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Supplies, Glowsticks, Glow Necklaces, Magnetic Flashing Lights and more!
Ready - from the US Department of Homeland Security
Why are all the dark spots so interesting?
Toaster Museum - a museum dedicated to the greatest invention since sliced bread.
Paper Airplane Flight Simulator.
Rank and Yank - many corporations are re-evaluating the process of forced ranking performance appraisals. Also here and here.
Mad Cow - I recommend that you don't have your speakers on at work when you click this. Try headphones.
T-Rex: the antidote to driving boredom
If you like the T-Rex, you should check out the Vigillante or the whole 3-wheeler world. I highly recommend the tour
The Weird World of the Pagan Fishgod Priests
Pagan Fishgod Priests - kindred spirits if I ever saw one
Flies on the Wall, and on the Ceiling, and in the Sky
The Street Harassment Project: making streets safer for women
Crop Circles - so, what do they mean?
NerdSlut - graphically charting relationships.
Quadrant Sign Code - paranoia must be hell to live with.
Johnny Glow - "Hallelujah! I can see where to pee!"
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Happy Hour Crew - photos of the HH Crew here.
WAG3 - Bill Giberson's commercial site.
Winos That I Know - Bill's oenophiliacs.
A Full Feature Film about Marshall Bloom - a soon-to-be-released film is now in progress documenting the life of man on the edge.
Lee Stevens - HH Crew Lee's business page for Orion Technology - designed by Linda.
Pubmates International - a HH group of partiers in Washington, D.C., not unlike our own. (Formerly IBAC)
Bellaholics - Happy Hour in Washington, DC, where they have to drink because the rest of the country sends them complete idiots every two years.
Ladies United for the Preservation of Cocktails - Happy Hour in Pennsylvania.
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Broward County Florida Bars A-M - my own list of HH bars. Send me an email anytime you run across a bar that's new, closed, or even one that's just changed management.
Broward County Florida Bars N-Z - the other half of the list.
Palm Beach County Florida Bars - my own list of HH bars. I don't get to Palm Beach as often as I do Broward, so this list suffers a bit.
Bar Car - booze and schmooze on the net (I really like this)
City Links - Fort Lauderdale - the Sun-Sentinel's weekend entertainment rag.
South Florida - Digital City - another collection of web sites from the Sun-Sentinel.
New Times - - weekend entertainment rag for various cities, such as: Miami, Broward and Palm Beach, Phoenix, Denver, Cleveland, San Franciso, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Kansas City.
Nightguide Fort Lauderdale - nice organization of information.
Nightguide Miami - nice organization of information.
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Eric's Beer Page - a collection of beer and home brewing links
Beer Is My Life - Gak's rather ambitious creation spills over the top of your beer mug like fine head.
The Real Beer Page - great one-stop source
Beertown - Organization devoted to beer and home brewing beer.
Palm Beach Draughtsmen - Home Brewing Beer Club of Palm Beach, Florida
Meadlennium III - Central Florida Home Brewers group
Oliver Kleinhenz - Let Ollie show you how to get ready for Oktoberfest
Micro Gallery of Beer - If you think you know beer, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Great color photos of beer; up close - very close.
Bite-Me Beer Page - lots of beer links and even has a few beer games, but I just don't get the point.
Budweiser - be sure to lie about your age if you're not 21.
Miller - the high life.
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Wine - a good list of wine links.
Wine Spectator - magazine for oeniphiles.
Robin Garr's Wine Lovers' Page - A very nice compilation of wine knowledge neatly organized.
World Wine Web - an extensive collection of wine information
German Wine Page - a site devoted to German wines
Chateau Haut-Brion - France
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild - France
Beringer - California
Carneros Creek - California
Kendall-Jackson - California
Penfolds - Australia
Vampire Wine - a blood red wine from Transylvania
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Scotch Malt Whisky Society - nice-looking website, but it often looks blurry.
That's the Spirit - entertaining and drink ideas.
Webtender - an absolutely great device to help you find that drink recipe.
BarMeister - An online guide to drinking
Bombay Sapphire Gin - a clear remedy for today's stress.
Stoli - the site of Stoli, Stolichnaya, etc.
Absolut - absolutely delicious!
Ikon Vodka - true Russian vodka.
Cuervo Tequila - Make my margarita with Cuervo Especiale please.
Jack Daniels - great site, good use of web tricks (keep your sound ON).
Back to Index (top) or Go Home Cluster Ballooning - the rumors were true!
