I'm not nearly as smart as people think I am; I just try to remember where I see things, and to connect that to the people it will interest. (My mom refers to this skill as "having a mind like a relational database.") I've been reading web pages for over a dozen years, and have been bookmarking them for almost all of that time. They aren't necessarily sites I like, but sometimes sites that I think my friends will enjoy. I've finally begun to upload the links for public access, via social bookmarking, beginning with del.icio.us and my StumbleUpon.
Once I've got the backlog - currently 2843 - uploaded, I'll export them to other social bookmark sites and then update them all. The problem is that I keep coming across MORE interesting sites. And groups of sites.
Ample Sample [amplesample.net]
Trash to treasure: creative inventions made from carpet and tile scraps! Via Wisebread.com on 26-JUN-2007
One Bag - leisure and business travel packing list - travel light! [onebag.com]
Tips on traveling with one carry-on bag, and no checked luggage - includes "bundle packing" tutorial, and alternatives to some of the liquids we pack, as well.
Inhabitat [inhabitat.com]
Editors, designers and contributors blog together about fantastic architecture and design. Its mission is tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
The Pulitzer Prizes [pulitzer.org]
Hungarian-born newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism. Beginning with the 1999 competition, the board sanctioned the submission by newspapers of online presentations as supplements to print exhibits. Site offers full texts, photographs and cartoons for Journalism winners from 1995 - 2006 only
ALA | Banned Books Week [ala.org]
American Library Assoc. honors Banned Book Week which "celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them."
Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read [google.com]
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week, Google shared banned classics for browsing. Via wisebread.com on 28-JUN-2007. For more information about Banned Books Week (September 23rd-30th), visit ala.org/bbooks [ala.org]
Americas Battle Of The Books [battleofthebooks.org]
Voluntary reading incentive program for mid-grammar- to high school aged kids. The "battle" consists of kids answering questions, by geographic region, based on books on the lists. Set up by schools who pay a nominal membership fee. Via wisebread.com on 28-JUN-2007
Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics [starfall.com]
Interactive storytelling, phonics site recommended by Wisebread.com on 29-JUN-2007. Objective is to make learning to read fun (for anyone who wasn't lucky enough to have MY mom for a mom).
TagCrowd [tagcrowd.com]
A web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud. Turns text into tag clouds. Still in development
ZoomClouds [egrupos.net]
Create your own tag cloud, which will go back your last dozen or so blog posts. Includes user-created clouds.
Google News Cloud [fserb.com.br]
The Google News Cloud shows popular news topics and related links. Clouds can be saved for future reference. Still under construction but may well prove to be a wonderful resource.
24 ways [24ways.org]
Blog of coding techniques.
136 SEO TOOLS - The Tool Place - Free SEO TOOLs - All In One Place! [seocompany.ca]
When I was looking up the acronym SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I came across this site and figured that, since it's got over a hundred SEO Tools, it would be worth bookmarking for future reference
Scrub The Web Search Engine [scrubtheweb.com]
I'd bookmarked Scrub the Web back on March 27, 2002. Its vision an interconnected world and SEO (search engine optimization), Scrub The Web ranks all indexed pages individually, while helping Web site owners gain a higher ranking in search engines. Scrub The Web offers free tools and a downloadable toolbar
Quintura [quintura.com]
I was looking to see if I could view my StumbleUpon tags as clouds, and found this site. * Provides hints for possible directions for further searching; and helps you to change your query with your mouse. Works kind of like an advanced search feature, narrowing down your search or letting you go off on a new tangent. Clouds can be saved for future reference.
Many Eyes [ibm.com]
I found this when I was looking for tag clouds. "Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis" - this is SO Charlie Epps! What a fantastic tool for looking at series and statistics!!
Kids-In-Mind: Movie Ratings That Actually Work [kids-in-mind.com]
Content analysis of movies to discuss their appropriateness for children. Offers "objective and complete information about a film's content" of movies. Recommended by Worldstart.com on 29-JUN-2007.
