Thursday, September 23, 2004

week 16 : 23 Sep 2004

travel & exploration
North Texas Technology Council is either nttc.ws or hrdpt.com, both of which just roll off the tongue

Dallas Sights has some very cool old Dallas maps and photos (watermelon kid.com)

Preservation Dallas is the group trying to keep old things old
 job hunting
Keep In Touch (KIT) List for people liberated from SGI (Silicon Graphics)
 politics and/or religion
TakeBackTexas.com: Cleaning Up The House For Texas Families
 entertainment
UNCOVERED: The War On Iraq: a film by Robert Greenwald

RatherBiased.com: Documenting Dan Rather and CBS News
 just plain weird different
Rooster Booster poultry lighting, for free range and organic chickens (no relation to the soft drink being sold at Quik Trip
 tree huggers environment issues
Melissa's World: Variety Produce - Organic, Specialty & Recipes
 cliff claven would be proud
Every week or so, I check the Social Security Death Index to make sure I'm still alive.

I've thought about calling the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators to see if they know where I left my sunglasses, or my keys, or ...

I saw somewhere that the Firefox browser is likely to gain even more converts, after Microsoft announced that improvements (read: "bug fixes") will be limited to the Internet Explorer browser that's for Windows XP, and not prior revs. Hmmm. SpreadFirefox.com and mozilla.org are the download sites





When you are Tracking People or Their Stuff, there are Accurint.com (25c/basic search); PublicData.com ($25/year minimum); Urapi.com (Texas law firm centric, $100 minimum).

RipOffReport.com says these two are a waste of time and money: NetDetective.com and WebDetective.com

Here are a few lesser-known search sites:
DocuSearch.com
SearchSystems.net
Lycos People Search
Infospace White Pages




There's an entire category of Campaign Management Software, including Fundraising: Campaign Headquarters; Campaign Office; Complete Campaigns; ELECT; GeoVoter; Trail Blazer Campaign Services; VoterTrack Online and of course, there are the Lists: knowledge.com and Google