making many vague and seemingly falsifiable predictions about events in the near future and giving an explicit, detailed account of his supposed native time period. Whether or not John Titor was a hoax is a topic of controversy on web-based paranormal discussion boards.

Rest In Peace #2

The war in Iraq saw two milestones Tuesday that reflect the country's path toward democracy and its human toll as officials said the referendum on a draft constitution passed and the number of U.S. military deaths reached 2,000.

Sticks And Stones

White House Orders Satirical Paper 'The Onion' to Stop Using Presidential Seal

A Good Book

Quill Book Awards

End Of An Era

Bush Picks Former Economics Professor Bernanke to Succeed Greenspan As Federal Reserve Chairman

The Bush Economy

Citing Skyrocketing Costs, Dwindling Savings and Stagnant Wages, More American Families Are Turning To Credit Card Debt.

Drive Through Brontoburgers

Flintstone Mobile Golf Cart on eBay.

Turn Screw 'D"

Instructables - A step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. The site makes documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff.

Random Stuff

All About Stuff - Articles, facts, and trivia on topics of general interest like gardening, cooking, sports, romance, and more.

Summer Vacation

Lonely Planet: Destination Antarctica - features images, transportation, and essential information such as weather, history, and visas

Breaking Ranks

Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article.

And in the piece, George H.W. Bush is interviewed about Scowcroft -- and while Bush 41's comments are more elliptical, he stands clearly by Scowcroft's side in clear criticism of the decisions his son made.

Schadenfreude

e-closure - Documenting break ups, anonymously online

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SLO Not The Only One

In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County is struggling to keep supplies on its shelves for the 140 nonprofit groups that supply some of our area's people in need with fresh, frozen, packaged and canned food.

Your local food bank is often the only source of good meals for thousands, and for some of the larger ones, perhaps hundreds of thousands. Please don't forget to try and help out where you can, especially with the winter holiday season coming up.

Sustainability

SustainLane - provides a wide variety of information and resources for enjoying a healthier more sustainable and eco-friendly life.

Quarky

Symmetry - Scientists don't even know if subatomic particles such as quarks exist, but these collaborations between an artist and physicists show what they may look like.

The Canon

The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Par-Te'

Tailgating America - the celebration in the parking lot.

Mightier Than The Sword

How to Make a Quill Pen

The Forgotten Crisis

How long can we turn a blind eye on Darfur? Ray at minor wisdom has found an article that asks just that.

Dear Abby

Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice. - Take a step back in time as Abigail pulls out relevant quotes, tidbits, and words of wisdom from her collection of old advice books in a quest to solve your modern-day dilemmas. The books span from 1822 to 1978 and cover the age-old topics of dating, love, living together, marriage, health, beauty, puberty, sex, etiquette, housekeeping, home economics, and home repairs.

Ships Passing In The Night

The Ephemera Catalog opened on January 1st, 2000 and is a direct on line sales internet mail order service. The Catalog offers a wide range of 19th and 20th century Antiquarian Printed or Manuscript Paper Ephemera from sixteen sellers.

(They collect and sell the old, tangible archivable ephemera. I collect and give away new-fangled, intangable virtual ephemera)

Know How The Story Ends?

The Lincoln Log - A Daily Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln.

A Different Perspective

Guardian Unlimited - includes U.K. and world news, sports, politics, business, arts, and more.

What Will It Take?

President Bush's controversial supreme court nominee, Harriet Miers, stumbled at her first formal hurdle yesterday, when the Senate asked her to rewrite answers to a questionnaire on her background and opinions.

Brainiacs

World's top 100 public intellectuals, as compiled by Prospect magazine

Up For Grabs

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in August

Lost In The System

New Locator Map Eases Finding Courts - A new locator map helps you find all federal courts and probation and pretrial services offices. It is searchable by city and state, zip code, county and state, and area code.

Reverse Robin Hood

As soon as tomorrow morning, the House of Representatives will consider a Republican amendment to permanently slash funding for basic health care, nutrition and education services for the poor. The budget proposal already calls for $35 billion in cuts, but top Republicans want to push it up to $50 billion. Meanwhile, the same budget proposal calls for $70 billion in new tax breaks, largely for the wealthy.

Buckypaper

Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel -- but 250 times stronger -- would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like something out of a science fiction novel.

