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M E-L wrote this on November 20, 2001
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond to this item, but for those of you who looked at it . . . Yet another reason to live Back East . . . you'll notice that there are MAGNITUDE markers...
Guest wrote this on December 17, 2001
Want to see how Enron's board is connected to the military-industrial complex, where their donations go, and how Sam Nunn is at the center of the corporate universe, all using Flash? Go to They Rule....
M E-L wrote this on January 17, 2002
Inspired by this guy, I decided to post (sporadically) some sketches I've made on the subway with my Palm. If you're curious, the program I've used to sketch is Diddle, and this fella will convert your drawings to bitmaps, right...
M E-L wrote this on May 2, 2002
Very strange: Racial Slur Database. Except that it isn't really. And some of what they're saying is wrong factually. It's a very long list of racial terms. Put some of your favorites into the comment section !! Here are a...
Ennis wrote this on May 20, 2002
Amazon Light -- for when you're just using it to search. Found (of course) on boingboing....
M E-L wrote this on July 23, 2002
hellokitty stress test....
M E-L wrote this on August 13, 2002
I just made my first Ish post via my Palm, thanks to the excellent AvantBlog. All you need is AvantGo. Cool!...
M E-L wrote this on September 19, 2002
Realistic Internet Simulator. Makes me glad I've got POW! to kill mine....
M E-L wrote this on October 28, 2002
I posted about the Political Compass some time ago -- an interesting quiz that charts your political beliefs. As Trip put it in his initial post on the survey,underpinning the Compass's questions is the proposition that the standard terms of...
M E-L wrote this on December 10, 2002
Those folks at Google Labs just keep coming up with new great stuff!...
M E-L wrote this on December 11, 2002
I Wish You Wish. Happy Birthday, everyone!...
M E-L wrote this on December 15, 2002
It's Daily Themes all over again over at one word, where you get 60 seconds to write about, well, one word. Interesting to read what people write when they're forced to improvise. Speaking of improvisation, we've got a brand-spanking new...
M E-L wrote this on December 16, 2002
Here are a couple of reference sites that you simply cannot live without: Logos of Russian/Soviet tube factories, found on The Noodle Incident, and Famous Cats, Dogs, and "Critters", which Trip found the other day. Vive la web!...
M E-L wrote this on December 31, 2002
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M E-L wrote this on January 9, 2003
DialABC...
M E-L wrote this on March 2, 2003
New York Songlines is another attempt to map stories onto the city streets (like Mr. Beller's Neighborhood and of course our own NYC Bloggers). I like what they've written as their prolegomenon:The Aboriginal Australians were able to navigate across their...
M E-L wrote this on March 5, 2003
This site lets you look up old EXchanges (like PEnnsylvania-6500). Thanks to Emily for the link....
M E-L wrote this on March 6, 2003
Via VirtMem....
M E-L wrote this on March 14, 2003
Mike recently encouraged me to cross-post my blog content if I was so inclined, and I thought my current post might interest the music-loving/tech-loving Ish community: a review of Apple's iTunes Music Store. Actually, it's a rundown of the negatives...
CMOM wrote this on May 14, 2003
Found when I Googled TANSTAAFL. Useful!...
M E-L wrote this on June 13, 2003
It's a really good collaborative filtering project for movies out of U. of MN....
M E-L wrote this on August 20, 2003
Play the National Budget Simulation Game!...
M E-L wrote this on August 22, 2003
Liz IM'd me the Monkey Shakespeare Simulator. So far I've got 5 letters from Hamlet....
M E-L wrote this on September 4, 2003
Could be useful....
M E-L wrote this on September 15, 2003
SimpleBits | Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers....
M E-L wrote this on October 1, 2003
The Eater of Meaning is not only fun, it's a useful accessbility testing tool! Found on Sisyphus Shrugged....
M E-L wrote this on October 21, 2003
Color scheme picker. For your website, not for your house....
M E-L wrote this on October 22, 2003
Aiv loopemem....
