Saturday, November 03, 2007

Tech 101

Track Email to it's Originating Location - A quick and useful "how-to" guide

Friday, November 02, 2007

You Grew Some

Global Compendium of Weeds - Over 28,000 names that have been cited in specific references as weeds

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Study Partner

StudySpy.com - A peer driven website for free educational content including course notes, lecture slides, textbooks, academic journals, and more.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The World Encyclodepia

WikipediaVision - Update every 30 seconds or so, giving you the global locations of the latest anonymous updates, along with the title of the pages being updated.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Babble On

Languages of the World - Information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Dead Man's Curve

Teen Tragedy, dedicated to all those teenage death and tragedy songs from 1955 through 1969.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Friday, October 26, 2007

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

Short On Time

The Complete Beatles in One Hour - All The Beatles UK LP releases compressed at 800% into a one-hour MP3

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Star Maps

Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations - Visit the film sites of your favorite movies

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Where To Wear

Dress Code Guide - Decode that dress code and know what to wear

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Fix Pix

Picnik - Quickly edit all your online photos from one place

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Insider Trading

Secret Recipes - Extensive collection of hard to find recipes

Monday, October 15, 2007

IMNSHO

How to Understand Chat Acronyms - Can't understand the "IM Language" or "chat slang" the kids are typing?

Sunday, October 14, 2007

I Want What She Is Having

Thagoo - Tagged search engine searching using the most popular social bookmark sites as sources

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Photo Realistic

Blogger Play - A real-time slideshow of photos Blogger users have recently uploaded to their blogs.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Baptism By Fire

Conversion Central - 101 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Vacancy

Motel Americana - Celebrates an American phenomenon which reflects an important part of US history and culture: the motel.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Snap Shot

The Kriegsmann Files, an archive of old publicity photos on Flickr.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Analyze This

Kent Center Occasional Papers, published by the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis at CIA University, are declassified papers on theory, doctrine, and practice of intelligence analysis.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

On The Spot

Cheat Sheets - cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference cards, guides and sheets on one page

Friday, August 31, 2007

Who's Who

Sullr, a new Web service that will take a phone number, search the Web for it, display the business or person who owns the number, and display the owner's location on a map.

Hot Key

200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity - Useful keyboard shortcuts for essential software applications

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Up To The Minute

Wikirage - Lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Speaking The Truth

Congressional Quarterly and the St. Petersburg Times: PolitFact. The 'Truth-o-Meter' checks candidates' statements and accusations for factual background.

Follow The Money #2

The Great Iraq Swindle

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Top Ten Lists Of Top Ten Lists

List Universe, the number one source for top 10 lists on the net

After The Fact

San Jose Semaphore

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Water World

The coming water wars: Will it include Kevin Costner?

Myth A Logical

Top 10 sites that Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) visits daily


Adam is likened unto a God at our house by Ryan

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

WikiSlueth

Wikipedia Scanner - the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

Alchemical Key

The Voynich manuscript is a five hundred year-old relic discovered in 1912 at a library in Rome, consisting of 240 pages of illustrations and writing in a language not known to anyone. Deciphering the text has eluded even the best cryptographers and some have even dismissed the book an entertaining but lengthy hoax. But a statistical analysis of the writing shows that the manuscript does seem to follow the basic structure and laws of a working language.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Pediaholic

Educypedia - Information resource about scientific and educational material: electronics, science, engineering, encyclopedia and information technology

London Bridge Is Falling Down

American Society of Civil Engineers’ Infrastructure Report Card is a fascinating little document, we don't get any higher than a C, and our GPA is running around a D.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Location Location Location

Office Snapshots - A blog that shows off the workspaces of notable companies.

Same Bat Place

Third View is a “rephotographic survey of the American West,” showcasing series of rephotographs (a minimum of two, but often three) from a variety of locations.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

At My Speed

My California Traffic - This website "uses Google Maps technology to show you the current freeway traffic conditions for all major freeways in California." Find traffic by region and freeway, then zoom to view details. Includes a "link to this page" feature for bookmarking traffic conditions for specific freeways.

Crim's A Spoon

The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Cyberletariat

Web Worker Daily - Rebooting the workforce

HGW Time

Brass Goggles is a weblog dedicated to Steampunk

Monday, August 06, 2007

A Good Book

Reader's Circle - Connect with book discussion groups, find review topic suggestions, and author events.

