Thursday, October 30, 2008

Best Friends Forever

Margaret and Helen - Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting…

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

On Your Way Up

stair porn - stairs, and nothing but. Not certain why its porn, but it does have pictures?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Check Your Ballot

Ballotpedia.org - Ballotpedia brings you detailed information about the various ballot initiatives around the country.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Let The Memory Live Again

Scrapblog - A site for building rich media scrapbooks online that can then be shared with family and friends.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

It Was Only Yesterday

Tumblon - A site that helps parents chart their children’s growth, while also preserving milestones and memories. The site will recommend age and other demographic-appropriate products like books, so that parents might find resources to follow along with.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Out On The Town

KaBoom! PlaySpace Finder - Where families can look for play spaces for their kids in their community.

Friday, October 24, 2008

At The Gates Of Hell

Entrances to Hell - Devoted to identifying Entrances to Hell around the world.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

After My Own Heart

BibliOdyssey - Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

A Book By It's Cover

Judgeby - Lets you guess the rating of a book on Amazon by its cover

Sunday, October 19, 2008

A Moment In Time

10:15 GMT - See what one minute in time looks like in different places around the world. A collection of life, work + play that revolves around the earth at 10:15 am Greenwich Mean Time.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Planning Pugilism

How to Beat Up Anything - A guide to fighting everything: bullies, politicians, robots, even time-traveling future-versions of yourself, back to harass you about your life choices.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Monday, October 13, 2008

Selling The Presidency

Since 1998, the Wisconsin Advertising Project (WiscAds) has undertaken research initiatives to document how candidates, political parties and special interest groups communicate with voters. Initially, WiscAds studied campaign advertisements in the nation’s 75 largest media markets by collecting and analyzing all political advertisements aired on broadcast and cable stations. For the 2002 electoral cycle, the project increases in scope to the 100 largest media markets. This unique database contains information on the airing of over 1.5 million ads between 1998 and 2002.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

A Personal Moment

Chuck Lorre Productions - Vanity Card Archive

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008

Of The People, By The People, For The People

Public Markup - An ongoing experiment, by the Sunlight Foundation, in preparing legislation more inclusively by opening bills to online, public review. The site gives you the opportunity to review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced—or while they are pending—in Congress.

Truth Be Told

John McCain’s Secrets

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Iron(y) Rule

What might happen if Obama really is the Muslim Manchurian Candidate that the Right Wing seem to think he is?

They Price We Pay

The Hidden Cost Of War

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Need To Know

From Popular Mechanics the 100 Skills Every Man Should Know, including instructions (With Videos!)

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

6 brainwashing techniques used on you

With elections all around, this seemed like an appropriate moment to post this. ;)

For Those We Miss

The Recapist - Recaps latest episodes of hit TV shows, with commentary and discussion boards about all things television.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Inflated Opinion

Intrade - Works like a stock market, but instead of buying stocks, you buy shares in your opinion.

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Spilled Ink

I.N.K. - Interesting Nonfiction for Kids

Friday, October 03, 2008

More Truth Or Consequences

Politifact - Has devised a "Truth-O-Meter" so you can see at a glance the validity of a candidate's claims. Content is organized with tabs such as "Chain E-Mails," "Flip-O-Meter," which shows candidates position flipping, and "Attack File," which reviews candidate's attacks and discusses their legitimacy. It is run by the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help determine the truth of the respective presidential campaigns.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Game Where We All Lose

Play Palin Bingo

Tune In Next Time

Five Chapters - A web site that posts new fiction in a novel way. Much like the Strand Magazine published Sherlock Homes stories, the site publishes short fiction in serial format. Each week, they present a story in five parts, and you can read a new chapter as the week progresses.

Paint By Numbers

The No Votes - Details on the Republican and Democratic representatives who voted against the $700 billion financial bailout plan.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

A Lie Repeated

Ameritocracy - Dedicated to fact checking quotations made by presidential candidates and their entourages.

Lie Count - Tracks lies made by presidential candidates by both parties.