12.31.2003/14:56
Owl see
Screech owl cam.

12.30.2003/09:26
Meet my Ex
A marriage made in heaven.

12.29.2003/22:56
Edith
Edith Wharton in the News.

12.29.2003/11:32
Big snake
Gigantic python in the news.

12.28.2003/22:02
Iceblog
A weblog from Antarctica.

12.26.2003/23:30
Map heaven
The National Map Viewer is absolutely astounding. In the time I have spent with it, I have only touched on what it must be able to do. Truly astonishing.

12.26.2003/20:12
Where did you take the photo?
Digital camera meets GPS: GeoSnapper.

12.26.2003/19:58
Music from the sky
This is the first thing I've read that makes me really think I might want satellite radio, largely because it is a critical review of the content rather than the usual oh-wow about the technology.

12.26.2003/19:48
Stop Spam
Microsoft has an idea that it hopes will slow down spammers.

12.24.2003/15:30
Colored pencils

It is Christmas Eve, and so far today I have not gone out and bought any colored pencils. It's tempting, though.

12.23.2003/23:58
Dog burns house
Dog burns house.

12.22.2003/21:23
Deck the halls
Shuffle the cards, pick a restaurant, get a discount.

12.22.2003/21:05
Chimps with a future
Retirement home for chimpanzees.

12.22.2003/20:50
Fa La La La La!
"Labor unions in the Czech Republic demanded Monday that stores stop playing Christmas carols incessantly or pay compensation for causing emotional trauma to sales clerks."

12.22.2003/11:30
Your what?
Just in time for holiday giving! Buy Uranus.

12.21.2003/12:25
War kids
What life was like for children in Wolrd War II. In the UK.

12.21.2003/12:23
Shake it up!
The most fun part of the is snow globe is what happens when you shake it up!

12.21.2003/12:18
Whoops!
Whooping cranes in the news.

12.20.2003/14:37
Second-hand

Lord of the Rings: If you go to the movies without having read the books, you maybe don't understand it completely but you still kind of get carried along. If you don't even go to the movies, you still get all the buzz about it. Once-removed Tokien-frenzy has become the second-hand smoke of popular culture.

12.19.2003/10:15
Earthworms
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
earthworms.org

12.19.2003/10:09
Cats eat woman
Dog bites man, that's not news. Cats eat woman, now that's news!

12.18.2003/21:20
Robot for Sale
Yeah, right...

12.16.2003/23:04
That metal bikini...
A whole web site, and a not insubstantial one at that, about Princess Leia's Metal Bikini.

12.16.2003/15:51
Birthday star
There is light arriving tonight that left a star when you were born.

12.15.2003/18:18
Rats!
Stolen laboratory mice in the news.

12.15.2003/18:13
Quite zippy!
OMG, this has got to be the coolest zip code map ever!

12.12.2003/18:02
Spicy news
One of my most favorite food items has healthful qualities!

12.11.2003/17:19

Visitor Parking
New Iberia, LA

12.10.2003/19:27
U.S. Prime
"The method by which the number was found — harnessing many computers together — is more important than the number itself."

12.10.2003/12:36
Web for the developing world
"Opening the first UN summit on the digital divide, the secretary general said much of the information on the web was not relevant to the real needs of people."

12.10.2003/11:12
Gift books!
The gift-giving season is here, and here are my ideas for some books that we need to see on the shelves.

First, a couple of self-improvement books (done with the proviso that I believe that in many bookstores, the category "Self Improvement" is a kind of code phrase for "Improvement of Others"):

You Know, You Really Are a Good Person!
Chapters include: "Your Mom Was Trying Her Hardest," "So Who Else Were You Going To Marry?," "Nobody Else's Kids Listen, Either," etc.

This I Do Not Forgive
Chapters include, "Mother," "Father," "Teachers," "Siblings," "Boss," "Co-Workers," "Spouse (First)," "Spouse (Second)", etc.

For the Business Section:

If Money Isn't Important, Why Don't I Have More Of It?

Finally, in the Fiction section:

Dirty Harry Potter

12.9.2003/17:11
Tube biz
Great historical info on London Underground.

12.9.2003/15:04
Rail pix
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
railpictures.net

12.9.2003/15:00
We are being given signs
Engrossing collection of photos of signage in area between 14th & 42nd Sts. in Manhattan.

12.9.2003/14:51
I'd walk a mile...
"Although her house is filled with every sort of carved or stuffed plush camel imaginable, she bought her first live dromedary last summer."

12.9.2003/14:46
Take your temperature
This has all the earmarks... or make that, eyemarks! ... of a major medical breakthrough.

12.6.2003/15:22
The game
If you're giving a holiday party or office party or any kind of party tonight, Saturday, Dec. 6, and you're in Louisiana, or you're in Georgia, and you don't have it already widely known that there will be a widescreen TV plugged into CBS, and lots of people you thought might be there just don't show up, it's because of the game.

12.6.2003/15:12
Oh, that Ingrid
Here is the official web site of Ingrid Pitt.

12.6.2003/15:09
Marathon monks
My friend Patrick sent along this repository of information about a stunning group of running monks.

12.5.2003/23:33
So sue me
Follow-up on the news: what seemed to be a horror of one kind now seems that it may in fact be a horror of a somewhat different kind. Happy holiday shopping!

12.5.2003/14:54
Want fries with that?
"Mayo, mayo, mayo, and it's still not good enough."

12.5.2003/12:08
The Advert Season
The British idiom of "advert" for advertisements treats that audience to a particular sting when viewing not an Advent Calendar but an Advert Calendar. However, folks on this side of the pond can appreciate the joke, too.

12.5.2003/09:38
Rats!
Rat athletic competition in the news.

12.2.2003/22:55
Secret stuff
A rich array of "eyeball" views of seemingly sensitive sites, though done with commonly available sources.

12.2.2003/10:23
Robot call-up
The Segway gets drafted.

12.2.2003/08:50
What's in a name?
What your name might be if you came from Middle Earth.

12.2.2003/08:44
Tree movers
Let's all hope that this really works.