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
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