End Of The World As We Know It

...And I Feel Fine

We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling.'

Friday, August 03, 2007

Movie Time

Flvix.com - Free online video converter. Convert and download videos from YouTube, Google Video or directly from .FLV file. Play it on your PC, Mobile, iPod, PSP and enjoy!

The Last Stand

50 Greatest Deaths In Comics History

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Major Wisdom

The Elders -"Out of deep concern for the challenges currently facing all of the people of our world, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel and Desmond Tutu have convened a group of leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackling some of the world's toughest problems."

For Profit

Dollars, Not Sense: Government Contracting Under the Bush Administration, report from House Oversight Committee, including a searchable database of problem contracts. "Between 2000 and 2005, procurement spending increased by over $175 billion dollars, making federal contracts the fastest growing component of federal discretionary spending."

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Pet Sounds

In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? The world's biggest multilingual list

By Its Cover

The LP album cover lover

Friday, July 27, 2007

To The Highest Bidder

Weird eBay Auctions - Because people will buy anything.

Opening Act

Curtain Rising - A theater database - search by city to get the latest information about what's happening where.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

On The Cheap

Hostelz - The largest hostels database on the web with 23,018 listings in 6,487 cities.

Equal Measure

State of World Population 2007

Saturday, July 21, 2007

The Small Print

Medication Guides - A collection of the handouts that come with many prescription medicines.

The Gilded Age

The Wealthiest Americans Ever

Monday, July 16, 2007

Gone Fishing

So no posts from me until next Saturday, unless I find a computer, online access and time to burn.

Let Them Eat Cake

Bush Is Prepared to Veto Bill to Expand Child Insurance

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Viva Le Bicycle

Tour de France - Live Tracker 2007 - Watch the exact position and additional data (heart rate, cadence, speed, power) of the racing cyclists on an interactive map.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Science In Action

ScienceHack - Find science video's

Beacon Of Hope

The Lighthouse Directory - Information and links for more than 8,000 of the world's lighthouses

Friday, July 13, 2007

A Chapter A Day

DialyLit - Too busy for books? Read them by email (or RSS).

World Music

Tun3r, a new site that helps you find new radio stations from around the world to tune in to.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Romulan Is Essentially Klingon Spoken With A Vulcan Accent

A list of 901 additional "Essentialist explanations" of the form "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z".

Davey Jones

Music Stars Real Names

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Flick Strip

StreamYard Online Web Video Downloader - Web Video Download service for YouTube, DailyMotion, iFilm, Blip.tv, Bolt and Break.com

It's The Economy Stupid

National Trade Data Bank

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

In A Library Near You

Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.

Enough Said

Patently-O is the most popular patent law blog

Monday, July 02, 2007

The Real Cost Of School

BooksPrice - Find the best price for new & used books & textbooks at the major online Stores.

Margin Notes

People's Annotated Series - You'll find a growing selection of articles, documents, and books presented in their entirety to be read, and commented on, debated, and even printed

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Can I Borrow Some Sugar?

eNeighbors - An online communication tool designed specifically for neighborhoods and their residents.

Holy Geek Seek BatMan

ComicVine - The social encyclopedia for comic book lovers that everyone can edit.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

What To Do

Tip Nut - Collecting & Organizing Household Tips.

Help! I've Fallen

First Aid Guide - A basic emergency information, with topics listed for quick and easy reference

Friday, June 29, 2007

May I Have A Word

Oxford English Dictionary Updates - New entries from across the alphabet

Raise The Bar

SignalMap - Find a Cell Phone Signal. Find user-generated cell phone signals by major service providers. Find dead spots, and compare signal strengths.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Snapshot

90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources

Public Displays Of Affection

EssentialPIM, an application that allows you to sync any calendar with your PocketPC, Palm, or even iPod.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Before The Cut

Robert Reed's "Eight Episodes" (2006) is a short story describing a failed tv series.

Off The Charts

Swivel, holds a mind-boggling array of charts and graphs. Now allows you to lookup and mix and match all kinds of data.

Follow-up to a previous EE Post

Monday, June 25, 2007

Listen Up

MXPlay, a new digital music player and jukebox.

