News
03.25.2006/22:00
Comet chameleon
"This is a rare opportunity to watch a comet in its death throes - from very close range."

Drivel
03.25.2006/11:06
I want it now
I have been on a campaign lately to try and be more patient. I just wish it would hurry up and work.

News
03.24.2006/23:57
Home for sale
Actually, if you don't mind sharing, two parties could go in on this place together, knocking each half down to only $30 million.

Sites
03.24.2006/23:44
Where they have gone, this follows
Wow, nice photos from Brent Phelps... this is my kind of stuff! Here are more, in what might be a more permanent link.

Sites
03.23.2006/10:17
Real Bliss
My friend Conrad sent me this, which way, way, way beats air guitar!

Sites
03.23.2006/09:18
Hawking a web site
My sister Laura reminds me that Pale Male, the urban raptor watch, is worth looking at not just for the bird biz but also the nice photos of NYC and the park.

Sites
03.22.2006/23:45
Why a duct tape?
Construct a dummy out of duct tape.

Sites
03.22.2006/00:19
Ups and downs
It's well worth taking the time and effort to explore a stock listing page in the new Google Finance. Note especially the lettered legend connector between news reports and the stock price chart.

Drivel
03.21.2006/16:46
PickItMaster.com
I've been playing guitar quite a bit more lately, and even bought a new guitar a couple of weeks ago. As a result, I've been surfing the Internet for guitar-related sites, and have found quite a bit that is useful - in fact, it's almost a problem to keep things winnowed down to what is useful and worth returning to.

To impose some order on all this, I've created a new little web site called PickItMaster.com. Have a look, and note that there is a blank on the site for suggesting additions.

Sites
03.20.2006/22:40
Number nine
Nice use of Flash to make Sopranos Sudoku.

News
03.20.2006/22:35
Titanic accomplishment
"The impact on Earth that killed off the dinosaurs could have ejected enough material for some to reach far-off moons such as Titan."

News
03.20.2006/22:28
From ashes to glop
"Boaters who cruise along the River Soar in Leicestershire have said if mourners continue to sprinkle ashes in the water, the river will become unusable."

Sites
03.18.2006/11:43
Biology like you've never seen it
Susan point out this site: "The Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens."

Sites
03.17.2006/20:30
Online spreadsheet
iRows.

News
03.14.2006/20:34
Plaza bittersweet
"Around 1,000 items from the grand hotel's past, from its red bellmen's uniforms, to the gilded metal chairs from its legendary ballroom, will be offered for sale during the one-day auction."

Sites
03.14.2006/08:47
Not made of green cheese
Google Mars.

News
03.13.2006/22:47
Comet commentary
"Findings from the mission are challenging assumptions about comets and how they formed."

Sites
03.13.2006/19:36
Ha ha
Guitar jokes. Also here and here. Those of you familiar with accordion jokes or violist jokes will recognize many of these.

Sites
03.13.2006/11:20
Get Down!
My sister Elizabeth sent me this link to a field report from Mardi Gras in Iraq.

Sites
03.11.2006/17:40
It's Venice, Plus!
Some guy's photos from a 2003 trip to Venice. And, some other guy's photo of a trip to Ireland.

Sites
03.10.2006/22:23
I, therefore I
Cool map that is something about interstate highways.

Sites
03.10.2006/22:13
Listen to this
Free audio of books in public domain.

News
03.7.2006/19:07
New crustacean
Let's eat!

News
03.4.2006/18:52
Can the drinks
Bad stuff about drinking sodas.

News
03.4.2006/07:46
The bird with the funny name
Gooney birds in the news.

Sites
03.2.2006/21:20
Wake up
Puzzle alarm clock.

Sites
03.1.2006/18:46
Try it first
Printable sudoku scratch paper.

News
03.1.2006/18:44
Number nine
"There's been a huge increase in the number of tournaments and so it's legitimate to have countries where Sudoku has become such a phenomenon participating in a world championship."

Photos
03.1.2006/18:13
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Mardi Gras Song
Mardi Gras celebrants at the south end of Sixth St. in Mamou, LA circle dance as band plays Mardi Gras song, Mardi Gras day (2-28), 2006.

Photos
03.1.2006/18:12
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Catching beads
Mardi Gras celebrant catches beads thrown from a parade of horse trail riders, Mamou, LA, Mardi Gras day (2-28), 2006.

Photos
03.1.2006/18:09
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Dancing in Big Mamou
Mardi Gras celebrants at the north end of 6th St., Mamou, LA on Mardi Gras day (2/28), 2006.

Photos
03.1.2006/18:09
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Frottoir Player
Frottoir player, Mamou, LA, Mardi Gras day (Feb. 28), 2006.

News
03.1.2006/17:03
Love me tendril
"Most giant squid tend to be washed up dead on beaches, or retrieved from the stomach of sperm whales, so they tend to be in quite poor condition."

