Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Explore Your World
Shelfari - Aimed at serious readers, you can create your own bookshelf, and then add friends with whom you can participate in discussions and easily recommend each other new titles.
Geo Logic
Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Paint By Numbers #2
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Flavor FLV
FLV Online Converter - free webpage tool which converts embedded Flash movies in a webpage (eg YouTube) to a format of your choice.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
In Summary
WikiSummaries - Free book summaries that anyone can edit! Provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents.
A Private Affair
Locate a Private School - Database of U.S. private schools. Search by city, state, or zip code.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Merry Christmas
Lots of free movies, documentaries, cartoons, TV-shows, music and entertainment shows.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Conscription Surge
US tests call-up system but denies return to conscription. The Bush administration is planning a test run of America's emergency military call-up, stoking speculation about a return to a draft at a time when the White House is considering sending more troops to Iraq.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Last Night Of Hanukah Gift
It's not Heaven, though it may feel like Heaven to rock music purists. It's the Concert Vault, the world's greatest collection of vintage concert recordings. In 2003, Wolfgang's Vault acquired master recordings from the archives of Bill Graham Presents. These live concerts were recorded at legendary venues like the Fillmore East and Winterland between 1965 and the late 1980s. In early 2006, they augmented the Graham archives by acquiring the archives of the King Biscuit Flower Hour, the nationally famous syndicated rock radio broadcasts of live concerts from the 1970s and '80s. They also added the Silver Eagle Cross Country archive of country music concerts in 2006.
If You Get Tired Of Me
Site Sift - Web directory and search engine that provides a human review for each listing.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Trivial Pursuit
Trivia-Library is a collection of interesting and useful articles on literally hundreds of of different topics.
Festival Of Lights
Hanukkah Laws and Customs - Features the Jewish customs and instructions of lighting the menorah, playing the dreidel game. Also includes the Hannukah recepies.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Break On Through To The Other Side
All About Eclipses - SPACE.com's guide to lunar and solar eclipses with eclipse articles, pictures, and interactive features.
Fluff Notifier
Twitter - Send status notices through your cell phone, instant messenger, or via the Web, and notify friends and followers of the little things you're up to during the day.
Space For Disk Space
5MB Hard Disk in 1956. The first computer with a hard disk drive weighed over a ton.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Way Too Cool
MojoPac - Software that lets the user transform any iPod, USB hard drive, or flash drive into a portable PC. MojoPac works with a large range of Windows applications including business apps, games, messaging, multimedia, and email.
Oh Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
Radio Hanukkah - XM 108, is XM's first-ever channel dedicated exclusively to Jewish culture. Airing for the duration of the Festival of Lights from December 15 to December 23, Radio Hanukkah features the best in Jewish music, comedy, Broadway, talk and kids programming.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Empire Building
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Go To The Source
SourceForge.net - Claims to be "the world's largest open-source software development Web site," browse through the enormous catalog of available open-source programs and code, and you're bound to find something useful.
Lines Of Credit
Credit Card Statement Drawings - And no, it's not a drawing to get your credit card bill paid.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Oh Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel
Just Dreidels - Includes a dreidel history, gallery, art, and how to play the Dreidel game.
Trend Setter
Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. As a preview it's rough around the edges. May your love for data guide you.
Labels:
follow-up,
Information,
pedantic pundit,
reference,
Web App
The Changing Face
GUIdebook: Windows Gallery – a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing graphical user interfaces
Friday, December 15, 2006
Happy Hanukkah
How We Celebrate Hanukkah - Information about Hanukkah, covering the history and meaning of the holiday and how to celebrate, complete with blessings, songs, activities, recipes for traditional foods, the meaning of "gelt," and a virtual dreidel game. Chag sameach! (Happy holidays!) From the Jewish Outreach Institute.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
What Does 'Toad The Wet Sprocket' Mean?
The 50 Worst Artists in Music History - I disagree with about a third of the selection, but hey ear of the behearer or something like that.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Hypothetical Case And Real Conspiracy
United States v. George W. Bush et al. - Retired federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega has written a hypothetical indictment for a hypothetical grand jury charging President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, thereby commiting a conspiracy to defraud the United States by tricking the nation into war.
Wielding A Pen
The White List - A list of writers, editors, and other publishing professionals that have LiveJournals or LJ RSS feeds.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
What's Love Got To Do With It?
Heteronyms are words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Stay Focused
Security Focus - A vendor-neutral PC-security site, reporting on computer vulnerabilities, the latest security threats, and how to stay safe.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
To Boldly Go
STARSHIP EXETER - A small independant studio is producing a webshow based on the original Star Trek series.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
A Real Genuine Advantage
Some help on getting past the Windows Genuine advantage tool. Should you happen to fail the legitimacy check for any reason.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Gourmet Oxygen
Why bother with energy drinks, when energy drinks can take several minutes to take effect and may contain substances banned from professional sports? Bix Ox goes straight to the source, bringing badly needed oxygen to starving muscles.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Church Of Latter Day Dude
The slowest-growing religion in the world - Dudeism, and get ordained as a Dudeist Priest.
