
Mel S. T.

- Sex: Female
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Location:
USA
- Occupation: Disgruntled Vet
- Status: trying Opera@USB for the 1st time ~ liking it very much! yay, portable Opera :-)
- Member since: Feb 2008
- Yahoo!: mel.tryon
Group memberships
Friends
Favorites
Links
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IAVA- Iraq & Afghanistan Vets o'America
Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America: watching government policy, support programs & officials & those who claim to speak for us
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VetVoice- a VoteVets forum
Blog community to share, rant & counter spin
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VMFP- Vets & Mil Families 4 Progress
Good group o'Vets & Mil Fam advocating better med/health care & responsible defense policy
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Mil Spouses o'America
Good group of wives, hubbies, GF/BF's & others who love a soldier or vet enough to speak out 4 him/her
- VCS- Veterans For Common Sense
- CIVIC- Campaign for Innocent Victims of International Conflict
- VoteVets
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Goodsearch.com
Support your fave org/charity with each Web Search (powered by Yahoo)
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Lifehacker
Tips & tricks, eLife, eTools, Productivity, app hacks & friends
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Wonkette
"The DC Gossip" ~ fantastically snarky commentary
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Consumer Reports
arguably the best of its type b/c is non-profit AND accepts no freebies from companies~ trial versions, promo-gifts, prototypes or other
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Consumerist
Good info, fun presentation
- DC | About.com
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the Washingtonian
on life in my city
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Outside.In
Locally-fueled reviews & event posting, w/intereststing links everywhere. Yelp-like idea, but better tracking/community tools imho
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LocalHarvest.org
Great info w/focused searches, links & other tools for eating local while supporting farmers markets, family farms, CSA & sustainable/organic agriculture
- Organized Home .com
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PortableApps.com
Love these programs! Apps that run off a simple USB/flash drive or "thumb stick" & leave no trace on the host computer; DL as a suite/mini-OS or A La Carte
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MobileApps.com
more good apps for those of us w/o a single home base or central work station
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Glamour .com
my guilty pleasure; happily, alsso socially conscious, empoweringly feminist & gently informative, so not the guiltiest of guilty...
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Cosmetics Cop .com
Paula Begoun's info & insights from years of investigative reporting into the beauty industry
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Beautypedia .com
Wiki reference or "pedia" of skin care, hair care & beauty products, begun by the same Paula B
- LiveScience
- GoodReads.com
- LibraryThing.com
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Shelfari
Virtual, shareable bookshelf
- Smithsonian Institute (.edu)
- Scientific Blogging
- HowStuffWorks