Lost Colony

The search for America's 'Lost Colony' Gets New Boost. On a recent rainy morning in Manteo, North Carolina, three veteran archaeologists sat down at a waterfront restaurant to discuss America's oldest mystery—the disappearance of England's first New World colony (Roanoke) 415 years ago.

Red And Blue

Atlas of US Presidential Elections - 'The Atlas is a free internet resource providing results of U.S. Presidential Elections to the world community. Data is collected from many official sources and presented here in one convenient location."

Cheney Cabal

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

Bug-friendly soap?

A good reason to stick to plain old soap (as opposed to the antibacterial varieties).

Bud Pong

Brewer shocked beer is used in game they promote.

Environmental Studies

In an aggressive push by the Bush administration to open more public land to oil and gas production, the Interior Department has quit conducting environmental reviews and seeking comments from local residents every time drilling companies propose new wells.

Expensive Fumble

Camera Toss - showcase photo-blog for the "best of" camera tossing and general musings on this form of abstract photography.

Who Said That?

The Bubble project

The Power Of Sleep

The amazing 90 minute sleep cycle.

Kinesiology

Prediction of Adult Height

No TiVo Hell

Ads That Suck - rants about marketing, blogging and most importantly, ads that suck.

Booking DeLay

A Texas court Wednesday issued a warrant for Rep. Tom DeLay, ordering him to appear at the Fort Bend County jail for booking on state conspiracy and money laundering charges.

Krav Maga

Self Defense and Combat System - Krav Maga (krav-ma•ga) pronounced (kräv) (megä´) n. [Hebrew.] for “contact combat”, is the official self-defense and hand-to-hand combat system of Israel.

Time To Read

TIME's 100 Best Novels 1923-to the present

Rove And Libby

Why outing Plame mattered.

Black And White Flyers

Printer Forensics - This guide explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout.

Wake Up California

States Ranked: Smartest To Dumbest.

Want A Mint?

The Curiously Strong Survival Kit.

Rule Of Law

Global Courts - guide for researchers and legal practitioners seeking information on Supreme Court decisions from around the World.

Criminalization Of The News

Fox News Pushing 'Criminalization of Politics' Talking Point.

Conservative defenders of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby have settled on their No. 1 talking point: the grand jury investigation into the CIA leak scandal represents the “criminalization of politics.” In other words, they say, the outing of a covert CIA agent in a time of war to punish a whistleblower is just everyday “politics” — nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing criminal. In fact, according to conservatives (as articulated by the National Review), the “criminalizing of politics” is actually “the most dangerous fire of this ordeal.”

To spread this talking point across the nation, the right has received a major assist from Fox News. According to a database search, every single television reference to the CIA leak scandal as the “criminalization of politics” in the last 30 days has been on Fox. Even more stunning: on every occassion, the phrase was introduced into the segment by a Fox News anchor or correspondent, never by a guest.

Terror Alert Black: Political Threat

Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation.

The Police

Miles Copeland, RIP - former CIA official - obituary
National Review, Feb 11, 1991

Bulls And Bears

Predict Wallstreet - visitors can choose a stock and guess if it will go up or down the next day, then compare their prediction with others.

7X

The wikipedia has the facts on the Coca-Cola formula.

Demeritocracy

42 casualties of the current Administration - Beleaguered administrators, managers, and career civil servants who quit their posts in protest or were defamed, threatened, fired, forced out, demoted, or driven to retire by Bush administration strong-arming.

Monster Hunter

Bigfoot wanted alive for $1 million bounty - "A Maine scientist is preparing to release details of a $1 million reward for a photograph that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot, the abominable snowman or the Loch Ness Monster. Loren Coleman, a professor at the University of Southern Maine, said the bounty would be paid for by an unnamed company and that he will release more details at a cryptozoology symposium at Bates College over Halloween weekend."

City Evolution

San Francisco Historical Map - Topographic map from the 1890s

Be Your Own VJ

Watch music videos - You can just watch, or use their html code to insert the music video into your website. With over 14,392 music videos.

Searching For Money

Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google

Judgment Call

Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade? I answered this question before I even read the article, but now we know how it was done.