Get About

Walk It, has been launched in Central London, Birmingham, and Edinburgh.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Come To Order

National Presidential Caucus launched their website dedicated to creating local caucuses all around the country. Founded in part by a former Meetup.com VP, the group plans to set up "an open model for participation" enabling politically-inclined individuals to set up their own local caucuses on the same day as Democrat, Republican, or Open Caucuses.

Time After Time

Time Service Department - Featuring all things Time.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Link Library

DLL Downloads - Help handling problems with a "Couldn't find ***.dll..." pop-up messages.

Sound It Out

Skreemr - Audio Search Site

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Liberal Bias

Here is a list of 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign.

Digital Da Vinci

The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus -- two collections of scientific and technical drawings -- available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.

The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages, creating the most extensive public online archive of Leonardo's codes.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

A New Bottom Line

Ethisphere's 2007 ranking of the "World's Most Ethical Companies."

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Maps from the Voyages Extraordinaires

Shine A Little Light

LOUIS - A new database from Sunlight Foundation that makes government documents searchable. Congressional Record, bills and resolutions, hearings, and reports; Presidential Documents; Federal Register, GAO reports.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Give Up The Ghost

Pac-Man Guide - Hints and tip to play until level 255.

Clink On It

Iconlet - Icon search engine

Slice And Dice

Sputtr - Interesting ways and options to search

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Put A Hat On It

Diner slang

Abandon All Hope

A tour through Dante’s Inferno.

The Dark Side

FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Enduring Freedom

In 1943, some American troops were stationed in Iraq. Here is a War Department handbook introducing them to the country, and providing some dos and don'ts when interacting with the Iraqi people

Get There From Here

New York Public Library Research Guides on lots of topics.

The Rat Race

2008 Presidential Race Expenditures, compiled by Open Secrets.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Open Seseme

Hacks to Unlock Vehicle Doors

Disposable

Spaml is an automatic disposable email solution where you don't have to click. When you visit the site an email address is generated and is automatically saved to your clipboard.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Upper Management

Forbes' Corporate Org Chart Wiki readers contribute info to chart corporations' board members, officers and their relationships.

Beautiful Mind

Danica McKellar the mathematics genius.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Fresh Fish

Sushi Bar. A camera was placed on the conveyor belt in a sushi bar.

A gallery of Sci-Fi pulp covers

Friday, June 08, 2007

Q & A

WikiAnswers is a cooperatively grown database of questions and answers from visitors like you.

Charlie Foxtrot

List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Seeing Is Believing

Oodlebox.tv - A digital community of do-it-yourselfers organized around video channels of how-to knowledge, techniques, tips, and resources for home and garden.

Play It Again Sam

toyinstructions, a collaborative wiki of deep links to instructions, user manuals, and building guides for toys and children's games.

What's Left?

GoLeft.tv - Progressive, liberal online video site featuring daily news, consumer reports, and democratic views on politics.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Just Another Brick In The Wall

The Brick Factory and just about every instruction booklet for every Lego set.

Crime Is A Disease

Rambo cartoon from the 80’s. It’s bad (actually really, really bad). Here’s Part One, and Part Two

Swiper, No Swiping

A magstripe reader, Blogger Tim Matheson has step-by-step instructions on how to build one.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

I'm Just A Bill

Where A Bill Becomes a Law

In Committee

OpenHearings Live - A mini-site of schedules for current and future Senate committee hearings. Includes links to live audio and video of hearings in progress, an RSS feed of live hearings, iCalendar schedules for all committees and hearings, and the ability to import the "Live Hearing" view into your personalized Google homepage.

Unfluential

Unfluence - A mashup “that generates interactive network maps of state level political contribution data.”

Saturday, June 02, 2007

The Green Door

Green Diary - Environment blog pointing to the latest news, information, and analysis on our planet's dynamic environment - be it global warming, pollution, climate change, conservation, ecology, or sustainable development.

See It To Believe It

EveryScape - Interactive eye-level maps search site that is designed to show streets and points of interest.

Did They Know?

Wallpaper from the 70s

Friday, June 01, 2007

Down Time

Jesus Christ's Blog

Right Up The Alley

Article Alley - Article search engine and directory for free content.

On The Street

Streetviewr - Collecting links to some interesting, weird, and special locations via Google Map's Street View.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Pod People

Science Podcasts - The Lab

From The Pit

Orchestralist - An international forum for a wide-ranging discussions on orchestra topics.

