Friday, August 31, 2007

Who's Who

Sullr, a new Web service that will take a phone number, search the Web for it, display the business or person who owns the number, and display the owner's location on a map.

Hot Key

200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity - Useful keyboard shortcuts for essential software applications

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Up To The Minute

Wikirage - Lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Speaking The Truth

Congressional Quarterly and the St. Petersburg Times: PolitFact. The 'Truth-o-Meter' checks candidates' statements and accusations for factual background.

Follow The Money #2

The Great Iraq Swindle

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Top Ten Lists Of Top Ten Lists

List Universe, the number one source for top 10 lists on the net

After The Fact

San Jose Semaphore

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Water World

The coming water wars: Will it include Kevin Costner?

Myth A Logical

Top 10 sites that Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) visits daily


Adam is likened unto a God at our house by Ryan

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

WikiSlueth

Wikipedia Scanner - the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

Alchemical Key

The Voynich manuscript is a five hundred year-old relic discovered in 1912 at a library in Rome, consisting of 240 pages of illustrations and writing in a language not known to anyone. Deciphering the text has eluded even the best cryptographers and some have even dismissed the book an entertaining but lengthy hoax. But a statistical analysis of the writing shows that the manuscript does seem to follow the basic structure and laws of a working language.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Pediaholic

Educypedia - Information resource about scientific and educational material: electronics, science, engineering, encyclopedia and information technology

London Bridge Is Falling Down

American Society of Civil Engineers’ Infrastructure Report Card is a fascinating little document, we don't get any higher than a C, and our GPA is running around a D.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Location Location Location

Office Snapshots - A blog that shows off the workspaces of notable companies.

Same Bat Place

Third View is a “rephotographic survey of the American West,” showcasing series of rephotographs (a minimum of two, but often three) from a variety of locations.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

At My Speed

My California Traffic - This website "uses Google Maps technology to show you the current freeway traffic conditions for all major freeways in California." Find traffic by region and freeway, then zoom to view details. Includes a "link to this page" feature for bookmarking traffic conditions for specific freeways.

Crim's A Spoon

The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Cyberletariat

Web Worker Daily - Rebooting the workforce

HGW Time

Brass Goggles is a weblog dedicated to Steampunk

Monday, August 06, 2007

A Good Book

Reader's Circle - Connect with book discussion groups, find review topic suggestions, and author events.

End Of The World As We Know It

...And I Feel Fine

We Feel Fine has been harvesting 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.'

Friday, August 03, 2007

Movie Time

Flvix.com - Free online video converter. Convert and download videos from YouTube, Google Video or directly from .FLV file. Play it on your PC, Mobile, iPod, PSP and enjoy!

The Last Stand

50 Greatest Deaths In Comics History

Thursday, August 02, 2007