M E-L wrote this on October 28, 2003
With the Church Sign Generator Found on the robot filter....
M E-L wrote this on November 7, 2003
I recently read (on our host's blog, Bleahh), this post about the fun to be had with tinyurl.com:We recently read about a nice little diversion that is akin to the old Random Link link used by portals, but we can’t...
M E-L wrote this on November 14, 2003
A list of lists on Wikipedia, including this list of demons which I hear is going to the basis of a new educational game: "Where In Hell Is Carmen Sandiego?" Via kottke....
M E-L wrote this on February 5, 2004
See if you can guess which supporters were allowed by the Bush Campaign Filter and which were rejected!
M E-L wrote this on March 11, 2004
Check out this map of Manhattan, showing where the political donors are. Plus you can see which campaigns your neighbors funded. The National Maps are pretty cool, too....
M E-L wrote this on March 18, 2004
Found on The Department of Homeboy Security....
M E-L wrote this on April 3, 2004
With LiveJournal Images, you can see the most recent images posted to blogs on LiveJournal. [Warning: May not be safe for work!] Particularly interesting are the accidental juxtapositions, like this one:...
M E-L wrote this on April 13, 2004
stock.xchng. Thanks to Liz for the tip....
M E-L wrote this on May 12, 2004
BugMeNot.com...
M E-L wrote this on May 19, 2004
I now live, much to my chagrin, in a place where the weather matters. What do I mean? Well, in NYC, and the other major cities where I've resided, the weather was ... not path-critical, to use some horrendous jargon....
Ennis wrote this on July 22, 2004
Now you know. Can you get a longer chain than 26? Via Waxy....
M E-L wrote this on July 27, 2004
Via lfros....
M E-L wrote this on September 29, 2004
A very cool aerial photo with superimposed map of Buckingham Palace. UK-only for this feature, sadly. Via ibrb....
M E-L wrote this on October 6, 2004
You need to graph something for your pre-calculus class -- yet you are fresh out of graph paper! Fortunately, you have a computer, connected to the Internet, and a laser printer. Go to Free Online Graph Paper. Problem solved! (Note:...
M E-L wrote this on October 26, 2004
Take this electoral issue quiz. You can agree or disagree with all six candidates' statements on 20 issues. If you want to vote on the issues, that is. My results after the jump....
M E-L wrote this on October 26, 2004
via eb-rb...
M E-L wrote this on December 3, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on January 7, 2005
Via memepool....
M E-L wrote this on February 11, 2005
sproutliner is a collaborative web-based outlining tool. I'm sure this is useful for something, but there's so much paper on my desk I couldn't tell you what right now....
M E-L wrote this on April 12, 2005
Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator= is ancient, in Internet years, but new to me. Here's a complaint letter you can send to your local paper about Tom DeLay....
M E-L wrote this on April 15, 2005
Check out their other generators as well....
M E-L wrote this on May 9, 2005
Well, many of them you probably knew already, but there's some useful stuff in there....
M E-L wrote this on June 7, 2005
I was doing some work research and was on a corporate foundation's web page. "Check back for our revised guidelines," it advised. But no mechanism to ping me when they post said guidelines. That's when I remembered WatchThatPage . It...
M E-L wrote this on June 7, 2005
Lamest. Edit wars. Ever. Also: Make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich....
M E-L wrote this on June 9, 2005
Cool Tools pointed me to the St. Clair signbuilder, which enables you to make PDFs of ANSI Z535 compliant warning signs. (Whatever that means.) I couldn't resist making a few for political purposes, and/or for use on blogs. Download and...
M E-L wrote this on June 24, 2005
PublicRadioFan.com...
M E-L wrote this on July 1, 2005
Subway Directions and Bus Directions for New York City. Useful....
M E-L wrote this on August 2, 2005
PocketMod...
M E-L wrote this on September 1, 2005
Neat. I especially like the stamps. Framer: Add a customized frame to your digital photographs...
