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The BRC posts pictures of their operations on Flickr. They just posted some from Haiti.
Other Flickr users are also posting earthquake pix.
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Goat Trauma
The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos as children. This group realized that there were many others out there who were afraid to come forward with their horrific stories and wanted to find some way to help as many people as they could. The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is the result of their dream.I remember being traumatized as a little kid by Uncle Bill's old billy goat. I got out of Mom's car
and got butted headfirst into the gate to the yard. My trauma didn't last very long though. A few days later I leaned out the barn window with my BB gun and scored a bullseye on said billy goat's dangly parts. That might have been an unconventional cure but it kept me from any lasting phobias.
It was pretty baaaaaaaad.
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Petersen's Hunting
Petersen is one of the old names in outdoor publishing, and with a total of 500,000+ unique monthly visitors, magazine readership of 3.2 million and 4.2 million TV-watching households, it is the most trusted name solely devoted to the pursuit of sport hunting. Mixed with content on all facets of this sport are key features on conservation and game management , all serving to position Petersen’s Hunting enthusiasts at the forefront of the ‘green’ movement.
Publisher Robert Petersen (September 10, 1926 – March 23, 2007) was an avid sportsman. He was born in East Los Angeles, California and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Starting with Hot Rod Magazine in 1948, he built a publishing empire on automotive-themed publications, including Motor Trend. He also published CARtoons, Guns & Ammo, Sport, Motorcyclist, Car Craft, Hunting, Mountain Biker, Photographic, Teen, Tiger Beat, and Sassy Magazine.
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Being both a Boddington fan and and an avid reader of anything pertaining to African hunting, I am a frequent visitor on both of these sites.(Me) (Home)
Military.com: For Veterans
In their words:
We started Military.com in 1999 to revolutionize the way the 30 million Americans with military affinity stay connected and informed. Today, we're the largest military and veteran membership organization — 10 million members strong.
Military.com's free membership connects servicemembers, military families and veterans to all the benefits of service — government benefits, scholarships, discounts, lifelong friends, mentors, great stories of military life or missions, and much more.
We believe that the benefits earned in the service should be easier to access and written in plain English. We're passionate about helping members make the most of military experience throughout life.
Military.com's members are sharing stories, insider tips, news from the front lines, and unique slices of military life including the tough stuff of war.
Military.com provides headline news and technology updates since our community answers the call and makes news. We also cover the rest of the military experience — from great content like our user-generated videos in our popular "Shock and Awe" feature to our military equipment guide we present what makes the military unique (and fun).
In 2004, Military.com joined forces with Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) to accelerate our growth and change the playing field for career and educational opportunities for servicemembers, veterans and military spouses. Monster's vision is bringing people together to advance their lives, which is a great fit with Military.com's "members first" ethos and goal of connecting the military community to all the benefits of service.
Community Connections
Buddy Finder
Unit Homepages & Reunions
Discussion
Military News & Benefits Updates
Military Headlines
Benefits Directory & Benefits Updates
Finance Tips & VA Loan Center
Career & Education Services that Give Members an Edge
Insider’s Guide to Joining the Military
Veteran Career Network / Military Alumni Network
Veteran Job Board
Resume Builder & Resume Upload
Scholarship Search
Military-Friendly School Finder
GI Bill & TA Guide
Good Deals
Military & Veteran Discounts
Gear & Surplus
Free Classifieds
Fun & Cool Stuff
Shock & Awe & Photos
DefenseTech & OpFor and other Military Blogs
Equipment Guides
Military Trivia Challenge & History
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Defense Tech: Foretelling the Future
Defense Tech examines the intersection of technology and defense from every angle and provides analysis on what’s ahead. Technology is shaping how wars are fought, borders are protected, crooks are caught, and individual rights are defined.
Defense Tech, a Military.com site, stays on top of these changes, rounding up the day’s news, linking to sources of information, and providing analysis on what’s ahead.
From Predator drones to roadside bombs, computer security to nuclear threats, body armor to missile defense, the site aims to examine the intersection of technology and defense from every angle, covering the exploits of soldiers and hackers, madmen and geniuses, inventors and dictators.
(Me) (Home)Advice from Snopes
By now, most people are familiar with www.snopes..com and/or www.truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via e-mail is true or false. Both are excellent sites. Below is their advice.
| Advice from Snopes.Com |
Most people use a nickname for their email just so their real name is not out there on the internet. BUT........if YOU have listed their real name in your contacts, it will also show up next to their email address. Be a friend and delete all the names before forwarding. Even better, send everything by BCC. That's BLIND CARBON COPY. That way NO names will ever show up on an email.
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The Title Wave
The Title Wave Used Bookstore, my other favorite Portland bookstore, has been open since 1988. It is housed in a 1912 building at 216 N.E. Knott that was the original Albina Branch Library, one of Multnomah County's Carnegie libraries.
Staffed by fifty-plus volunteers and laid out by the Dewey Decimal System, it is where all of the Multnomah County libraries dispose of their extra stock. They have over 20,000 used books, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs, videos, magazines and cassettes at bargain prices, starting at twenty-five cents.
