News
12.5.2002/08:57
Vote for which Minnesotan should next be honored with a bobblehead doll.

Sites
12.5.2002/08:54
Lutheran pride, expressed in such marvelous ways as the Martin Luther Bobble Head Doll.

Sites
12.5.2002/08:51
"When all else fails put on a costume and sing a silly song."

Sites
12.5.2002/08:47
Susan and I have taken this illuminating tour of Frank Lloyd Wright sites in Oak Park, IL. It's very interesting; our favorite stop was Unity Temple.

Sites
12.5.2002/08:46
The human role in reindeer/caribou systems.

News
12.5.2002/08:31
Can this tiny town survive?

News
12.4.2002/16:30
Renaissance UFOs. (via Fark)

Sites
12.4.2002/14:10
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
presidentialpetmuseum.com
starbuckseverywhere.net

News
12.4.2002/14:08
The marvelous thing about this is, it worked.

Sites
12.4.2002/12:21
How to make sure you get your letter to Santa dispatched quickly! (Including a way to mail him online.)

News
12.4.2002/12:18
Absorbing tale, with a reasonably happy outcome, of the need for arts organizations to have sound financial planning. (New York Times requires registration; you probably are already a registered reader of the Times, but if not, you should become one!)

Sites
12.3.2002/07:48
Relieving news for sufferers of Poinsettia Phobia. And, oh, yes, while we're at this site, save the rabbits.

News
12.3.2002/07:45
The truth is out there.

Sites
12.3.2002/03:41
Various examples of coconut art.

News
12.3.2002/03:17
Efforts to protect Louisiana waters from killer alien fish.

Sites
12.2.2002/08:04
Tox Town.

News
12.2.2002/08:03
I am told that a "pair of twins" is four people.

Drivel
12.2.2002/07:52
We went yesterday to see Julie Taymor's Frida. What an excellent film. Terrific performances all around, but Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera and Salma Hayek in the title role were absolutely first rate. She especially should be reaping acting awards. What a long way from From Dusk Till Dawn to this!

News
12.1.2002/12:54
Mushroom compost in the news.

News
12.1.2002/12:51
Sad news of disappointed bachelors.

Sites
12.1.2002/10:20
A Poor Clio called my attention to this home model titled New Iberia. It is of course almost certainly designed to pay homage to Shadows-on-the-Teche.

News
11.30.2002/22:31
Whooping cranes in the news.

Sites
11.30.2002/22:18
A useful skill for a James Bond girl: a full drivers license.

Sites
11.30.2002/11:59
From a newly-promoted professor, lots of information about fungi. Includes the delightful and compelling feature, Fungus of the Month!

News
11.30.2002/11:49
Natural cemetery.

News
11.30.2002/10:23
Great gift idea!

News
11.29.2002/22:41
Good results from dogged detective work.

Sites
11.29.2002/11:36
Resources for the procrastinator. I meant to put this on Poor Clio some time ago, but...

News
11.29.2002/11:34
"The company's president and chief executive Carlos Ghosn has again warned the long-term future of the plant depends on whether Britain adopts the euro."

News
11.28.2002/22:37
A person with a cause near to women's hearts.

Drivel
11.28.2002/17:17
Ruined dinner?
Once, when I was about nine years old, our family had just sat down to Thanksgiving dinner when I knocked over my drink glass. "I've ruined Thanksgiving," I blurted out, near tears, but my mother quickly informed me that it was just fine and that I had indeed not ruined Thanksgiving dinner.
I suppose I felt better for her reassurance; but, I must on the other hand confess to a retrospective suspicion that it had also been satisfying to think that I might have had the power, albeit innocently expressed, to ruin the dinner.

Photos
11.28.2002/17:08
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Thanksgiving Table
Our table set for Thanksgiving dinner, 2002. Susan's mother and brother are joining us, along with our friends Steve, Kay and Joel Marcel. Turkey. Dressing. Mashed potatoes. Cranberry sauce. The real action starts tomorrow with the leftovers: our favorite sandwich, turkey, cranberry sauce and melted mozzarella on the ciabatta buns I baked yesterday for this distinct purpose.

News
11.28.2002/16:05
Gigantic spider web in the news. Don't miss the photo gallery.

News
11.28.2002/16:02
Interesting new astronomical theory that huge planets, instead of forming over the millions of years once thought, may have formed in only a few hundred years.

Sites
11.28.2002/15:33
How to raise an orphan kitten.

Sites
11.28.2002/15:32
Here's something else to look forward to: Museum of the Earth.

News
11.28.2002/15:30
Cajun Crawkitty cat treats are coming! Since this will be a Louisiana product, I should be thinking of buying lots and lots of it for our household!

Drivel
11.27.2002/10:26
We watched the PBS broadcast of Skinwalkers last night. Susan reads all the Tony Hillerman books and I was relieved to hear her say that the film didn't at all convey the magic she finds in the books. On the other hand, we did watch it all the way through. It was just a bit flat, and rather dark visually, the result of what I found to be too many moody medicine man/spirituality scenes and not enough of the fascinating desert environment.

Sites
11.27.2002/10:22
World Turtle Database.

News
11.27.2002/10:15
For his part, it must have seemed like being on the edge of a cliff all this time.

News
11.27.2002/07:51
Pretty cool helicopter rescue using just the force of the downdraft.

News
11.26.2002/14:24
In New Zealand, October is a beautiful spring month.

Drivel
11.26.2002/13:51
Should I?

Sites
11.26.2002/09:30
A review of the weather conditions around the time of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving celebration.