The Fix Is In

Gradefix - A homework management system allows students to enter, schedule, and keep track of their assignments.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

I Know I Was

Lost in the '80s

Big Package

7 Ways to Send HUGE Files

Retro Cognition

The New Wave Time Machine - Rare, out-of-print, and promo-only releases from more obscure acts from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Back To The Future

Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900.

Real Deal

The Real Estalker - The inside scoop on where celebrities live.

Channel Z

blogTV - The place where you can show off your talent, build a fan base and share your opinions LIVE! You bring the webcam, we bring the stage. Broadcast, record, manage and share your very own live shows.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Channel Surfing

Tube Surf - Quickly find videos on YouTube, MySpace Videos, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video

Tag Your It

Yootag - A social network based around tags, making it easy to search, discover and navigate user profiles and communities.

Womens Work

20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women

Friday, May 25, 2007

eLushtrious

Liquor Snob - Liquor news, reviews, and advice to help you live the lush life.

Fake Steve

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs - Dude, I invented the friggin iPod. Have you heard of it?

Don't Strike Anywhere

50 Matches - Crawls sites where users have voted for or bookmarked popular URLs, including Digg, del.icio.us., and Reddit.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Cool Stuff

The 100 Best Products of 2007 from PC World

Tree Of Knowledge

SuTree - An online index and library for free video-based lessons, tutorials, lectures and how-to's.

Dictator For Life

The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. Which will allow Bush to be a dictator in a Catastrophic Emergency.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Old World Values

Ethics and governance in the European Financial centers - An assessment of the actual ethical values in the European Financial centers.

Wall Paper

The Stockbroker Fraud Blog

By The Book

Little Green Book 2007 - A pocket size compendium of environment data from The World Bank.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

War Profits

As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history—we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation.1 Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall—breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!

Enough is enough. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week—if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process.

Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign MoveOn's petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill—and then tell your friends?

The Master's Tools

Disney cutups explain copyright - Eric Faden, Professor of English and Film Studies of Bucknell University, created this informative review of copyright principles.

Bang For The Buck

salary vs. performance - What baseball teams are spending their money well, and how does it change over the course of the season?

Or Is It Memorex

The Live Music Archive - etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Arboreal Abode

The Treehouse Guide - A Collection of material about tree houses.

Ryan and Papa (My father-in-law John) are building a treehouse.

This Covers It All

Judge a Book by its Cover - "I work in a public library. I see literally thousands of books every week; the good, the bad, and the truly hideous. This blog is about the covers from the latter category"

Loved The Ending

The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time - "We spent literally months brainstorming and corralling the 50 films with the absolute best endings we've ever seen. We're not talking about the last half hour. We mean the last minute of movie. You know, the ending. Needless to say you can consider this entire article one monster SPOILER ALERT."

Dots And Dashes

Morse Code Blog

Thursday, May 17, 2007

New Job For Jeb

Jeb Bush Lands Huge Paycheck at Scandal Plagued Healthcare Company -- With a Little Help from Dad's Friends

Bandwidth Ban

While the military is actively using YouTube to promote its view of the war (U.S. Military's "Multi-National Force" on YouTube) it is simultaneously banning troops from using YouTube claiming a problem with bandwidth, Controlling the bandwidth of war. (By Patrick Jackson, BBC News)

I Was Lost

The Found Bin - A centralized, Internet-based lost and found, where you can post items that you've found or go searching for items you've lost.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

It's Your Right

Civil Rights Resource Guide from Library of Congress.

Got To Save That

What's New at the Internet Archive -A blog noting some of the fascinating things available at the ever fascination Internet Archive.

Words And Music

Typo Dylan

Monday, May 14, 2007

An Instant Colony

The Sea-Monkey Page - Includes instructions and suggestions on breeding artemia or sea monkeys

Like A Phoenix

The Phoenixian Book of Creatures - An illustrated encyclopedia of beasts and beings mythical, legendary, imaginary, and monstrous. Discover all manner of fabulous creatures from Aliens and Anthropophagi to Zaratans and Zombies.