They hold a once-a-year sale, with 55 percent off everything in the store.
It feels a little odd to be shopping in a library, but quite enjoyable. The books aren't collector's items because of condition, but the selection of books is outstanding.
It is open Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Google earth
Yes, this is basically a crosspost from my other Blog, with information both added and rewritten.
Google Earth. I finally installed it and of course had to play around locating and pinning the places I'd been or that were important to me. Nostalgia and a new toy are an odd mix.
This program is a hoot, It lets you be superman and fly around the globe, looking at actual satellite views, current weather, and imagery. The closer you zoom, the more detail you get, it even lets you zoom in to sidewalk level in some areas.
You are NOT getting live views. Some of them are several years old, but still quite interesting. In many areas, you can select the historical view and scroll back through earlier views of the land and see the changes.
Sometimes there is an odd patchwork effect to the look of the terrain, as it is spliced together from satellite photos taken at different times of the day and season, though there are few winter views as snow obscures terrain.
There are a number of overlays you can turn on and off, like weather (current), roads, traffic (current) and interesting places.
Running your cursor over the screen shows you the elevations. You can switch to a flight sim mode wherever you are and see what it would be like to fly over the area. You can turn on a layer that shows the topography of the bottoms of the oceans.
It also links geotagged photos and videos from Youtube and Flickr and ties seamlessly into Google Streets to give you a street level 360 degree view on most roads and streets in the U.S. Even out of the way places like Star Meadows are on Street View.
This is from Google Streetview
The entrance to the Song Cua Lon river, Cau Mau peninsula, Vietnam.
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Google Earth. I finally installed it and of course had to play around locating and pinning the places I'd been or that were important to me. Nostalgia and a new toy are an odd mix.
This program is a hoot, It lets you be superman and fly around the globe, looking at actual satellite views, current weather, and imagery. The closer you zoom, the more detail you get, it even lets you zoom in to sidewalk level in some areas.
You are NOT getting live views. Some of them are several years old, but still quite interesting. In many areas, you can select the historical view and scroll back through earlier views of the land and see the changes.
Sometimes there is an odd patchwork effect to the look of the terrain, as it is spliced together from satellite photos taken at different times of the day and season, though there are few winter views as snow obscures terrain.
There are a number of overlays you can turn on and off, like weather (current), roads, traffic (current) and interesting places.
Running your cursor over the screen shows you the elevations. You can switch to a flight sim mode wherever you are and see what it would be like to fly over the area. You can turn on a layer that shows the topography of the bottoms of the oceans.
It also links geotagged photos and videos from Youtube and Flickr and ties seamlessly into Google Streets to give you a street level 360 degree view on most roads and streets in the U.S. Even out of the way places like Star Meadows are on Street View.
This is from Google Streetview
The entrance to the Song Cua Lon river, Cau Mau peninsula, Vietnam.(Me) (Home)
Don't Read This at Work!
The Darwin Awards is a tongue-in-cheek honor named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards are given to people who "do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool" or in other words, lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid fashion. This is the official site, where everything is checked for authenticity before it is published.
Annual awards are listed, you can do key word searches or browse categories like Guns or Electricity . Examples of Darwin award winners include:
- Juggling active hand grenades (Croatia, 2001).
- Leaving a lit cigarette in a warehouse full of explosives (Philippines, 1999)
- Jumping out of a plane to film skydivers without wearing a parachute (U.S., 1987).
- Trying to get enough light to look down the barrel of a loaded muzzleloader gun using a cigarette lighter (U.S., 1996).
- Using a lighter to illuminate a fuel tank to make sure it contains nothing flammable (Brazil, 2003).
- Attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol that automatically loads the next round into the chamber.
- Attempting Russian roulette with an unexploded landmine,
- Crashing through a window and falling to one's death in trying to demonstrate that the window is unbreakable.
Northcutt's Darwin Awards site gives "Honorable Mentions" to people who survive their misadventures with their reproductive capacity intact, by luck or chance. One example is Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated far above Long Beach, California, in July 1982. He reached an altitude of 16,000 feet and was later fined for crossing controlled airspace. Another notable honourable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of "hard man" footballer Duncan Ferguson (who had 4 convictions for assault and had served 6 months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison) in 2001, with one burglar requiring 3 days hospitalization after being confronted by the player.
(Me) (Home)Cartoon Information
Toonopedia is the place to look if you want some information about a cartoon, past or present. Subtitled "A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge", it is an encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation. Don Markstein, a writer for Walt Disney comics and the sole writer and editor of Toonopedia, calls it "the world's first hypertext encyclopedia of toons."Toonopedia concentrates on American and other English language cartoons with the goal of developing the largest online resource on American cartoons. Toonopedia has accumulated over 1,700 articles since its launch on February 13, 2001.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is another excellent reference site whose primary mission is a collection documenting American printed cartoon art. The scope of the collection includes editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons.It is searchable by creator, title, topic, genre and other criteria.
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