04.29.2005/09:16
Satellite's Eye View
Jeff sent a link to the comments of an earlier post of a Google satellite view showing birds in flight. Great find, Jeff!

04.28.2005/21:32
Blow up
Turns out those German toads just might be exploding because wily crows are pecking their livers out.

04.28.2005/14:02
Eruption
Hey kids! Your science project on volcanoes is almost done!

04.28.2005/14:01
Flush with success
How to choose a toilet.

04.28.2005/11:40
And the skies are not cloudy
Roaming buffalo in the news.

04.27.2005/18:43
I thought so
How it is we are abe to read one another's minds.

04.26.2005/11:45

Roxane Butterfly
French tap dancer Roxane Butterfly, presented by the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA) at Festival International in Lafayette, LA, April 23, 2005.

04.26.2005/09:42

Shaw Center for the Arts
Shaw Center for the Arts, downtown Baton Rouge, LA.

04.25.2005/21:16
Hollow vessels
Anti-date rape stemware and accessories.

04.25.2005/10:27
Dog! Money! Ball!
Guess-the-Google game asks you to guess what keyword would return a given group of 20 images. Fun, thought-provoking and interesting!

04.25.2005/08:54
All in the name of expanding knowledge
"Police have arrested a man who injured a friend with a claw hammer because he wanted to see 'what it would be like to kill someone.'"

04.23.2005/23:50
Invasive plants
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in the news.

04.23.2005/10:41
Map into
What the map shows and what the satellite photo shows.

04.23.2005/10:35
An image a day ... almost
Nice idea, nice execution: yellopad.

04.23.2005/10:22
Green Velvet
From New Orleans: the_velvet_rut.

04.23.2005/10:19
Party time
"Hoover athletic director Dan McClannahan, who had not heard about the party until a reporter called him this week, said no students were ruled ineligible for sports in connection with the party."

04.20.2005/09:59
Weary and happy
A couple of weeks ago, I decided that it was time to wash our two cars, which are parked under oak trees in front of the house, and collect pollen and sappy oak juice in addition to the common dust of the road. They were really filthy, and I thought about rolling them around the corner to the gas station and having them both cleaned up by ... professionals. But then I thought, hey, it's a nice spring afternoon, and I'm going to let these guys have my money and my exercise? So I washed them both myself, and for the 11 minutes or so that they stayed clean, their gleam was a source of pride.

This past weekend, the pollen had finally all hit the ground, and it was time to rake it and the leaves up in the spring cleaning of the yard. Poor Susan, who had a terrible allergic reaction to all the pollen and was confined to the indoors, kindly suggested that I do what everyone else in the neighborhood does, and hire this task out to ... professionals.

But no, I said. I'm going to give these guys my money and my exercise? At this point, it is probably suitable to recognize the difference between spraying the hose and dragging a damp cloth over the slick metal surfaces of two sedans, and scrumping up bags and bags and bags of heavy, wet leaves and time-bomb pollen, as well as moving what at my last count seemed to be about 143,000 pot plants to make room for the rake. For four days I labored, saved from total breakdown only by the happy fact that the battery-powered lawn mower I use to run over the collected leaves and crunch them up into compostible bits had the good grace to expend its last juice right about the same time I did each session. The lawn mower got its plug-in, I got a cold beer.

But in the end, the yard was all cleaned up, my back was sore, and Susan could sit out and drink her tea in the morning without risking a trip the respiration ward. I've got all my compost, got my exercise, and still have my money in my pocket -- although I might be spending some of it on a new tin of aspirin tablets.

04.19.2005/20:09
Five A Day
Eat your colors!

04.17.2005/19:24
Ouch!
"When you use a laptop, you can make your head and neck comfortable, or you can make your hands and arms comfortable, but it's impossible to do both."

04.15.2005/18:02
Lemur
Aye-aye.

04.15.2005/10:48

PASA Tap City Stars
A group of local arts supporters make a guest appearance in the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana's April 10, 2005 presentation of Tap City. A couple of dozen photos from the overall project can be found here.

04.14.2005/13:14
Google world
"Why bother seeing the world for real?"

04.13.2005/21:53
High on sculpture
Donald Judd satellite view.

04.13.2005/21:44
Dim hopes
"You definitely cannot have a dim sum meal every day because it's not possible to get a balanced diet that way."

04.13.2005/21:39
Flower child
Great orchid photo.

04.11.2005/00:04
The Man!
Tiger Woods.

04.10.2005/11:08

Tap at 307
Kendrick Jones II, a member of the cast of Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival, performs at Club 307 in Downtown Lafayette, LA, in anticipation of the full company's performance on Sunday, April 10, 2005, presented by the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana, at the Heymann Performing Arts Center.

04.9.2005/08:14
Drill seekers
My mother used to worry that this project to pierce the earth's crust and drill to the mantle might result in a puncture that popped the earth like a balloon. What if she's right?

04.8.2005/14:11
Sing along
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
dictionaraoke.org

04.8.2005/10:43

Andrea Mosquera
Andrea Mosquera sings with The Edmar Castaneda Trio, April 7, 2005, in Lafayette, LA.

04.8.2005/10:41

Edmar Castaneda
Edmar Castaneda leads his Edmar Cataneda Trio in Lafayette, LA, April 7, 2005.

04.8.2005/10:40

Dave Silliman
Dave Silliman provides percussion for The Edmar Castaneda Trio, April 7, 2005, Lafayette, LA.

04.8.2005/10:39

Marshall Gilkes
Marshall Gilkes plays trombone with The Edmar Castaneda Trio, April 7, 2005, Lafayette, LA.

04.7.2005/16:19
Long necks
Spiffy giraffe photo.

04.7.2005/08:31
Ping!
Ping-o-matic.

04.7.2005/08:28
Art night!
"Boise allows full nudity for 'serious artistic' expression only, so the club handed out pencils and sketch pads to patrons so they could sketch naked women."

04.5.2005/17:41
Orp! Orp!
Harp seal in the news.

04.5.2005/12:57
Look at me!
Google maps now offer a satellite view.

04.4.2005/11:31

Balcony Echo
French Quarter, New Orleans, LA.

04.4.2005/11:25
What gals like betwen the covers
Chick Lit.

04.4.2005/11:22
Yo Blue!
"JetBlue was once again ranked as offering the best service in an annual survey that also found five of the top six airlines are low-fare carriers."

04.1.2005/03:41
Pope death watch
Google: Pope death watch
Google News: Pope death watch
Google Groups: Pope death watch

04.1.2005/02:10
Happy Birthday, Clio
Poor Clio is five years old today. That's quite a run. Thanks for reading!

And, of the links posted in the first week of Poor Clio, the one I am most surprised to see is still working is this one.