week 117 : 31 Aug 2006

Agriculture

United Farm Workers Store: buy a farm worker today

 Attorney General

Earth Action : the campaign against bottled water

 Commerce

Constant Contact: Email Marketing Solutions

 Defense

Back To Basics Toys: was founded in 1988 by White parents who wanted their children to enjoy the same quality of play that they remembered and cherished before the Civil Rights movement

 Education

Louisiana Pecan Festival: held the first full weekend in November in Colfax

 Energy

Fortified Timothy Pellets: gotta git me some o' dem

 Health and Human Services

Quorn complaints: only if you suffered nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hives or difficulty breathing after feeding on Quorn

 Homeland Security

Joby Gorillapod: firmly secures your camera to just about anything

 Housing and Urban Development

Penzeys Spices: more than 250 of the little buggars

 Interior

Area code 972: where's that - New Jersey?

 Labor

American Federation of Labor / Congress of Industrial Organizations: America's Union Movement

No Sweat: Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel

 State

Black Kow: The Mature Manure

 Transportation

Geek Cruises: stimulating seminars on the high seas

 Treasury

Jumbo Joke: Politics Archives

 Veterans Affairs

Clumber Spaniel Club of America

week 116 : 24 Aug 2006

Agriculture

Pickle Juice Sport: mmm, mmm, sounds delicious!

 Attorney General

law.com Law Dictionary

 Commerce

Gold Eagle: makers of Sta-Bil gas stabilizer, among other stuff

 Defense

Jimmy John's Gourmet Subs: sandwiches, not underwater

 Education

Why does gasoline go stale so quickly?: The Straight Dope

 Energy

Kilowatt Ours: a movie babbling about energy conservation and renewable energy

 Health and Human Services

Cost Of Smoking Calculator: lots of other handy calculators there, too

 Homeland Security

Presidential Signing Statements

 Housing and Urban Development

Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: break the cycle of child abuse through collaborative intervention

 Interior

Workplace Fairness: "goals are that workers and their advocates are educated about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems"

 Labor

Dallas Derby Devils: got roller derby?

 State

Merge 2006: a high-energy exposition of local and national businesses providing a host of products and services targeting the African-American consumer

 Transportation

Event Data Recorder Applications for Highway and Traffic Safety

 Treasury

Greg Scholl Video Productions: for those who like choo-choo trains (a/k/a Steam & Diesel Railroads)

 Veterans Affairs

J. Danforth Quayle - The Dim Side: "Dan Quayle's Skeleton Closet"

week 115 : 17 Aug 2006

Agriculture

UGLI® tangelos: a face only a mother could love

 Attorney General

Moscow-Pullman Daily News: Idaho, of course

 Commerce

Call2Recycle: help you recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones

 Defense

East Lake Pet Orphanage (ELPO): not to be confused with ALPO

 Education

dreammakers4u.net: easy-to-use college planning tools for parents and counselors

 Energy

NoNAIS.org: opposition to the National Animal Identification System

 Health and Human Services

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians

 Homeland Security

Knox-Box™: rapid entry system for fire departments, emergency personnel

 Housing and Urban Development

The Center for Consumer Freedom: is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices

 Interior

EcoIQ Magazine: dormant since 2002?

 Labor

Farmersville, TX: home of the Dollar General Store

 State

Supra iBox: Key Storage Lock Box, used by real estate agents worldwide

 Transportation

British Airports Authority: when did Brits get The Plane?

 Treasury

bankrate.com: compare mortgage rates, home loans, CD rates, auto loans, credit cards, mortgages and more

 Veterans Affairs

popabrella: fits all 35mm Digital & Video Cameras with Tripod Screw Socket, or mounts directly to tripod

week 114 : 10 Aug 2006

Agriculture

Subzi Mandi @ Dallas: handy-dandy Indian grocery in Garland, TX

 Attorney General

digg / Technology: all about user powered content. Every article on digg issubmitted and voted on by the digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote the news that's important to you.

 Commerce

Stop Badware.org: virtual "Neighborhood Watch" campaign

 Defense

whocalled.us: great site for those of us with CallerID

 Education

Danger Quicksand: an unconventional guide to surviving corporate employment

 Energy

Pimp That Snack

 Health and Human Services

Tropical Storm Risk: long-range forecasts of hurricane, typhoon and cyclones worldwide

 Homeland Security

svchost.exe Windows process - What is it?

 Housing and Urban Development

Open Source Technology Group: the owner of /. (slashdot)

 Interior

Cherokee Trace: Drive-Thru Safari

 Labor

National Electrical Manufacturers Association: NEMA

 State

Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

 Transportation

NASA TV

 Treasury

Brainy Geography: Top 10 Names of Places

 Veterans Affairs

National Cowboys of Color: Museum and Hall of Fame

week 113 : 3 August 2006

Agriculture

Kent SeaTech: when you got a hankerin for California Farmed Striped Bass

 Attorney General

HUH : The deity from Egyptian Mythology

JAJAH: web-activated telephony

 Commerce

TechCrunch: no relation to Captain Crunch

 Defense

WASP, Women Pilots of WWII

 Education

Local numbers, global friends: local phone number for your Russian mail-order bride

 Energy

Lamp Recycle: was developed by the lamp section of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association to provide a one-stop source of information about spent fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamp recycling. Under Federal hazardous waste laws, lamp users are responsible for complying with disposal standards.

 Health and Human Services

Drug Interaction Checker

United States Anti-Doping Agency: USADA

 Homeland Security

CubeSat: wasn't the Borg Cube shaped like a ...

Trusted Computing FAQ TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium

 Housing and Urban Development

drupal.org | Community plumbing

 Interior

World Association of Zoos and Aquariums: WAZA is no relation to wazzzup

 Labor

CNET TV: thousands of nerd videos

 State

GraceNote: CDDB

 Transportation

EV1 Club: for the electric car that GM intentionally malfeased

 Treasury

In honor of Hiroshima Day, we'd like to take a minute to reflect on just how absurd it is for America to maintain 10,000 nuclear bombs: see how your tax money is being flushed down the drain

 Veterans Affairs

Church of Reality

Eons.com: designed specifically for folks 50+