Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Within Walking Distance

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.

Just Pick It Up

Find items nearby from Ebay, Craigslist, and local stores at Findnearby

Approved Access

Great Web Sites for Kids brought to you by the American Library Association

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.

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!

Told You So

Ohio election workers convicted of rigging ’04 presidential recount

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.

Art Is Life

The Fake Ads Generator

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.

Are We Suprised?

Subliminal advertising - Mickey D's new ad blitz.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Block Box

Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free!

Black Box

Area 51, NASA Declassified Special Projects in Nevada

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.

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."

Clean Water

Medical Milestones from the British Medical Journal

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.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

More Secrets

Create your own Secret Society.

Starboard

Port Forward - All about computer ports

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

Footnote is an impressive resource which launched last week that allows users to access and annotate millions of historical documents online for the first time.

See also

Athlete's Foot

Sneakerplay

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.

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.

Bush's Idea Of Bringing It Home

The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.

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.)

In Theaters Near You

U.S. Film Openings from Variety

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

Keep On Clicking

Links to 11,500 music videos on YouTube.

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

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.

Backseat Driver

Amazing Car Mod!

By The Book

The Game Manual Archive

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.

Strange Cartography

Lost Island Map - Draw and discuss island maps of ABC's television series Lost.

RaaaahhhR!!!

Monstropedia is the an online encyclopedia of monsters in myth, magick and legend.

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Double Geek

The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part I: The Early Years (1980-1983).

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Hot Night In The City

The City Desk - Covers a fantastic non-existent city

A Pirates Life For Me

Sea Shanties and Drinking Songs

Silent Stars

Silent Star Wars - Nice little mashup of th Starwars trilogy done as a silent film

Friday, January 05, 2007

The Mail Bag

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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"

Counter Surge

US Army Counter-insurgency manual

Got Drugs?

Government Accounting Office -07-49: New Drug Development

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.

Oscillation Overthruster

Moving through matter with Buckaroo Banzai

Between Me And My Jeans

The 50 Greatest Commercials of the '80s

Doppleganger Radar

The Weather in Hell today

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Ranger X

Ranger X posted a follow-up to my Geo Logic post of a few days ago.

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

Size Up

Sizeasy lets the user enter the dimensions of an object and then visually compare its size with up to four other objects, including some ready made graphics like a 19” TV, a wine bottle, a deck of playing cards, a door, or a double mattress.

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.

An Eye On You

There are 45 cameras installed in key traffic points around Manhattan.

Monday, January 01, 2007