Cost Of Free Speach
In a supreme twist of irony, Newt Gingrich, speaking at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner which honors free speech, said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Here's the story about the speech, and here's a link Keith Olbermann discussing Gingrich's comments with George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Terrible Trouble
With Prankmail, you can send someone an email and make it appear as if it comes from someone else.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Long Road Home
After running 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 days, Dean Karnazes is now running home, from New York City to San Francisco
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Super Collider
The largest superconducting magnet ever built, in the Atlas detector at the Cern lab, has been powered up successfully. Engineers sent a current of 21,000 Amps round the coils. Atlas will analyze collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will recreate conditions just after the Big Bang. More about the ATLAS experiment plus a video explaining it. There will be a test tomorrow. You can also visit CERN next time you are in Geneva.
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Darfur Update
Dr. Ashis Brahma, a physician with the International Rescue Committee, about attacks on himself and those he works with in Chad, along the border with Sudan's Darfur region
Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Eagerly Awaiting
What's Next? - Have you ever found yourself trying to figure out what is the next book in a series? Now you can do this with ease. Use the Author, Series title, or Book title to figure out what's next.
The Back Of The Class
Open Questions - A place for everyone to explore on the frontiers of science. This site has been designed to organize scientific information, both on and off the Web, around a number of fundamental "open questions" - the questions that motivate leading edge basic scientific research. By exploring the pages here you can gain an understanding of many of the questions that still represent major mysteries even to top scientists. You'll find that you need not be concerned if you don't immediately recognize all the terminology of any particular field. Many of the resources collected here contain tutorial presentations which provide needed background. We've added a good deal of commentary of our own to get you started and point out the basic landmarks.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Book Worm
Search the Biblioblogosphere and Beyond... the librarian RSS engine. Over 1000 RSS feeds go in and exactly what you need comes out!
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Stealing Our History
Republican appointed Smithsonian bureaucrats appear to be trying to pull a fast one while Congress is in lame-duck disarray, and it could mean that you'll lose your rights to a lot of stuff kept in "America's attic."
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A Bit Of A Time Slip
Does the brain tap into the future?
"I'd like you to conduct a short experiment. While looking at your feet, stomp on the ground. You will notice that your visual perception of your foot hitting the floor matches your sensation of touching it. This would be fine except for one thing: the speed of light is vastly faster than the conduction times and synaptic delays through the long nerves and spinal cord from your feet. As a result, you should be seeing the event before you feel it -- and the delay should be noticeable."
Monday, November 20, 2006
Lexicon Balatronicum
The Vulgar Tongue - A dictionary of the slang of the British underworld produced in 1811.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Wikipedia 2.0
Scholarpedia - The free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Opening The Third Eye
What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of New Scientist's 50th anniversary celebrations they asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Real People
The Thirteen Scariest People in America - From the scariest presidential candidate to the scariest billionaire to the scariest cop, these are some of the worst America has to offer.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
It's In The Mail
PodMailer, which allows you to share files by e-mail - regardless of their size - without clogging your inbox.
Easy Way Out
Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word - Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word helps you to create a suicide letter according to your preferences. Use professional design. Choose from a variety of styles. Make your letter look great.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Find Out
Virtual Chase’s Database of Sources page offers a simple search box that allows you to query the site’s excellent collection of resources “for finding legal or factual information or information about companies or people.”
PDF Pad is a place where you can download and print the high quality documents you need for work, school and play, free of charge or registration hassles.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Is Captain America A Republican?
Election 2006: Who's side is your favourite Superhero on? It's times like these that make me wonder how superheroes would vote.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Vote Of No Confidence
Rumsfeld stepping down - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stepped down Wednesday, one day after congressional elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican Party losses.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Skeleton Keys
Two versions of Dubya's Yale grades - Grades publicly released for George W. Bush at Yale (1964-1968) apparently differ from grade records for Bush stored in his residential hall on campus. The published grades are better than the grades stored in earlier records.
Out Of The Way Gallery
Fallen Astronaut - A small statuette which is the only piece of art on the moon.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Bit By Bit
We're All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA. Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Friday, November 03, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Get Your lab Coat
The International Society of Mad Scientists - dedicated to disseminating information about unusual projects in any field.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
A Mile In Your Shoes
Take a walk through actual days in the lives of professionals in top careers with Vault's Day in the Life profiles.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Height Of Hypocracy
Guess who used Nude Youth Summer Camps as a key part of his re-election campaign in 2003?
