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7.4.2000/19:25
Here, from the wonderful site Cells Alive, is an 820K QuickTime Movie of E. Coli getting it put to them by the T4 bacteriophage. Full explanation at the site!
			7.4.2000/11:25
			My best guess is that this is meant to be funny.
		7.3.2000/21:15
		Rarely Seen Richmond. Rarely seen usefulness of presenation in a web site. Somewhat similarly (urban topic, very direct and useful): City of Buffalo Neighborhoods Map.
				7.3.2000/21:00
				Lethe.com. Not much, but to the point.
7.3.2000/20:55
The Illustrated Guide to Breaking Your Computer. If you need help, call me.
			7.3.2000/20:50
			It's not me, it's another James Edmunds. Found courtesy of the Legacy.com ObitFinder.
7.3.2000/09:15
A few quick search-and-click seconds after arriving at the National Gallery of Art site and I was looking at what might be my favorite painting in the whole collection. But how can I name one favorite when there are dozens of Renoir paintings on hand? Note a particularly interesting feature of this site is the inclusion of a provenance for the objet, sometimes quite fascinating in itself.
				7.3.2000/08:35
				Life imitates art.
		7.2.2000/17:20
		"So far I have even been rejected by the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman," writes Roger Johnson, host and master of Welcome to America, "and Late Night with Conan O'Brian." Roger, I offer you enough acceptance to make up for at least some of that rejection. Roger has put together a collection of photos of the highway welcome signs from all 50 states. He (or is it really sometimes his twin brother Rodney?) is a prominent feature in the collection of pix, standing touristically next to the greeting. This is a gem of a site that proves that the Internet is the perfect place for an utterly useless yet somehow engaging project. Just think, how many of those very signs have I driven past as I crossed jurisdictions, and now they are given an added dimension of life! I can't imagine crossing a state line again without a fond mental salute to Roger and his country-encompassing odyssey. Roger, thanks. And, Roger, you're welcome.
7.2.2000/17:17
Info, and even chat, about chat.
	7.2.2000/17:15
	Two out-of-copyright-but-still-of-value treats from Bartleby.com, both from 1918: Fannie Merritt Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, and Gray's Anatomy. (Thanks to Eric at Kestrel's Nest for pointing out the cookbook.)
		7.2.2000/17:10
		Check back often...sezwho?
				7.2.2000/17:05
				The Flag of Earth. I didn't get to vote on this one, either.
			7.1.2000/15:55
			"We at Triplehom.com wear our obsession with pride." Examples of the triple-homonyms which fuel the obsession: ads/adds/adz; cent/scent/sent; cite/sight/site.
6.30.2000/10:05
I was in Fort Worth a couple of days for a meeting, and one evening the group was treated to a night at the races, at the gleaming new Lone Star Park. At various times over the years we've been horse race fans, and this is a nice track, with some fairly good quality horses. In the mid-80s, I did a big takeout piece for my paper about how the long-entrenched resistance to legalized horse tracks in Texas was wavering, and offering some analysis over what effect Texas racing would have on the heavily-Texan patronized Louisiana tracks, and also just how imminent the threat was. Texas does now have racing, but Louisiana tracks' woes were already deepening before the first Texas racing day, with their bettor base eroded by the intervening rise of casino gambling in Louisiana. Tracks in Louisiana today depend heavily on their OTB revenue from their own offsite parlors (where bets are taken for not just their races but for other simulcast-presented tracks), and on more and more video poker and even slot machine allotments, etc.
			6.30.2000/10:00
			I was cloned. Or at least, my cell phone number was, when I was in New York a couple of weeks ago. When in Ft. Worth day before last, I tried to use my cell phone and was re-routed to some kind of fraud office for BellSouth Mobility, and informed my cell phone number had been plucked out of the ether by high-tech criminals. I was assigned a new number, which may not be all that bad a thing, because I don't like for people to able to call me all that much on the cell phone, though I of course do not hesitate to call others and bother them, etc. I feel sort of sparkly special today, having been involved in a very this-millenium sort of crime (although the BellSouth folk said that it had been going on for all the years there have been cell phones). The woman at BellSouth who gave me the new number even tried to come up with something cool, but alas, there were only pedestrian chains of digits available in my exchange. The next adventure will come with the receipt of my cell bill, which I am told will have some fairly amusing information on it, like nine hour calls to the Sri Lanka time and temperature number, or whatever. Maybe I'll have the phone number of all the crook's friends! Can't wait!
6.29.2000/22:25
For you Iron Chef devotees (you know who you are, and I know who you are), here's an Iron Chef drinking game.
	6.29.2000/22:15
	Everything you wanted to know about kangaroos.
				6.29.2000/22:05
				Read it and leap: high-tech Schadenfreude (as lovingly reported in the Washington Post).
	6.27.2000/09:55
	Looking for a pen pal?
6.27.2000/09:50
Very cool hovercraft project from engineering students at South Dakota State University.
		6.27.2000/09:45
		For a mere $10 billion, we're told, this new approach makes possible a Manned Mission to Mars.
				6.27.2000/09:35
				If you think that alligator is scary now, wait until his gigantic nuke-enriched offspring come for a visit next season!
	6.27.2000/09:30
	Letter from China in today's Washington Post gives richly textured view of politics--and media--in this rapidly changing country.
			6.26.2000/09:15
			Not quite sure what's ailing you? Then take a look at this.
6.25.2000/21:35
BBC story about our burgeoning flow of e-mail claims that the "average UK worker now rattles off or wades through 190 e-mails every day, according to a new survey." Yikes! How many porno sites and get-rich schemes can there be?
		6.25.2000/14:55
		"Costuming for the driver and passengers can be an effective part of your presentation." That's just one of many tips on How to Make Your Own Art Car.
				6.24.2000/10:55
				Go here if you think the Nazis got your family's art.
	6.24.2000/10:50
	SinoMD. Traditional Chinese medicine. So, my back hurts like crazy this week, though it is getting slowly better (like it always does); I therefore particularly appreciate this candid assessment from the back pain page: "In fact, one reason that a practitioner can always do well treating back pain is that 80% of back pain resolves itself with or without medical intervention."
6.24.2000/10:25
For anyone hoping to benefit from somebody else's exercise, here is a very well-done site reporting on a couple's 18-day, 220 mile hike on the John Muir Trail and beyond. The presentation includes a wrap-up at the end, including a list of what they brought that they didn't need, and what they didn't bring but should have. This last I particularly appreciate, as every time Susan and I return from any kind of back-country trip (even a day hike!), we have a good laugh at ourselves over the things we brought but didn't need to.