Welcome to Page House, the personal website of Mark and Nancy McClelland.
Herein you will find:
Links to useful and/or interesting sites
- Recycle
your batteries, Chicagoans
- Do Your Home Work: Simple assignments keep your house -- and you wallet -- in A+
shape
- Info on non-toxic
paint and volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) in general, useful for ecologically concerned homeowners
- For Chicago residents: to increase the likelihood that your recyclables
will actually be recycled, bypass the Blue Bag system and take your source-separated
recyclables straight to these Chicago
recycling drop-off sites
- Don't throw away your consumer electronics! With help from eBay, you can
recycle, donate, or sell it: rethink.
- Top
ten ways to help your local animal shelter, including Nancy's favorite:
accounting assistance!
- Petraits.com, home of Chicago-based
pet photographer Sheri Berliner. Sheri is a great photographer and an extraordinary
animal lover. She runs an email list to help place animals in need of homes.
Email her if you want to join
the list. If you live in the Chicago area and you're looking to adopt a
pet, her email list is a great way to do it.
- The Notebaert Nature Museum's info on green
roofs and Design
Guidelines for Green Roofs
- November is National Novel Writing
Month, and March is National Novel
Editing Month
- Benefits of Rich Text Format
(RTF)
- Solution to the common
problem with Acrobat 6.0, where it freezes and eventually dies when you
start it
- EPA and DOE Announce Fuel
Economy Leaders for 2007 Model Year Cars
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- www.ecocycle.org, the site of Boulder
County's stand-out recycling program
- Electronics recycling
- Collective Good - recycle
your cell phone or PDA
- National Wildlife Federation's Backyard
Wildlife Habitat program
- Animal Diversity Web,
for the zoophile in all of us
- Chimpanzee World,
a wonderful site about field research done in Bossou, Guinea, since 1976
- Humane Farming Association
- What is The Meatrix?
- IPNews' timeline of
conflict and war in Iraq
- winter
driving tips, from Car Talk
- National Story
Project
- Guide to past Presidents
of the United States
- Wine vocabulary
list, from the Chicago Wine School.
- Nice info on tequila
and mezcal.
- If you are travelling to Argentina and want to know about differences
between Argentine Spanish and Castilian Spanish, check out these
language
tips for travellers.
- Yoga Journal's guide to yoga
poses
- Time
Travelers, a cross-membership organization for history museums
- Chicago History Museum (which used to be called the Chicago Historical Society)
- Chicago Architectural Foundation
- "Oh my god! There's
an axe in my head!" translated into over 100 languages
- Buffy
Episode Guide
- Angel
Episode Guide
- Plucker
- PalmOpenSource - A guide
to open source software for the Palm
- City of Chicago's Top
Employers, as of April 16, 2001
Political links
- Take Back the Flag: Nancy
and I put together this page to encourage Kerry supporters to take action,
and to help them find the resources they needed to do so.
With Bush reelected, it remains primarily as a memorial to our
fight for John Kerry as President.
- Bush in 30 seconds:
how best to create a 30-second ad that lays bare the truth about W (fans
of Moby, Michael Moore, Jack Black, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo,
and others should really appreciate this)
- A Republican
Declares His Independence, by Robert L. Black
- Chords for Change: An op-ed
piece by Bruce Springsteen in support of John Kerry and John Edwards
- The Dunce: Yoshi Tsurumi, one of
George W. Bush's professors at Harvard Business School, has taken the risk
of speaking out about our president's character as a college student
- Ten Reasons Why "W"
Is Wrong For Women
- On women and their duty to vote: What
the suffragists endured, earned is too important to forget
- Text as prepared for Former Vice
President Al Gore's May 26 Speech on Iraq
- George W. Bush's resume