NPA-NXX Geolocator

"USA/Canada phone prefix location lookup tool". Mashup between Google Maps and Phone Number Geolocator. Enter an area code and the first three number of a phone number. It then pins an approximation on the map.

TOKYO DAMAGE REPORT

"hi, i'm an American jerk. I live in Tokyo. I go strange places and tell you about it and then you wish you lived here, but trust me you don't really want to."

Private Eye Covers Library

Scanned images of all past Private Eye covers going back to 1961.

You can click, but you can't hide

"You can click, but you can't hide is an advertising campaign being run jointly by several international associations, most notably the MPA, the MPAA, and the GVU, as part of the larger 'Respect Copyrights' campaign against peer-to-peer file sharing of motion pictures. The associations have long alleged that Internet file sharing, or maintaining a file sharing tracker or network, constitutes copyright infringement, and results in heavy economic losses for their industry."

Home Taping Is Killing Music

"'Home Taping Is Killing Music' was the slogan of a 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a British music industry trade group. With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI feared that home taping would cause a decline in record sales. The logo, consisting of a skull and crossbones formed from the silhouette of a cassette, also included the words And It’s Illegal."

Doug Gilford's MAD Cover Site

"Look at every regular issue cover starting from the comic book days of 1952 to the present day! Issue contents included!"

Cooking For Engineers

"Basically, I started the site as a place to store all the food related stuff that I didn't want to have to carry around in my brain, but I would want to reference later. Sometimes people ask me (or quiz me) about cooking and there's a tendency for me to smile and respond with, 'I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember! - Michael Chu"