Titanic Online

Here's a site dedicated to the wonders of the pride of the White Star Lines, the RMS Titanic.

http://www.titanic-online.com/index.php4

Firewalking

Did you ever wonder how people manage to do the fire walk? OK, so it's not an earth shattering question, but I always wondered. Here's a site that explains it all:

http://express.howstuffworks.com/mb-firewalking.htm

Numa Numa

Here is a copy of the Numa Numa dance by Gary Brolsma. Next to William Hung this is probably the funniest performance on the internet:

http://www.break.com/articles/numanuma.html

Here is another copy. This is a cartoon version of American Idol, if Gary Brolsma was a guest.

http://www.break.com/articles/idle.html

Flood in Ireland ! !

There was widespread panic as a flood hit Ireland!

Bug Me Not

Here is a nice little site. If you ever have trouble getting to read an article posted on my site, got to www.bugmenot.com This site gives up to date passwords to access most news sites. It sure beats registering for every little site out there.

Winning the War in Iraq

Here is a great editorial from the wall street journal. It describes the many parts to the victory in Iraq. Here is a sample:

"I offer this speech that the president might use to tell Americans that we are winning:

My fellow Americans: We are winning, and winning decisively, in Iraq and the Middle East. We defeated Saddam Hussein's army in just a few weeks. None of the disasters that many feared would follow our invasion occurred. Our troops did not have to fight door to door to take Baghdad. The Iraqi oil fields were not set on fire. There was no civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites. There was no grave humanitarian crisis.

Saddam Hussein was captured and is awaiting trial. His two murderous sons are dead. Most of the leading members of Saddam's regime have been captured or killed. After our easy military victory, we found ourselves inadequately prepared to defeat the terrorist insurgents, but now we are prevailing."

Read the entire article here:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007603

Here's what I hate about hiphop

We have this debate at home all the time. I just have to say, read this and tell me what you are defending.

"You can tell the hip-hop music community has thrown a successful awards show when they can crow that "no one was stabbed in the lung this year." That was the buzz coming out of the third annual Vibe Magazine Awards that aired on UPN stations on Nov. 15. (Last year, a fight at the awards show surrounding the rapper Dr. Dre ended up with the stabbing.) "

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/brentbozell/2005/11/25/176732.html

Larry Elder Speaks

Larry Elder is my first in a list of great columnists. He is found on www.townhall.com . I will be pointing to his columns from time to time. Today's column relates two incidents with rude people who believe their opinions have merit, even if they haven't really thought about them at all.

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/larryelder/2005/10/20/172024.html

Warming Linked to the Milky Way

Here's an article that descibes how any warming may be due to the Earth's position as it travels through the Milky Way. Read this. To me, it makes more sense than the greenhouse gas theory that liberals are pushing. It also makes me wonder just why liberals would be pushing so hard for one idea over another. Could it be that the greenhouse gas model serves the liberal purpose of wealth re-distribution? Could it also be that because the Milky Way model doesn't serve that purpose, it is considered heresy? It kind of makes you think, doesn't it? Anyway. here is the article:

"But new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy. "

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/25/MNGCIDSL4R1.DTL&type=science

Say Merry Christmas... Please

OK. Here's a pet peeve of mine. There is a concerted effort in this country to
keep people from saying "Merry Christmas". I personally love Christmas. Here's
a web site dedicated to the effort to save Christmas:


http://www.saychristmas.org/main/default.aspx

Global Warming Nonsense

So, you've been told that global warming is real and that man, specifically the United States, is responsible for unleashing environmental havoc. Of course, it's not fact, just a theory, and one not particularly well grounded in science. I'll post quite a bit on this topic. Here, for example, is a scorecard showing the real effects of warming vs. the models the media is relying on to perpetuate the scare.

http://www.warwickhughes.com/hoyt/scorecard.htm

I also like the Junk Science site. It debunks bad science reporting. They like to focus on the global warming story, because it is such an easy target.

www.junkscience.com

The Wizard of Oz - the Real Story

The real story behind the wizard is that it is a tale of the populist movement, the industrial society, and a fight between the gold standard and a new silver standard for money. Read about it. It's actually pretty cool.

http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm

Raise a Glass

Raise a glass and remember Noriyuki Morita, made famous by his role as the wise and knowing Mr. Myagi.

On second thought, don't raise a glass. I just heard that poor Pat died of complications from alcoholism, so having a drink in his honor might be inappropriate.


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051125/D8E3KPH00.html

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I'm taking the day off, so no other postings today.

My Excite

I use Excite.com as our family home page. It's free. It is very customizable. I especially like the TV listings. It's a lot like TV Guide, but free. It also has a movie section that has movie reviews and times for theaters near you. There are all sorts of additional features.

www.excite.com

WDW Magic

How about a great Disney site? Here is WDW Magic. This is a great site that updates info about the parks, the resorts, and other great stuff.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/whatsnew.htm

Movie Mistakes

Speaking of movies, did you ever notice a mistake in a movie? Like looking a Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Carribean and seeing a cameraman? Or maybe seeing an airplane in the middle of The Gladiator? Or how about looking off the deck of the Titanic and seeing part of the Mexican desert? Here's a site dedicated to just that. It's very up to date. It had Harry Potter posts up the first night.

www.moviemistakes.com

IMDB

I love movies of all kinds. The Internet Movie DataBase is THE site on the internet for movie info.

www.imdb.com

The Drudge Report

Matt Drudge has been running this column since 1998. He was the original internest news reporter. He actually broke the Monica Lewinski story when no one else would touch it.

www.drudgereport.com

Astronomy Picture of the Day

APOD is a nice site that shows a new astronomy picture each and every day. Very amazing pictures on here. Even if you aren't interested in astronomy.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Day by Day

This is a favorite cartoon of mine. Unlike Doonesbury, the writer leans somewhat right of center. Also unlike Doonesbury, this strip is actually funny.

www.daybydaycartoon.com

Lucianne.com

Then of course there is Lucianne.com. Run by Lucianne Goldberg, this is the best news site on the net. It is updated by readers 24 hours a day. Articles are posted along with user commentary. The comments are usually rightward leaning, but they can be very entertaining and informative.

www.lucianne.com

Answers.com

Answers.com is a combination search, dictionary, and wikipedia. It has all sorts of info, including links to lots of popular culture, movies, and music.

www.answers.com

Wikipedia

Here is the Wikipedia, an Open Source encyclopedia. It currently has over 800,000 articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Welcome to the Dataman Blog

Welcome friends. No, that's not me, it's Shemp. Those of you who know me know that I am eclectic and erudite. I wanted a page that reflected my interests. I will be putting some of my favorite links on this page. I hope you find them useful. I'll have to decide later if I want this to be more than a list of terrific links.

If you happen to find this interesting, if you have a neat site to recommend to me, or if we've never met and you want to share something, contact me at drog326@hotmail.com


Anyway, let's start with a little tribute I like to call, Raise a Glass.

Raise a glass and remember Samuel Horwitz. Yes, Shemp Howard died exactly 50 years ago today. You can read a nice obit of Shemp at a site called FindaGrave.com. While you are there, look around to see the final resting places of a great many famous people.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=howard&GSfn=shemp&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=6130700&