Anderson Organizing Systems

Anderson Organizing Systems

No idea if this is any good, but talks a good game. I am remarkably productive despite being massively unorganized... with some trepidation I'm considering engaging such a service. [why trepidation? perhaps I have comfort in my clutter...?]

Giant Pool of Money

This American Life aired a one hour show in May 2008 on the subprime mess.

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made - Reviews - Movies - New York Times

Subjective, of course, but a good place to start. There
are a lot of bad movies. Also plenty of "genre" movies that
might appeal. E.g. do you find the View Askew movies entertaining (anything with Jay & Silent Bob, like Clerks, or Dogma, or Chasing Amy...)? They aren't on
this list but that's ok.

For genre films, the American Film Institute recently released their list of the top 10 films of all time for
ANIMATION
ROMANTIC COMEDIES
WESTERN
SPORTS
MYSTERY
FANTASY
SCI-FI
GANGSTER
COURTROOM DRAMA
EPIC

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine

Current state of all the good stuff that you can get for free. Plenty of apps. I love Audacity!

Many Eyes

Many Eyes

Ooh! Some very pretty visualization tools. Not sure yet whether it's easy to do useful viz, but pretty for certain.

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

Accidental Wisdom: The Real Truth About Barack Obama!

I am an Obama supporter. This site is clearly pro-Obama, but has links & citations to back up its points. It attempts to rebut many of the emails circulating, many of which make anti-Obama claims but without complete truthiness behind them...

Calais - Overview

Calais - Overview

All content, connected, semantically tagged...

automagically adding semantic metadata.

What kind of errors? Adaptation?

I'm frankly rather intrigued by this...

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007 - The New York Times

Phenomenal use of graphics to display information. In case you care about box office...

I don't, particularly, but I do love innovation in visualization.

Project Implicit�

Project Implicit�

Pretty sophisticated methodology for teasing out true beliefs (as compared with self-reported & possibly delusional beliefs...)

Caveman blues - Times Online

Caveman blues - Times Online

Why do we seem to "need" more stuff?

Probably evolutionary...?

The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

The jumping hankerchief mouse at monkey see monkey do

OK, is this really "best practice"? It sure is a fun little toy, making you popular with any kids you show this off to, especially if you are at an otherwise boring event with nice linen napkins...

Song Lyrics & more

Lyrics Freak is my first stop.

From Yahoo Song Lyrics on Yahoo! Music

Also, look for Find Me a Tune or
All the Lyrics (go down to the forums for help in identifying a song from partial lyrics... users like to show off their knowledge!).

And for automagic identification, check out Tunatic which,if your sound source is connected to the computer, will try to match what's playing to its database.

MasterGuitar

MasterGuitar

Expensive, but the rep is that this is the best guitar instruction course. I might buy it and try to make some music. Not sure I can commit the time right now, though... hence am holding off.

wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit

wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit
I reserved the site how2.ws a while back with the intentions of linking to a lot of how-to pages, but this wiki is pretty well done, and I think I'll let my domain lapse... could use perhaps some advanced search tools to wade through the tens of thousands of articles. Also, there are a few that seem to be advertising in disguise, but I guess that's the curse of the web...

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
There is way too much to read, in general, but a lot of great works here, all
in the public domain.

World Database of Happiness

World Database of Happiness
Attempting to provide the definitive & comprehensive compilation of happiness studies...

Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somehow these amuse me greatly.

The Frontal Cortex : The Certainty Bias

The Frontal Cortex : The Certainty Bias
Uncertainty -> Fear
Reduce Fear
thus Reduce Uncertainty

The Gapminder World 2006, beta

The Gapminder World 2006, beta
Cool tool!

Political Compass

Yet another quiz to help place you in the political spectrum. This one constructs a two dimensional space, with economic "left-right" on one axis, and "authoritarian-libertarian" on the other. I end up slightly left on economics and substantially, but not extremely, towards the libertarian end. Comrades appear to be Gandhi and the Dalai Lama...

Right Way to Draw Legislative Districts

How The Iowa Process Works: Under chapter 42 of the Iowa Code, enacted in 1980, the Iowa legislature has the final responsibility for enacting both congressional and state legislative district plans. However, the nonpartisan Legislative Services Bureau starts the process. The Bureau must develop up to three plans that can be accepted or rejected by the legislature.

The four criteria for the Bureau's plans, in descending order of importance, are:

1 - population equality,
2 - contiguity,
3 - unity of counties and cities (maintaining county lines and “nesting” house districts within
senate districts and senate districts within congressional districts), and
4 - compactness.

Neuroethics

From the description:

Philosophers have long sought to answer questions about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going. Stephan Chorover frets that a widening circle of contemporary scientists embrace Sigmund Freud’s approach to these questions, which is to say, “Biology is destiny.” Neuroscientists are promoting an even narrower dogma, says Chorover, where “everything we are trying to understand can be understood in terms of underlying brain mechanisms, neurons and molecules.” How can we cultivate individual ethical acts, and how can society hope to respond to such challenges as violent conflict, or social and economic inequity, if all human behavior reduces to a set of neurological inevitabilities?

Don Norman's suggested readings

From a genius of human factors & design. Annotated recommendations.

Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages

Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages
Interactive statistical stuff. Can be used for learning, and also can be used for powerful work. I hope.

Bull Moose

Bull Moose

Bleeping Computer: Computer Help and Spyware Removal

Computer Help and Spyware Removal

lots of useful stuff to help fix annoying stuff

The Euston Manifesto - Home

A "new democratic progressive alliance". Perhaps the sensible left can come together. Still, as an anti-socialist liberal, I find some of this a bit too pink for my tastes. But agree with most.

stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site
Whew. hundreds of thousands of free "stock" photos. Hard to sift through but it's pretty amazing in the depth of content.

Musipedia: The Open Music Encyclopedia

Musipedia: The Open Music Encyclopedia
Find a melody by humming it...

SNOBOL4.ORG: SNOBOL4 Resources

SNOBOL, (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a language for text processing, pattern matching, and much more, first designed and implemented at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (BTL) in the 1970's.
I am considering using SNOBOL for modules in a chat bot implementation. Given that I have spent about 20 hours on this in the past year, it's not likely to be moving forward soon...