Favorite Party Conversation

WiseTo Social Issues - Reference site dedicated to comprehensively exploring today's most divisive topics, such as abortion, global warming, war, school violence, and others.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

As Fast As They Can

EPA Quietly Resumes Dismantling Library System

The Perfect Present

Breakfast In Bed

Raining Cats And Dogs

Humane Index - The Humane Society of the United States reveals America's most humane city by ranking cities in terms of animal protection and welfare.

More Alien Ancestors

Ancient Aliens - An article that hypothesizes about possible relationships between Planet X, the Anunnaki, the Greys, and humans.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Politiblog

U.S. Politics Guide - Liberal and conservative political blogs, forums, video, news, polls, columnists, and more.

Fit To A T

Some guy’s T-shirt collection and the stories behind them.

Go Boom

Top 10 Building Implosions

Friday, May 11, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Good Night

Classic Short Stories to read online.

Chance Of Success

U. S. Electoral College Calculator - An Electoral College calculator lets you try to predict who will win the next presidential election. Provided by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

George Tenet's Porno Connection

Who did you go to high school with?

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Point Of Contact

CircleUp you can email or IM a question to a group of any size and get back a single result with everyone's answer.

Say What?

Moments of unscripted behavior — good and bad, but mostly bad — capture our attention and become bookmarks of our times. Here are 25 memorable public meltdowns that had us talking and laughing or cringing over the past quarter-century.

Stay On Top

InfoBuoy - Combines many of the Internet's top features and tools. Covers everything from search engines and shopping to news and research, all on one simple page.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

5 Second Rule

If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule

Check It Off The List

List After List - Allows people to quickly and easily create and share lists of all types and subjects. Whether its lists of bests, worsts, how-to, facts, opinions and more you can find thousands of user created lists covering over twenty broad-based categories including news, sports, politics, entertainment, travel, autos, jobs, love, local, and money.

Information War

Information Operations Roadmap

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Under The Surface

Glossed Over - Patrols the border between high style and high sleaze that snakes through the nation's fashion magazines.

Secrets Of The Ancients

How to Build a Flying Saucer: And Other Proposals in Speculative Engineering

Wannabe

Wanna be presidents - A dynamic blogroll of all of the blogs of the 2008 presidential hopefuls -- or at least those that are officially running.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Eyes And Ears

Bush administration proposes retroactive immunity for phone companies

Speaking Of Which

inogolo - Devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people and places. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

Math Is Hard

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

(2 pts. to whoever can tell me the source of the title quote, and no, it's not George W.)

Cartographer's Heart

The Map Archive is a large collection of ancient and modern maps, maintained by a non profit organization, the maps are gathered and submitted by volunteers, mainly students and University teachers. This project goal is to create the largest online collection of maps.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Blip On The Radar

blipfoto is a daily online photo journal - it's a place to record your day to day life in pictures and words and share it with the world.

The World On Our Shoulders

The United States government, led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has initiated a project to cooperatively develop, market, and distribute The National Atlas of the United States of America.

Enemy Action

New limits on blogging by U.S. soldiers

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Weekly World News

Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Genes in Human DNA

Best Things In Life

Freewaregenius - Offers original reviews and download links for some of the best, carefully selected freeware.

Wild Wild West

Complete List of Old West Gunfights

Monday, April 30, 2007

For The Record

Library of Congress Blog

It's All A Ploy

15 more ways stores trick you into spending

Gotta Be Green

Greenedia is your guide to the best Green social media available on the Internet.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

What's It About

FictionMenu - Discover Books and Movies. This service deals with user-generated plot summaries. The main idea is to maintain a database of brief but very informative plot descriptions. It lets you get acquainted with hundreds of new books and movies in a few minutes.

Money In The Middle

Weekly Fundraising Updates for the 2008 Presidential races

Business Of America Is Business

Company Profiles - Company information, news, and financial data on more than 500,000 public and private companies. For information on executives, see Executive Profiles.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Wax On, Wax Off

Today, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA.), Chairman of the Oversight and Govt Reform Committee, approved of a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger and the Republican National Committee (RNC) to provide answers to basic questions about the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials.

Crisis In Darfur

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently unveiled Crisis in Darfur, which it created in collaboration with Google. The first project in the museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, Crisis in Darfur intends for users "to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth."