News
02.26.2006/17:38
Chase the chicken
"I point out to them that a Mardi Gras run is not necessarily a family-oriented event. If they want to see us chase the chicken, I encourage them to talk to the captain beforehand and arrange to be at a stop when the Mardi Gras gets there. And I advise them to make it one of the early stops."

News
02.26.2006/10:09
Answer the phone
"In an era of fierce competition, when customers have more choices than ever, the toughest business challenge isn't to keep expenses down. It's to keep loyalty high."

Drivel
02.24.2006/13:01
Target marketing
Based on recommendations from several admittedly tech-ish folks, I ordered a new mouse the other day. When it arrived, tossed in along with it in the shipping box was a sample of a new roll-on deodorant. Am I being typecast, or what?

Sites
02.24.2006/12:51
Neurotic map
The Geography of Seinfeld.

Sites
02.24.2006/11:07
You are fabulous
Go here to feel better about yourself.

Sites
02.23.2006/18:16
Perchance...
My friend Maggie is blogging her dreams.

Sites
02.22.2006/21:22
Googlecenter of New Iberia
New map craze: identifying the Googlecenter of your town, that is, the spot in the middle of the map at the highest Google maps magnification for the burg. For New Iberia, it's right around location of the "old" library on Weeks St. just in from St. Peter St.. In nearby Lafayette, it's right about at the corner of S. Buchanan and W. Vermilion Sts..

News
02.22.2006/15:53
New cave! New frogs!
"As a bonus, researchers also discovered a new dendrobatid frog species."

Sites
02.20.2006/22:25
WWJD
What Would Jackie Do?

News
02.19.2006/21:59
Bad hair day
Slow news day?

News
02.19.2006/10:30
337
Nice New York Times story about how a cell phone's area code is a tie with home.

Drivel
02.19.2006/10:17
At your server
For some time I have curiously eyed the media devices that work to stream content from your computer collection of songs, conveniently to the home stereo system, but none of them seemed quite right until I read David Pogue's New York Times story about the Slim Devices Squeezebox 3. As the company site and the Pogue article explain, this device not only provides a good sound quality for playing your mp3s over your home entertainment center, it also tunes into scads of internet radio stations from all over the world; and because its inner workings are open source, there are lots of patches and plugins available for such things as listening to your XM Radio account, etc. There are even RSS feed displays on the beautiful, crisp display, and ambient sounds like thunderstorms, etc.

Mine came yesterday, and within a short while I had it up and running and pumping beautiful sound into the den. You may have to do a little tweaking to get the server working through your firewall in you have one, but there are clear instructions with the unit for those not so familiar with these issues.

I am very pleased with this unit. Highly recommended.

Sites
02.18.2006/18:07
Love in the ruins
A very, very serious web site.

Sites
02.18.2006/07:57
Speak to me
Engrish.

Sites
02.18.2006/07:48
This works!
Learn about stuff that doesn't work right.

News
02.18.2006/03:42
Singles night at the opera
"It's an opportunity to meet people who are of a certain ilk because the opera is kind of sophisticated."

News
02.17.2006/21:35
Hounded
"The llama suffered injuries, but how, we are not sure."

News
02.16.2006/16:53
Rising Tide
"It's likely that Greenland is going to contribute more and faster to rising sea levels than previously estimated."

Sites
02.16.2006/16:18
Album art
The way, way best album art finder I've ever seen.

Sites
02.14.2006/11:40
In the heart of Manhattan
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
centralpark.com

News
02.14.2006/11:37
Rove on
The latest news from Mars.

News
02.13.2006/07:38
Arachnids to watch out for
Spiders that are scary to spiders.

Sites
02.9.2006/21:44
What's my house worth?
Coming to your neighborhood, if not already there: Zillow.com

News
02.9.2006/21:38
Zillow
"Zillow.com was crammed with more traffic than it could handle shortly after the beta service went online Wednesday providing estimated home prices, tax records and sales histories."

Sites
02.9.2006/16:31
Mien Leiben
Another reason to take good enough care of yourself to live at least another year: A Wolfenstein movie in 2007.

News
02.9.2006/16:25
Tut tut
"American archaeologists have uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun's in 1922, Egypt's antiquities chief announced."

Drivel
02.8.2006/21:04
Talk to me
Today I installed the Internet telephone program Skype, which has gotten some buzz amongst those I know, of all the current rash of this sort of product. If you download it, look for me at the Skype name jamesedmunds. If you are far away, it counts extra!

News
02.6.2006/18:55
Another world
Artist attempts to depict "plausible" rendering of what distant planets might look like.

Sites
02.5.2006/14:29
Strike!
Music teacher strike.

Drivel
02.5.2006/11:57
What kind of mood?
When someone is spoken of as moody, what is not meant is that the person has an array of rather different good moods.

Sites
02.3.2006/21:48
Upside down -- or not?
Maps with the south at the top.

News
02.3.2006/09:27
Red shoes are silent
Monica Shearer, R.I.P.

News
02.2.2006/13:01
La Nina
"This pattern will favor continued drought in parts of the South and Southwest from Arizona to Arkansas and Louisiana, and above normal precipitation in the Northwest and the Tennessee Valley area."

