Heavy Metal Parking Lot DVD

Looking for a Christmas gift for the metalhead who has everything? Buy it now!



"Videotaped in a concert arena parking lot before a Judas Priest show in '86, HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT is truly the most magnificent portrait of dirt-rockin', headbanging, booze guzzling, dope smokin', trailer trash America has ever seen. It's truly an ingenious masterpiece, made complete with the vast display of bare feet, muscle shirts, bare-chested guys, bleach blonde frizzy perms, Mullets From Hell, BIG hair, bad teeth, scar tissue, and by far, the largest collection of late '70s Camaros ever seen in one location. Kudos to both John Heyn and Jeff Krulik for putting together this quintessential '80s magnum opus."

MediaTransparency.org

About this website



Provides a searchable database of grants of money given to media groups by conservative organizations. This database picks up where previous inquiries had left off, and actually connects the money to the media.



"The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), which has kindly allowed [the site] to re-use some of their data, reported in 1997 on the grant making activities of 12 foundations over the period 1992 through 1994. That report, titled 'Moving A Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations,' laid out a fine groundwork for understanding this movement, yet fell short in providing a comprehensive, interactive, open-to-all database that maps out the actual grants, for all to see. People for The American Way accurately described the engine of this movement in the title of another report on the phenomenon called "Buying a Movement."

jake -- jointly administered knowledge environments

jake -- about

"jake is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing metadata about online resources with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to customize for a specific library's holdings.

Put simply: jake makes it easy to create software which uses information about journals and online journal products.

The project started in April 1999 (see freshmeat version history) at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. From the beginning, jake has been a free software project developed using open source methods. This means that in addition to using a free software license (the GPL), we've opened up the process of managing the data in jake to our whole community. Our goal is to distribute the difficult task of keeping this data up to date very broadly, enabling all interested in helping to help make the data better and more complete. "

Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data

"The Web Site of the Center for Responsible Politics" - invaluable information about campaign finance and money in politics

100 Notable Books of the Year - New York Times

100 Notable Books of the Year - New York Times: "100 Notable Books of the Year"

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager

"NameVoyager



Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name's place in the historical tides.



The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America's name choices. Start with a "sea" of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look."

Monkeywrench Books - A Collective Radical Bookstore

http://www.monkeywrenchbooks.org/

"MonkeyWrench Books is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, collectively owned and operated radical bookstore in North Austin. We provide an extensive collection of radical and hard to find literature and media, and a space for community events.In order to offer a real alternative to the homogeneity of corporate bookstores, MWB stocks books, periodicals, pamphlets and zines from alternative publishers such as AK Press, Autonomedia, Black Rose Books, Common Courage, Seven Stories, International Publishers, Kerr, Monthly Review, South End Press,and Verso."

Golden Age Cartoons - About Us

Golden Age Cartoons - About Us: "Golden Age Cartoons (or 'GAC') is a website devoted to the classic cartoons and characters from the Golden Age of Hollywood. On GAC you will find some of most informative sites about many of these great cartoons, along with an excellent discussion forum and news updates."

WhatTheFont : MyFonts

WhatTheFont : MyFonts

"Web service WhatTheFont analyzes uploaded images and returns the font style matching the font used in the image."

PubSub Community Lists: The Librarian List

PubSub Community Lists: The Librarian List: "About the List

Librarians have been part of the online environment for decades. It didn't take long for them to get excited about blogs. This list shows the most influential librarian blogs, based on LinkRank."

Wired News: Riya Eases Pain of Pile of Pix

Wired News: Riya Eases Pain of Pile of Pix:



It blows my mind, but apparently this software allows you to identify each face or figure within a picture and tag the photo using that info. Wow!

http://riya.com/corp/learn-more.jsp

Package Alert Service

"Have you ever ordered something cool online and just couldn't wait to get it? Do you agonize over when it will be in your clammy little hands and obsessively check delivery tracking websites?



Of course I certainly wouldn't do such a thing, but just in case someone else has this "problem" I created an email alerting system for package deliveries. A number of people are offering RSS feeds for tracking packages, but that's still the wrong model. Don't make me check when my package arrives, push it to me.">Package Alert Service: "Have you ever ordered something cool online and just couldn't wait to get it? Do you agonize over when it will be in your clammy little hands and obsessively check delivery tracking websites?



Of course I certainly wouldn't do such a thing, but just in case someone else has this 'problem' I created an email alerting system for package deliveries. A number of people are offering RSS feeds for tracking packages, but that's still the wrong model. Don't make me check when my package arrives, push it to me."

EFF:Support Bloggers' Rights!

Support Bloggers' Rights!

The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation defends your digital rights every day and needs your help to continue.

In a recent email, father of "life hacks" and EFF employee Danny O'Brien wrote:
"My day job at the Electronic Frontier Foundation involves helping them fight the broadcast flag and discover sinister laser printer dots and defend bloggers' rights and wave the pointy stick at Sony over exploit-ridden DRM."

Publisher of the Legal Guide for Bloggers, the EFF works to protect your right to blog anonymously, make fair use of intellectual property, and protect your server from government seizure.

Google Base service goes live | CNET News.com

Google Base service goes live | CNET News.com: "Google's mysterious Google Base service went live late on Tuesday, allowing people to post any kind of information they want for free and to provide labels to describe it so others can easily find it."

Y.P.R.: The Most Excellent () and Lamentable () Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Told Entirely in Emoticons

Y.P.R.: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Told Entirely in Emoticons: What would Shakespeare think?

Librarians Against Bush

Librarians Against Bush: "'Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things

get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.' Thomas Jefferson"

Real-Time Flight Tracking

Real-Time Flight Tracking: Real-Time Flight Tracking
"Want to check on the status of a flight that's currently in the air? The major search engines and other specialized services offer real-time flight tracking services that show you the status of major airline flights."

This could be very useful during the holidays, with all that family travelling about...