CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating and finding informational, interactive, and engaging maps.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Diners Club
This is a copy of the official rules of the Serial Diners, a group founded in 1989 and dedicated to dining at every restaurant listed in the Toronto Yellow Pages (in alphabetical order), at the rate of one per week
Ashes To Ashes
In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron's internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into the lives and preoccupations of Enron's top executives during a turbulent period
Diversification
Each visitor gets a personal color and becomes part of the internet rainbow. There are currently 121585 rays of light.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Monster Librarian
Monster Librarian - A source for readers of horror fiction to find another book to read and a source for librarians to develop their collections and provide readers advisory.
Free For All
P2008 The Race for the Whitehouse - In 2008 there will be open races for both parties' presidential nominations. For the first time since 1952 a sitting president or vice president will not be a candidate for nomination of either major party.
Brand Channel
Brandchannel provides a global perspective on brands and presents important issues that are affecting brands now and in the future.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Free To Be
First Amendment Center, featuring comprehensive research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics, daily First Amendment news, a unique First Amendment Library and guest analyses by respected legal specialists.
Group Hug
TV Series Finale - Sitcoms, soaps (soap operas), drama series, reality tv, adventure, science fiction, fantasy shows...they all end (or are cancelled) sometime and were gonna cover them. Tune in to this site for info on how your favorite shows and character stories ended -- as well as TV series reunions, videos, podcasts, "where are they now" actor updates, TV episode trivia, television network secrets and more!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
MMM
Create an M&M you.
* Ryan calls these tasty treats M M M's (pronouced separately, but the blended sound is what he says after eating them)
And That's An Order
The type and scope of various Presidential orders can be a bit confusing and tracking them down frustrating. This report describes Executive orders, proclamations oral presidential directive, Homeland Security Presidential Directives, Letters on Tariffs and International trade, Military Orders, National Security Instruments, Presidential Findings, and more and lists source tools with URLs. Presidential Directives: Background and Overview, Updated January 7, 2005, by Harold C. Relyea, Specialist in American National Government Government Division.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The Fat Lady Sings
Impending Doom - This site provides a countdown to various Doomsday scenarios. You can take actions to hasten or delay the arrival of Doomsday. Save the planet, or seal its fate - the decision is yours.
The Music In You
The 2007 RPM Challenge - This is the challenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Soap Box
Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form of interlinked anecdotes. The site is structured as a series of projects containing related, interlinked stories. The stories are indexed by their characters and the topics they cover, and may be sorted by various criteria. Readers can rate the stories, and add comments, or other stories. Folklore is still incomplete, and undergoing active development. Currently, the Folklore site only supports a single project, about the development of the original Macintosh, but that will be changing.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Can't Take The Heat
Recipe Resizer - "Recipe Resizer can be used to take a recipe for a small number of people and Resize it to accommodate a banquet room full of people."
Once We Were Friends
Long Time Lost is a free service that allows you to create a "search" for someone you lost touch with. That "search" is then indexed by Google (and other search engines) and then when that person you are looking for does a "Vanity Search" (the process of searching for one's own name on Google... we know you do it!) they find your "search" and can respond to you and reconnect.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Champlain
The Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress recently mounted the 10,000th map on its Web site at www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/. This milestone comes 10 years after the division started digitizing maps in 1996.
The map is Samuel de Champlain's 1607 chart on vellum of the North American coast from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, pictured below. The unique document, originally intended for presentation to Henry IV, King of France, was compiled by Champlain (1567–1635), founder of New France (Canada). The map provides the first thorough delineation of the Canadian and New England coast from Cape Sable to Cape Cod.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Where Oh Where
Placeopedia - A site where you can connect Wikipedia articles with places, people connect places they know with corresponding Wikipedia articles.
In The Fine Print
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Moon, The Sun And The Truth
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. their primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but they also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. They aim for maximum political impact; this means the interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. They have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources.
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Follow The Signpost
Cooltext - Allows you to create and customize logos and buttons. Based on your input for design, style, font, font size, colors, and other specifications, the site will generate a customized graphic for you. It is free and without copyright restrictions.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
What Do You Want To Do?
Zvents - Search engine for local events. Users can post their events for free. Listings information is shared with media partners, including local newspapers.
Twinkle Twinkle
Sky Highlights of 2007 - 2007 observing highlights -- comets, eclipses, meteor showers, and occultations.
