Thursday, December 30, 2004

week 30 : 30 Dec 2004

This is the week where I clear all the new items I scribbled into my PDA this month. Deal with it!

 big D
Local Venture Capitalists/Incubators: Austin Ventures; InterWest Partners; StarTech Early Ventures (Richardson)

Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas

Barbara Baynham is the Big Cheese at the Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest
travel & exploration
city-data.com: Stats about all US cities - maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.

Maryland got its name from Henrietta Maria; she was the daughter of King Henry IV of France and Marie de Médici of Italy. In 1625, Henrietta Maria married King Charles I and became Queen of England.

if you're ever in Fredericksburg, Texas: der Peach Garten will lead you to the Hog Stop Inn (B&B that caters to bikers). If you don't cotton to the roar of a Harley @ 6am, you may consider the Full Moon Inn which includes a log cabin. Yee ha!

del.icio.us: is a social bookmarks manager (social bookmarks is what Sundry on Thursday is all about)

map24.com is supposed to put MapQuest and MapBlast and Yahoo! Maps to shame

The Past Whispers is about whisperin' history, I think. Every website should have an "About" page, for people like me who wander across stuff at 0:dark:30
 job hunting
The DMN carries a column called "Kate and Dale talk jobs". Kate Wendleton's site is fiveoclockclub.com and Dale Dauten's site is dauten.com

JobCenterTV - channel 68 (KPXD) is shown weekdays from 6am to 6:30

I'll be watching the Super Bowl for the advertising. Go back to last year's post for the pointer? Here's a perennial favorite: Monster
 politics and/or religion
Clinton Birthplace Foundation is in Hope, Arkansas (SW corner of the state, on I-30)

The Federation of American Scientists website includes such gems as Secrecy News

Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA)

2005 Presidential Inauguration Balls (thanks, The George!)

Council for American-Islamic Relations

Dubya's World

Muslims Against Terrorism has changed their name to Muslim Voice for Peace

President's Council on Physical Fitness
 entertainment
The Daily Buzz - is this syndicated?

I suppose if you get tired of the Internet Movie Database, you can go to AllWatchers.com
 just plain weird different
hyperhidrosis is discussed on ExcessiveSweating.org

whoa! why did my Head-and-Shoulders shampoo come out of the bottle in orange? It lathers normally, though.
 tree huggers
If you want to know what companies still test their products on animals, see Cruelty Free Companies

Radio Flyer : remember the Little Red Wagon?

Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America

Carnival of the Cats

Purina Cat Chow - Vitality formula

Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time Universe
 wonders of the nerd|geek world
When I lived in southern California, there was a chain of retail software places called Egghead Software, which eventually went out of business. Now I see NewEgg.com - could this be their rebirth?

The Newted Community allows Newton users worldwide to keep in touch with one another

Straight Dope Staff Report: Why do we have so many temperature scales?

Why is it so hard to find a good Computer Stand? The one I like above all others is Chenbro's ES160 Computer Stand, available from Cyberguys. Pity I can't find a local source for these.

v-chip.org (anti violence, etc.)

beyond zettabyte: yottabyte (2^80). I spotted this on Parade magazine's Ask Marilyn column.

TV-B-Gone™ from Cornfield Electronics allows you to turn off most any TV (such as a public one that annoys you, but you didn't think to bring the remote for that brand of TV with you)

konfabulator.com explains itself: Widgets: they're even cooler when they're onyour desktop.

Heavily advertised is the $350 Ionic Breeze (plus $22 for shipping). I read somewhere that it accounts for 50% of Sharper Image's profits, yet Consumer Reports is adamant that it basically does nothing. One of the Breeze's features mentioned in the ad is the Zenion Effect