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Annual credit report - free

You are entitled to a free annual credit report -- once yearly. Go to this link, or to:
Annual Credit Report Request Service
P.O. Box 105281
Atlanta, GA 30348-5281

There are three national reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion) and you can get the report on all three from either the website or the mail.

Bench Memos - Nat'l Review Online

Just found this ... looks ontopic.

Blawg Review

Interesting site. Huge directories of blawgs (Law oriented blogs) and reviews of same.

Blog about newsreaders

Blog with reviews on news aggregator (news feed) programs and news syndicators.

Books, full-text and free

Interesting, online text of many, many books.

Cool email signatures

Email signatures, tag lines. Love 'em or hate 'em --- here is a huge, categorized collection of them ranging from philosophy to humor, sports, geeky stuff and more.

DNS tools

All kinds of DNS testing, mail lookup, ping, traceroute, etc. Also see http://dnsreport.com/.

Dr. Greg Frasier - adventure motorcyclist

His website starts with:
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Love, life and death by motorcycle. Deep throated music; a rumbling V-twin on Route 66. Tears; moisture in the Sahara Desert. Fear; eyes focused on the hole at the end of a Mexican bandit's gun.

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Their lead in:
Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.

Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.

Extreme Instability

Site has tornado and other storm-chasing and at http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-11-8.htm has some beautiful shots of the Northern Lights. Lots of other great photography on the site as well.

Faceted Classification

Interesting page discussing ways to classify information. Drupal's taxonomy scheme can be done in a variety of ways, either faceted (multiple vocabularies for varying types of description) or hierarchal (single, highly nested vocabulary). But note the following:

Interesting quote from Drupal page
Technically, there isn't much reason to prefer one or the other. however, you do get different user experience with each choice.

- do you prefer one select menu on the node/add page or many?
- if you require ever node to pick a programming language, then you have to break that out into its own vocabulary. similarly, if a post can be about mutliple programming languages but only 1 ralational DB, then you need different vocabs.

Fascinating multi-media photography site

You must have a broadband connection to enjoy this, but it's fantastic with a broad array of subjects. Here's the teaser info:

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Magnum In Motion editors blend powerful Magnum photography with audio commentary, text and graphics to create an immersive, engaging multimedia experience. Photographer commentary guides the viewer through the photo essay, while text and graphics provide additional information and enrich the viewing experience.

Magnum is on Slate.com Slate, one of the web's largest and most influential newsmagazines, is hosting a new page dedicated to Magnum photography called "Today's Pictures." Featuring a daily gallery of images, weekly historical features, and monthly multimedia photo essays produced by Magnum In Motion, "Today's Pictures" is an important new home for Magnum on the web. http://todayspictures.slate.com/

Free Market Foundation

The 'About Us'

from the site wrote:

Free Market Foundation, which was founded in 1972,  is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to protecting freedoms and strengthening families in Texas. We stand for less government, lower taxes, free enterprise and solid family values.

Free PC Tech site

Their intro wrote:
The primary mission of Free PC Tech is to supply everyone with the best in Technical support for their PC problems.

GE Research Blog

A totally fascinating blog site about GE's global research projects. Here is their 'about' page:

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From Edison's Desk is the blog of GE Global Research. It offers a

Graphics Programs

There's a neat little company named Alchemy Mindworks that produces some quality graphics software at a reasonable price. Includes a graphics "workshop" program for manipulating images, a GIF construction set, a PNG/MNG construction set and some other stuff. They also keep it up to date on a frequent basis with constant improvements, mostly at no additional cost.

Implicit Association Test

From their site:

It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.

Kevin Sites

Freelance journalist in Iraq, Afganistan, mideast

Legal Guide for Bloggers from the EFF

This is an interesting, and comprehensive piece on the legal pitfalls bloggers may face.

Libertarian Quotes

You don't have to be a Libertarian to appreciate many, if not most, of these quotes.

Nat'l Review Online - the Corner

A blog by Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review. I need to watch this one to see if it is worth following.

OneWheelDrive.net

OneWheelDrive.net
Bike reviews, trip reports, various.

PDF - Adobe Acrobat - free reader

Free reader from Adobe. There's a version for every operating system. This is an essential ingredient for every computer browsing the web because PDF is the universal file format.

Personal Democracy Forum

Their teaser:
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Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. We envision this site as one hub for the conversation already underway between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.

Pew Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces original, academic-quality reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.

Pretty and stupid

site that likes to focus on the ridiculous things that people in the public eye spout out (in spite of often good intentions). As the site describes itself:

Republican Research Council

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The Republican Research Council is a nonprofit organization that helps Republicans win elections. David Koziatek founded The Republican Research Council in 1999. The cornerstone of our work can be summed up in one word: Practicality.

Route 66 history

The following was taken from an IBMWR posting by Frank Glamser:

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The original Route 66 number was assigned in 1926 as the highway from

Scribblepinch -- part of Lockergnome

An interesting blog of stuff around the web, it appears. Described on the site as
What’s a Scribblepinch?

Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data

This site has everything you EVER wanted to know about time, time conversion, the history of time keeping, time zone history, time zone maps, national histories of legal time, civil time concepts, precision time-keeping, time notation and more.

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

intro from the site: Like many editorial consultants, I've been concerned about the amount of time I've been spending on easy fixes that the author shouldn't have to pay for. Sometimes the question of where to put a comma, how to use a verb or why not to repeat a word can be important, even strategic. But most of the time the author either missed that day's grammar lesson in elementary school or is too close to the manuscript to make corrections before I see it.

Texas Law Blog

The Texas Law Blog is a weblog devoted to Texas law, legal issues and politics. The Texas Law Blog monitors the United States Supreme Court, 5th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal A

Texas Trifles - a nicely constructed blog site with some good writing and good links.

By Cowtown Pattie. In her "about" piece she writes:

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The Common Scold by Monica Bay -- legal technology

This new blog promises to be useful in terms of legal technology and practice techniques.

The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP

A nice piece with lots of tweaks apparently known to a lot of people, but probably only to real geek-types. Most of the suggestions look to be safe, but no guarantees from me.

The Federalist

From their site: "The Federalist Patriot is the Internet's most subscribed e-journal. It is a highly acclaimed (see endorsements) publication of anecdotal rebuttal to contemporary political, social and mainstream media Leftists.

THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT: What They Didn't Want You To Know

One of the A & E Channel's investigative TV programs has now found the tables turned on it in the most ironic fashion.

Timezone conversions

Their blurb: Now you can find out the time anywhere in the world with The Time Zone Converter. Convenience: Use the converter to plan International travel, phone calls, meetings and many other uses.

To-Done

To-Done! is a regularly updated collection of thoughts, writings, tips, tricks and information on personal productivity, work/life balance and getting things done.

Tweak Windows XP tips

Looks to be an interesting site. Will want to be careful about the use of some of the more radical tweaks. Good backups and all that.  

Viewzone -- "Interesting Stuff"

Indeed it is. Somewhat sci-fi, conspiracy theories, junk science, lot's of "stuff"

Web writing style

This page lists a number of references to how to write for web presentation.

Windows IIS -- how to install on XP machine

If you are running a small workgroup of computers, you may want to use a computer running Windows XP as a Web server. You can do so by installing IIS on Windows XP. It is included with Windows XP but is not

World Heritage List

An interesting list described as

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The World Heritage List includes 830 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.