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
Tweaker
Tweaking Companion Version 3.2 - The complete system optimization guide for Windows XP users.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Unshredable
Enron Explorer contains a searchable, graphically relatable database of all the emails firing about Enron revealed in the course of the investigation into the energy trader. You can seach globally on full text or sort by individual and then drill down or even render a web of their contacts with others.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Expiate
Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America - Whether you find the government oppressive, the economy on a devastating course, or if you simply want adventure, you’re not alone. Over 300,000 Americans emigrate each year. Getting Out walks you through the world of the expat: the reasons, the rules, the resources, the tricks of the trade... where you can most easily gain residence and citizenship, where can you live for a fraction of the cost of where you’re living now, and what countries would be most compatible with your lifestyle, gender, age, or political beliefs.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Fit To Print
Screw CNN - Daily Kos asks, "Which is the worse sin, presenting biased news and commentary, or providing total fluff and non-news and masquerading it as actual news?"
Watching The Watchers
The Observing Surveillance Project documents the presence of video cameras placed in Washington DC after September 11
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Conformity Cub
Be loyal, kind and don't steal movies - Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn an activity patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music. The movie industry has developed the curriculum.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
That's Ranked
30daytags provides a fresh approach to organizing and searching for data on the Internet. While traditional search engines provide results based on proprietary algorithmic collection methods, 30DayTags allows for user-contributed content and ranks results based on visitor feedback.
Friday, October 20, 2006
You Grew Some
U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: 300 Million - To spotlight the occasion of the U.S. population reaching 300 million in 2006, "the Census Bureau steps back in time by comparing contemporary life and statistics to those in the time periods in which the nation reached other noteworthy population milestones in 1967 ... and in the year 1915." Includes comparisons of population, education, life expectancy, prices (gasoline, milk, postage stamps, and more), earnings, and other data.
Ask Your Doctor
Public Citizen has released its 2006 ranking of state medical and osteopathic board web sites. It gives a score and details on what information is made public.
Broadcasting The News
The Center for Public Integrity has relaunched its media tracker database, which will tell you, by ZIP code, who owns the local media, including television stations, radio stations, cable franchises, broadband providers and newspapers.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Rank And File
The American Association of Public Opinion Research's Press Room offers a collection of resources on understanding surveys and judging their quality.
Members Only
The Male Privilege Checklist and the The Pirate Privilege Checklist (One serious and another not so).
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Keep Out
13 Haunted Houses - Compiled here are the 13 best American haunted houses, and each has its own specialties in gore and fear.
Parliamentary Proceedure
Guido Fawkes' Blog - Blog of parliamentary plots, rumors, and conspiracy in the United Kingdom.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Family Fun House
The Nietzsche Family Circus - Pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Three, Two, One
Query Nuclear Explosions Database - Geoscience Australia maintains a database of nuclear explosions with the location, time and size of explosions around the world since 1945.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Say Cheese
Celebrating the iconic cheeseburger and everything that goes with it. Check out the cheeseburger recipes section for some great ideas and keep an eye on the stories section for all the latest cheeseburger news.
Next News Thing
Newgie delivers the news that matters to you most. Newgie's news database is continuously updated with news stories from thousands of the most respected news providers. You then have the ability to sort through these news articles using a variety of Newgie's proprietary organizational tools
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
An Action Hero
The BBC's Science of Superheroes - Explores related scientific facts based on the most popular superheroes, including Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Superman.
Last Train To Clarksville
I Luv the Monkees - Fan site for the Monkees including biography, history, TV show, episode guides with summaries, and photo gallery.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
For Your Perusal
Comic Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book covers for comic book fans to explore & enjoy, there's also links to find out more about individual comics or to buy them.
The Crying Game
Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don't have to register. Select input and output formats, submit the form.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Hiring The Bosses Son
Adage has build this impressing Media Family Tree, showing ownership and relationships among the top 100 media brands.
The Sunset Palette
Color Palette Generator - Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Step Right Up
Blog carnivals - Find one you like, then either get on, or sit back and enjoy the ride.
Marital Vows
"Congressional Spouse Project" - Identifies members of Congress who, "by hiring their spouses, in effect use their campaign treasury to supplement their own bank accounts."
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Arteographia
Art News Blog - The posts are International art related stories with a focus on the visual arts. New stories, reviews, guides, articles and more are found online and shared each day.
Cartographia
The Map Room is a blog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Bring Home The Bacon
Indeed lets you "search salaries from over 50 million jobs in the past year." A companion for the government salary databases.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Channel Z
Network 2.0 - A fairly comprehensive list of original shows on the internet that's organized and has a user-friendly interface.
Buy That For A Dollar
Rent-o-meter - Paying too much for rent? Enter your rental information and find out!
