October 2006

Slang of the 1920s - Some great slang words that got started almost 100 years ago.

August 2006

Ahree Lee 5 years - On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since.
Arianna Huffington: Bernard Levin Remembered - a beautiful obit

September 2005

Paris travel tips - from David Lebovitz
Little copyright protection for recipes - an explanation of why there is little copyright protection for recipes.

August 2005

See of extinct date palm sprouts after 2000 years - from the SF Chronicle

July 2005

Omlet Chicken Coops - an igloo for chickens...

June 2005

Steve Job's Stanford Commencement Speech - - "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
Romance Novel Covers - satire
The Edible Schoolyard - - a Berkeley middle school project
StarWars Spoof - Grocery Store Wars - join the Organic Rebellion

April 2005

Marketing Sherpa - Practical News and Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing, and PR
5 Most Valuable Services Most Entrepreneurs Can't Afford - from the founder of Ancestry.com
The Bible in legos - check out the section on laws
AdLand - TV commercial archive and advertising blog

March 2005

Zen Garden - with a rake, sand and rocks
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer - trailer for H2G2
The Man Who Saved the World - He didn't push the little red button.
Mr. Rogers commencement address - Dartmouth News - Fred McFeely Rogers 2002 Commencement Address at Dartmouth College - 06/09/02
13 things that do not make sense - From the New Scientist. Of particular interest is the paragraph on homeopathy.
Converse Gallery - Great way to involve customers in your brand

February 2005

Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Bloggers 02/16/05 - hilarious
A parent's primer to computer slang - from Microsoft
Delicious Library - software for organizing your books.
The Universe Within - an amazing interactive perspective from beyond the galaxy to a quark
BookLust - Fun cartoony blog by a book lover
Things I hate about my flatmate - been there, done that. No more.

January 2005

Hilary Clinton on abortion - bottom line - it's not the government's business
Tsunami videos - Amateur Tsunami Video Footage

December 2004

Rubrix Cube - simulation
TerraServer-USA - satellite photographs of your neighborhood in the US
How to Price Software - Joel on Software - Camels and Rubber Duckies
David Pogue's Blog - in the NYTimes
Hero Machine - Build your own action hero.

October 2004

Daylight Saving Time - Why we change our clocks
Happy Birthday, NYC Subway! - MTA NYC Transit - Subway Centennial
Macintosh Keyboard Commands - Mac OS X Keyboard Commands
Handwriting Wizard - A quick and easy psychological test of your handwriting
Washington Post: Faces of the Fallen - Iraq war American casualties
Power of the Long Tail - Wired article on how Internet commerce is shifting power beyond the big hits
Perceptual Blindness Experiments - Where's the gorilla?

September 2004

Dream Deferred - expo on the mess of our welfare system
Jello for Jello Wrestling - I don't know what to say
Atrocious behavior by protestors in NYC - from an email to Andrew Sullivan. My sentiments exactly.
Photo stamps - Now anyone can be on a stamp!

August 2004

We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore - Garrison Keillor blogs
How Stuff Works - self explanatory
Spot-On Solution for Car Thefts - In San Francisco alone, there are 100 car thefts per day, most due to an international parts racket. Isn't about time we put an end to this?
iTunes and Audible offer convention speeches for free - - Get all any or all of the speeches from the DNC and RNC and 9/11 hearings
Bloggers vs Big Media - Link to AlwaysOn Network Innovation Conference session on blogging. Starts 28:40 minutes into the video. Peter's hilarious NY interviews start at 38:30
wish jar journal: drawing faq - Keri's drawings are superb
Food Network Marathon - Adam Roberts of Amateur Gourmet fame rants and reviews the Food Network
The Art of Speed - - cool quicktime movie from the Nike sponsored Gawker site
FastBusy.com - Bay Area apartment listings with data taken from Craig's List

July 2004

Networks Blew It By Blowing Off Obama - Boy did they. This was the best speech I've ever heard in my life, and when I went to see what was said about it in the news all I got was stories about a dognapping in Fresno. Shame on the networks for their indifference.
Googlefight - Pitch one search term against another to see which has the most references
Unfairenheit 9-11 - "The Lies of Michael Moore" - by Christopher Hitchens of Slate
Time Goes By - What it's really like to get older
Alice in Wonderland - an interactive shockwave summary
The Fatkins Diet - an angry squirrel mouths off about low carb diets
Blogs, Bandwidth and Banjos - Six Apart CEO Mena Trott on the evolving nature of personal weblogs
Consumers' Checkbook - The Consumer Reports of local services. Non-profit independent rating service.
Favorite Words - - the results of Merriam-Webster's online survey. The number 1 word? Defenestration.
Real Human Bodies - NYT article - LA exhibition of real corpses
Alphabet Shoot - Children take pictures of common objects that look like letters from the alphabet
elgooG - Google's mirror - a great way to practice reading backwards

June 2004

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Da Vinci would have loved the blur tool in Photoshop.
Eldritch Press - Public Domain Books - Repository of books in the public domain.
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America - in the public domain, translated from the original (1542)
Reality Blurred - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - news updates about the show
The 1000 Best Movies Ever Made - from the NYT Guide
Wi-Fi Networking News - daily wifi news
Google PageRank Report - Useful site if you aren't using IE on Windows
The Worst Meal Ever Eaten at Someone's House - An hilarious collection of stories of bad home meals from eGullet.
Mother Nature's Decaf Coffee - Discovery of a coffee plant with defective caffeine gene.
The Moderate Republican - Blogging Republicans against Bush. Now to find the blog for the Moderate Democrat...
Paul and Bernice Noll - One of the coolest personal sites I've ever read.
Internet Wayback Machine - Go back in time and see what the Interent looked like years ago
Cuss Control - Good reasons why we shouldn't swear so much
Daily news from Japan - Japan's English language newspaper. Interesting from a cultural differences perspective.
WebSE System 7.0 - web simulation of running an old Macintosh on system 7
Survival IQ - Survival tips including guide to edible and poisonous plants and animals.

April 2004

Got Psi? Online Psi Tests - test your psychic ability, from the Boundary Institute
National Address Server - a great way to look up zipcodes
Carfax Vehicle History Report - Don't buy a used car without checking CARFAX for accident reports
Kabalarian Name Analyzer - Free name analysis
The Fray - Great storytelling site, now includes a storyblog