On The Look Out
Tracked in America - This documentary web site, put together by the ACLU, explores the U.S. government's surveillance of its own citizens at different points in American history.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Use At Own Risk
A Michigan lobby group hands out annual awards to the most unusual Warning Labels. And now, you can generate your own!
(While I am generally against the excesses of the modern American litigious society, I understand the elements that go into it's creation. First the incredible amount of dangerous products that are allowed to market in the name of profit, and second, the exesses of corparate profits .in comparison to the average American paltry income fuels a need to punish.)
On The Committee
The Congressional Committees Project is a wiki who's main goal is to "facilitate participatory democracy by encouraging an informed citizenry through the advocacy of legislative transparency and the gathering of legislative information."
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Fantasy Or Nightmare?
Fantasy Congress™ offers you the power to "play politics." As in other fantasy sports, you - the Citizen - draft a team of real-life legislators from the U.S. Congress and score points for your team's successes. Join a league and compete against other Citizens, or form a league of your own! Play against your friends, family, bloggers, fellow politicos
I'm Just A Poor Boy From A Poor Family
In honor of muse who seems to be lost and gone forever, I present something I soooooo rarely do, an internet quiz... Which Line from Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Are You?
Phrase and Fable
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 1894 "new and enlarged" edition
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Not Telling You
Starting in the new year, hundreds of millions of pages of classified government documents were automatically declassified (see a FGI's post for background). You might assume that you should able to access these documents in the National Archives, but think again. Declassification is different from "release" so certain documents will remain classified and some documents will be withheld. This is the result of President Bush's Executive Order on Declassification (Exec order 13292) which has nine grounds for exemptions and various restrictions on the release of declassified documents.
Look It Up
User Manuals and User Guides for any equipment you might have such as mobile phones, cameras, monther boards, monitors, software, tv, dvd, and others.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Starlight Starbright
Comet McNaught (a surprise comet) , has brightened rapidly over the last few days. It's now bright, beautiful, and easy to see at dawn and dusk — as long as you know exactly where to look and have an unobstructed horizon and perfect conditions. It's now a naked-eye spectacle from far northern latitudes, where the observing geometry is most favorable. The farther south you live, the lower the comet is in the twilight. . A map is available on the Skytonight homepage.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Hear Ye Hear Ye
The Productive Strategies blog links directly to 145 podcast feeds from universities.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
The Mail Bag
SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS
FINAL REPORT
OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
UNITED STATES SENATE
APRIL 23, 1976
Total Disregard
On December 20, 2006, President Bush signed H.R. 6407 (Public Law No. 109-435), the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act" but in his signing statement (President's Statement on H.R. 6407, the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act") he "declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it"
Give And Take
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. Lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
A Final Accounting
Richard Causey, Enron's former Chief Accounting Officer, begins serving his five and a half year prison term today at the Federal Correctional Institution in Bastrop, Texas. Further details here.
Cleaning The House
With the new Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the house is currently adopting the new House Rules (full text; summary) that include several notable changes:
- In response to the Jack Abramoff scandal, gifts and trips paid for by lobbyists are no longer allowed without prior approval.
- House members will be allowed 24 hours to read legislation.
- Members can not be prevented from attending committee hearings.
- Members will have to list earmarks and benefits put into any bill and make them public.
- The budget can not allow the federal deficit to increase over 5- or 10-year period.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Glued to The Tube
EVTV1 Video Clips brings you the best and most diverse video clips, from history and news, to comedy and bizarre you can watch it all.
Letters To The Damned
Post Rapture Post - Write letters to your unsaved friends. When the rapture comes, this guy will mail them.
Long Lost, But Not Forgotten
Bizarre Records Blog - Strange and forgotten records from the record collectors' reject pile. A supplement to BizarreRecords.com
1970s Sesame Street album My Name Is Roosevelt Franklin.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Super Grover
Grover is Bitter - For many of us, Grover was hands-down the best character on the show: bringing laughter, intelligence and a certain irreverence not seen in other 2-dimensional children's programs of the day. And he was cute, too. But what many of us didn't see behind that brave exterior was a monster cowering in the face of his own insecurities, a monster so unsure of himself he wouldn't even watch his own performances, and a monster who ultimately allowed his own weaknesses to overcome him and nearly ruin his career. A genius, a tyrant, a womanizer or just a washed-up drunk? It's time to expose Grover- the monster behind the myth.
Sufficiantly Advanced
Science.Gov: U.S. Government Science Portal is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Enables you to search 47 million pages in real time.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Should Be Known
Corpus Obscura - It's an inspired idea: track the obits of those whose accomplishments vastly exceeded their fame.
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