Darfur Update
The legal Web site, Jurist, maintains an in-depth collection of information on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, including news articles, Web sites, commentary and documents.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Stuck To A Wall
Despair, Inc. introduced Demotivators® in 1998, satirical products reverse-engineered from the most powerful motivational posters ever inflicted upon mankind. And now, they bring to you the Parody Motivator Generator.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Information Freedom
Scott A. Hodes, who writes the FOIA Facts column for LLRX.com, has started The FOIA blog.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Day TRIPper
Advocates of evidence-based medicine want medical decisions to be based on the best scientific evidence, not tradition, anectdote or untested belief. The TRIP Database, once a subscription service but now free, says it offers "the Internet's leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine" and allows "users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources."
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
WEB2DNA
Art Project where it will take a website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
Red Reign Is Comin' Down
The Historical Political Development of Soviet Rock Music, Trey Drake, at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
How Did I Get Here?
Show Me Where - Lets you create your own Google maps, with labeled points and lines, by pointing and clicking, not coding or geocoding.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Spy Vs. Spy #1
US Intelligence and Security Agencies - This resource is an index of United States intelligence and security agencies. In addition to the sixteen agencies which formally comprise the U.S. Intelligence Community, it also includes selected tactical military intelligence and security organizations, as well as those responsible for security responses to transnational threats, to include terrorism, cyber warfare and computer security, covert employment of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, and international organized crime.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Did You Catch It?
It looks like Google put a dirtbike video on their home page for a short while & without explanation a few weeks ago.
Walking On Air
SHOCKING news hit the fashion world in early September when organizers of the Madrid Fashion Week, the most prestigious fashion show in Spain, announced that they would ban models considered too skinny for the runway.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
To Find Thee
Shakespeare Searched - A search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Too Much Time On My Hands
Time Management Resources - Find time management resources from Day-Timer to help effectively manage your day.
More Power To Him
Endurance 50 - follow Dean as he runs 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. Doubt he'll have time to keep up his blog.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
50 Ways #3
Love Stinks: Being Dumped - Read real-life stories of funny, sad, and just plain mean break-ups and submit your own relationship demise, whether you were a Dumper or Dumpee.
50 Ways #1
iBreakUp.net - not sure how to break up with that not-so-special someone? Send 'em an email. (Pull-down list of reasons included.)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Day Late And A Dollar Short
Arrr! It be a Pirate Glossary! - "Ah've compiled a comprehensive glossary for th' seaworthy folk!"
Torture Is Good, he he he...
David Gregory vs Bush on the so-called 'Torture Bill' A decent question is asked, a reply with almost no substance is returned.
Valuable Assets
LegiStorm - "The Web's only source for congressional staff salaries." "Who is employed by Congress, and how much they are paid, is often a source of fascination for the politically aware," the site says. "Prior to this site's creation, members of the public needed to visit the document rooms of the House and the Senate in Washington, DC to discover who was being paid what. Now, all this information is available on the web - for residents of Alaska or Zanzibar - at the click of a mouse."
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Internet Writing Group
You Write On is a "free website to help new writers develop, and to help talented writers get noticed and published." The premise is simple: you review and rate another members opening chapters and then your opening chapters are sent randomly to another member to review and rate.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Have You Seen This?
Viral Video Chart - Tracking the most viewed and downloaded videos on YouTube, MySpace and Google Video.
Darfur Update
Darfur Information Center - Dedicated to providing news and resources about political violence in Darfur, Sudan.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Calling All Cars
The Radio Scanner Guide is a comprehensive, free reference on scanners. It explains how they work, the differences between police, fire, airplane, auto racing and other scanners.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
It's In The Air
Thumbstacks and Zohoshow are two examples of web2.0 presentation managers, like powerpoint light. Sign up, log in and create, store and share your presentations on the web.
It's Worth Less
Inflation Calulator uses statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States and Statistical Abstracts of the United States to calculate inflation for given amount during the period 1880-2500.
Friday, September 15, 2006
A Woman's Touch
Forbes Lists & Rankings: The Worlds Most Powerful Women - Annual listing of the 100 most powerful women in the world is based on a power ranking that is the composite of visibility (measured by press citations) and economic impact.
Your Move
BoardGameGeek is an online resource for learning about, discussing, buying, selling, and trading board games.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Emble-matic
The Official Seal Generator. Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and click the 'Go' button.
Quintuplets
They say things happen in threes, but on 5ives, you'll find some of the oddest lists in fives.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Darfur Update: Action Plan
Bob Dole and John McCain predict: "At some point we will step in to help victims in Darfur and police an eventual settlement. The question is whether the United States and other nations will act now to prevent a tragedy, or merely express sorrow and act later to deal with its aftermath." They propose six things the U.S. can do now:
- First, the United States should reject out of hand Khartoum's demand that the African Union force leave and should insist that it stay, with broad international support, until the introduction of a robust U.N. force in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1706.
