Good Eatin': The Complete & Utter Idiot’s Guide to Making a Baloney Sandwich

I've had an affection for bologna since my 9th grade year at L'École de la Prétention where it was served several times a week; I remember with especial fondness breakfast, at which the mysterious lunchmeat was presented fried as a substitute for bacon. At The Complete & Utter Idiot’s Guide to Making a Baloney Sandwich, you'll find an in-depth analysis of the steps needed to prepare this staple of the American table. Step by step directions are divided into bits so small that even those of us completely unfamiliar with the mysteries of the kitchen can prepare this epicurean delight. This site will solve all of your lunching needs, and answer questions you never knew you had about baloney.

Smart TV: The net as an intelligent alternative to the tube

Fora.tv is repackaging speeches, panel discussions and lecture series from the nation's think tanks, civic groups, bookstores and similar venues as online video programs on an easily searchable website. A great resource intended by the company to be for ideas what ESPN is for sports. <http://www.fora.tv/>

Instructions, manuals and guides: Wiki How

"wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 17,160 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join us by writing a new page, or editing a page that someone else has started. How to[, for example]:

• Dress in a Sari
• Set Up an Art Exhibition
• Choose a Credit Counseling Agency
• Tie a Silk Scarf
• Make a Sideways Room
• Walk Like a Diva
• Succeed at Any Home Improvement Project
• Help Your Child Accept a New Baby
• Read an Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR)
• Get Served Quickly at the Bar
• Do the Samoan Fa'ataupati (Slap Dance)
• Make Ricotta Cheese
• Make a Friendship Bracelet
• Hack a Coke Machine
• Consolidate Loans..." -- from the website.

<http://wiki.ehow.com/>

Health: Who's Sick?

Who's Sick?: A new way to keep track of what's going around <http://whoissick.org/sickness/>.

Getting Around: Go, D.C., Go!

"At last you can explore Washington DC and look like you actually know where you're going (even if you still insist on wearing that fanny-pack). Our site and interactive map effortlessly compares all the different ways to navigate greater Downtown DC. Whether you are eager to catch a museum tour, catch a glimpse of 'W', or even catch a ride to work -- this site is the one-stop shop for getting straight to your destination." -- from the website. <http://www.goDCgo.com/>

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The "Who Owns the National Debt" Pie Chart

From The Skeptical Optimist:

"The chart below is an update, using the latest estimates from the Treasury. (To make it easier to dispel the popular-but-false rumors about China’s share of our federal debt, I added some percentages in the bigger slices. To end the suspense, the Chinese own 4% of it.)

"I assume this chart is mostly self-explanatory. Seems to me that we have a diverse and inclusive array of Treasury-security owners spanning the globe, but concentrated in the USA. Click to enlarge.



"Here are clickable links to the data sources:
• Estimated foreign debt holdings
• Page to lookup total debt and intragov. debt
• Fed (“US Monetary Authority”) share of debt"

Astronomy: Cosmic Journey - A History of Scientific Cosmology (Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics)

"From the ancient Greeks to the Hubble Space Telescope - the story of the colorful individuals, startling ideas and ingenious tools that brought us knowledge of the vast and strange universe we inhabit. Written by leading historians of astronomy, richly illustrated." -- from the website. <http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/>

Good Eatin': What you need to know about beer

Prosit! L'Chayim! Sláinte! À votre santé! In Vino Veritas, In Cervesio Felicitas! Igfenn, hei skål! Salud amor y pesetas -- y tiempo para gustarlos! Cheers!
Everything You Wanted to Know About Beer, But Were Afraid to Ask:
Don’t know a lager, from an ale, from a stout, from a bock? This brewer's bible will provide you with a description of every style of beer known to man: Brewers Assoc. Guide to Beer Styles (pdf)

Environment: The Daily Green website

On April 22, Earth Day, Hearst Magazines will launch thedailygreen.com, aimed at 'green consumers....While content will be an important element of The Daily Green, it is the community of followers of the green [Photo]movement that will inform the sensibility of the site," blahblahed Hearst, offering as an example a feature called 'Weird Weather Watch," a "user-generated" photoblog documenting climate change on which, in other words, surfers will be invited to provide the Hearst Corporation with content for free. House Beautiful will offer editorial coverage on the site, and The Daily Green will have profiles at MySpace and Facebook. <http://www.thedailygreen.com/>

Good Eatin': Grocery List Generator

The GLG (Grocery List Generator) is a tool that will help you to keep in stock the recipe-ingredients and other groceries that you use regularly. It creates a well-organized list to help simplify grocery shopping.

