week 137 : 18 Jan 2007

Agriculture

Punta Mona: "an 85-acre organic farm and educational retreat center located on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica"

 Attorney General

Off-the-Record Messaging: "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"

 Commerce

Digital Lifestyle Outfitters: a/k/a DLO

 Defense

Sizeasy: illustrating size comparisons (we all know that size doesn't really matter, right?)

 Education

Citizendium: "is an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance"

Fundies say the darndest things!: Fundies = Christian Fundamentalists, but don't tell them

Logic & Fallacies: "Constructing a Logical Argument (1997)"

Logical argument: it's logical that this would be on Wikipedia, right?

Scholarpedia: like Wikipedia, but a lot more boring

The Straight Poop is unrelated to The Straight Dope

 Energy

Tech Meme: meme n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

 Health and Human Services

AlfaKleen: Biodegradable Natural Cleaners; Environmentally/Earth Friendly Cleaners

Ecover: "we produce our washing and cleaning products in an ecological, economic and socially responsible way in a unique ecological factory"

 Homeland Security

Birds Protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

 Housing and Urban Development

BBP Bags: "are super ergonomic hybrid messenger/backpack laptop bags"

 Interior

Orb Audio: "Small Speakers For Smart People"

Pleo Toy Dinosaur: oh, those wily Brits!

 Labor

Switch: Sound File Conversion

 State

Frappr Maps: combines "an online guest book, a hit log and a map"

Visit Montana: the official state website for Vacation, Recreation, Accommodations and Travel Information

 Transportation

Great Falls (Montana) International Airport

 Treasury

Half Bakery: for those ideas of yours which aren't yet fully cooked

 Veterans Affairs

37 Signals: Simple software to help you get organized

Tom's hardware: "targets 'grassroots technologists' - the huge population of technology early adopters who have grown up on video games, computers and gadgets - and have an insatiable need for more"