M E-L wrote this on September 21, 2005
I Want To: A great list of web tools and web services....
M E-L wrote this on November 1, 2005
Google Map ATM locator...
M E-L wrote this on November 4, 2005
In case you weren't wasting enough time looking through Wikipedia articles, here's a tool that calculates how many articles are between any two Wikipedia entries. For instance, there are 5 degrees of separation between the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Boo...
M E-L wrote this on February 6, 2006
The Fantasy Novel Title Generator has been getting linked all over, but I think the Villainess Name Generator is pretty cool too: Gitana von Drear! Medea Bloodcrow! Also the Plot Twist Generator could be almost useful: "Just then the person...
M E-L wrote this on February 7, 2006
I think that SaveMyAss is not only a great business model, but the Best. URL. Ever. Save My Ass is a personal assistant that helps you make your girlfriend or wife happy by sending her flowers on your behalf, on...
M E-L wrote this on February 15, 2006
Flight Delay Information - Air Traffic Control System Command Center...
M E-L wrote this on February 27, 2006
When will there be an aggregator of aggregators of aggregators?...
M E-L wrote this on March 8, 2006
Album Art. Part of my grand Mikebox project....
M E-L wrote this on March 10, 2006
Amazon Filler Item Finder to the rescue! Via robotwisdom....
M E-L wrote this on March 13, 2006
Alert SPEW: The Library Elf will tirelessly remind you that your books are due soon, or that you have a book on hold, via email and/or RSS. Via Rebecca Blood....
M E-L wrote this on April 10, 2006
ZIP Code Boundary Mapper...
M E-L wrote this on April 18, 2006
Google Trends. Neat. Via Gadgetopia....
M E-L wrote this on May 11, 2006
Here's an even cooler version of the website visualizer mentioned a few days ago: this one will tell you what each tag is....
M E-L wrote this on June 1, 2006
The False Identity Generator will create a false name, address, email address, phone, mother's maiden name, birthday, and credit card....
M E-L wrote this on June 29, 2006
With annotations. quik maps....
M E-L wrote this on June 30, 2006
Punch in the location and the time you'll be parking, and it'll spit out a map comparing the cost of all local garages. Damn useful....
M E-L wrote this on August 22, 2006
A tag cloud of the 100 most frequent words in Hamlet -- the Project Gutenberg edition, with header stripped out and character abbreviations changed to full names (e.g., "Polon." to "Polonius"). Generated by TagCrowd. begin tag cloud : generated by...
M E-L wrote this on October 24, 2006
If you know there's a word for something, but don't the word? Use OneLook Reverse Dictionary. Via Cool Tools....
M E-L wrote this on November 15, 2006
tourfilter is a handy way to keep track of upcoming gigs for a bunch of cities. Via Coudal....
M E-L wrote this on December 11, 2006
Tufte Alert! The Gapminder World 2006, beta will chart just about any demographic data vs. other demographic data, for all nation-states or a subset, on log scales with bubbles (scaled to national population or any other data). Kewl. Via WhatsAPundit....
M E-L wrote this on February 5, 2007
"BlankSheetofPaper.com is a free online utility to allow you to print a blank sheet of paper from your printer in case you need a clean white, blank sheet of paper to write on. No download required." "Most modern DVD players...
M E-L wrote this on June 27, 2007
Found, rather accidentally and tangentially, on Emily’s personal journal: WorldCat, a collaborative cataloging of library collections. There are arguable snags, of course. I was told, for example, that the closest library where I could find John Knox’s First Book of...
Tk wrote this on July 5, 2007
Via Balls and Walnuts comes this mapping of Simpsons Characters to Presidential Candidates. I guess Cheney has the Burns character wrapped up, hence not on the list. Speaking of the 2008 Election, here come the usual "candidate selectors": one at...
M E-L wrote this on August 8, 2007
The Image-Aware Resizing thing is now available as a GIMP plugin and a Flash-based web-app...
M E-L wrote this on September 30, 2007
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