Saturday, July 31, 2004

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

Thursday, July 29, 2004

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

Thursday, July 22, 2004

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

Thursday, July 15, 2004

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

Thursday, July 08, 2004

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.

Thursday, July 01, 2004

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