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Saturday, May 31, 2003
Evidently, It Really DOES Take a Thief:
Business Week onJoe Kennedy's Enduring Example as SEC Chairman.
MarbleBoardGames.com:
Handcrafted Original Hardwood Games. The games are constructed of select hardwoods and assembled, by hand, emphasizing distinct grain and specie combinations. Beautiful just to browse through.
Appalling idiocy: Part II
Thomas Sowell: "Old-time civil rights activist Bayard Rustin once said that blacks should issue a blanket amnesty to whites -- just so that guilty whites would not keep on doing counterproductive things in order to make up for the past. The proposal that Congress create a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is the latest, and perhaps most counterproductive, example of guilt gone awry."
Technology News, Shaken Not Stirred:
Check out the wonderful GeekPress.
The Big Cartoon DataBase:
Providing an In-Depth, Detailed Look at your Favorite Cartoons. A Searchable DataBase of Cartoon Information, Episode Guides and Crew Lists. Like imdb.com, but just for cartoons.
Friday, May 30, 2003
Political Commentary Clearance Sale:
The Perils of Michael Moore, a very dark view of Russia, that Florida woman, Ann Coulter revisits Global Warming, and the Democrats' political vacuum.
Couch Potato Edification:
Not Now... I'm Having a No Hair Day:
Humor & Healing for People With Cancer. (via DG)
Marilyn Manson and the Chocolate Factory?:
From The Guardian: Though it has attained cult status, the film version of the classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was never a favourite with its author, Roald Dahl. Dahl was disappointed at the emphasis of the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and he was unhappy when Gene Wilder rather than Spike Milligan was chosen to play Wonka. Now a new version is in the works. . .
You Heard it Here First!:
Thursday, May 29, 2003
All Real Americans Love a Bench Clearing Brawl:
Don Zimmer gone wild.
The Interactive Online Safety Sign Builder:
Choose your colors, headers, pictograms, and messages and this site builds the sign for you. Great for office gags!
A Great Page of Quotes:
By P.J. O'Rourke: "Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."
Thinking Like an Apparatchik:
Christopher Hitchens on the Blumenthal book. The Wall Street Journal also weighs in, and has a handy timeline of events of that era that seems so long ago now. But still not long ago enough.
What Flag is That Anyway?:
The Flag Detective helps you identify a flag you've seen if you have no idea where it's from. Just click on the pattern matching your mystery flag and it walks you through the identification process.
360 Degree Panorama From the Top of Mt Everest:
QTVR panoramic movie from panoramas.dk . Requires QuickTime VR. Stunning.
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint:
Edward Tufte: In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations? I own all three of his books, and they are absolutely the best.
Still Alive at 95:
The StartSpot Network:
The StartSpot Network. Includes BookSpot.com, CinemaSpot.com, EmploymentSpot.com, GenealogySpot.com, GiveSpot.com, GourmetSpot.com, GovSpot.com, HomeworkSpot.com, LibrarySpot.com, MuseumSpot.com, PeopleSpot.com, ShoppingSpot.com and TripSpot.com. Like it says, a good place to start.
That Figure 8 Thingy on the Globe of the Earth:
The Analemma explained.
The Threat Among Us:
Cal Thomas: Suppose our enemies have invaded the United States through immigration for the express purpose of organizing themselves politically? What if their intentions are the eventual destruction of this nation through its democratic processes and the imposition of a theocratic state? Would that be enough to get our attention?
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
We Are All Going Bananas:
From The Observer. What I wanna know is, did Trotsky's nephew really write that song?
More Russian Souvenirs:
From the Art Alliance. But you have to e-mail them to get a price list! Evidently capitalism is still a bit of a mystery over there. Beautiful stuff, though. Be sure to check out the playing cards.
Where Did YOUR Help Desk Get Their Training?:
Probably from these manuals. (via Tom Devine)
As Seen At The Seventh Inning Stretch at Brewers Games:
The Great Milwaukee Sausage Race. It's a Java applet, takes a while to load. But if you pick the winner, you get to enter a drawing!
Close the border for humanity's sake
Phyllis Schlafly: How many undocumented immigrants will die before the Bush administration realizes that the most humane act it can take is to close our southern border and thus stop smugglers from taking the calculated risk that financial profits outweigh the costs of getting caught?
Monday, May 26, 2003
The New Gender Gap:
From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex.
Release Your Books Into the Wild:
BookCrossing.Com: Read a good book. Register it along with your journal comments. Get a unique BookCrossing ID number, and label the book. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, forget it in a coffee shop, etc.). And finally, get notified by email each time someone records journal entries for that book.
Packing Its Bags for a Long Long Stay in the Political Wilderness:
After Iraq, The Left Has A New Agenda: Contain America
Groundhog Day and Chinese Astronomy:
Did the placement of Groundhog Day on the calendar have its origination with Chinese Astronomy?
LibraryLookup:
Jon Udell's LibraryLookup homepage explains how to set up a simple system in your browser to check to see if your local library has a copy of the book you are looking at on Amazon.com. I use it and recommend it to my patients who chew gum.
Memorial Day:
You can send someone an e-card to help commemorate the day. Many many years ago when my brother Tim and I were the only Yankee students at Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, they didn't celebrate Memorial Day, but instead only celebrated Confederate Memorial Day. We both thought it was really weird but, being greatly outnumbered, we didn't say anything. Until now.
Sunday, May 25, 2003
Sealing Wax:
You can either get the real thing or the virtual e-wax kind.
The War Hero Whose Father Was a Partner With Gangster Al Capone:
The story of Butch and Eddie O'Hare. You know, of O'Hare Airport fame.
Just the Thing for Your Digital Camera:
A program called Neat Image gets rid of annoying background noise.
Middle East Tragedies:
We are making progress because we have sized up the problem, know the solution and have the guts to press ahead. VDH in NRO
Not Just for The Kids:
Antique Childrens Books online, courtesy of the Rosetta Project.
The Sovietski Collection:
Unique Russian and Eastern European Gear, Gifts and Collectibles. Little Maksutov telescopes, old KGB gear, the works! Clearance sale in progress, bargains galore save save save.
