When you think of Government Agencies, a massive volunteer organization dedicated to world peace and friendship may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But that is exactly what the Peace Corps is. Created in response to a challenge issued by then Senator John F. Kennedy to students to serve...
John Beynon blogged an entry about Goss Interactive , a U.K. company who has created a CMS named iCM . The cool part of the post was a link to the iCM client list which includes 30 local government authorities, health agencies, utilities, educational institutions, and more. That's a lot of...
The Cassini-Huygens mission is an ambitious joint project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, the Italian Space Agency). Cassini-Huygens is the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built. It was launched October 5th, 1997 to study the Saturnian system over a...
From December 30, 2004, through February 25, 2005, the Congressional Budget Office will be accepting summer internship applications . Applications are only accepted online via an application system powered by ColdFusion MX
Need a catalog of drugs approved by the FDA? Want to know about tentative approvals or discontinued drugs? Want to know available dosages, generic equivalents, or even see a copy of the label? You can do all of this at the USFDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research site, powered by ColdFusion.
Lobbyists.info is an online guide for Washing D.C. lobbyists, providing daily updates on news, lobby firm hires and changes, and more. Lobbyists.info is a project of Columbia Books , and both the Lobbyists.info and Columbia Books sites are powered by ColdFusion.
ESRI is a leading provider of tools used to build intelligent GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications, and ESRI is a long time ColdFusion user. ESRI is actively assisting government agencies and official disaster relief organizations that need help in responding to the recent devastating...
I'll be in D.C. next week, and was just checking metro routes on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) site. (I couldn't remember if the blue line or orange line ran to Foggy Bottom, turns out it's both). The site is well designed, easy-to-use, and fast too. I particularly like...
The Smithsonian Institution Press' Legacies site supports a new book on over 250 objects from the National Museum of American History's collections, revealing the stories of how and why they were collected. And the site is powered by ColdFusion. Thanks to Shawn Fairweather for sharing this one.
Vegemite. Australia's answer to Marmite (the stuff Brits spread on toast while Americans take a sniff and stare in utter disbelief). The spread mentioned in Men At Work's "Down Under" (as in "I said, Do you speak-a my language? He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich"). Yep, that Vegemite....