Saturday, March 31, 2007
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/31/2007 09:28:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/31/2007 09:24:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 30, 2007
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/30/2007 09:09:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Follow The Money
Euro Bill Tracker, the old world's version of Where’s George?
Posted by Richard at 3/27/2007 09:02:00 AM 0 comments
Tin Roof Rusted
Classical Cat, a directory with over 4000 free to download classical performances, sorted by composer and work
Posted by Richard at 3/27/2007 08:58:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, March 26, 2007
Place That Name
Geonames, a new geographic name search.
Posted by Richard at 3/26/2007 09:30:00 AM 0 comments
Wine In A Mail Box
WineQ - The Netflix of Wine -- Queue up wines like movies and receive free shipping!
Posted by Richard at 3/26/2007 09:23:00 AM 0 comments
Pick A Book From The Shelf
The complete O’reilly bookshelves line
Posted by Richard at 3/26/2007 09:06:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, March 25, 2007
$510 BILLION
The Congressional Research Service has issued a report for Congress: The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war on terror operations since 9/11
Posted by Richard at 3/25/2007 09:09:00 AM 0 comments
I'll Buy That
The best retired Girl Scout Cookies
Posted by Richard at 3/25/2007 09:02:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/24/2007 09:35:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/24/2007 09:16:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 23, 2007
Librarian Humor
Pimp My Bookcart Contest Winners in two parts
Posted by Richard at 3/23/2007 09:30:00 AM 1 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/23/2007 09:12:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/22/2007 09:19:00 AM 0 comments
Picture Perfect
Every Stock Photo - Searching Over 1 Million Free Photos
Posted by Richard at 3/22/2007 08:53:00 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Sepia World
Shorpy is a photo blog of images taken 100 years ago.
Posted by Richard at 3/21/2007 08:56:00 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Good Or Bad
Bad Local Commercials Vs. The 50 Greatest Local Commercials - Can you find the matches?
Labels: advertising, commercials, Lisa, Video
Posted by Richard at 3/20/2007 09:17:00 AM 0 comments
WhenIt Rains It Pours
Meet Daniel Tammet, real life Brain man.
Posted by Richard at 3/20/2007 09:12:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, March 19, 2007
America's Wounded
The hidden cost of the war on Iraq.
Posted by Richard at 3/19/2007 09:03:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Jungle Boogie
Jungle Crazy - All the best Amazon deals in one place.
Posted by Richard at 3/18/2007 09:09:00 AM 0 comments
Old Fashion Anit-War Song
Tom Paxton has updated his Vietnam era Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation
Posted by Richard at 3/18/2007 09:04:00 AM 0 comments
Time Warp
TimeSearch - Search the Web through Time. Enter a year and then Go.
Posted by Richard at 3/18/2007 08:56:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/17/2007 09:30:00 AM 0 comments
Lifting Two Pints
BeerMapping.com Never be without... beer. Features over 25 cities where you can find brewpubs and breweries.
Posted by Richard at 3/17/2007 09:17:00 AM 0 comments
Not A Day Over Thirty
The Ageless Project - Bloggers are grouped by the year they were born.
Posted by Richard at 3/17/2007 09:04:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Living Dead
Delutube, as its name implies, can serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them.
Posted by Richard at 3/16/2007 09:03:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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).
Posted by Richard at 3/15/2007 09:19:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/15/2007 09:01:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/14/2007 09:14:00 AM 0 comments
Nothing Stranger
An index of over 6,000 fiction magazines
Posted by Richard at 3/14/2007 09:07:00 AM 0 comments
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).
Posted by Richard at 3/14/2007 08:55:00 AM 0 comments
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!
Posted by Richard at 3/13/2007 09:35:00 AM 0 comments
And I Can't Get Up
Couchville lets you create an interactive TV listing guide for your local TV source.
Posted by Richard at 3/13/2007 09:09:00 AM 0 comments
The Fourth Estate
Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest report, The State of the News Media 2007
Posted by Richard at 3/13/2007 09:05:00 AM 0 comments
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)
Posted by Richard at 3/12/2007 09:08:00 AM 0 comments
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?)
Posted by Richard at 3/12/2007 09:03:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Had It Been A Real Emergancy
Test Pattern - Tv, entertainment and pop culture gossip.
Posted by Richard at 3/11/2007 09:23:00 AM 0 comments
Geek Girls
Scientiae - Women in science and technology
Posted by Richard at 3/11/2007 09:14:00 AM 0 comments
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.
Posted by Richard at 3/10/2007 08:00:00 AM 0 comments
Bibliophile
Choose Books is a worldwide marketplace for Used, Rare, Antiquarian and Out-of-Print Books, Autographs and Ephemera Items.
Posted by Richard at 3/10/2007 07:59:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 09, 2007
Just Another Day
Global Incident Map - Terrorism Events and Other Suspicious Activity.
Posted by Richard at 3/09/2007 08:05:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Year Of The Pig
CAGW (Citizens Against Government Waste) have released their 2007 Congressional Pig Book Summary and Previous Books (back to 1991)
Posted by Richard at 3/08/2007 08:03:00 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Judging Others
The U.S. Department of State has just released the 2006 Annual Report on Human Rights.
Posted by Richard at 3/07/2007 08:14:00 AM 0 comments
Wize Acker
Wize - Wize offers unbiased consumer product rankings based on expert and user reviews.
Posted by Richard at 3/07/2007 07:57:00 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Not A Drop To Drink
What is the true cost of bottled water that retails for $1.5?
Posted by Richard at 3/06/2007 08:27:00 AM 0 comments
A Killer On The loose
Why Internet Radio is in the Emergency Room. If you haven't heard, internet radio is about to die. The record labels and broadcast radio are lobbying to stomp out fair use and keep competition out.
Posted by Richard at 3/06/2007 08:22:00 AM 0 comments
Scene It All
Vidipedia, a free video encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Posted by Richard at 3/06/2007 08:21:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, March 05, 2007
More Than I have
How much does it cost to raise a kid?
Posted by Richard at 3/05/2007 08:23:00 AM 0 comments
Don't Take Wooden Tokens
tipstrs - Tips, tricks, and hints on a wide variety of categorized subjects. Share your brilliance with the world.
Posted by Richard at 3/05/2007 08:09:00 AM 0 comments
Completely Hidden
WSJ article about Hidden influencers
Posted by Richard at 3/05/2007 07:56:00 AM 0 comments
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Light Reading
GOOD's list of the 51 Best Magazines Ever
Posted by Richard at 3/04/2007 08:36:00 AM 0 comments
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Totally Dude
March 3 Total Lunar Eclipse - SPACE.com guide to viewing the first total lunar eclipse of 2007.
Posted by Richard at 3/03/2007 08:22:00 AM 0 comments
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."
Posted by Richard at 3/03/2007 08:06:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 02, 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#.
Posted by Richard at 3/02/2007 08:24:00 AM 0 comments
Just Enough To Be Unlucky
How much beer does your country drink?
(Enough to elect George Bush... twice)
Posted by Richard at 3/02/2007 08:03:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Save The World, Save The Cheerleader
Someplace That Is Else - Buffy and Angel fanfiction, including scripts for Season 8 episodes.
Posted by Richard at 3/01/2007 08:23:00 AM 0 comments