RomeReborn1.0 [virginia.edu]
Women's Wall Street (womenswallstreet.com) recommended this site of 3-D virtual recreation of 7,000 buildings and 31 monuments, on 29-JUN-2007. Enjoy the photography because the text is WAY too small (IE and Firefox)
Michael Paulus - artwork, illustration, and moving image [michaelpaulus.com]
I came across this link via the BME community on Livejournal. I like the skeletons he draws from cartoon characters!
Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit [belarc.com]
Super-valuable PC utility that lets you know what's on your computer (and what's out of date). Free download for personal use. Can't recommend enough! Recommended by Worldstart: "Belarc Advisor tells you everything and anything you ever wanted to know about your computer. A small and powerful program, no PC user should be without it"
Best Sites for Cheap Flights: Tips for Finding the Lowest Airfare [airportexplorer.com]
Comparison shopping for flights, recommended by the Consumerist on June 28, 2007
Dan Dunn's Paintjam, Caricatures ink, caricatures, Painting, action painter [paintjam.com]
By viewing subjects in entirely different angles, this artist can spin a canvas, splash his paint-covered hands, and create portraits. Jamie sent a YouTube video of his work, and it was so great that I looked up his web page.
Welcome to Heavens-Above! [heavens-above.com]
Astronomy site recommended by Worldstart.com on 27-JUN-2007. Offers predictions of constellations, star charts, satellite predictions, and predictions of Iridium flares. (An Iridium flare is caused by the sun being reflected from one of the three main mission antennae
(MMA) of an Iridium satellite. - from FAQ)
Anonymouse.org [anonymouse.org]
Don't want to turn up in the history of a site? Surf anonymously! Use Anonymouse! Note that, if you're surfing via anonymouse, and you follow a link, you're still within the anonymous protection. Via a blog post by veesite.com - tinyurl.com/348x6l [tinyurl.com]
Charity Navigator - Americas Largest Charity Evaluator [charitynavigator.org]
Not sure if your money is going to a good source, or to its staff? Using Charity Navigator, you find out how much money goes directly to a charity. Register to keep track of charities, and to compare. I'd had this site bookmarked years ago, but don't see it in my links. I'm glad to have come across it again.
Snorg Tees - New Funny T-Shirt Every Week - (Funny Shirts, Vintage T-Shirts [snorgtees.com]
Formerly SnorgStore, Snorg Tees is run by friends who do this out of enjoyment. Shirts can be ordered online and go to XXL.
Jeans - Designer Jeans - Top Brand Jeans | zafu.com [zafu.com]
Clothing sizes vary so very much! Find the perfect plus-size jeans after answering a few questions about how your jeans fit and how you'd like them to fit.
Jeans - Designer Jeans - Top Brand Jeans | zafu.com [zafu.com]
Clothing sizes vary so very much! Find the perfect standard-size jeans after answering a few questions about how your jeans fit and how you'd like them to fit.
Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide [gridskipper.com]
"Gridskipper is the decadent guide to the best in worldwide urban travel. Hotels, restaurants, clubs, flights, and sights all get their due, but we also pay lascivious attention to sex, entertainment, events, and insider advice on where to find the hottest local debauchery. On or off the grid, Gridskipper spotlights the upscale and the underbelly of global city culture." (From an ad on The Consumerist!)
Sputtr. [sputtr.com]
This search engine claims to be faster than most others. It's a collection of many popular search engines, all on just one page! and in a pretty layout. Recommended by Worldstart.com in the June 26,
2007 newsletter.
Internet Sacred Text Archive Home [sacred-texts.com]
The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web. the site has been live since 1999 and includes scores of topics. Recommended by Worldstart.com in the June 26, 2007 newsletter.
misstattoousa.com [misstattoousa.com]
Classic Pageantry with a twist! - beauty contest for tattooed beauties. I know the sponsors; this one is legit.
Bear Link [berkeley.edu]
Online student systems for the University of California, Berkeley - a portal to what they need.
