EARLY CONCERNS:
JUNE 2004-MARCH 2005
Certain Phenomena
"When you come across something like this, it is hard to remain clam and refrain from contemplating people's ignorance": Woman pregnant for forty-six years. Woman with fetus in heart forever. "Indeed, circular patterns of concentrated light have been seen to glow on buildings across the northeastern United States and beyond." "Please Click On His Payment to visit my other pages" (like The Jesus Slide Show). "Without presenting any evidence whatsoever that what he says is correct, Volpe has informed his students that . . . evolution is a fact."
American Patriotism
Welcome to this section of my site honoring America the beautiful. Sheri's Patriot Website. "This salute to President George W. Bush will remain here until the Iraq conflict is over. This reflects the promise of young conservatives across the U.S.A. to stand by our Commander in Chief!" Godd Bless America and godblessamerica.info. "America is great because of Jesus Christ, and if we lose Christ we lose our greatness." America Triumphant, the movie, and America We Stand as One.
Colored Vehicles
Blue bus. White bike. Brown car. Red auto. Black bicycle. Yellow scooter. Orange truck. Yellow bus: "Managing and Promotion Celebrities Mannequins since 1986." Green airplane. Gray ship. Rose cart. Black helicopter. Blue motorcycle: "Focuses on integrating customized off-the-shelf solutions often using the best-of-breed technologies to create 'hybrid' systems, that in many cases meet and exceed the capabilities of high-end proprietary technologies for small to mid-sized businesses."
Weblogs
The Index of Political Blogs. Christopher Ian Applegate's qwghlm.co.uk. Xogij.blogs.com. Alternative Hippopotamus. Spy Blog: "This United Kingdom based blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in ever cheaper and more widespread surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems." Newspaper corrections examined at Regret the Error. The Observer Blog. Wind Rose Hotel: Mostly in Italian, with links to other Italian weblogs. Halfway Down the Danube: posts from Bucharest. We Make Money Not Art. Silt3. A collection of Microsoft Excel weblogs: Andrew's Excel Tips, Automate Excel, Colo's Excel Junk Room, Dick's Daily Dose of Excel, Excel Pragma, J-Walk, The Planning Deskbook, van Gelder. R. Robot, the self-writing weblog. Bighappyfunhouse: excellent found photos.
Poll
"Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a "uniter," according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a "divider," and 2 percent had no opinion" -- CNN, 1/19/2005.
Meals
Gerto Katzer's spice pages.
An attempt to get Leonard Nimoy to eat some salsa. Recipe archive at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. All about ham, here or here. Emily Dickenson's black cake. Inspiring photos of British food.
Booking Travel
Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity. Priceline. Mobissimo.com searches airfares across online quote providers, including airline ticket consolidators. Consolidator links. Tips on using frequent flier programs at frequentflier.com and howstuffworks.com. Ticket upgrade tips at upgradebuddy.com. Much advice at Edward Hasbrouck's The Practical Nomad. A guide to sleeping in airports. A Monkeyfilter discussion about cheap plane tickets.
The Current State of Things
The current time and date. The current phase of the moon. The current financial cost of the Iraq invasion. The current US national debt. How things look in Moose Lake, Minnesota, Mt. St. Helens, Washington, Davis Station, Antarctica,
Nuuk, Greenland, New York, New York, the Falkland Islands An estimate of the number of people in U.S. prisons right now. The International Space Station: where is it now? Baby names (to 1900, too).
Images
A catalog of old postcards that you can buy. Jason Salavon's 100 Special Moments. Paul Smith's typewriter art. Goodbye, Romania: "Due to server problems when reaching 9% of pixel loss we have to pause this project for a short while." Mayumi Lake photos. Eye of Science.
Wireless Networks
Find wireless hotspots at wifinder.com, wi-fihotspotlist.com, or jiwire.com.
Discrete Skills
Tie fishing knots.
Make a paper CD case and even print stuff on the back. Pick locks. Learn about diseases at The Centers for Disease Control's Kids' Pages. Become an artist. Improve your American Sign Language at The ASL Browser. A dog who can skateboard.
Photography
Photographer's Formulary: chemicals for alternative photographic processes. Free-for-use photos at The DHD Multimedia Gallery and Openphoto.net. The Rasterbator makes huge posters out of small images. Eric Etheridge's Sky Hi: Small Signs gallery. Alec Soth's Sleeping on the Mississippi gallery. Benjamin Pierce's photos of Eniac. Photos of abandoned places.
Capital Circulation
The Tax Foundation provides analyses of tax policy to the American public, including levels of taxation by state and locality and the shape of redistribution of federal taxation among the states ("D.C. Gets $6.44 for Every $1 in Taxes; New Mexico Gets $2.37, New Jersey Only 62 Cents"). Revenuewatch.org "aims to generate and publicize research, information, and advocacy on how revenues" from natural resource sales "are being invested and disbursed and how governments and extraction companies respond to civic demands for accountability." A Crash Course in Dubyanomics with Robert Barro and Paul Krugman. The impact of the Bush tax cuts considered at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998," by Thomas Picketty and Emmanuel Saez (2001). The U.S. Treasury Departnment's The Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It page. Everbank, an online bank with accounts in sixteen currencies.
Religion
"Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there. Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting 'I found it!'" -- Atheists of Silicon Valley. Inevitably, The Church of Euthanasia and Landover Baptist Church. Free deliverance at demonbuster.com. An appearance of the Holy Spirit at a Citgo station in Clarksville, Arkansas. Perhaps Ashtar Sheran has the answer. Christian gifts. A miracle arrangement consultancy. The Official God FAQ. Important information about Hell. Jesus revealed in the clouds. CrossDaily.com's directory of personal Christian websites -- see also fishthe.net. The Jesus Picture. The Jesus Nebula. The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Jesus of the Week. Johnny the Baptist,
Catalogs
Google searches mail-order catalogs. JC Whitney, the online version of the magnificent old paper catalog for automobile parts. Edmund Scientific. The Estes model rockets catalog, present-day, and the Estes catalog from 1973. Campmor and REI.
