TROUBLING INFORMATION

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Catalogs

Google searches mail-order catalogs. JC Whitney, the online version of the magnificent old paper catalog for automobile parts. Edmund Scientific. The Estes model rockets catalog, present-day, and the Estes catalog from 1973. Campmor and REI.

June 5, 2004
Religion

“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there. Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there and shouting ‘I found it!’” — Atheists of Silicon Valley. Inevitably, The Church of Euthanasia and Landover Baptist Church. Free deliverance at demonbuster.com. An appearance of the Holy Spirit at a Citgo station in Clarksville, Arkansas. Perhaps Ashtar Sheran has the answer. Christian gifts. A miracle arrangement consultancy. The Official God FAQ. Important information about Hell. Jesus revealed in the clouds. CrossDaily.com’s directory of personal Christian websites — see also fishthe.net. The Jesus Picture. The Jesus Nebula. The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Jesus of the Week. Johnny the Baptist,

June 5, 2004
NASAâ€™s Image of the Day

June 5, 2004
QuickBooks

QuickBooks User Community at quickbooksusers.com. QuickBooks FAQs at compasspoint.org. QuickBooks User Forum at network54.com. Keystroke shortcuts for QuickBooks. Intelinfo.com’s Best Free QuickBooks Training Materials. alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks and biz.comp.accounting on Google Groups. QuickBooks forum at Yahoo! Finance.

May 18, 2004
Capital Circulation

The Tax Foundation provides analyses of tax policy to the American public, including levels of taxation by state and locality and the shape of redistribution of federal taxation among the states (”D.C. Gets $6.44 for Every $1 in Taxes; New Mexico Gets $2.37, New Jersey Only 62 Cents”). Revenuewatch.org “aims to generate and publicize research, information, and advocacy on how revenues” from natural resource sales “are being invested and disbursed and how governments and extraction companies respond to civic demands for accountability.” A Crash Course in Dubyanomics with Robert Barro and Paul Krugman. The impact of the Bush tax cuts considered at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” by Thomas Picketty and Emmanuel Saez (2001). The U.S. Treasury Departnment’s The Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It page. Everbank, an online bank with accounts in sixteen currencies.

May 17, 2004
Microsoft Windows

Bootdisk.com has boot disks for the various versions of DOS and Windows. The World of Windows Networking, Homenethelp.com, PracticallyNetworked.com, and networking at Annoyances.org. Portable Firefox for Windows.

May 6, 2004
Texts

Terry Eagleton reviews Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism. Devon Largio’s “Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002″ (Senior Honors Thesis, Political Science, University of Illinois, 2004). Readprint.com: a library of texts. Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications, by David Stockburger. Structured Procrastination, by John Perry. David Rey’s Darwinian Poetry Project. A collection of eyewitness accounts.

May 5, 2004
Endeavors

Watch a baseball game. Cy Brown’s hole. Make silver nitrate without dying. Bush/Zombie Reagan in 2004. Three articles about cooking pizza for Kim Jong-il (1) (2) (3). Kevin and Dave visited a decommissioned nuclear missile silo for you. Patrick Combs deposits a junk mail check. Jeannine deals with her Chiari 1 malformation. A visual catalog of the McClintock household. Rebecca Caldwell’s carthedral. Spiderman reviews crayons. NASA’s Mars Rover home page. An explanation of cricket. An effort to find a lost frog. A traveling Gorn. A campaign against lip balm. Job hunting: JobStar Job Search Guide. Interviewing: The twenty-five most difficult questions you’ll ask or answer. Resumes: advice from Texas A&M University, Colorado State University, and The Rockport Institute. Communicating with budgies. Kid of Speed documents The Serpent’s Wall. “Right now, 30 percent of all hermit crabs on our shorelines are living in shells that are too small for them”: an effort to help. Heart ‘n Soul, a music theater group for young people with learning disabilities. Projects at spurse.org.

May 5, 2004
Drawings of Aliens by Human Children

April 29, 2004
Editing

The newsgroup comp.publish.prepress on Google Groups. A plaintive page about curly-quote character encoding confusion. Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style and his Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors. On the long history of they/their/them as ungendered singular pronouns. The copyediting_l style FAQ, including some interesting prevailing wage data for freelance copyeditors (how obsolete is it?). Ben Yagoda on adjectives.

April 24, 2004
The Minneapolis Sign Project

April 23, 2004
Databases

A FAQ on linking databases to Openoffice.org, another FAQ with answers about specific databases, and links to external resources addressing these issues, all at dba.openoffice.org. OpenOffice, ODBC, and MySQL HowTo (PDF). Using Microsoft Access databases in OpenOffice.org. Rick Morris asks “are there any good reasons to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?” and answers “yes.” Buy Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez. MySQL Gotchas and Why Not MySQL? Yet another PostgreSQL vs. MySQL review. How to relate tables and databases with MySQL using phpMyAdmin. phpMyEdit — a phpMyAdmin alternative? The MySQL Manual.

April 19, 2004