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).
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Finding the Good Stuff
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.
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