Mad Cows

Not in my food! Sign the petition

Financial (not so) Friendly Fire

Loria's problems may be striking on their own, the Army has recently identified 331 other soldiers who have been hit with military debt after being wounded at war. The new analysis comes as the United States has more wounded troops than at any time since the Vietnam War, with thousands suffering serious injury in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Foreign Marketing Translation Mistakes

Link To The Past

A movement to rename the Bay Bridge The Emperor Norton Bridge

Score One

AFI's Top 25 Film Scores

Электронные Чалькуляторы

Soviet Calculators - 144 models of Soviet calculators in this online collection, plus old Soviet computers and mice and such.

Retrograde Motion

Four children in an Amish community in Minnesota have contracted the polio virus the first known infections in the U.S. in five years, state health officials said Thursday.

Dr. Harry Hull, the state epidemiologist, said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio and are unlikely to have contact with Amish people. But he said he expects to find more infections within the Amish community because some of its members refuse immunizations on religious grounds.

Tasty

Holy Shallot - A versatile, browsable, online food pairings index.

No Return Without Receipt

Save your receipts!

Evil Smiley

WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

Conservative Corruption

The *Real* Contract with America

Free Parking

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly.

Master View

View-Master Searchable Database - offers searchable database of reel, packet, viewer and accessory produced by View-Master. Includes links to other View-Master web sites.

Next Round Is On Me

Coastr - An experiment in social networking for beer snobs. The basic idea is for you to create a list of your favorite beers, and to connect you with other people with similar tastes.

Survivor Reality Series

Tools for the ultimate high-tech survival kit.

Denial Is Not A River

The Mad Revisionist - A "series of essays dedicated to the manufacturing of truth through the discarding of evidence."

Savage Young Beatles

Photos of The Beatles from the 1950s to 1963.

Mug Shots

New pictures of your federal elected officials.

Build Frankenstien

Buy a body. Or assorted limbs, if you like.

Two Percent Solution

Support for the majority Republican party in the United States is sagging as President George W. Bush's popularity continues to slide, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

A plurality of Americans, 48%, said they would prefer the Democrats to control Congress compared to 39% who want the Republicans in power, said the poll commissioned by United States television channel NBC and the Wall Street Journal.

The poll also revealed overwhelming opposition to Bush among African-Americans. Only two percent said they approved of his performance as president, the lowest level ever recorded in that category, NBC television reported.

Obsessing On Absinthe

Absinthe.bz - Where you'll find only authentic absinthe made according to the original, 19th-century absinthe formula.

Sugar Conversion

Candy Calculator

The Wheel Of Invention

Greatest Inventions of All Times

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Evel Knievel Stunt Bike

TV Cream's Top 100 Toys of Yesteryear

Searching For Bond

Wanted: Secret Agent Man; tall, dark and handsome; thirties; good with guns, girls, cocktails & quips
Start date: ASAP
Salary: To be negotiated (but it will probably cover the rent)
Perks: Worldwide fame; licence to kill

Type Cast

Movie/TV, Music and Game Fonts

Big Car, Big Tax Credit

Call it environmentalism, Bush style. A new federal tax credit will help allay the extra cost of purchasing hybrid vehicles, but the Byzantine formula for calculating the savings provides greater financial incentives for buying heavy SUVs than more fuel-efficient cars.

Viral Campaign

The Bush administration point man for a flu pandemic, Stewart Simonson, has no public health management experience yet the lives of millions of people are counting on him. Will you ask Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt to replace Simonson with a more qualified person?

Some Relief

If you suffered losses due to Katrina, Rita, or another disaster, then download and study the IRS's 2004 Disaster Losses Kit for Individuals. It includes information, forms, and instructions for claiming your disaster-related losses as a tax deduction. It also tells you how to get replacement copies of tax returns from prior years, which are necessary to qualify for disaster loans and grants from other federal agencies.

Thanks to Ray, I found this on his site, this is a good one to pass along

My Kind Of Sport

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Collection

Hey Battah Battah

Done Deal! - Your daily Internet screenwriting news resource for screenplay, pitch, treatment, and book deals in the film industry.

The Old Cronies Club

Crony Jobs - choice government careers for the taking. No experience necessary.

Child Confinement Solutions

Hello and thank you for visiting the world's only website dedicated to infant and child confinement solutions. We are proud to announce that we have just sold our 10,000 baby cage.

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Reel Bloober

Pixar 'Outtakes'

I Heart Becky... No Flora... no Cassi

Bad tattoos - Featuring the worst tattoos from around the world.