- Second, the United States should call on the European Union to impose financial sanctions against the Sudanese leadership and to pursue the immediate imposition of similar sanctions by the U.N. Security Council.
- Third, NATO should immediately establish and enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur to ensure that Khartoum ends its offensive military flights and bombing raids, as the Security Council has already demanded.
- Fourth, the United States should intensify efforts to persuade U.N. members to commit troops and funds for the U.N. force in Darfur, and it should develop plans for U.S. logistical support. The administration should push the United Nations to draw up firm plans for the entrance of a robust force into Darfur and contingency plans for the force to enter without Sudanese consent.
- Fifth, U.S. and allied intelligence assets, including satellite technology, should be dedicated to record any atrocities that occur in Darfur so that future prosecutions can take place. We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes in Darfur and that Sudanese leaders will be held personally accountable for attacks on civilians.
- Finally, the United States should increase pressure on countries friendly to Khartoum — and particularly our allies in the Arab League — to abandon their support for Sudan's refusal to accept the U.N. force.
Here's something you can do now: E-mail your congressional representative and your two senators — right now — and urge them to push for these actions.
Pill Poppers
Crazy Meds is a helpful guide to psychiatric medications written by the people who use them, with blunt honesty, more scientific rigor than you'd expect, and a very dark sense of humor. Before you start popping Paxil (or anything else), go to Crazy Meds to check out the pros and cons.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Time After Time
Google's News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News Archive Search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time.
Search results include both content that is accessible to all users and content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the events.
Start exploring with... cold fusion, ansel adams, amityville horror, woods hole, civil rights, karl marx, carlton ritz, arctic circle, martin luther king, gene hackman, bmg sony, groucho marx, baseball twins, career guidance, jay leno, kennedy
Dead Or Alive
From western movies and TV shows to wild west comics, pulps, album covers and arcade cards - Wanted Cowgirls is here to help you track down 'The Most Wanted Women in the West!
Monday, September 11, 2006
In Memory #3
This Is What We Said While It Happened This is truly the essence of online community. A transcript of the first two hours of posts on Echo, a 16-year, New York-based internet community, on September 11, 2006. And at Metafilter.
In Memory #2
Random Event Generators Predict the Future - This is a classic Damn Interesting article which originally appeared on 10 December 2005.
"For the past seven years, random number generators have been running all over the world, electronically flipping 200 coins each second, with the intention of measuring a global consciousness. The Global Consciousness Project (GCP), originating from Princeton, have named these random event generators Electrogaiagrams (EGGs) and are using them to test whether a human consciousness extends a field around the earth which can change the results of random events. They claim that when an important event occurs, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack or the Indian Ocean tsunami, the random event generators start to display patterns that should not exist in truly random sequences. Not only does the GCP detect spikes of less-than-random activity around some important events, but according to the project it actually predicts them, too."
In Memory #1
The September Project is a good place to look for ideas on how to commemorate 09/11. It describes itself as a "grassroots effort to get people together on September 11th to talk about issues that matter.
Doomed To Repeat It
Cheney Clarifies Iraq, Afghanistan on Meet the Press. For the first time in three years, Cheney appears on Meet the Press. "We?ve never been able to confirm any connection between Iraq and 9/11[,]" but Iraq "...was a state sponsor of terror" and "while they found no stockpiles...[the Duelfer report claimed that] Saddam did in fact have the capability and that as soon as the sanctions were ended?and they were badly eroded?he would be back in business again." "[T]his was the place where, probably, there was a greater prospect of a connection between terrorists on the one hand and a terrorist-sponsoring state and weapons of mass destruction than any place else." "...if we had to do it again, we would do exactly the same thing..." Transcript here.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Burning Down The House
RadioFire - Internet radio station broadcasting local musicians online. RadioFire features streaming music from underground or unsigned bands and artists.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Random Roundup
Used FAQs - This blog provides a roundup of answers to popular, important, and not-so-important questions asked around the Web.
Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve
Dirty Coast Press -New Orleans specialty T-shirts. (or better yet spend the money from the t-shirt on a NOLA charity)
Friday, September 08, 2006
Mad Jack #3
Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London - examines the social conditions that led to the creation of Jack the Ripper.
Mad Jack #2
Jack the Ripper's Modern London - current photos of the locations of the Ripper murders.
Mad Jack #1
Casebook: Jack the Ripper - repository of Ripper-related articles, documents, speculations, and experts.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Fall TV
TV.com: Fall Schedule 2006 - Browse the new shows for the 2006 Fall TV Season by day, with links to each show's main page on TV.com.