The project allows people through Google Earth to see the location of damaged and destroyed villages, track the sites of refugees and internally displaced persons, and access links to photos, videos, and testimonies from the genocide. (Via National Geographic News)

Homeland Insecurity

The State of Homeland Security 2007: An Annual Report Card on the Department of Homeland Security

Friday, April 27, 2007

My Uncles A Martian

AlienGuise - Theme engine brought to you from Alienware computer systems.

A Whole New Crop

LabPixies is a free online directory for web gadgets.

Taped on The Monitor

10 Most Commonly Used Passwords Online

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Two Step Bush Adds A Few More Steps

In The Guardian, Fascist America, in 10 easy steps, by Naomi Wolf

Down The Barrel

An Accounting of Daily Gun Deaths

Fox In The Hen House

Texas Chainsaw Management, on the EPA and its manipulation by the current administration, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Under The Wire

Network Hosting Attorney Scandal E-Mails Also Hosted Ohio's 2004 Election Results more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website -- which gave the world the presidential election results -- was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors.

The World Market

Ads of the World

Settle A Bet

Movie Body Counts

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Staff Reccomendation

Blogging for a Good Book - A book suggestion a day from the Williamsburg Regional Library. One paragraph reviews.

Competing With Goy's In The Hood

The Jewish Boy Band - Chai 5.

Cut That Out

Snippy is a tiny application, that will help make taking screenshots much easier.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Counting On It

GovTech reports that the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a transcript of testimony on electronic voting machines, titled All Levels of Government Are Needed to Address Electronic Voting System Challenges.

Nickle And Dime

Mombian has an entire archive devoted to hardware store toys.

Now And Then

Flickr photo pool with images of Now and Then.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Share Life

Multiply makes it easy to create, share and discuss your blog, photos, videos and music with more of the people you know, and less of the people you don't.

Next New Thing

100x100 Clean Slate Project - Research program at Carnegie Mellon University that brings together economists, security and networking experts, network operators, and policy specialists to create blueprints for a network that goes beyond today's Internet.

Clean Slate Design for the Internet - Stanford University research group focusing on creating a brand-new Internet to solve the problems of the current one. Includes projects, seminars, faculty, and more.

The Next Level

24,000-plus video games collection donated to Stanford.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Beam Me Up Scotty

Treknology Encyclopedia - Scientific concepts and technical devices in Star Trek

Unsung Heroes

A growing list of 135 of the Strangest Music Videos Of All Time.

Visit Your Library

National Library Week

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Great Shot

World Press Photo of the Year since 1955

It's A Mad House

New Orleans Insane Asylum records from the late 1800s

Faded

Old Pictures. Over 80,000 images spanning the years 1850 to 1940. The photographs span the globe, and capture the defining moments in history.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Smarter Than That

Intelligence on BBC - Features various interesting facts about intelligence. Also learn how human brain is related to intelligence and whether or not IQ is a good measure of intelligence.

Digging Deeper

Senator accuses Aides of lying about White House-Justice e-mails

Blue Collar, White House

The Working White House

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Go Fisssh

fisssh! - Multi-search and discovery engine for finding web sites, news, blogs, videos, podcasts, jobs, information, people and products.

Road Less Travelled

Rebuilding NOLA - Times-Picayune coverage of New Orleans ongoing Hurricane recovery and rebuilding efforts. Also provides information about Louisiana Road Home Program and neighborhood forums.

Lasting Effects

Recovery From Katrina & Other 2005 Hurricanes - Information from the CDC on the control of illness after Hurricane Katrina as well as lingering environmental health concerns.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A Mouthful

Omniglot - Guide to writing systems, with details of many different alphabets, syllabaries, and logographic systems.

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Wikisky maps astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts.

Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out Of My Hat

Penn and Teller Explain “The seven basic principles of Sleight of Hand

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Elementary

Kid Scientist, the no-nonsense science blog for kids

Inside The Mind Of The Network

TV Shows That Should Never Have Been Cancelled

We all have our list, what is yours?

The Lords Of The Land

Who Rules America? - I both a book and a website that presents a collection of research eassays on how power and politics operate in the United States.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Sappy Songs

Charity Songs of the Eighties and Nineties

Brain Salad Surgery

Magnetic Poetry

Digging Deep

ScienceResearch.com has resources for finding scientific research, including journal and database searches

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Built Tough

The First 25 Years of the Mighty Tonka Dump Truck

From Big To Small

Universcale - From the nanoworld to the universe.