The Scribe Of Rivendell

Write Your Name in Elvish

A Different Voice

Musicians who blog.

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Behind Your Back

Don't date him girl! - This site provides a search engine that lists men who allegedly cheat.

Gotta Have It

The 100 Best Products of 2005

Mars Attacks!

UfoMaps - Utilizes Google Maps to display UFO incidents across the United States.

T-Shirt Hell

Last week, a woman was forced off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a t-shirt. The shirt in question bore the phrase "Meet the F*ckers" and an image of US President Bush, VP Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Well, the makers of the t-shirt have responded: "If any T-Shirt Hell customer is kicked off of any commercial airline flight simply for wearing one of our shirts, we will provide you with alternate transportation to get you to your original destination. This transportation includes, but is not limited to, the T-Shirt Hell corporate jet."

Class Rank

World Universities' Ranking on the Web - a database of universities' rankings and research centers from across the world, categorized by continents.

Enie Meanie Minie & Moe

National Coalition for the Homeless, a national advocacy group, has named the top 20 meanest U.S. cities.

Land Rush

As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound.

Liberal Encyclopedia

dKosopedia - A collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia. The dKosopedia is written from a left/progressive/liberal/Democratic point of view while also attempting to fairly acknowledge the other side's take. It was started in April of 2004, and currently consists of 3825 articles.

Rush To Confirmation

dKosopedia: John G. Roberts Jr. - biography and information about the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from a progressive/liberal perspective.

MMM Pop Music

The real names of pop music stars

Dysfunctional Family Archtype

Greek Gods Family Tree.

Death Valley

The book Encyclopedia of Serial Killers indicates that, between 1971 and 1992, 65 serial killers were apprehended in the United States. Of that number, seven were from the Sacramento area. Other research indicates that two more serial killers were apprehended in the Sacramento area during the same time period.

I'm A Toys R Us Kid

Top Toys 2005

It's In The Blood

The family trees of American politicians.

Darfur Update

An upsurge of violence in Darfur with rebels killing and abducting African Union forces may force the United Nations to partly suspend aid to the western Sudanese region, U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned on Monday.

Color Inside The Lines

Zipcodes on Google Maps - Need to see where a ZIP code covers? Enter it on this map and it shows the boundaries.

Ummmmm, What Is This?

Inexplicable Object Archive

Mad Dog 20/20

Call them bum wines, street wines, fortified wines, wino wines, or twist-cap wines. Whatever you call these beverages for the economical drunkard, this page explores the top five. So curl up on a heating duct and enjoy...

And Now For Something Completely Different

The complete unexpurgated scripts of the British TV series Monty Python.

Monopoly Money

World Paper Money Image Gallery

MMMMMMM, Doughnuts

Homer Simpson Quotes

Star Constellations

Chef and Restaurant Database - documenting the migrations of star chefs between star restaurants around the world.

Tetris Nightmares

Classic arcade games, listed by title and location!. Find out where the nearest Donkey Kong is in Idaho, or the closest Pole Position to New Hampshire. Or add your own favorite games/locations to their every-expanding database.

Concentration

Flickr Memry - Blends the classic memory game with Flickr images.

The New Samurai Chef

Iron Chef on SNL and other transcripts of SNL cooking shows, including The Delicious Dish, Cooking with The Anal Retentive Chef & Martha Stewart Living.

Get The Platinum Card

World's most expensive things.

Viral Lost

Hey Pi, ya missed Dharma Industries. Try making the numbers turn green by moving the cursor accross the symbol during logon. Did you find the Dharma Initiative on the Active Projects page of the Honso Foundation.

Remember, Remember, Remember....

Where Are They Now: The Kids From Fame.

Absinthe Follow-up

How To Make Absinthe.

Bush Foreign Policy Team

Over the past three decades, an informal coalition of militarists, social conservatives, and ideologues has spun a web of power and influence--a network of policy institutes, think tanks, government entities, corporations, and political projects.

RTFM

Fixya.com - support content site covering a wide range of consumer products featuring manuals, user guides, FAQs, and troubleshooting forums.

Got Advice?

wikiHow is a collaborative project to build the world's largest how-to manual. It is a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life.

One Eye Open

Capital Eye - A money-in-politics newsletter published by the Center for Responsive Politics. The site examines the role of money in the U.S. political system. It includes substantive, topical articles on issues related to money and politics, and other features designed to explore the impact of money on elections and public policy.