Late Night Movie
TCM Movie Database - Database of classic black and white films, from Turner Classic Movies (TCM), includes original trailers and video clips from thousands of movies. Browse by decade, title, performers, and TV specials.
Darfur Update: Got Questions?
BBC News: Sudan's Darfur Conflict - Background information and related news stories about the rebellion in which the Janjaweed militia are reportedly targeting black African peoples such as the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa, as well as the Baggara.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Down The Crapper #3
Toiletology 101 - where a flush beats a full house. All about the care and repair of your toilet.
Down The Crapper #1
World Toilet Organization - communicating the need for better toilet standards in both the developed and developing economies of the world.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Clever Ploy
Help make google images more descriptive by labeling images and trying to match up labels with an unseen partner.
"Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images and help improve the quality of Google's image search results. Each user who wants to participate will be paired randomly with a partner who's currently online and also using Google Image Labeler. Over a 90-second period, both participants will be shown the same set of images and asked to label each image based on what they see. They'll also be shown words that can't be used as labels. Both participants can add as many labels as they want until one of them matches a partner's label. After there's a match, they'll see a new image and continue the cycle, until time runs out. Contributors will also see points they've earned throughout the session."
Blowing Up The UN
Bible scholars claim to have fixed the bug in their decoding that caused their earlier mistaken predictions. As a result they have so many different scriptural calculations leading to the same month for the UN bomb, that "coincidence is no longer an option" for their research team. See for yourself at true bible code.
Monday, September 04, 2006
A Late Fee
Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century
"In this survey of the public, we find Americans prize public library service and see libraries as potential solutions to many communities’ most pressing problems, from universal access to computers to the need for better options for keeping teens safe and productive. But few Americans are aware of the increasingly tenuous financial picture faced by many libraries. Forty-five percent give an "A" to their local community for maintaining well-run libraries, far ahead of any other community institutions, including schools, parks and police. Those who think public libraries are primarily used by folks who can't afford bookstores are clearly mistaken -- higher-income families are even more likely to use public libraries than low-income families. Prepared with support from the Americans for Libraries Council and funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Secret Senator
In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.
Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
Appendix 5 of Warren Commission Report available at NARA - Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Kerry W. Thornley - Orleans Parish Grand Jury Transcript, Testimony of Kerry W. Thornley
Friday, September 01, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Finding the Good Stuff
Head Butler reviews all the cool stuff (music, books, movies, products) that might otherwise go unnoticed in today's information overload.
This plugged-in cultural concierge will tell you about the New Good Stuff (such as Little Miss Sunshine, a must-see movie) _and_ the Great Old Stuff (such as Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain).
You can subscribe and get these friendly recommendations right in your inbox, or visit the web site.
Let the discoveries begin!
In Real Life
Vader Sessions - Star Wars and James Earl Jones mashup with all of Darth Vader's scenes in Star Wars: A New Hope overdubbed with James Earl Jones' voice from his other movies.
Midnight Snack
GopherNow - Listing of restaurants open late into the night in major metropolitan areas of the United States.
It's Not The Drugs
I think the reason George Bush stumbles, ends sentences midway through to jump to another thought, rattles off non-sequiturs, and makes up words, is that George Bush is breaking under the strain of lying almost all the time about almost everything.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
A Pirates Life For Me
Ahoy! Ye came lookin' to become a pirate, eh? Ye came to the right place. Ye be at Cap'n Eli's Online School of Swashbuckling, the finest institution on the seven seas for pirate-tutoring and pirate-teaching. Located on secret pirate internet island, our fine school of swashbuckling carries the pride and knowledge of a thousand generations of pirates. Whether ye still be getting ye sea legs on or whether ye be a scurvy scurve, ye can benefit from Cap'n Eli's Online School of Swashbuckling. Navigate using the stars, your compass, and the toolbar on the left.
Be It Resolved
Impeach the President - Michael Moore's cut and paste template for applying to impeach Bush.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Whiskey And Blues
The Single Malt Guitars - Built using timbers reclaimed from the scottish, malt whisky industry, each instrument is created as an individual, according to the available timbers and the customer's requirements.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Darfur Update: The Final Decision
"There is Paralysis at the UN as Khartoum prepares to resume genocidal onslaught."
-Eric Reeves August 25, 2006
The final moment of diplomatic truth for Darfur has at last arrived. All evidence suggests that the international community is prepared to acquiesce before the military onslaught Khartoum’s National Islamic Front is preparing for North Darfur, an offensive that will target both rebel military forces and non-Arab civilians who do not support the deeply flawed “Darfur Peace Agreement” (May 5, 2006, Abuja, Nigeria).
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Darfur Update
Wikipedia: Darfur Conflict - User-created, hyperlinked article on the ongoing Darfur conflict in western Sudan. Includes a history of the conflict, maps, and related links.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Canary In A GovMine
Govmine: The Alternative Search Engine is a government-oriented search engine that ranks documents "based on relevance, not just popularity."