Pillar Of Society

White Collar Fraud - I am the former CFO of Crazy Eddie (and now a convicted felon) who helped mastermind one of the largest securities frauds uncovered in the 1980's. Through this blog I share my views about white collar crime, securities fraud, the accounting profession, internal controls, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other related topics.

Friday, April 06, 2007

A Big Deal

The relative size of objects in the Solar System and beyond.

Not Your Average Bear

The Five Least Visited National Parks

2006 Recreation Parks Ranked by Number of Visitors

Time Is Money

Do My Stuff - If you have a chore that you don't want to do, simply log on to the site and post the chore. Once it's posted, businesses and other members bid on performing the chore, and the lowest bidder wins.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Card Carrying Member

SpoofCard calling cards offers you the ability to change what someone sees on their caller ID display when they receive a phone call. Key Benefits: Make calls truly private, Ability to record calls, Change your voice, Fun and inexpensive, Easy to use and fast to set up!

Arkham Campus

Gothic podcasts can be found at the Zombie Astronaut

Campus Life

The New Campus - Miskatonic University
The old Campus - Miskatonic University

Monday, April 02, 2007

Not For Me

Grammar Girl - Tips for better writing

Some Say Space

All About Astronauts

Looks Delish

Foodesigns - Food styling techniques and advice.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

The Music In Your Head

Flip track - The Soundtrack of Your Life. Put your videos and photos to fliptracks music library and create your own music video.

Rich Get Richer

Income Gap Is Widening

Are You Ready?

The Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007’s "Networked Readiness Index"

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Six Years Down, A Life Time To Go



Happy Birthday Buck-a-roo!

Court Of Public Opinion

RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Use the "Find similar RIAA-free albums" link next to any search result to find up to 10 RIAA-free alternatives to the albums you know you like.

Where Are The Instructions?

Toy Instructions is a collaborative wiki of deep links to instructions, user manuals, and building guides for toys and children's games.

Incoming

SFO Realtime

Friday, March 30, 2007

In A Day's Crimefighting

Classic TV Batman quotes

Barbulute Suits

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.

Give Me A Snapshot

Social Explorer, which combines a zoomable US map with a lot of demographic information, much of it drawn from census data collected during the last 60 years.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Obstructionist

Evading Investigation Through GWB43.com

Follow The Money

Euro Bill Tracker, the old world's version of Where’s George?

Save The Whales

Life Size Whale

Tin Roof Rusted

Classical Cat, a directory with over 4000 free to download classical performances, sorted by composer and work

Monday, March 26, 2007

Place That Name

Geonames, a new geographic name search.

Wine In A Mail Box

WineQ - The Netflix of Wine -- Queue up wines like movies and receive free shipping!

Pick A Book From The Shelf

The complete O’reilly bookshelves line

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Gather Your Thoughts

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) maintains a list of the top 1,000 works "most widely held by libraries," complete with cover art and links to help readers find each volume in a local library.

Good Taste

Ketchup Art

Exxpose'

Exxpose Exxon - Explains how ExxonMobil still refuses to invest in cleaner, safer, energy solutions or to pay the damages it owes to fishermen hurt by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Librarian Humor

Pimp My Bookcart Contest Winners in two parts

Force To Be Reckoned With

A New Force in Advertising - Protest by Email

Planning Ahead

The Time Travel Fund - The fund will be used to retrieve you, provide medical expenses, and provide a way for you to live, such as housing expenses and food, as well as educational expenses and what ever additional training or education you may need once you arrive in the future.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Ceratopsian Baramin

Is someone having some fun with Conservapedia's creationist contingent? As various paleontologists have noticed, someone's editing the purported reference site to make some claims that even the pseudoscientists ought to find funny.

No Retreat, No Surrender

Tom DeLay, the former House Republican leader who stepped down last year amid allegations he misused campaign money, defends his and the GOP's leadership during its 12 years of power in Congress.

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Picture Perfect

Every Stock Photo - Searching Over 1 Million Free Photos

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Jungle Boogie

Jungle Crazy - All the best Amazon deals in one place.

Old Fashion Anit-War Song

Tom Paxton has updated his Vietnam era Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

Time Warp

TimeSearch - Search the Web through Time. Enter a year and then Go.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Spy Who Couldn't Sleep

The Spy Who Billed Me is a blog with content centering on international politics and the private investigative community.