GO.com - Official Home Page [go.com]
Portal with Yahoo! search engine. Also the homes of ABC and Disney, and movies.com
Lycos [lycos.com]
Lycos is now more than a search engine (of local, people, shopping, images & video, and classifieds)!! They're also offering email, FREE web sites and blogs, photo sharing, and "cinema" - giving Google a run for its money?
ftp search engine for finding free downloads [ftpsearch.net]
ftp search engine for finding free downloads, free mp3s, images, shareware or freeware files on the internet.
Dogpile Web Search Home Page [dogpile.com]
"Delivers an award winning search exprience Internet users prefer most by providing combined results from the most popular search engines." An Infospace site; they own Zoo, Webcrawler, WebFetch, MetaCrawler, and Dogpile
MetaCrawler Web Search Home Page [metacrawler.com]
"Blends the top search results from multiple search engines and provides users with the option to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages." An Infospace site; they own Dogpile, Zoo, Webcrawler, WebFetch, and MetaCrawler
AltaVista [altavista.com]
Search engine allows searches by language and country. One can search the web, or for images, video, news, AND MP3s. A Yahoo! site
Homepage HotBot Web Search [hotbot.com]
A Lycos search engine. Allows custom filtering, and for users to utilize Ask or MSN.
American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Statement on Defending Free Speech of [aclu.org]
This 2000 statement explains why the ACLU feels that NAMBLA is entitled to free speech. (I don't see why, when it's "spoken" in conjunction with the breaking of the law...)
I honestly thought that this freedom, this RIGHT, only applied to human beings, and not to garden slugs, but the ACLU considers them protected. If that's the definition of free speech "everyone, including NAMBLA" then I no longer support it concretely.
wirelessamberalerts.org [wirelessamberalerts.org]
Have Amber Alerts txt'd to your cell phone. You only pay for the txt (if even that) and not for this valuable, free service. Site is legit; it's linked to from the dot-gov Amber site, amberalert.gov [amberalert.gov]
I signed up for the service several months ago, but only just got around to bookmarking it :(
COMPUTER DESKTOPS AND WALLPAPERS [blogspot.com]
From my friend Dee - a neat way to learn a bit about someone as one browses for new blogs/reading material. This blogger publishes a unique portal to other blogs: photos of people's desktops/computers with links to the people's blogs.
Copernic Agent - More Than a Simple Web Search Engine [copernic.com]
This downloadable file makes the most of a search attempt. More than 90 search engines grouped into 10 categories give the best possible results, and it can be integrated into IE (v. 5 or later). Options are free or pay versions.
HEATHER JANSCH BRONZE AND DRIFTWOOD SCULPTURE [freeserve.co.uk]
My neighbor Chrissy emailed me some photos [forwarded] of horses created from driftwood. They were so gorgeous that I searched for the artist, so that I could bookmark the page. This seems to be the artist's home page, and I think that people will agree that the work is phenomenal. One man's art can become everyone's treasure with a little work!
Free Downloads Center - software and free game downloads [freedownloadscenter.com]
Software download site.
WebCrawler Web Search Home Page [webcrawler.com]
The first search engine I ever use, back in the early-ish 1990s. Now also offers image, audio, video, news, Yellow Pages (US Business search), and White Pages (US individual search) searches. Part of InfoSpace. "WebCrawler metasearch technology automatically returns the top combined results from the Web's leading search engines... "
Yahoo! [yahoo.com]
Once a mere search engine, it's now part of AT&T and therefore an Internet provider. Email, news, search engine, personals, its own auctions, jobs, etc. Offers members a personalized home page.
Google [google.com]
This search engine site also offers free email (with the capability to view documents and photos), secured online payents via Google Checkout, and a blog site (Blogger). Ipm fond of the personalized home page. Search for images, news, maps, and inside books, patents, and newsgroups. Also use Froogle (pulldown menu: products) to help you find the best price.
Rudy Begonias Belcher Soda [belchersoda.com]
Perfect for a prepubescent boy?
Bored.com - Fun Stuff To Do When You Are Bored [bored.com]
Basically, a random portal for people who get bored (and who don't know social bookmarking - that's what keeps ME from getting bored!)... The Real Breakup Letters will probably amuse *my* group of friends. also enjoy song parodies, comics and games.
