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"

lunch at noon

"There once was a time when a Monday lunch was Sunday's leftovers or a cheap sandwich.

With rebellion in the ranks, the smell of decent cuisine aroused revolution. 'No longer!' they shouted. LUNCH AT NOON was conceived."

Copykat Recipes

"Welcome to Copykat Recipes, home of the web's most exciting recipes. You have tried it in the restaurant, now make it at home and we will show you how. Unlike other similar websites all of the recipes here area available for free. We have a free membership for you to rate recipes, share your favorite recipes with others, and you can receive free newsletters keeping you up to date with the website."

Creating Icons

"Almost every desktop enviroment I've seen has a special application for creating icons, usually a very limited drawing application. In this short tutorial, we'll show you how GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) can help you create icons for your desktop."

How to Make a Folder Icon

"In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice folder for your desktop or a website."

How to Wake Up Without an Alarm Clock

"Fingernails screeching down a blackboard, the shrill tones of the Emergency Alert System, Carrot Top: few things are as obnoxious as an alarm clock. Human beings have survived for most of our history without these confounded noisemakers—-why would you need one now? The answer, of course, is that everyone else has one, and it would look bad if you were the only one wandering into the office two hours late. But like momma said, just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t mean you should. Waking up naturally is much easier on you, as your body will slowly adjust from deep sleep to a calm awakening. Here's how to separate yourself from the alarm clock without quitting your job or dropping out of school."

Mapping Google

"By now, many of you will have gone and tried out the new Google Maps application. By and large, you have to admit that it's pretty damned slick for a DHTML web application -- even my wife was impressed, and that's not easy with geek toys. So, in the spirit of Google Suggest and GMail, I've decided to have a quick peek under the hood to figure out what makes it tick."

5 Simple Ways to Store Your Files Online

"When it comes to online backup of your data, there’s probably more options than in any other web 2.0 space. However, recently I’ve tried some of these services out and found out that many have become unnecessarily complex, some are ad hells, and some don’t work at all. I’ve gone through this mess and chosen 5 simple online backup services that just work."

The Ultimate Bad Candy Web Site

"Welcome to the Ultimate Bad Candy Web Site, the virtual crossroads where candy and people barfing up candy meet! Since 1997, Mark and Ben have been saving your ignorant asses by the truckload from the terror of accidentally eating bad candy. And we've inadvertantly encouraged about ten times that many people to eat it anyway. So right now I guess we're in the red as far as people actually saved. Regardless, the cause marches on.

If you've never visited our lecherous, hateful little corner of the web before, then let me fill you in on what exactly it is that we do here: we eat bad candy, and then we write about it. We know what you're thinking: ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME SOMEBODY DID. And you're right. Often immitated, never duplicated, The Ultimate Bad Candy Web Site is the edgy-yet-retarded food-alternative Internet resource you never realized you'd been looking for your whole life, but have been anyway. If that last sentence made any sense to you, good job, you goddamn crazy."

Crazy Asian Drinks

"#1 QUESTION:

WHY TEST THE DEPTHS OF MADNESS & DESPAIR WITH YOUR DABBLINGS IN THE NEFARIOUS DRINKS OF ASIA?

ANSWER:

It was an accident. Uhm... to save the world?"

Sleep position gives personality clue

"If you want an insight into somebody's true personality, then try to catch a glimpse of the way they sleep.

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are."

MoFA: Museum of Food Anomalies

"The Museum of Food Anomalies. An online exhibition of the Art of Regular Food Gone Horribly Wrong. The galleries are updated as new works arrive; visitors are encouraged to share their anomalies."

The Top 10 Weirdest and Funniest Japanese Condoms

"Condoms have a long history in Japan, beginning with the earliest versions which were made from leather (!), tortoise shells (!!) or even horns (!!!)... is this where the expression 'are you horny?' came from?

Thankfully, condom technology has advanced to the point where 580 million condoms are sold each year in Japan and competition within the industry is, er, stiff. Indeed, Japan boasts more condoms used per person per year than any other country. To get ahead in the race for safe sex supremacy, Japanese consumers are being treated to innovative market thrusts that are by turns interesting, unusual and downright weird. So, leave that poor turtle alone and come with us (ahem), as we count down The Top 10 Weirdest Japanese Condoms!"

STEVE, DON'T EAT IT!

"There aren't too many products that feel the need to reassure you that they are, in fact, 'food.' Already not a good sign.

The list of ingredients is long and horrifying, coming right out of the gate with 'MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN.' Oddly enough, I'm about to be separated from my lunch, and I haven't even opened the can yet.

Other ingredients include 'BEEF TRIPE, BEEF HEARTS', AND 'PARTIALLY DE-FATTED COOKED PORK FATTY TISSUE' How does one de-fat fat? Bizarre. God knows what else is in here.

Okay, I'm going to go try it now. If i'm not back in ten minutes, call Poison Control..."

Squared Circle Colr Pickr

Jim Bumgardner, who coauthored the book Flickr Hacks for O'Reilly with Paul Bausch, has written a page that lets you click on a color and it returns all the photos from Flickr's squared circle group that match the color.

The Simpsons Cards

"Cards from past The Simpsons episodes. Among them the “I Choo Choo Choose You” that Lisa gives Ralph. The other card was actually “Let’s BEE Friends” and had nothing to do with the Bumblebee guy, even though I think it would have been way better if he was on it."

How to Describe Medical Symptoms to Your Doctor

Visiting the doctor for a new, undiagnosed medical problem can be daunting. Patients often struggle to try to get their symptoms across to the doctor in an effective manner, and the physician needs to gather the information they need from a patient without overlooking anything important. All this must be done during a medical interview which, on average, will be shorter than 10 minutes. Here's how you can maximize the appointment by giving the doctor the information they are looking for in the same format they learned in medical school.

Transform your Photos into a Beautiful Mosaic

"This tutorial will teach you how to take a single or collection of photos and give them a beautiful mosaic effect."

The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass

"The contract rider includes specifications on stage design, sound systems, lighting rigs, as well as an artist's wish list--from transportation and billing to dressing room accommodations and meals."

The ROCKLOPEDIA FAKEBANDICA

"Behold the glory that is the ROCKLOPEDIA FAKEBANDICA, umpteenth (I got sick of counting) revised, unabridged edition! Finally, all the fictional bands and singers from TV and movies listed in one convenient, scarily obsessive place. Why? It's the Internet, stupid! The Internet was created for such things as this!"

Jeff Milner's Backmasking Site

"Listen to the music first then click 'Show Reverse Lyrics' for backwards messages text."

Kiddie Records Weekly

"Classics from the Golden Age". "Kiddie Records Weekly is a three year project celebrating the golden age of children's records. This brief but prolific period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties, producing a wealth of all-time classics."

MOJO's Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time

MOJO music magazine's list of the Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time. "Again, shamelessly stealing a page from the erlend playbook with a topic near and dear to moi."

Warner Bros. Title Card Archive

Gigantic collection dating from 1929 to 1964 of graphic title cards from Warner Brothers animations.

Windows error-message generator

This Windows error-dialog-generator lets you pick an icon, enter title and error text, and three buttons' worth of text and then it spits out a plausible Windows error-message.