***BLING!!!*** We love gadget-related blogs almost as much as we hate window-shopping in the offline world. This one reminds us of a stroll down Madison Avenue: The money involved is so over-the-top that we can actually covet it and therefore just enjoy the pretty scenery. If you happen to be a recent lottery winner and want some suggestions on how to make a poor person of yourself all over again, drop on by.
Gotta love a site that warns you that if you’re really feeling like doing any of the things you see therein, you need to talk to someone. In any case, we can’t personally vouch for the catharsis factor here, but those of you trapped in any of our nation’s more toxic cube farms are advised to take a moment and crank the speakers … at home.
Chicago’s excellent lakeside museum has an equally fine Web site, providing not only companion information for various exhibits past and present but a few items we’re fairly sure expand on the facility’s holdings in entirely unique ways. We’re also thrilled by the amount of purely Chicagoland content available here.
Incredibly beautiful, wildly creative, and staggering under extraordinary social inequalities, Brazil is a country that demands our attention as the America economy changes into its 21st-century form. Photographer Geoffrey Hiller, whose Burma: Grace Under Pressure site provided such an evocative portrait of that troubled nation, has a wonderful multimedia site that details what he found there. Prepare to spend some quality time, and turn up the speakers
If you’ve ever relied on Altavista.com’s Babelfish page to translate something from one language to another, you know that sometimes things don’t turn out quite the way you’d expect. This site takes your phrase in and out of English and various Continental languages and presents you with the results. And what have we learned? Among other things, whether or not the blues is a universal language, “bluesman” is a job everyone can appreciate. Also, Kurt Cobain, rather than being stupid and contagious, could have with the help of this page discovered that “I think of stupid and the attack on.”
Sick of seeing the coyote annihilate himself the same way over and over again? Now there’s a place to catch brand new Looney Tune action – or, rather, an old site up to some new tricks. Watch Daffy and Porky solve crime or Sylvester and Bugs brawl. Once you’ve watched your share of fresh cartoons, check out the rest of the site, where you can play games, elect a Looney president or enter sweepstakes
"A central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community." Includes a choir directory, reference materials, info on repertoire, rehearsal, performance, church music, and lots more.
Eternal Word Television Network, that most excellent source of news and information on the Roman Catholic Church, presents this pleasant collection of information and mini-sites concerning the current Pontiff. EWTN’s got it all covered, from the Holy Father’s early years (including the name of his first poem, though alas not the text!) through the end of 2003, with presumably more to be added as the life of this extraordinary man develops.
History and science may sound like subjects better left in school, but when NASA teams with Chaco Culture National Historical Park, these subjects reveal themselves in a whole new light - that is, sunlight. At TraditionsOfTheSun.org, you can read about NASA research on the sun, explore the Pueblo park, and learn about Native American solar practices in one place.
We know that our active-duty troops deserve all the support and recognition in the world. The slideshow presentation illustrates their experiences and helps you relate to their struggles. The phrases, photos and sullen music in the background make a powerful and moving combination. You'll find yourself even more in awe of their bravery and sacrifice for our nation.
Good-natured silliness to start the week: Submit a photo of a friend (or otherwise) to this site and the proprietors will make a cute Flash animation of it. They'll be charging for this service by and by, but for a little while, you can have them build a Cubicle War, Boxing Match, Dancing Cutie or other kinetic clickable for you free.
Gale offers bookmarks, Power Point templates, posters, fliers, print ads, radio scripts, and more, some of them in Spanish as well as English, for public, academic, hospital, law, and military libraries.
If you know the Dana Lyons song, the link is all you need from us. If you don’t, this site thoughtfully provides lyrics along with a deeply silly animation of the deeply silly song ... not that, after doing this, we mean to say or do anything that’ll annoy the Bovine-Americans among us – or not the ones exercising their Second Amendment rights, anyway
This essay contest is over, and you're the winner — because you get to read these lovely pieces about finding purpose in life. Some of these pieces involve faith, some struggle, some courage (both the everyday long-range kind and the fancy acute-need sort); all of them are powerful reminders that there's much more to life than gorging on turkey and hunting down that "must"-have gadget.
Short, bracing and often a little bitter: That’s how we like our coffee and that’s how we’re liking our fiction after taking a look around this site. It may seem a lot to ask of a piece of fiction weighing in at 25 words or less to contain such devices as plot, characterization and voice, but darned if some of these ultra-edited writers don’t manage it.
In a season when you can expect bad weather, real time flight information can be a boon. Other resources here include airport maps, airport delay info, and travel tips.
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