07.29.2006/21:04
Pick the hits!
Rating death and destruction from space: The Torino Scale.

07.29.2006/12:23
Yummy!
I like to sneak potato chips into a tuna fish sandwich. I have been told that this is juvenile as well as insalubrious, but that has not stopped me. The Wikipedia, in its article that includes a "recipe" for potato chips on a tuna sandwich, suggests, "Everything here described can be done also with either Doritos or Cheetos or a combination of all the three for maximum flavour experience."

07.29.2006/11:16
Yummy!
Dog bites man, not news. Man bites off head of rooster, now that's news!

07.28.2006/10:07
Undergound info
Cool presentation about the London Undergound, maps versus reality.

07.27.2006/21:04
No longer digested
"Netsurfer Digest Latest Issue: 11/13/2005". Gone forever? Once one of my favorite reads.

07.26.2006/21:30
City of dreams
Urville.

07.26.2006/21:24
Flipping hot
Turn the meat, feel the heat.

07.24.2006/22:16
I Like Killing Flies
"A true kitchen philosopher, Kenny's observations about life, politics, food, and sex give this film a vitality that doesn't let up."

07.24.2006/15:36

Not a Bird At All
Susan puts seed out on her rustic wooden feeder to feed birds. She feeds more than birds.

07.24.2006/10:42
Who hates whom
My sister Laura points out a handy cheat sheet to the Middle East in Slate.

07.22.2006/09:35
Ribs ribs ribs
"The spread of so many restaurants from a single state is unusual in the barbecue world."

07.22.2006/08:39

Five Steps to More Storage
Delcambre, LA.

07.22.2006/08:39

Shrimp boxes
Delcambre, LA.

07.22.2006/08:37

Two Bridges
Delcambre, LA.

07.21.2006/14:28
Escapa!
My friend Patrick sent this eye-hand coordination game, noting, "I got 10.531 seconds on my 10th try." No word, though, on how much work he has gotten done today!

07.21.2006/14:25
Cow story
"The story of Jenny the heifer dates from 1940, when she is credited with settling a court dispute between two Cornish farmers over who owned her."

07.19.2006/10:36
No Word
"Please don't send me Microsoft Word documents."

07.18.2006/16:45
Prototype prototype
Today I sent around to the folks who marshall volunteers for my client Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA) a proof-of-concept demo of a volunteer lister that narrows the list by selected times of availability, areas of interest, and skills.

For those interested in programming, and particularly Web 2.0 / AJAX programming, I started this project in Spry, gave it a poke in Flex , both of which interest me greatly, but quickly moved to the Prototype framework, largely because of Prototype's form.observer class, although the fact that the Prototype Ajax Updater lets you bring in whole chunks of formatted HTML was a plus. I have another project I will likely use Spry on next week (Spry is a great choice for projects that will draw on stored datasets), and soon will be making lots of custom backends with Flex!

For those who have little or no interest in programming, you can try the volunteer listing form anyway, and just have fun checking the boxes!

07.17.2006/18:48
Pick me!
You know that little business sometimes on a web site when before you can go any further you have to say what some smeary word is, like "begotten", etc., so they'll know it's a human and not some auto-robot just sucking up their data? That's called "Captcha." Well, here is one that uses something that really takes a person and not a machine to understand.

07.14.2006/20:27
Half-cooked?
Two-toned lobster in the news.

07.13.2006/11:00
Wow!
An intro and link for what many are terming the best video ever.

07.12.2006/20:24

Sacred Cutout
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA. (This is the other side of wall from this photo.)

07.11.2006/20:09

Missing Person
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA. (This is the other side of the wall from this photo.)

07.11.2006/20:08

One Armed Man
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA.

07.11.2006/20:08

Empty
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA.

07.11.2006/20:07

Do Not Destroy
Rural Cameron Parish, LA, aftermath of Hurricane Rita.

07.11.2006/20:06

Highway 82
LA Highway 82, Cameron Parish, LA.

07.11.2006/20:05

Plumbing Remnants
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA.

07.11.2006/20:04

Wet Filing Cabinet
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA.

07.11.2006/20:02

Open Door Church
Hurricane Rita-damaged Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Creole, LA.

07.11.2006/18:41

Cameron Parish Wildflowers
LA Hwy. 82, Cameron Parish, LA.

07.11.2006/09:21
Found
Lost Theory Generator. (via Ray)

07.10.2006/08:39
Magnificent
My sister Laura sends a link to a site for Morgus the Magnificent, who was one of my primary cultural heroes as I watched him on a snowy black and white television screen on Saturday nights in the 1960s. For a staggeringly replete list of TV horror movie hosts, look here.

07.7.2006/16:54
Old crow
Tata, R.I.P.

07.6.2006/14:05
The great desert
"Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland that is NYC's Midtown"

07.3.2006/18:06
GeoBirds
I can't wait to see what Susan might do with GeoBirds.

07.3.2006/06:51
New web site
This morning I launched my latest client web site, for Townhouse Restaurant and Caterer.