Sites
02.2.2006/12:36
Seach books on Google
Google book search.

News
02.1.2006/13:02
They're back!
"We are ecstatic to be back in the neighborhood and see familiar faces again! We have committed to being a part of the New Orleans community for many years to come."

Photos
01.31.2006/11:45
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Hands Up!
Chad Hall of the dance company Diavolo leads a student outreach activity at N.P. Moss Middle School in Lafayette, LA, as part of the company's performing residency for the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana, Jan. 29- Feb. 1, 2006.

News
01.30.2006/21:54
Coastal changes
"We may be losing part of our beaches, we may lose our coastal wetlands, and our coastal forests may change permanently to a different kind of ecosystem."

News
01.29.2006/15:29
Don't blow it
The issue of soft tissues for your soft tissues.

Sites
01.28.2006/22:01
When Worlds Collide
Interesting look at how these two bits of the internet cross paths: here and here.

News
01.27.2006/18:19
Breathe in!
"The Food and Drug Administration said the Pfizer Inc. insulin, to be marketed as 'Exubera,' is the first new way of delivering insulin since the discovery of the hormone in the 1920s."

Drivel
01.27.2006/14:02
What's yours?
We just returned from the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, an organization for folks that do what PASA does, that is, present concerts, performances, etc. Like most trade group conferences, there are professional development sessions, a trade show floor, etc., and like most arts conferences, there are showcases of performers, both at the conference hotel and sprinkled throughout the city.

We saw, as usual, dozens of performances, some outtakes and some full length. Jackie Lyle and I have been attending this conference almost every year since 1989, and she observed upon our return at midweek that so much of what we saw reflected the sense that everybody had to have a "gimmick." Opera companies that had rock synth, dancers that all fly around in the air or bounce on balls, classical musicians that sort of play jazz, jazz musicians that reflect classical training, etc. Is this a reflection of the shorter attention span of our time? A phase of the moment? An indicator that culture as we know it is being shucked aside? Or did we just go to the wrong stuff? (Or did we only go to stuff that had the gimmick to attract us?)

Photos
01.27.2006/12:46
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Subway sketching
On the F train, Manhattan.

Photos
01.27.2006/12:45
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No 1. Train
My friends Shantell Romero and Jackie Lyle head downtown on the No. 1 subway in New York City.

Photos
01.27.2006/12:43
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Ellis Island
Registry area upstairs at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

News
01.26.2006/15:59
Ah, aria
Fine wool from opera-exposed sheep.

News
01.26.2006/15:56
Spider pix
"Cave wolf spiders share a special adaptation - their spiderlings have a row of comb-like teeth on their claws that perfectly match the spaces on the multi-branched hairs found on the mother's back."

Sites
01.25.2006/16:09
Hook 'em
Fish stories.

News
01.25.2006/09:36
Can't stop
"I'm addicted. They should pay the billion dollars and get it over with."

Sites
01.20.2006/09:32
Have a rice day
Nice flash intro for a restaurant site.

Sites
01.16.2006/20:31
Voyeur resource
Nice collection of interesting webcams.

News
01.16.2006/20:27
Hang in there
Rare bats.

Sites
01.12.2006/20:49
Street of dreams
Chokuegambo.

News
01.12.2006/17:29
Up in the sky!
"Small human ancestors known as hominids had to survive being hunted not only by large predators on the ground but by fearsome raptors that swooped from the sky."

Sites
01.12.2006/11:56
Silver bullet
Who wouldn't want one of these?

News
01.11.2006/09:55
No longer singing
Birgit Nilsson, R.I.P.

News
01.10.2006/15:24
Not even a friendly peck
Don't kiss your chickens.

News
01.10.2006/15:21
A mighty wind
"By making this purchase, Whole Foods Market is taking a huge step toward advancing corporate renewable energy purchases."

Sites
01.9.2006/15:39
Howl
If you're in Austin, TX, here's what to do when you see a coyote.

Sites
01.8.2006/11:29
Googlebators, et. al.
Slang of our time: Urban Dictionary.

Sites
01.7.2006/14:45
Hobbit Feast
Second breakfast and all the other meals, plus three movies. (via the indispensable Fark)

Sites
01.6.2006/15:27
Read it and weep
Literary sub-genre: The Silver Fork Novel.

Drivel
01.6.2006/14:56
Bird identification dialogue
"We're not sure what kind of hummingbird it was. Maybe if we were like Audubon, we could just blast it... 'Hey, little feller, what were you?'"

"What about a digital camera?"

"Naw, won't kill 'em."

Sites
01.6.2006/14:35
Check it out
The books most borrowed from libraries.

News
01.6.2006/13:52
Gone but not forgotten
Lou Rawls, R.I.P.

Sites
01.5.2006/12:41
Misssspelllled
Troublesome words, and why each is a problem.

Sites
01.5.2006/12:39
Cool, eh?
What's cool. In Canada.

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