A Melting Pot

Wikimedia Cookbook - A collection of recipes from around the world.

There Was A Man Named Jed

History of Energy in the United States

4.5 MicrowaveOvens

Sensible Units - Convert boring units to real objects as you type!

Set The Agenda

On Day One - A platform for gathering and sharing your ideas about what the next president can do on the first day of his or her administration to help address the world's most pressing challenges.

The REAL Story

It took five years, the deaths of 4,100 US soldiers, and the wounding of 30,000 more to make Iraq safe for Exxon.

A Voice From The Pew

Religion in American Culture - Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public.

Questioning Authority

Lexxe - Type in your question to this search engine, which pulls answers from its database of URLs added by users.

Republic Of Texas

Can we rescined statehood for Texas? Please?!?

Bibliograpiphobia

EasyBib - A bibliography formatter tool where you can easily compose, format, alphabetize and print out your citation list.

Happy Days Are Here Again

Central bank body warns of Great Depression

Failure Is An Option

FAIL Blog - Fail and Epic Fail Pictures and Videos


(and if I don't thank Corey for finding and sending this link, he'll leave some anonymous message claiming credit)

Standing On A Street Corner

How to compete with other lemonade stands.


More How-to's for the young entrepreneurs:
How to Open a Lemonade Stand
How to Make Great Lemonade
How to Make Fizzy Lemonade

Up Against The Wall

Odd Wall

You Are What You Eat

Zeer - A grocery product community that helps people "believe in what they buy." They connect people to product information, communities full of like-minded people, and buying advice.

In The Round File

Where is my user guide?

Your Number Is Up

Old Calculator Web Museum - Devoted to preserving, documenting, and sharing the technology of desktop automatic calculating machines

Man On The Moon

The full Moon of June 18th is a "solstice moon"

On The Other Side

Glassdoor - A new site that provides company ratings, exec salaries and reviews, details on over 2000 companies so far.

Summer Reading

Notable Children's Books An annual list compiled by the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.

Top Ten Lists of "All-Time Classics" ALSC created this list of classics that parents and children can read together for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for national KidsDay (August 2001). There is one list for preschool to age 8 and one list for ages 8-12.

100 best paperbacks A list created by ALSC for Reading is Fundamental (RIF).

Newbery Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children from books released in the previous year.

Caldecott Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished American picture book for children released in the previous year.

Pura Belpré Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses two works (one for narrative and one for illustration) that best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Coretta Scott King Award Books Each year, the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table chooses two distinguished books, one by an author of African descent and one from an illustrator of African descent, that promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream."

Robert F. Sibert Award Books. Each year, ALSC chooses the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

Mildred Batchelder Award Books. Each year, ALSC honors an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Booklist Editor's Choice Lists including "Books for Youth" compiled by editors of ALA's review magazine, Booklist; with grade levels suggested.

Must Read Books

100 Essential Books for any Man’s Library.

Test Of Skill

The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master (and probably woman too).

Calculated Risk

The thirteenth of the month is slightly more likely to be on a Friday than on any other day. Here’s the mathematical proof.

Food For Thought

Thought Blend - The Good Idea Database (ummmmm maybe, but you can create a good Idea from something there)

Good Bye Main Street

205 Most Endangered Archive - America's 205 Most Endangered Historic Places, each year 11 more get added

Two, Two, Two Twit's In One

TwitBuzz and Twiddict

Pane In The Glass

The 50 Best Pun Stores

Take My Wife... Please

Instant Rimshot - If you need quick access to an ironicly-placed rimshot sound to mock your friends.

Confessional

There are some neurotic people in the world.

Think Anybody Will Notice?

Photoshop Disasters

Livin' Large

100 Ways to Scale Down Your Life.

Can't Keep My Big Mouth Shut

Index on Censorship is one of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues.

Imagine That!

Street Anatomy - The blog on medicine, art and design!

Are You Feeling Down?

Online gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug advertisements.

Do-dad

Oobject is somewhere between a blog and a directory. They provide topics for lists of gadgets . People then suggest items to go into them by tagging things as Oobject in wists. Visitors then vote on items to create something like ‘Billboard charts for gadgets’, voted by everyone.

Licensed To Kill

The Ultimate James Bond Wiki