Defending The Constitution

DefCon - An online grassroots movement combating the growing power of the religious right. The site fights for the separation of church and state, individual freedom, scientific progress, pluralism, and tolerance while respecting people of faith and their beliefs.

Earth To Bush

Staying the course only makes sense if you are on the right course. Otherwise you are just walking deeper into the swamp and the quicksand waiting ahead.

Fratboy

The complete list of George W. Bush's nicknames for people.

Big Red Dog

Harold Sherwood Bachman has died. Mr. Bachman was the designer of Doggie Diner's grinning dachshund, festooned with a bow tie and chef's hat that went on to become a Bay Area icon.

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December 22, 2012

Mayan Time Keeping - reviews the basic concepts used by the Mayan people to count dates and times, with numerals, glyphs, months, and day names.

Don't Eat Too Many Cookies

Click on the cookie to receive a fortune

Comedy For 300 Alex

Here's the entire collection of all 13 "Celebrity Jeopardy" episodes on Saturday Night Live.

Hard Liquor

Cocktail:UK has 184 pages of drink recipes, that's 8,236 recipes. That is a lot of alcohol, so you better start drinking.

Uncover The Dirt

Blogger, Michelle Leder of Footnoted, has made it her calling to dig into company filings and uncover things that would make any investor and the public scream bloody murder.

The IN Crowd

The social logic of Ivy League admissions.

And I'll Form...The HEAD!

Catch Phrases of the 80's - A catch phrase is usually a phrase associated with a character on a TV program or a commercial.

Opportunity Bears The Thief

750 Hungarian proverbs

Past Life Analysis

Who were you in your last life?

Artemisia Absinthium

What is Absinthe?

City Of Lights

The history of The World's Fairs past and present found at the ExpoMuseum.

The Meatrix

The Eat Well Guide is a free, online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs from farms, stores, restaurants and online outlets in the US and Canada. Consumers simply enter their zip code to find local products that were raised sustainably, including no antibiotics, no added hormones, pasture raised, grass fed and organic. Scores of new farms and stores are being added on a continual basis.

Promoting Education

Project GRAD USA - seeks to promote an education reform initiative to increase academic achievement, and high school and college graduation rates for poor and disadvantaged inner-city and rural minority students attending public schools.

Pull The Lever

Vending Machines of Japan

1-866-NOLA-AID

From the Lake to the River - The Coalition seeks to bring together resources from all parts of the legal community (law school faculty, students, and practicing lawyers), as well as non-lawyers, to facilitate the fair distribution of federal, state, and private disaster relief to New Orleanians (wherever they may be) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We will also assist other groups that provide emergency legal services to those in need.

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An extensive examination of the "The Numbers" from the ABC television series Lost.

10-4, Big Buddy

CB Radio Jargon and CB Radio Ten Codes

In The Face Of Tragedy

LONG BEACH, Miss. -- Last Wednesday, police and the U.S. Marshals Service swept into a Red Cross shelter for hurricane refugees here. They blocked the parking lot and exits and demanded identification from about 60 people who looked Hispanic, including some pulled out of the shower and bathroom, according to witnesses. The shelter residents were told to leave within two days or else they would be deported.

Bush's Iron Laws

This explains EVERYTHING. Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

That's Incredible

Nasubi - Living off of Japanese TV Contests (The Japanese are a very strange lot)

H2O

The Forty-one Anomalies of Water

Burn Baby Burn

Addicting Games

(for muse and addict, first one is free)

House Of Shame

The 21st-century Radical Republican agenda is to enact the wish list of the tobacco and gun lobbies, repeal health and safety regulations and spend billions on shameless pork-barrel projects to keep the GOP at the trough.

Embassy Row

The Bush administration selections for ambassadorships.

The Hammer Comes Down

A second Texas grand jury has indicted Tom Delay on money laundering charges.

Alabama Governors

The man who lost his job as Alabama chief justice in a Ten Commandments controversy is running for governor.

Opening Score

Filmmusic was founded in mid-1996 as an idea to centralize Internet resources relating to the genre of film and television music. SoundtrackNet came along in February 1997, and eventually absorbed Filmmusic.com into one "supersite". With Filmtracks and Film Score Monthly already providing some mixed resources for the art of film and television music, someone decided to bring the best of all of those sites together, as well as a few new surprises.