Gravilux - this is way more fun than Spirograph or Etch-a-Sketch
Naoto Hattori - New York artist with a modern take on a Bosch theme.
Naked Dancing Llama - aren't you the least bit curious?
Blue Dog Can Count - a single click can explain it all.
CTRL-ALT------DEL - Dutch artists creating bizarre graphics.
Marshmallow Peeps - ya gotta wonder about some folks.
Alligator Bob's® Gourmet Alligator meat snacks
Trigger - Roy's favorite horse, preserved forever, courtesy of Find-A-Grave.
Wacky Patent of the Month - my favorite is the Brass Monkey weather indicator.
Kaleidoscope Painter - you, too, can be a modern graphics artist.
The Exploding Whale - low-tech method of pollution control.
Women Behind Bars - and I don't mean the ladies serving you drinks.
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SATIRE
The Onion - entertaining satire.
Suck - no longer being created, but the pages are still held on some server.
Jesus of the Week - fascinating inspiration.
The Keep - The Breastscan Project: an interesting selection of XXX-rated pictures, plus some other amusements.
The Daily Bikini - a colorful treat for your monitor (right).
Dick Cheney's Cardio Cam - interior view of the number two artery.
Furious George - malevolent monkey mahem
Jack Hammer - Ok, I thought the Vagina Gaff was disturbing: but Jack Hammer goes much deeper; just not as deep as the Baby Jesus Butt Plug
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey: philosophy with a twist.
Calvin and Hobbes - archives from Bill Waterson's great comic.
The Dilbert Zone - the corporate jester of the '90's.
DOODIE - very strange, potty humor
All Your Trailer Park Are Belong To Us - brought to you by the creator of Leprosy Barbie, and Tourette's Syndrome Barbie.
Losers on the Internet - a compendium of crap.
Mutton Bone - this just raises all kinds of questions about other people.
Homer Simpson - Homer is cool and he loves beer.
2600 - serious hackers
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MUSIC LINKS
Singer's House Concert Series - live music in people's homes; way cool
Heat Beat - highly connected local jazz and blues resource
Blue At Heart - WKPX DJ Dar's personal blues website.
South Florida Entertainment Resource - good collection of South Florida information (lots of bad spelling, too).
Broward Arts - links to county-sponsored cultural events
Jazz Online - extensive jazz site by Warner Brothers.
Downbeat - America's best jazz magazine.
FreeJazz.Org - an online site to discuss all things jazz.
People In Jazz - a list of jazz musicians assembled by WWWNUR.
More Jazz Artists - another list of jazz musicians assembled by a John McLaughlin fan.
Rolling Stone - rock magazine.
House of Blues - a nationwide chain of topnotch blues clubs.
Alligator Records - small Chicago label with the greatest blues legends.
Zydeco - whoop it up; great lookin' site.
Blue Collar Music - blues label.
IUMA Records - blues label.
Lyrics World - the words to many older popular tunes.
Dr John - my favorite cajun/zydeco musician.
Vonda Shepard - the female vocalist on Ally McBeal.
Candy Dulfer - jazz saxophonist.
Mister Bo - Bo Carlsson is an experienced blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and usurper of my good name
Bill Wharton & the Ingredients - this guy cooks on stage, literally.
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FESTIVALS
FestivalFinder - locate over 1,500 music festivals in North America, sorted by genre. See also: Blues Festivals.
Sunday Jazz Brunch - Fort Lauderdale - First Sunday of every month, all year
South Florida Folk Festival - outdoor folk music festival
SunFest - Jazz & Pop Music Festival in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida over 4 days in the Spring.
Oceanfest - dive in, clean up, and party!
Florida Folk Festival - annual folk music festival held in May at the Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center in White Springs, FL.
Riverhawk Music Festival a fly-in music event near Dade City, FL (between Tampa and Orlando).
Suwanee Springfest - a Spring folk music festival in the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, Florida.
MagnoliaFest - a Fall folk music festival in the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, Florida.
Fantasy Fest - outrageous annual tropical Halloween party.
Da Fest - The New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival, last weekend in April and first weekend in May.
City Stages - "Best music you never heard," Birmingham, in June over Father's Day weekend.
Mississippi Delta Blues Festival - it don't get no down-homer than this
King Biscuit Blues Festival - roots of blues
Cajun/Zydeco Music - if you like cajun/zydeco music, this page has a ton of links to bands, festivals, etc.
Louisiana Music - and if the link above didn't have what you're looking for, this page does.