Speaking Out Of Synch
Nippon Cinema - Features Japanese movie related news, reviews, trailers, and a forum.
Friday, August 25, 2006
They Planned This?
The History of the California Master Plan for Higher Education site "provides access to digitized historical documents, images, and analysis related to the development of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California," which helped guide the expansion of California's higher education system (community colleges, state universities, and the University of California). Features a timeline (1849-1960), overview of past and current law, and biographies of key participants. From the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lucky Lotto
Lottery Report: Links to Various Sad but True Winners Stories - read more about the misfortune of lottery winners.
Wink Wink Nudge Nudge
Understanding Body Language - Explains the types of nonverbal cues others communicate to us and how to read them. Details the differences between kinesic, haptic, and proxemic communication and looks at the Mehrabian study on how your facial expressions and tone of voice convey more meaning than the actual words you speak.
Life Explained, On Film
VideoJug - Hosts instructional videos created and uploaded by people just like you.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
From Here To There
HopStop - This incredibly useful site provides step-by-step directions via bus or subway in four cities: New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco. Plug in start and end points and you get clear instructions, alternative options and maps. The site factors in service changes and provides alternative routes.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
A Place To Park
Central Park - This comprehensive, interactive guide to one of the world's most famous public spaces offers up-to-date information on 43 different attractions, from the Carousel to the Conservatory Garden, Strawberry Fields to the Swedish Cottage.
Citizen's Manual
50 State Bluebook Guide - Table with links to "blue books" for most U.S. states. These books are directories to each state's government, with material on topics such as branches of government, departments, and elections. Compiled by Daniel Cornwall, a librarian at the Alaska State Library.
High Flying
DEA: Drug Information - Fast facts and news about illegal drugs and drugs that are abused in the U.S., such as OxyContin, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, LSD, steroids, methamphetamine, ecstasy (MDMA), ketamine, and other "club drugs." From the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Darfur Update: Plain And Simple
How hard are your congressional representatives working to end the genocide? To find out, click here. (It was scary to see the partisan split in CA, the Democrats got generally grades of B's and higher while the Republicans got D's and worse, with a handful of C's but none higher).
Appearently there is a test for good and evil.
Thank you Ray for reminding me of my coalition commitments.
Do You Believe?
Science has just published a short comparative study of international acceptance of evolution. Thirty-four countries were polled, and guess what? We score 33rd - edging out Turkey for last place.
Reference is, Jon D. Miller, Eugenie C. Scott, and Shinji Okamoto (2006) "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Science Aug 11 2006: 765-766.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Red Rubies
The Gemstone Files, the beating heart of conspiracy from the early 50's to the late 70's.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Beware Of The Cashless
DigitaMoney - Information resource covering digital currency, digital gold, Internet fraud, and related security technologies.
Anybody Out There?
Others Online - Toolbar that shows people relevant to the user's web browsing and other interests, on every page visited.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Approach The Bench
vLex.us: Supreme Court Opinion Search - Features a searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Really Really
ReallyReady.org - A emergency preparedness resource, from the Federation of American Scientists, designed to correct inaccuracies in the Ready.gov website.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Your True Calling
Popularity Dialer - Schedule a call to yourself and take part in a fake conversation, right when you need it.
Not Hardly
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Provides information on the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, the free festival held every fall in San Francisco.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Next Of Kin
Katrina Information Network (KIN) - KIN is an activist network that shares viewpoints and action updates from the communities that have been devastated by Katrina, with up-to-the minute news and analysis.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Glad Somebody Knows
How Dreams Work - Includes an intro on how dreams work, lucid dreaming, nightmares, and dream interpretation.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Good Stuff
A Behind the Scenes Guide to the Things We Buy - The Purpose of this Online Guide is to answer questions about the environmental and social impacts of the products you buy and use. It contains many of the tips, facts, and links you'll need to start making more informed purchases that benefit your health and the environment.
The Worldwatch Institute publishes a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Blister In The Sun #1
Under the Influence - A real-time investigation of money in Washington politics.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
High Flying
Airline portal is directory of websites. You can use the website to access thier database by alphabet, by regions, or by code.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
The Fat Lady Sings
The most comprehensive list of Opera Companies on the web - Currently listing 208 companies from 5 continents
[North America][Latin America][Europe][Australia/Pacific][Asia][Africa]
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Bottom Of The Barrel
Suicides and Suicide Attempts - Collection of articles about suicides and suicide attempts published in The New York Times.
Blackstone Stamp Of Approval
The Scrutinizer is a single page from which you can run dozens of different tests on the content of any page in your site. Available tests run the gamut from HTML and CSS validation and link popularity and rank checks to pings and traceroutes, plagiarism checks, site speed tests, and more.