Lifting Two Pints

BeerMapping.com Never be without... beer. Features over 25 cities where you can find brewpubs and breweries.

Not A Day Over Thirty

The Ageless Project - Bloggers are grouped by the year they were born.

Friday, March 16, 2007

House Odds

House overturns Bush order on papers secrecy.

The Living Dead

Delutube, as its name implies, can serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

All In A Days Work

Corporate Investigator Deserves Kudos for "Outing" Covert Record Reclassification at the National Archives

And She Knows How To Use Them

Your Right to Know blog with info about public records (what they are, where to find them, and how to use them).

Tommy Can You Hear Me?

Librivox, a free audiobook service, boasts an ever-growing catalog of audiobooks on its website, from fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, poetry and short stories, and even books in languages other than English.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Pi Hole

Piday - Official web site celebrating the mathematical number pi, usually calculated to three digits 3.14 celebrated on March 14 or 3/14.

Nothing Stranger

An index of over 6,000 fiction magazines

Politics As Usual

According to an article in today's NYT, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez "admitted" that mistakes were made on the political firings of 8 US attorneys. Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein have again called for Gonzalez to step down. It's now clear that this issue was not a low-level administrative mistake. The House Judiciary Committee has a list of documents regarding the Attorney firings. One of the most bizarre things to emerge was that former Whitehouse Counsel Harriet Miers originally wanted to fire all 93 attorneys. The AP has more (via Huffington Post).

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Life List

Prapta is a next-generation social-network which contains over a million life experiences. Mark them off your "life list" or find new things to do. You can also blog, create a profile, and make friends!

And I Can't Get Up

Couchville lets you create an interactive TV listing guide for your local TV source.

The Fourth Estate

Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest report, The State of the News Media 2007

Monday, March 12, 2007

Spies Like US

A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (March 2007)

They Finally Noticed

And A Seventh Paper Gives The Hook To Coulter

A list of some of the 100 or so papers that carry Coulter's columns compiled by Media Matters can be found here.

(What is it about a Democratically controlled Congress and a Republican President that has finally fallen out of favor to sudden wake people up out of thier moral and social stupor?)

He Can't Hide

ALERT -- Tell Congress to restore access to presidential records.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Had It Been A Real Emergancy

Test Pattern - Tv, entertainment and pop culture gossip.

Geek Girls

Scientiae - Women in science and technology

Change The Channel

10 of the Most Awkward TV Interviews

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Corruption Trends

Global Integrity is an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world. Global Integrity uses local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness and accountability.

Bibliophile

Choose Books is a worldwide marketplace for Used, Rare, Antiquarian and Out-of-Print Books, Autographs and Ephemera Items.

Tea Totaller

Beginner's Guide to Tea

Friday, March 09, 2007

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Tired Phrases

The Cliché Rotation Project

Judging Others

The U.S. Department of State has just released the 2006 Annual Report on Human Rights.

Wize Acker

Wize - Wize offers unbiased consumer product rankings based on expert and user reviews.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Monday, March 05, 2007

More Than I have

How much does it cost to raise a kid?

Don't Take Wooden Tokens

tipstrs - Tips, tricks, and hints on a wide variety of categorized subjects. Share your brilliance with the world.

Completely Hidden

WSJ article about Hidden influencers

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Totally Dude

March 3 Total Lunar Eclipse - SPACE.com guide to viewing the first total lunar eclipse of 2007.

And I Feel Fine

Cerebro! "We Feel Fine is a software engine that harvests human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling'. The result is a database of several million human feelings, with about 20,000 new feelings added each day."

The Mole People

World Subway Maps

I'd Like To Thank

Oscars: Records & Curiosities

Friday, March 02, 2007

Not Easy Being Green

Greenest Vehicles of 2007

Nuts And Bolts

The Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) is a free, one-stop shop for learning Windows and Web programing fundamentals. It includes a learning path which starts with the absolute basics like how a Web browser works and builds on that with videos, tutorials, and downloadable sample projects using CSS, JavaScript, HTML, ASP.NET, VB, and C#.

Just Enough To Be Unlucky

How much beer does your country drink?

(Enough to elect George Bush... twice)

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Save The World, Save The Cheerleader

Someplace That Is Else - Buffy and Angel fanfiction, including scripts for Season 8 episodes.