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Please note: the descriptions, commentary, etc. for each submitted link which appear under "Site Description" are from various sources. If they appear in BLACK text, they are from the member or guest who provided the links. If they appear in DARK BLUE text, the comments or description are those of your beloved Webmaster and President, as none was submitted -- blame me in those cases, not them.... The "Go See!" buttons at the right take you directly to the page or site in question (obviously). Be sure to bookmark all the ones you find interesting so you can go back to them later when you have time to explore...! |
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| Quantcast -- Here
is a list of websites ( like a million) that was in a newsletter
I received. This website provides a huge list of US websites
ranked in order from most popular to least popular. At the top
of the page you'll see "Top U.S. Sites:". Click on
"1-100" and you'll see the top 100 US websites. If
you go a step further and click on one of the sites, you'll see
a page full of demographic data regarding the website and some
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| Submitted by: Rod O'Connor -- non-member/occasional attendee | |
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Decathlon -- 100% solar powered homes --- 2007
competition on display on the Washington DC mall --- The Solar
Decathlon joins 20 college and university teams in a competition
to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient
solar-powered house. The U.S Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is the primary sponsor of the Solar Decathlon. . |
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| CyberFlu Virus Warning -- ...warning about a new internet virus that can be transmitted from computers to humans, resulting in flu-like symptoms. Unlike traditional viruses... ...certain circumstances, the virus can be transferred from your PC to your body through..... Humor... I hope!! |
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| HippyLife -- Alternative/pagan lifestyle site with forums, links to resources and online merchants, information about alternative medical techniques and New Age crystal vibration woo-woo stuff.. |
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| JWJ Online -- John W. Johnston's site promoting the watercolour medium for beginners and others, among other topics of interest.. | |
| BrainHop -- Offbeat and funny news..... |
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| FistFire LLC -- Metal Art and Furniture..... |
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| Great Aussie Food -- ...tantalising tastes of Australia when you are far from home! Whatever you desire, be it the heavenly chocolate delight that is a Tim Tam or the crunch of some Burger Rings.... |
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| Price Protectr -- There are lots of stores out there that offer
price protection policies -- when the price drops on an item
you've purchased, they'll refund you the difference. But there's
a catch... it's up to you to watch prices. Price Protectr makes it simple to keep track of your purchases and get your money back. . |
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| Submitted by: Ken Rodabaugh II (1) -- General Interest | |
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| One Laptop Per Child -- One of the most visionary and world-changing projects out there, a product of MIT's Media Lab, OLPC is dedicated to creating the so-called "$100 Laptop" and getting it into the hands of children in Third World and otherwise underpriveleged communities around the globe. They have produced a phenomenal product, and it has a lot to recomment it -- I heartily recommend that anyone with an interest in the future of computing and the growth of human capability investigate this project thoroughly!!! |
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| BookCrossing.com -- If you love a book, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours -- if it doesn't, someone else loves it too. The Catch-and-Release approach to literature. A fascinating idea with contributors all over the world and right here in Omaha, too..... |
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| PC Magazine's Top 100 Undiscovered Websites -- the popular magazine for deluded non-Mac-users' own take on the WWWebsite Potluck. Quite a grab-bag -- I especially got a kick out of the Uncyclopedia -- a sort of alternate-universe Wikipedia full of deliberately wrong, wacky and downright preposterous knowledge.... |
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| The Cadaver Calculator -- Hey! Not that I'm suggesting anything underhanded, but if the guy sitting next to you at the OMUG meeting keels over and nobody else claims the body, how much can we sell it for...? For that matter, if you kick the bucket, how much could your loved ones get?? |
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| Newseum: The Interactive Museum of News -- A real museum in Washington DC, this site is its online presence. If you're one of those people who can't start the day without their morning paper...only more so, this is the site for you. Here (among many other things news-related) you can see the front page of over 400 of today's newspapers around the world. 'All the news that's fit to print' indeed!. |
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| The WeirdConverter -- How many Shaquille O'Neals tall was the World Trade Center before 9/11? How many Male Polar Bears did the debris they cleared away from Ground Zero weigh? If these are questions you are pondering, you need to do two things. First, seek professional help in a controlled environment -- watching The Dr. Phil Show won't do the trick. Second, consult the WeirdConverter...! |
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| Submitted by: Ken Rodabaugh II (2) -- Commercial | |
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| What On Earth Catalog -- T-shirts, toys, decorations, gifts, all sorts of essential stuff... including the Hillary Nutcracker...! |
