week 84 : 12 Jan 2006

Agriculture

Bioneers: conceived in 1990 to conduct educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration

The Eden Project: two vast greenhouses ("Biomes") in Cornwall, UK house plants, crops and landscapes from the tropics and warm temperate regions; it uses exhibitions, art, storytelling, workshops, lectures and events to put messages across

Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN): supports the work of organizations and individuals working to address the risks of genetic engineering

Northwest RAGE: Resistance Against Genetic Engineering

 Attorney General

Oak Cliff: south of downtown Dallas, Texas

 Commerce

Cubicle Cards: your business card (or other stuff) on a deskcube

 Defense

Deaf Dog Education Action Fund: provides education and funding for the purpose of improving and/or saving the lives of deaf dogs

 Education

Library Thing: catalog your books online

Reader2: find new books to read, put your reading list online

 Energy

Rainforest Action Network: campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life

 Health and Human Services

Pandemic Flu Planning Checklist: for Individuals and Families

They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!: by Napoleon XIV

 Homeland Security

Back Dorm Boys : two lip-syncing students at the Guangzhou Art Institute in China

British Humanist Association: whose vision is of a world without religious privilege or discrimination, where people are free to live good lives on the basis of reason, experience and shared human values

 Housing and Urban Development

123 Movers: find and compare moving services

Movex: Self Service Moving Truck Rental

 Interior

Cable News Lies: the cable news networks are no longer the media of the people; they are the mouthpieces of the (evil!) corporations

 Labor

Words at Work: column about The Workplace (free subscription, but expect hundreds of irritating pop-up ads)

 State

Iran Daily: an entertaining addition to your doctor's waiting room?

 Transportation

Tech Alliance of Dallas: in order to reach out and assist tech professionals to revitalize their career goals, the leaders of six grass-root high technology organizations (along with the University of Texas at Dallas) came together in 2002

 Treasury

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: in picturesque Cleveland, Ohio

 Veterans Affairs

VH1 Classic: music for auld fahrts