Les Paquets Cigarettes

This is a French language site with the biggest collection of cigarette packs in the world. Here it is translated into English.

Cloud City

World's Best Airports from Forbes Magazine.

Good Knight

Troyis is an online game utilizes the knight's movement from chess. It's insanely addictive.

To Boldly Go

Top 50 science fiction shows

Sleep Your Way To The Top

Find the Brownie - The objective of this blog is to find an important government job occupied by a person with no apparent qualifications other than strong personal, political, or business ties to a member of the administration.

Vat Of Boiling Oil

101 Recipes for the Deep Fryer - searchable collection of varied recipes.

Rock The Cradle

Museum of Yo-Yo History - the Museum of Yo-Yo History chronicles spinning through the ages, with online exhibits of rare and vintage yo-yos and profiles of the people and patents behind the toy.

Speeding Bullet

Interesting high-speed, super slow motion, video clips

Introducing

Woogle and Toogle

If You Like That

What Should I Read Next - Enter a book you like and the database of real readers' recommendations will suggest something.

Scandal Scorecard #11 and #12

Karl Rove and Scooter Libby: The grand jury investigating the outing of Valerie Plame is scheduled to complete its work in late October. While neither Rove nor Libby is apparently a "target" of the investigation -- and while the "corruption" in Plamegate is moral rather than financial -- both men are known to have played a role in revealing or confirming Plame's identity in conversations with reporters, which may be a crime under federal law.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog

Scandal Scorecard #10

George Ryan: Federal prosecutors made their opening statements this week in the criminal trial of the former Republican governor of Illinois. Ryan and a friend, Chicago insurance adjuster Lawrence Warner, are charged with racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud, tax fraud and lying to federal agents.

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Scandal Scorecard #9

Ernie Fletcher: The Republican governor of Kentucky has refused to answer questions from a grand jury investigating whether his administration based hiring decisions on political considerations rather than merit. Fletcher has pardoned nine people in the probe -- including the chairman of Kentucky's Republican party -- and fired members of his staff.

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Scandal Scorecard #8

Randy "Duke" Cunningham: A federal grand jury in San Diego is investigating allegations that the veteran Republican congressman received financial favors from a defense contractor who allegedly bought Cunningham's house at an inflated price and let him live for free on the contractor's 42-foot yacht.

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Scandal Scorecard #7

Bob Taft: The Republican governor of Ohio pleaded guilty last month to criminal charges based on his failure to report gifts as required by state law, among them golfing trips paid for by Tom Noe, a major Republican fundraiser who is the subject of his own scandal regarding the state's investment in $50 million in rare coins, some of which have mysteriously gone missing.

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Scandal Scorecard #6

Michael Brown: The president's FEMA director resigned earlier this month amid complaints about his handling of Hurricane Katrina and charges that he and other FEMA officials got their jobs based on political connections and cronyism rather than competence or qualifications.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog

Scandal Scorecard #5

Timothy Flanigan: The president's nominee to serve as deputy attorney general has announced that he will have to recuse himself from the Abramoff investigation if he is confirmed because he hired Abramoff to help the company where he works -- scandal-ridden Tyco International Ltd. -- lobby DeLay and Rove on tax issues.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog

Scandal Scorecard #4

David Safavian: The president's chief procurement officer stepped down two weeks ago and was arrested last week on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a separate federal investigation into Abramoff's dealings in Washington. Some Republicans who received campaign contributions from Safavian are divesting themselves of his money now.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog

Scandal Scorecard #3

Jack Abramoff: The Republican super-lobbyist, known to have bragged about his contacts with Karl Rove, was indicted in Florida last month along with his business partner on wire fraud and conspiracy fraud charges related to their purchase of a fleet of gambling boats. This week, three men were arrested -- including two who received payments from Abramoff's business partner -- in the Mafia-style killing of the man from whom Abramoff and his partner purchased the gambling boats.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog

Scandal Scorecard #2

Bill Frist: The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are both investigating the Senate majority leader's sale of shares in his family's healthcare business just before the stock's value plummeted in June.

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Scandal Scorecard #1

Tom DeLay: The House majority leader was indicted on a felony charge that he conspired to launder corporate campaign contributions through the national Republican Party in Washington and back to legislative candidates in Texas.

Via Pensacola Beach Blog