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Toys, tools, weapons of cubicle mass desctuction, apparel and more, all for the discerning (if geekish) tech-savvy customer. If you need your very own working model trebuchet, or a T-Shirt that says "These aren't the NERDS you're looking for," these are the sites for you. If you need a USB hub atop which Homer Simpson spins aimlessly in his desk chair and goes "Woo-woo!" -- these are the sites for you. Get the idea?. |
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| HeadBobble.com -- If (like the football player in the Alltel commercial) you demand your own, personal custom bobble-head figure that looks just like you, and you aren't afraid to shell out somewhere in the range of a hundred bucks, these folks can help. You upload two pics of the subject (front and side views, like mug shots, only without the numbered placard on the chest) choose a body style, skin and eye color, and theyll immortalize you in all your agreeable (nod, nod, uh-huh, uh-huh) glory..... |
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| Yesteryear Toy Co. -- Collectible steam-powered toys, tin toys and more. Stationary steam engines, trains, tractors and more all powered by real steam engines. Painted tin toys and collectibles, some powered by wind-up spring motors and some not. Toys that harken back to the bygone era of the Industrial Revolution, not the high-tech present Digital Revolution..... |
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| HoldUp Suspender Co. -- Suspenders.com -- the ultimate source for the belt-phobic. If you crave a support structure you can hook your thumbs under and lean back in your chair as your story unfolds.... |
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| American Science and Surplus -- I really don't know how to do this one justice. To call it a surplus store conjures visions of old entrenching tools and beat-up tents, and while you can probably find those things here, it doesn't mention the laboratory glasswear, the Sea Monkeys, the rubber spiders and lop-sided marbles, the magnets and toggle switches, the pocket manicure kits, the... well, you see what I mean..... |
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| RefDesk -- According to Stu, thisis one of the best general reference sites he knows, and he uses it as his home page. We were all pretty impressed when we looked it over at the meeting; it seems to have something for everyone. |
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| KeepVid -- Ever find a video on a site or a link that someone sends you, decide you want to keep a copy for future enjoyment, and discover that there doesn't seem to be any way to download it to your machine? Keepvid lets you copy the URL of the video, and downloads it for you. This one's a keeper. |
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| Submitted by: Mary Ledbetter -- At The Meeting | |
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The Omaha Wiki -- "Omaha's free on-line encyclopedia that anyone can edit" -- Mary found a really interesting resource here. I assume you're all familiar these days with the 'wiki': a (usually) open-format reference site, designed to be added to, corrected, extended and revised by the users. Depending on who's supporting them and their purpose, they have varying levels of access (some can be edited by anyone, some need to have changes approved by a moderator, and others can only be contributed to by individuals specifically authorized), but they all have a basic structure in common. The most famous is the Wikipedia This wiki is all about Omaha, Nebraska and the surrounding area -- a community with much to recommend it... not least, that it is the home of OMUG! Check it out, and see if there's anything you'd like to contribute. |
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| Omaha Forums -- Following a general theme begun by Mary, Steve suggested this site, which brings together (or maybe supports, I'm not certain) a large number of message forums for discussion on all sorts of Omaha-related topics. Rather than try to describe it in detail, I'll just say: go check it out! If you have any interest in what people are saying about our community -- on just about any aspect of it -- you'll find something for you here. |
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| Submitted by: Ken Rodabaugh II (3) -- At The Meeting | |
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| Tatermitts -- This one came up when one or two members wondered about a site I referred to whimsically in passing -- something I thought not of sufficient interest to include in my entries. With interest expressed, here it is. If any of you have ever been stuck with the classic military Kitchen Police ('KP') task when being penalized for some infraction, you'll probably wish you had this product to help with all those potatoes you had to peel. Believe it or not, you can actually find these at Walgreens Drugstores and other locations at the moment, in the area where they sell "As Seen on TV" products.... |
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| The Rare Book Room -- This is a much more 'serious' site, and quite fascinating to a bibliophile like me. This site makes available (as scanned images you can view) copies of rare books and manuscripts that almost no one has in this day and age, without requiring anyone to actually have physical contact and expose these literary treasures to further deterioration. As one example, at the meeting we took a look at an original copy of one issue of Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac -- more accurately, "Poor Richard improved: being an ALMANACK and EPHEMERIS of the motions of the SUN and MOON; the true Places and Aspects of the Planets; the RISING and SETTING of the Sun; and the..." well, the title goes on for another fifty or sixty words. More than you'd think, considering how much harder it was to set type and use one of those Gutenberg-type presses that publishing is for us in the Age of Macintosh. Maybe he sold it by the word...? They just don't make them like that anymore.... |
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