month 1 : July 2004

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

eHealthInsurance.com : "the leading destination where individuals, students, families, and small businesses can find and buy the health insurance plan that is right for them"

Joe Sent Me.com

appliance411.com has lots of appliance owners manuals

http://www.ss-tours.com (Copper Canyon)

Diet Gourmet.com (Alpha Rd, Dallas)

spotted in Addison Walk (near CD World): Buffalo Wild Wings

week 8 : 29 July 2004

travel & exploration

Urban Legends (travel) debunks the rumors about travel

 job hunting

Baker Botts LLP has a nice Texas Technology Calendar, which are downloadable as PDFs

 politics and/or religion

Electoral Vote Predictor

Democratic Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche

 entertainment

The Entertainment Collaborative "conceives, develops and manages concepts". wow: how unbelievably revolutionary!

 just plain weird different

ACLU - Pizza

 tree huggers environment issues

Toxin du Juor debunks the "dire warning about the latest poison or toxin"

 cliff claven would be proud

Metafilter: "self-policing since 1999" and "more addictive than crack"

North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) has more information than you can shake a stick at

22 July 2004 - week 7

travel & exploration

Burkes Backyard (Australian site with lots of entertaining vectors)

Better Home & Gardens (Australia style) - Food A-Z has recipes for kangaroo, Vegemite and so forth.  Fortunately, I didn't see anything for wallaby, platypus, koala bears

Bullet Trap is an indoor shooting range, training center and gun store - Plano, Texas

DFW Gun Range (Dallas)

 job hunting

right-from-home is only accessible via controlled login.  so there.

 politics and/or religion

civilian casualties in Iraq (and related links)

Iraq Body Count.com

Iraq Coalition Casualties

 entertainment

Smirnoff Music Centre has a really hard to remember address.  Until a few years ago, this had a Coca-Cola name on the marquee.  Still, it's at Fair Park (not the high rent district) and not near other local music venues, such as the Eisemann Center (in the Art District).

Better Homes & Gardens : Food (yeah, I know .. you're thinking "Gene Bob thinks food is entertaining?" .. well, it can be.  Ever see the "strawberry scene" in 9-1/2 Weeks?

 just plain weird different

"Happy thumbs use the Magic Carpet" (hey, it's their slogan, not mine)

 tree huggers environment issues

the nice man from Terminix put DeltaGard G (Deltamethrin) around my foundation, so I Google'd to Read All About It

 cliff claven would be proud

Submarine: SUBNET is billed: -- Cyberspace Association of U.S. Submariners (CAUSS) -- of submarines, by submariners had much interesting details about those beasts. I once sat atop the cliff at Point Loma (San Diego) and watched them come and go from the Pacific.

blinkx (a search tool) didn't work for me, but then it is still in Beta (not the Wonder Dog)

my recent CD purchase arrived intact in a Jiffylite Mailer

15 July 2004 - week 6

travel & exploration

Dogwood Canyon - where the Audubon Society is planning a 250 acre park

Buses By Bill - Charter Bus Service in the Dallas Fort Worth Area

 job hunting

Right Management Consultants

 politics and/or religion

Newt's Playing Cards - The Card Playing Superstore

 entertainment

Trees (in Deep Ellum, where They Might Be Giants are playing this weekend)

Etymologic billed as "the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web

 just plain weird different

is Dick Cheney dead yet? (Good Spot Award goes to The George)

 environment

HP and Dell going green

 cliff claven would be proud

Sarah Vowell was on The Daily Show (Comedy Central) last night, but the DirecTV menu thought she was Spike Lee. Hmmm.

IBM to launch new line of powerful Unix servers

8 July 2004 - week 5

travel & exploration

aNiceCupOfTeaAndaSitDown is billed as "the premier web site for tea drinkers who are keen on sitting down and biscuits". Uh, right.

Kidos Blueberry is a product of another country - Mexico?

 job hunting

The Dollar Stretcher (while there's no money coming in)

 politics and/or religion

Christian Exodus (to North Carolina, which will then seceed from the United States)

This site is so Ludditic that I had to laugh: Computer Ate My Vote

 entertainment

Texas School Performance Review : Dallas Independent School District

 just plain weird different

Roll Your Own Magazine, RYO, The Magazine of Roll Your Own Cigarettes, Tobacco and Product Reviews, Smoking Issues, Winter 2004, Peter Stokkebye Memorial

 tree huggers environment issues

Viral Marketing is not a disease! See the Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing

 cliff claven would be proud

Home Made Simple is done by Procter & Gamble, who want to sell you stuff to keep your home all fluffy and warm. Indeed.

1 July 2004 - week 4

travel & exploration

The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art

 politics and/or religion

well, that will be the last time a US President visits a place as hostile as Ireland: President Bush accidentally allowed to be interviewed by a real journalist ... and then there is Bush Flash.com (via I Switched.org, via Green Party)

 just plain weird different

Watercloset Aperture Kinetic Mechanical Activation Handle [WAKMAH] (and don't miss the Mark One Wakmah)

 environment and/or health issues

Peyote cures hangovers! (to be precise: an extract of Opuntia ficus indica)

 cliff claven would be proud

The Patent Busting Project

Psychological Warfare

European and Pacific Stars & Stripes (yes, the military newspaper)

CELL FOR CASH - Get cash for your old cell phone

PRESS RELEASE: What Should You Do About Unprofitable Customers?

National Society for Experiential Education

The Unique Brutality of Texas:
Why the Lone Star State leads the nation in executions