Old Cook Books (late 1800's & early 1900's), links to free online e-copies Tip of the hat to northern girl who gave me this link.
We’re a team of about 100 volunteers dedicated to countering the constant negative drumbeat of our mainstream media.
Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "Stimulus" just made things worse. Solution: Here are three "reality-based" charts to send to him.
Facebook finally provided a way to keep any random jerk in the café from hijacking your account. But you have to go out of your way to enable this protection, and you might have to wait. Still: Jump on this.
Here we see clearly that Reagan's record is that of presiding over the beginning of the de-industrialization of America. It was nothing like the total collapse under Bush, but it helped pave the way for that eventuality.
This graph, for instance, is the best visualization I've seen of Larry Bartels's striking data showing how different income groups do under Republican and Democratic presidents:
The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that's not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle…they see everything.
Here is a summary of what the science says on each skeptic argument. Rather long, but very helpful.
Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop."
Trolls, flamers, griefers, jerks: They are known by many names, but they are always KNOWN. Let's peel back the mystery and take a look inside the world of the troll.
With NASA's manned space flight program in tumult, it's an open question when/if human boots will tramp on Martian soil. But the space agency has provided a virtual way for humans to explore the red planet, with its new "Be a Martian" program.
Fun, tongue in check review of EMI's newly released, remastered versions of all 13 Beatles albums in a single box set.
Nearly every American man has heard the story of the shootout at the OK Corral. Wyatt Earp and his cohorts confronted a group of outlaw cowboys and emerged victorious. While much myth and mystery surrounds the circumstances of this encounter, a few things are very clear.
Palin to quit as Alaska governor Anchorage Daily News Published: July 3rd, 2009 11:38 AM Last Modified: July 3rd, 2009 11:47 AM
Free at Last, Free at Last, Great Lord All Mighty, Free at Last! Well for at least those living in these 6 out of our 50 States. But hey, that's still 12% and growing.
Thoughtful insight on one piece of the current marriage debates I, for one, had overlooked.
We are neighbors, sort of. I'm a sociophobe, not comfortable around people. But not as removed as you. I have a two-lane black top out front and the store is only seven miles. Sent a friend request. You might think about writing some of your experiences out in the silence. Of course when you concentrate on the activities of squirrels they start stashing nuts in your mental cavities.
Gail aka Mule
What does it mean to be poor? If it means living at or below the poverty line, then 15 percent of Americans — some 46 million people — qualify.
Birther spokesman Herb Titus went on Voice of Christian Youth America’s Crosstalk on Friday to discuss the progress of the birther movement. Undeterred by recent setbacks to the movement, Titus claimed that President Obama’s ineligibil …
How dumb does she think her Facebook followers are? ... It's perfectly fine for Palin to prefer Gingrich to Romney.
By Andy Kroll - As soon as April, millions of Wisconsinites will vote on whether to oust Gov. Scott Walker—a rising Republican star and arguably the most polarizing governor in politics today—just two years into his first term in office.
An increasing number of House Republicans are getting wrapped up in allegations of ethics violations ahead of the November elections, handing Democrats easy campaign fodder and putting the GOP in an unexpected bind.
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