I Can See Your House From Here

Weather Bonk coverage of New Orleans

Track Record

Blog of New Orleans

I Should Be Shocked

Halliburton sued for human trafficking. Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says.

Good Old Cronyism

Dumbasses In Government - Oh, the arrogance of our public servants

Oh Mighty Thor!

Tropical Storm Gustav is forecast to be about 200 miles south of New Orleans at 1 a.m. Monday as a category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds, according to the National Hurricane Center's 4 a.m. forecast.

As I said to my good friend Lisa, let's hope it hits Crawford Texas instead.

May The Blog Be With You

The Official Star Wars Blog

Pretty In Pink

Girl on Pause - "Welcome to the experiment. Movies, music, social commentary for the hopeless romantics. Feel free to contact me with movie, music, or other suggestions. By the way, I truly hate the color pink."

First of possibly many questions, if she hates the color pink then why it's garishly and extravagant display on her blog?

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Totally Tubular

Top 10 YouTube Hacks

Mark My Word

Monitter - It's a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.

Coo Koo For Coco Puffs

Brandon Waffle Whiffer  - He loves advertising characters from restaurants and products, especially cereal. He's interested in product packaging, commercials, toys and other collectibles from the 1960s to today.

Too Close For Comfort

Who remembers Lydia Cornell?

It's Got Snap

Soundsnap - Where you can find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries.

Words Fall Like Raindrops

TextbookTorrents - Torrent service for textbooks. Browse Textbook torrent database by categories such as art, science, language, literature, business and so on.

Just Gets Better

Powerset - Search for Wikipedia articles, also searches for “Factz,” or collections of facts across Wikipedia.

I know I'll Forget

Hit Me Later - A web site that allows you to forward messages to them with a number or day of the week as the email address and they will re-send you that message according to your variable.

It Seemed Unstemmable, But Stem It They Did.

The winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

A Day In The Life

Where is Bob? - A blog that chronicles the life and actions of an obnoxious boss, when he shows up for work.

Article Of Faith

Mygazines - A place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by the Mygazines community.

Say What?

Earfl - Interesting way to create, share and listen to stories online. The stories are recorded and narrated over the phone.

The Medal Count

Design of the Olympic medals through the years

Flash In The Pan

Cake Wrecks - When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.

Stop At The Read Light

A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated.

In A Court Of Law

Courthouse Confessions - Steven Hirsch sits in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court and photographs the people leaving and then he asks them for their stories.

As A General Rule

Muphry's law
Muphry's law
Finagle's law
Godwin's law
Hanlon's razor
Callahan's Principle
Parkinson's law
Segal's law
Brooks's law
Clark's Law

Cooks In The Kitchen

Random Recipe Generator

From Lead To Gold

How to watch the Olympics online.

Olympic Dreams

You can catch live streams of the Olympic Games via the web on NBCOlympics.com

Gold Standard

The World's Worst Olympians.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

The 6 Creepiest Marketing Campaigns Aimed at Children

Start Early

Best All-Time Children’s Books from Leo Babauta of Zenhabits

Thou Villainous Tardy-Gaited Strumpet

Your Personalized Shakespeare Insult

1948

Orwell Diaries - A blog that will post each entry from George Orwell’s private musings exactly 70 years after it was written, starting August 9th 2008.

Rising Tide

Rising Gasoline Costs - As of July 28, the national average per gallon was $4.01. How did we get to this point? Watch as gas prices rise and fall from 1993 up until now.

But Barbie Says, "Math Is Hard"

Girls' and boys' math performance now equal

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

A comprehensive guide to snakes.

Come Fly With Me Right Into The Sun

LyricsFly - A user-contributed music service for searching lyrics. Find lyrics for your favorite songs by artist, song and album name, or search using phrases from the lyrics. In addition to lyrics text, LyricsFly also returns related YouTube videos, links to stream songs online (from Seeqpod), MP3 download links and CD covers.

Area 51

Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps

How Do You Know It's Summer Time

Backyard Cooking: A Guide

How to Perfect Seafood, Avoid Kebabs, and Build a Grill
The Fuego 01
Bratwurst 101, Grill Comparison, The BBQ Playlist

Divided We Fall

UN Counter Terrorism Handbook

In Limited Release

SnagFilms - Has the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and is making these films available to the wide audience these titles deserve.

Stay Tuned

The Early Television Foundation and Museum

Worst Nightmare

Think Tank Calls For Bush to Be Dictator For Life

Tee Time

HideYourArms - 133 t-shirt blogs + 24 new additions = 157 t-shirt blogs

Just Picture It

oSkope - Five different views for books on Amazon - grid, stack, pile, list, and graph.

It's Out There

70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube

Fail Safe

The Top Ten Passwords.

Night Shift

Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long. A scientist looks at how the only non-supernatural superhero would operate in real life.

Junior Birdman

Point Niner - Satisfying an unnatural infatuation with airplanes and rockets.

All That Glitters

10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Fortunes.

How to How-to

10 Essential Sites for Tips and How-To’s

Stop The Presses

OUPBlog - The Oxford University Press Blog

DoCA&A

Dictionary of Cartographic Abbreviations and Acronyms - Attempts to decode abbreviations and acronyms that have been found in a variety of publications

Somebody's Watching You

Real Time Satellite Tracking - Track all kinds of satellites and follow satellite and Space Shuttle news.

Tomorrowland

Modern Mechanix - Yesterday's Tomorrow Today

Refreshment

Lemonade Remade - Four fresh takes on summer's classic beverage

Hell Is For Children

Hello Kitty Hell - A circle reserved for the most evil and vile. This man must have done something horrible in this life or a previous one.

Ephemera Collected

Swapatorium - A Journey Through Junkland. Flea markets, thrift stores, antique shops, garage and estate sales, found photographs, collecting, odd finds, swaps and more

A Mothers Curse

The Housewives Tarot

An Affected Effect

Confusing Words - A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

Is That A Banana In Your Pocket?

Tattooed Banana - The only site you will find dedicated to the emerging appreciation for banana art.

Whistlestop Tour

Google Maps Elections Gallery

Chick Voyeur

Hencam - Where you watch chickens

Tightening The Belt

The price of food: 2007 vs. 2008

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Once Upon A Time

Dipity - A web tool that you can set up to keep track of all your feeds (including RSS, Twitter, Flickr, blogs, Last.fm, and more) and Dipity will make a visual timeline of what you do with your life. The timeline doesn’t have to be personal either; you can create one about a topic and invite others to add to the timeline.

DJ JazzE E

Hobnox’s Audiotool - A flash based web application where you can create your own music, using the same tools many of the DJ’s in real life use.

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