San Francisco Blues Festival - blues by the bay
Great American Beer Festival - annual suds social
Oktoberfest - Munich - official Oktoberfest site
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WORDS AND WRITING
The Shakespeare Oxford Society - was "a tale told by an idiot" Edward de Vere's reference to Slick Willy?
Apology Generator - cut your groveling time to nil.
Fisher Space Pens - as a writer, I know good writing pens. These Space Pens are the best.
Anagram Generator - automatically gram an A.
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USEFUL LINKS
Urban Legends and Folklore - A collection of urban legands, rumors, myths, hoaxes, and the debunking truths.
Computer Incident Advisory Capability - group provides computer security related services to the Department of Energy.
Hoax du Jour - Internet myths, hoaxes, and the general bogus emails we all get are explained here.
Weather - HH Headquarters - radar for South Florida, zip code 33064.
Weather - Southeast US - radar for the southeastern section of the US.
NEWS: - CNN - CBS - MSNBC - NBC - ABC - FOX - USAToday - Time - US News - Drudge
ALTERNATE NEWS: - AlterNet.org - Cursor - Democrats - First Monday - In These Times - Libertarians - No More Fake News - PeaceFire - Radio Pacifica - Republicans - The Smoking Gun - Tom Paine - The Register - World Socialist
Sun Sentinel - Internet version of Fort Lauderdale's daily newspaper.
Miami Herald - Internet version of Miami's daily newspaper.
Palm Beach Post - Internet version of Palm Beach's daily newspaper.
Domestic Postal Rate Calculator - the US Postal Service's handy online rate calculator for letters, packages, and special deliveries.
Symantec Security Response - news about virus threats and security advisories.
McAfee Anti-Virus - news about protection against virus threats.
Computer Associates Virus Information Center - another good site for news about protection against virus threats.
First Gov - general US government information site.
The Whitehouse - official site of the US President. Also: the Unofficial site.
The Senate - official site of the US Senate.
House of Representatives - official site of the House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court - official site of the US Supreme Court.
US Census - answers most "How many?" questions.
IRS - official site of the Internal Revenue Service.
Florida Dept of State - official Florida government site.
Florida Links - all of the official Florida government sites in one spot.
My Florida - citizen site for Florida's services.
Tucows - megs of FREE SOFTWARE!
CPR Guides - single page illustrated guides good to tape to the back of a kitchen cabinet door, or your car, camper, or other convenient places.
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TRAVEL LINKS
Travelocity - online travel service.
Trip.com - online travel service.
Travel Yahoo - online travel service.
TravelNow - online travel service.
Bed & Breakfast Guide - not a complete directory, but it is growing.
Best Beaches in the USA - Dr Leatherman's collection of America's best beaches (including Hawaii).
US Department of State - travel warnings for Americans.
WWOZ - New Orleans - WWOZ Live!
Chef Paul Prudhomme - Famous Louisiana chef's recipes and cooking supplies
212 - portal with interesting stuff even if New York is not your kind of town.
Stim - part women's ezine; part men's ezine.
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DESTINATIONS
City of Fort Lauderdale - anything that's an official city event is listed here.
Delray Beach - contains city events and news.
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SPORTS
National Parks - GORP's list of parks by US government.
Florida State Parks - 150 park areas that can provide you with quality recreational experiences.
Ocala National Forest - Florida's site of Ocala NF.
Ocala National Forest - USDA Forest Service's site for Ocala NF.
GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages with information on camping, hiking, kayaking, and all things outdoors.
GORP for Florida - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages with Florida information on camping, hiking, kayaking, and all things outdoors.
Florida Campgrounds - Florida RV Parks, Beach Camping, Tent Campsites, Cabin Rentals.
Loxahatchee Canoe - outfitter for Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in western Palm Beach County.
Florida Professional Paddlesports Association - Florida businesses focused on canoeing and kayaking.
Absolutely Florida - Florida canoeing resources.
Paddling - good canoe/kayak resource.
New York Kayak Company - some up$cale folding kayak$.
Florida Outdoors - Your gateway to discovering Florida's outdoor adventures
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission for Freshwater and Saltwater
Florida Sportsman - great magazine for Florida fishermen.
More Florida Fishing Charters - a list of fishing charters in Florida.
E-Angler's list of Guides - A map of Florida with Guides in that area.
Everglades Angler - guides in Naples, Florida.
South Florida Fishing Report - a regularly updated rundown of the fishing hotspots.
WAXY 790 AM - Tune in Saturday at 8AM to hear local captains give fishing reports on Florida Sportsman Live.
Rescuing the Everglades - the project to undo the ecological damage.
Send email to Bo Zaza
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