Country 92.5 FM :: Hartford, Connecticut [country925.com]
My favorite country radio station. Listen online, listen to commercial-free classic country. Contests, weather, traffic, news, and Rewards.
Technology: News, Product Reviews, Computers & Science - USATODAY.com [usatoday.com]
Stay current on technology news via USAToday's searchable Technology section.
Wireless Networking -- TigerDirect.com [tigerdirect.com]
TigerDirect, a retailer, has put together a page of "everything you need to know" to go wireless.
Wireless Networking Guide [tigerdirect.com]
Retailer TigerDirect provides a wireless guide for consumers. You MAY have to click, go back, and then click again in Firefox; I don't know why. The link IS there. I bookmarked this site in March of 2007, and checked it when editing my tags on June 24, 2007.
USATODAY.com - Wireless all around [usatoday.com]
USAToday's Wireless "primer" - shows what wireless can do for you, and where. Click the orange circles within the picture to learn more about specifics. This Flash primer also includes a glossary (the last choice on the left).
Hotspot Finder - Wi-Fi Hotspots - Wireless Hotspots - Worldwide Hotspot Di [jiwire.com]
USAToday publishes its own reader-submitted hotspot finder. Includes both pay and free locations. Quick links to Hotels, Airports, and Cafes.
Bert P. Krages II — Attorney at Law [krages.com]
Via a 2005 Cyberspeak article in USAToday. "The Photographer's Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed" - I recommend Foxit, which loads a thousand times faster than Adobe.
The Missouri Bar - The Missouri law Media Handbook [mobar.org]
A "must" site for journalists and for serious bloggers. "The contents of this handbook are intended only as a starting point for research; they cannot substitute for individualized legal advice."
The Missouri Bar - Chapter 3 - Journalist Right of Privacy Primer [mobar.org]
Published by the Missouri Bar, this Journalist Right of Privacy Primer is a chapter of their "Missouri Media Law Handbook" (also bookmarked). Keep this in mind if you're taking lots of pictures! Also valuable for journalists (and bloggers) - "journalism" doesn't have to be a bad word if writers are respectful.
Photographers Guide to Privacy [rcfp.org]
"What every photographer should know" when taking photos in the United States. Published by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; link found via USAToday.
USATODAY.com - New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it [usatoday.com]
This article was linked to in one of Cyberoutlaw's posts. It's really too old to Digg, but I don't want to lose the bookmark. Discusses where one can and cannot use one's digital camera in public.
Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen [instructables.com]
DIY - fitting a Mont Blanc refill into a $3 pen. I care about the quality, not the design, so I'll try it! (Via a Consumerist post on
7/23/2007)
Double-Tongued Dictionary [doubletongued.org]
From the site: "The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words. This site strives to record terms and expressions that are absent from, or are poorly covered in, mainstream dictionaries."
ShopAtHome: Catalogs &Cash Back Shopping [shopathome.com]
These cashback sites are great; members earn cashback on purchases they'd probably be making anyway, from stores they're already using! They also remind shoppers to use coupons. (It may "reduce" the cash back, a bit, but it also saves you money in the long run.)
This is the first of the cashback sites that I joined, and my first check was about $50 - which is $50 more than I'd have gotten without it.
(Posted April 2007; edited June 23, 2007)
strange maps [wordpress.com]
Fun maps, blogged! First posted by my mom's friend Quin, and then as the Bonzer site of the Week by This Is True on June 22, 2007.
Italian American Youth Organization - St. Andrew Feast [italianyouth.org]
The Wooster Street Avest (festival) is an annual event worth every fattening calorie. In New Haven's famous Little Italy, known as the Birthplace of American Pizza, one can listen to traditional Italian music and sample food from some of the best Italian restaurants you'll find outside Italy.
About Wooster Square, from Wikipedia: "The name refers to a park square (named for the American Revolutionary War hero, David Wooster) located between Greene Street, Wooster Place, Chapel Street and Academy Street in the center of the neighborhood."
for those who like cloud tags, here are the links to 780 public del.icio.us submission:
