Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Crackberry
CrackBerry.com, the #1 site FOR CrackBerry Users and Abusers, built and operated BY CrackBerry Users and Abusers.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
New Meaning
Wordsource - The online dictionary is reborn. Never leave your browser addressbar. Go to word.sc/
Monday, February 26, 2007
iKata
AKBAN-wiki, The biggest martial arts encyclopedia - Hundreds of techniques in video in this fast growing martial arts encyclopedia. Techniques collecting is almost complete for Judo, Muai tai and Ninjutsu and now centers around Karate.
You'll Love This
UTRACK Movies - Online DVD collection software which allows you to share you collection with your friends and track which friends have borrowed your movies.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Worth Your Time
A to Z Complete Podcast Collection - This page lists the free, smart podcasts worth your time on iTunes. Download them, synch them, and put that iPod to good educational use.
Cream Of The Crop
Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) - Create a search engine for kids by limiting sites searched to kid-friendly websites; create a search for you and your colleagues that's limited to university sites or a select group of professionally-vetted resources; or even create your own personal search engine that combs through your favorite recipe websites. It's all free, and there's no limit to how many CSEs you can create. In the short time since launch, over 100,000 CSEs have been created by people with all kinds of interests and purposes.
Here are some examples worth exploring:
Lucy Gray's Research Sites for Kids
The Librarian's E-Library
Deb Morrissey's ALA Best of Free Reference
Tamas Simon's Digital Reading Search
Bill Drew's Google Custom Search for WLANs and Libraries
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Were The Kids In America
UNICEF released a report, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries, which specifically addresses childhood in the 21 most-developed nations in the world. The study uses six categories: material well-being, family and peer relationships, health and safety, behavior and risks, and children's own sense of well-being (educational and subjective).
In overall well-being, the U.S. and U.K. respectively place 20th and 21st out of 21 countries.
Very Creative Writing
The Thousand and One Flat World Tales Project - Aggregates narratives written by students from around the world. Some stories get promoted to blog status, hence the term "blook." It's already segmented into age groups and by language. Students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, revise together, within or between schools.
Next Generation
UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2007 reports on children in almost every nation in the world, with statistics, video profiles of individual children, and interactive charts and graphs.
Friday, February 23, 2007
My Country Tis Of Thee
micronations.net - Information about exisiting micronations, a directory of micronations seeking citizens, and tips on starting your own micronation.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Girl Interupted
Report of the APA Taskforce on the Sexualization of Girls
(This harkens back to a long long time ago and a land far far away)
Buena Vista
Vista wallpapers that didn't make the cut - A link to the other photos the photographer took for Windows Vista backgrounds that weren't included in the OS.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Boys Will Be Boys
“I find your lack of pants disturbing” and 2656 other Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"
Petition For A Fair Presidential Debate
The Nevada State Democratic Party has partnered with Fox News to host the first-ever 2008 Democratic presidential debate on August 14.
(Democrats have given up on shooting themselves in the foot, and given the gun to conservatives who of course take aim for the head)
Prairie Home Companion
Podcasts of Garrison Keiller's The News from Lake Wobegon. You can also get Garrison's daily update of literary notes and poetry, The Writer's Almanac.
Prairie Home Companion
Podcasts of Garrison Keiller's The News from Lake Wobegon. You can also get Garrison's daily update of literary notes and poetry, The Writer's Almanac.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Speaker In The House
The Gavel - Blog from the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Includes video, news, and information about current and pending legislation.
An Inside Story
The Insider Conspiracy Theory News - Headlines and special reports focusing on conspiracy theories about government, secret societies, news, and war.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Sent To Collection
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Infrastructure, new report from Council on Foreign Relations.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Check Your Vitals
Vitalist is for anyone following the Get Things Done methodology of time management. Easily organize actions and projects online. From grocery lists to business projects, track it all with Vitalist.
Writen In The Stars
Major Astronomical Events 2007 - Month-by-month guide from SPACE.com to the year's celestial events -- meteor shower peaks, occultations, and eclipses.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Last Drop
These great ketchups have been discontinued by their manufacturer and are no longer available through Ketchup World.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
What Are They Hiding?
According to Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News, "for the last three years, the Office of the Vice President has refused to divulge its classification statistics to the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), despite a seemingly explicit requirement that it do so. Prior to 2002, such information had routinely been transmitted and reported in ISOO's annual reports to the President."
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Hiding Behind The Wall
Whocalled.us - The phone is ringing, and I don't recognize the number, All Caller ID says is, "NAME UNAVAILABLE".
A Man Named Scooter
Documents From The Trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, posted online by the Associated Press.
Monday, February 12, 2007
And The Winner Is...
OscarTorrents - The Future of the Oscars, Today. OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be -- everyone can download the year's nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use the sites rating system to choose their favourites.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
We Built This City
eLouai's online City Creator, which will let you work up tiny metropoles that can be saved, emailed or printed out.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Now They Notice?
Democrats and Republicans now have issues with the Bush administration's suppression of climate change data and assessments.
Ch Ch Ch Changes
Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations.
Can I Help You?
UltraVNC allows you to remotely log into a computer from any other Internet-connected computer in the world. UltraVNC is the best free advanced remote desktop application.
Friday, February 09, 2007
On Its Way Up
Helium is a live reference created by consumers, for consumers. They combine user-contributed content with the ordering capabilities of a peer-review ranking system to allow you to gain insight quickly from subjective content. It is also place for people who are passionate about a topic to write and be heard. Helium is a community where you can read, write and rate articles on a broad range of topics.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Mine!
Children's bookplates - Great for adults too: a series of colour and black-and-white bookplates by various children's illustrators. Print them out and stick them in your home library.
The Road To Nowhere
Useless Account - You get to sign up! Then you can edit your profile! That's it! No more! Simple, clean and efficient and really well-designed too.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Paint It Black
Black-Scientists - Includes biographies, science experiments, and teacher resources which are related to the contributions of historic black scientists and inventors.
I Read It Somewhere
Booksearch searches three fulltext book search engines (A9, Google, and MSN) at once.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Fifth Column
U.S. contractors becoming a fourth branch of government. Without a public debate or formal policy decision, contractors have become a virtual 4th branch of government. On the rise for decades, spending on federal contracts has soared during the Bush administration, to about $400 billion last year.
What Are They Talking About
News Coverage Index - Project for Excellence in Journalism compiles coverage from newspapers, talk shows and compares top stories.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Riders On The Storm
bubbl.us - Web-based collaboration and brainstorming service. Take notes and build mind-maps online.
Mini Me
yourminis.com is a personalized dashboard of minis (mini applications, also known as widgets) that let you collect information and features from the web and hold them in one place. Minis get your email, check the weather, watch youtube videos.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Oil Crisis
Exxon earned more than $75,000 every minute of 2006! "Exxon Mobil Corp. Thursday reported the biggest annual profit on record for a U.S. corporation - earning more than $75,000 every minute of 2006 on the back of record oil prices. The world's biggest publicly traded company by revenue posted net earnings of $39.5 billion on revenue of $377.6 billion last year, topping its previous profit record"
Ignorance Is Bliss
School Board Bans Tape Recorders After Teacher Caught Preaching to Students. Remember David Paszkiewicz, the history teacher who decided to use his public school room as a pulpit? The student who caught him used a tape recorder in case Paszkiewicz denied his behavior--which Paszkiewicz did when confronted by the principal. So rather than fire the dishonest teacher, the school board has decided to ban tape recorders!
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Serving Time
Former Enron Corporation finance executive Michael J. Kopper, who ran many of the illict partnerships used to obfuscate Enron's creative accounting, reported to prison a few days ago in Big Spring, Texas. Kopper was a chief underling for Andy Fastow and in exchange for lenience provided information useful to the prosecution in convicting his former boss (Fastow is currently serving time one state over in Oakdale, Louisiana).
As Never Before Seen
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. 366 maps and PDF posters will be finished by February 2007.
Desktop Clutter
Widgipedia - Resource for both users and developers of widgets and gadgets. Offering the a catalog of Web and desktop widgets for all platforms. Developers can upload, collaborate, learn, or teach through tutorials, code samples, libraries and more.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Possible Abuse?!?
House panel will probe president's use of bill-signing statements. New House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers used his first oversight hearing Wednesday to say that he's launching an investigation into President Bush's possible abuse of presidential signing statements.
E Tu Brute
Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair.
Let the backstabbing begin, I hope they all come tumbling down.
Tie It In A Knot
The Tie Guide - Instructions on how to tie a tie, different ways of tying tie knots, caring for a necktie and more.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Open Source Texts
Wikibooks, a collection of free content textbooks that you can edit. They have 23,669 book modules in over 1000 books.
Get Jiggy With It
iJigg - Artists from around the world can post their music on iJigg. As listeners, you can vote or "Jigg" music that you like and directly influence the music that becomes popular!
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