Features:

• 7 international sample dishes from LXweb.nl
• Never forget an ingredient needed for a dish anymore.
• Easy to maintain database with all your favorite dishes,
  and other items you often need.
• Items are grouped by super market department type.
• Organize your list based on your supermarket's layout.
• Keeps a running list of items selected, even after you restart Firefox.
• Directly print your list, or export it to disk/pda.
• Supports unicode data (UTF8).
• Available in a dozen languages

<Grocery List Generator>

Astronomy: Stereo's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager Views the Sun

As they near their final positions, the Stereo orbiters will study violent solar eruptions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections, that shower Earth with energetic particles that can disrupt power grids and satellite communications. Stereo data, from panoramic views from the Sun to the Earth created by combining images from a suite of telescopes on board the two spacecraft, will give scientists the ability to predict "space weather" and track "solar fronts." BBC article. NASA's Stereo website.

Good Eatin': Coffee and Espresso Information

"Your source for coffee and espresso tutorials, reviews, and original java-related content....Our intention is to improve coffee quality through education and research. This 300-page coffee website was developed as a platform to share our passion for specialty coffee." -- from the website.
<http://www.coffeeresearch.org/>

Tools: RSS via eMail

With R|mail, you can subscribe to any rss feed via email. Copy and paste the feed link into the rss field and enter your email address; it's equally easy to unsubscribe. A Top Feeds list suggests 100 popular sources. Bloggers can add an R|mail icon to their sites. <http://www.kbcafe.com/Rmail.aspx>

RSS: Newzie

(In its own estimation) a powerful news monitoring and aggregation tool, Newzie is a new software application that allows you to:

* Subscribe to RSS content containing text, audio, and video
* Manage and access your bookmarks
* Monitor web pages for content changes
* Capture online page content while surfing
* One page access to all major search engines
* Unicode Support
* Bloglines Synchronization Support
* Full Backup facility

<http://www.newzie.com/>

Environment: Volcano Hazards (USGS)

"More than 50 volcanoes in the United States have erupted one or more times in the past 200 years. The most volcanically active regions of the nation are in Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington. Volcanoes produce a wide variety of hazards that can kill people and destroy property. Large explosive eruptions can endanger people and property hundreds of miles away and even affect global climate. Some...volcano hazards...can occur even when a volcano is not erupting." -- from the website. <http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs002-97/>

Resource: The Blues Database

"Search in the blues database for all your information about all blues artists with discographies and festivals, all you ever need to know from Albert Collins right up to ZZ Top and ZZ Hill!!!" -- from the website.

FYI, the most popular music listed in the Blues Database:

10 most visited albums:
1: Phyllis & Lawrence - Phyllis & Lawrence
2: Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 - Robert Johnson
3: Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982) - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
4: V-Disc Recordings - Harry James
5: Man in Black: 1954-1958 - Johnny Cash
6: Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings - Lightnin' Hopkins
7: Complete Aladdin Recordings - Lightnin' Hopkins
8: Golden Years of Nat King Cole - Nat 'King' Cole
9: Whose Truth, Whose Lies? - Doug MacLeod
10: Blues on the Bayou - B.B. King

10 most voted songs:
1: Malted Milk - Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 - Robert Johnson
2: Same Old Pain - Phyllis & Lawrence - Phyllis & Lawrence
3: Norfolk County Line - Whose Truth, Whose Lies? - Doug MacLeod
4: Love Is Ours - Phyllis & Lawrence - Phyllis & Lawrence
5: Angel from Montogomery - Just Won't Burn - Susan Tedeschi
6: Bad Love - Journeyman - Eric Clapton
7: Sanctuary - Sanctuary - Charlie Musselwhite
8: Just Turnaround and Go - Phyllis & Lawrence - Phyllis & Lawrence
9: I Just Wanna' Be - Phyllis & Lawrence - Phyllis & Lawrence
10: Tears in Heaven - Unplugged/Clapton Chronicles - Eric Clapton

The Blues Database: <http://www.bluesdatabase.com/>

The War: Baghdad - Mapping the Violence 2003-2007 (BBC)

"Since the US declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, the capital, Baghdad, has seen the worst of the ongoing violence. Our animated map details the city’s key locations, ethnic divisions and major bomb attacks of the insurgency and sectarian violence." -- BBC Online <http://news.bbc.co.uk/>

Tools: Computer-On-a-Stick

is a USB Flash Drive with its own operating system and a suite of MS Office-compatible applications. The Computer-On-a-Stick also comes with Mozilla Firefox, Evolution email, and Yahoo- and MSN-compatible instant messengers. When you plug the C-O-a-S into any desktop or portable PC, you activate a personal and private operating environment that is small enough to carry in your pencil holder. Price starts at $ 149. <http://www.fingergear.com/>