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."

Know What Your Doing

Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO, Project On Government Oversight.

And A Smile

Vintage Coca Cola ads

To Die For

1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die

By Any Other Name

Can you name all the U.S. Presidents?

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

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.

Poppy Honey

50 Craziest Celebrity Baby Names

Re-Meme-Ber

The very Big List of Internet Memes

Use Your Library Often

Library Propaganda

Online Debate

YouTube's Citizen Tube vlog

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

It's Not Cowardice

Operation Yellow Elephant - It's their war. Why aren't they fighting it?

Canary In A Coal Mine

Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover A Wide Range of Uses

Total Information Awareness

It is no secret that some parts of TIA lives on behind the veil of the classified intelligence budget.

Hawks Kill The Dove

Brzezinski predicts provoking war with Iran.

America's Greatest Threat

Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer

THE Hawk

Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran. Military solution back in favor as Rice loses out -- the President is 'not prepared to leave conflict unresolved'

The Small Print

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

The Gilded Age

The Wealthiest Americans Ever

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.

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

Simply The Best

50 Best Websites 2007 from Time Magazine

La' Chiam

The United States National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676 ("Expanded & Improved Medicare For All")

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.

Plan Of Attack

Is Santorum expressing foreknowledge of some coming atrocity or is he merely using a tactic familiar to the leadership of his party - exploiting the fear of terror for the purposes of political rhetoric?

Free To Read

World eBook Fair will provide free access from July 4-Aug 4 to World Public Library. This has over 400,000 e-books to download, including audio books.

Strikes Twice

Strikestar has a current lightning strike map for the U.S. and Canada.

I'm Not Dead Yet

List of premature obituaries

Was He Ever?

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: You ceased to be the President of the United States

MMM MMM Good

Winners of Debonair Magazine's Food Blog Awards

Denver Rocks

Bush justice is a national disgrace

A Byte Of Apple

iPhone Root Password cracked in Three Days

Only Fair

Bush to Review Excessive Sentence Claims Of Million Other Felons

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

Take A Bite

50 pictures from the history of Apple

Ryan's Favorite Show

What does “MeFi” mean in the background of Mythbusters?

Listen To This

Online Music: 90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites

Up In The Air

The best and worst airports in the world

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

Man Vs. Wild

The 5 Basic Survival Skills

Must Feed Blogs

From the Editors of PC World, 100 Blogs We Love

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

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

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.