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Colbert Truthiness
Wikiality - If enough people believe something is true ... it is.
"I love Wikipedia, any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."
- Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
From Beautiful Downtown Burbank
Burbankia, a web site about the lore, local legends and history of Burbank
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Important Questions
Do bubbles in Guinness go down? We are used to seeing bubbles float up in a glass of beer, but bubbles in Guinness appear to break the rules. Do the bubbles really sink in Guinness, or is it just an illusion?
Monday, August 07, 2006
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Things Just Popped Up
With PopUp Politicians you embed a little code in a Web page and it creates a popup with information about a politician, including links to background information (from Congresspedia), campaign finance history (from OpenSecrets) and voting records (from the Washington Post). From the Sunlight Foundation.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
We're The Kids In America
The Almanac of Hunger and Poverty in America 2006 , from America's Second Harvest, includes statistics by state.
Eureka!
The subject of this website is a manuscript of unique importance to the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest. This tenth century manuscript is the unique source for two of Archimedes Treatises, The Method and Stomachion, and it is the unique source for the Greek text of On Floating Bodies. Discovered in 1906 by J.L. Heiberg, it plays a prominent role in his 1910-15 edition of the works of Archimedes, upon which all subsequent work on Archimedes has been based. The manuscript was in private hands throughout much of the twentieth century, and was sold at auction to a private collector on the 29th October 1998. The owner deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, a few months later. Since that date the manuscript has been the subject of conservation, imaging and scholarship. The Archimedes Palimpsest project, as it is called, has generated a great deal of public curiosity, as well as the interest of scholars throughout the world.
Follow along on the Exploratorium presents a live webcast as the Stanford Synchotron Radiation Laboratory x-ray examines the 1,000-year-old document
Friday, August 04, 2006
Nuvah Den
Judaica Sound Archives - 7,000 different sound tracks produced between 1901 and the mid-1950s
Extra levels
All you ever wanted to know about Space Invaders on the web and a Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Form Of A Question
The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news. NiemanWatchdog.org seeks to encourage more informed reporting by putting journalists in contact with authorities who can suggest appropriate, probing questions and who can serve as resources.
Got Time?
Watch grass grow is it ALWAYS greener of the other side (I've always wondered if optimists feel the grass is always browner on the other side)? Or watch water evaporate is it half full or half empty (or is there just not enough to drink)?
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Tailgate Planner
International Sports Calendar - Browse by date, year, country, and sport. Content thru 2010. Provided by General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) via IOC.
Excess Cash
2006 Investment Company Fact Book - 46th Edition of A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
A Neighborhood Walk
The New York City Map Portal provides you with access to New York City data and NYC.gov applications with address level data and maps. Find building, property, and community information as well as neighborhood statistics with ease.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Going Down Down Down
Last Words - Cockpit Voice Recordings, Transcripts and Air Traffic Control Tapes
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
You Gotta Read This
Top City Books is a geo-lense on Amazon.com - This mashup uses Google Maps to assemble the most popular books from the world's biggest cities in the world. Pins are spread around the world Google Map for 150 cities and lists the most popular books from the Amazon database in 8 subjects.
By The Book
The Google Maps Atlas of Fiction - A great book maps concept which is best described from the site itself: "..Even writers of fiction often set their stories in real places. From Dickens' London to Joyce's Dublin to the New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James, great writers have borrowed the associations and resonances of real-world places to lend color and depth to their works. The Atlas of Fiction uses the Google Maps interface to show these locations. You can use it to get new insight into the geography of your favorite writer's works; or you can see what writers have drawn inspiration from your own home town, and maybe even your own street."
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Emergancy Landing
Abandoned Airfield from WW2 and Other structures throughout the British countryside
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Hiding Underground
Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places in the UK. Cold War related material is covered separately here: COLD WAR -Bunkers etc. Subterranea Britannica brings together people with an interest in all types of underground space - from deneholes to dug-outs and from souterrains to subways - see the sites pages. As the list shows, there are at least seventy categories of underground excavations that are of particular interest to members
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The Complete Guide
The Complete Guides to The Monkees and The Beach Boys. Also The Complete Guide to Sinatra.
Travelogue
TurnHere - "Short films, cool places," shows video guides to travel, restaurants, hotels, local events and music.
On The Street
Overheard in New York is a hilarious compilation of verbal exchanges from the streets of New York, and Overplot plots them on a Google map of New York.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Got Your Number
ISBNdb - A database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, librarians, scientists, etc. The site takes data from hundreds of libraries across the world.
Re-Inventing The Wheel
If you have to build a database for a specific purpose here's a large Library of Free Data Models you can use. The author will even email you an Access database based on one of the models if you ask.
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