Ever find yourself wondering exactly where federal dollars are spent, but lacking the ambition to read an encyclopedia-sized volume? "Death and taxes" is a wall-poster sized chart of where federal dollars are spent, with the emblems of programs and agencies sized proportionally to their spending, and annual %change shown for each program.

Ever find yourself overwhelmed by your search results? The Carrot search engine tries (and generally succeeds) to help alleviate this clutter by breaking down search results into thematic clusters. I've found this to be fairly helpful when my search phrases occur across a number of topics and I only want results from one of them.

We live an increasingly large portion of our lives online. This buys us speed and ease of communication that allow connections to be maintained with people across oceans when in the past such things were impractical. However, it also means that larger and larger amounts of personal information leak into electronic records (ISP records, phone company records, etc). This guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation goes into some detail on how much of that information-leakage is possible to mitigate, with a focus on avoiding government snooping.