Sites
11.26.2002/09:30
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
joyofbaking.com

News
11.26.2002/09:13
Prairie dogs in the news.

News
11.26.2002/08:59
Just what do you do with an old brothel?

Sites
11.25.2002/20:10
When I asked, AvaQuest said it was "confident" that the person who writes Poor Clio is none other than Joseph Brodksy, although it did allow that it might also be David Letterman or Napoleon Bonaparte... or even James Edmunds.

News
11.25.2002/11:30
Perhaps this just a rung above homelessness: phonelessness.

Sites
11.25.2002/10:06
My sister Laura sent me this link to a pretty cool clock.

Sites
11.23.2002/10:34
Save the pugs.

News
11.23.2002/10:32
Terrible asteroid impact catastrophe could wreck life on earth as we know it, but now astronomers are easing up on the predictions of the likelihood of some kinds of cataclysmic events.

News
11.23.2002/10:28
The complex courtroom issues of our time.

Photos
11.22.2002/10:46
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Lake Fausse Pointe Moon
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, St. Martin Parish, LA.

Sites
11.22.2002/10:06
Attire, etc. for vampires.

News
11.22.2002/10:05
Surplus of Dungeness crabs could send prices plummeting.

News
11.22.2002/09:09
Romance outdraws sex.

News
11.22.2002/09:08
Some people steal because they are hard up. But others...

Sites
11.21.2002/23:37
Although occasionally a bit less than straightforward in its organization, this site has a great wealth of information about Musical Theater.

Sites
11.21.2002/18:00
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
prayingmantisboxing.com

News
11.21.2002/15:40
"Roman ruins" for Denver.

Sites
11.20.2002/00:47
Very informative site about phenomena I've always enjoyed but only now know are called noctilucent clouds.

News
11.20.2002/00:43
Dog fetches newspaper, that's not news. But dog edits magazine, now that's news!

Drivel
11.20.2002/00:30
Heavenly Fizzle
So, the meteor shower wasn't the bang-up show it was hoped that it would be, because of the bright light of the moon...and that's if you had clear skies. We got up about 3:30 to find a soupy haze that was thickening into cloud cover. A few stars were barely visible, though, so we stuck it out for about half an hour, and were rewarded with one fairly dramatic meteor. Presumably, this was a really significant one to have been seen through the clouds and against the light of the moon. We were actually fairly well satisfied, as much by having sliced off the better part of a day to slip out to the state park cabins as anything.

News
11.19.2002/15:30
You might want to add this to your worry list, especially if things that might happen a few hundred million years from now keep you up at night!

Drivel
11.18.2002/10:40
We have rented a cabin for the night at Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, on the hopes that perching ourselves on the Atchafalaya Basin levee will give us a good view of the Leonid meteor shower. We just hope we don't encounter showers.

Sites
11.18.2002/10:34
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
txprisonmuseum.org
football-rumours.com

Sites
11.18.2002/10:31
Hey look! New Mexico is even stupider than Louisiana!

News
11.18.2002/10:29
"The Far Side of Eden."

News
11.18.2002/10:23
Old race track re-created for Seabiscuit film.

News
11.18.2002/10:21
Condors in the news.

Sites
11.17.2002/23:52
Lord of the Peeps. (via Eric)

Sites
11.17.2002/12:09
Gee, I don't know, do you think this person is trying to make some kind of point?

Sites
11.16.2002/11:16
For the love of rats.

News
11.16.2002/11:14
Power struggle in New Orleans.

Sites
11.15.2002/14:44
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
cityoflondonchurches.com

Sites
11.15.2002/14:42
Pretty interesting look at the history of the collapsed, and then rebuilt Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

Sites
11.15.2002/13:21
Blog of the Day.

News
11.15.2002/10:54
On the off chance that there was some kid out there that didn't already want to read all the Harry Potter books, here's some additional motivation.

Sites
11.14.2002/08:58
A group that re-creates old radio shows using original scripts, sound effects, etc.

Sites
11.14.2002/08:43
A site about Al Capp's Li'l Abner.

News
11.14.2002/08:07
It's the thought that counts.

News
11.14.2002/08:07
I'm not sure if this guy's library card was the source of the problem.

Drivel
11.14.2002/08:07
I have been seeing the Internet the last couple of days through the beta of the Opera 7 browser, and I've also been using the new Mozilla 1.1. Each has tabbed windows, the ability to quash unwanted popup windows, and some other handy features. Opera has a "Hotlist" that can be easily toggled to the side of the screen with buttons to show the browser history, bookmarks, etc. I'm using the free version of Opera, which has an ad panel in the upper right corner. Since this is on my 19-inch monitor, I don't find the ads distracting, although I might if I installed it on a unit with a smaller monitor.
Part of Opera's strategy is to focus on mobile applications, where Microsoft doesn't have the lock that it has on desktops, and version 7 includes a toggle that lets you see how a page would look in a mobile device or cell phone screen. Very interesting!
I tried a bunch of the pages I have done and was pleased that they render well in Opera; I am in the process of re-coding some pages now so that they render as I wish them to in Mozilla, where the DOM works differently than in other browsers.
All in all, it's interesting to see these other browsers, and I imagine that I'll use Opera quite a bit. The vast majority of surfers, meanwhile, will for the forseeable future be dutifully using Internet Explorer.

Sites
11.13.2002/21:03
Mind the Gap and other gems. (via the unfailingly rewarding Haddock directory)

News
11.13.2002/19:50
Great photo of Australian dust cloud.

News
11.13.2002/17:01
The Godmother.

Sites
11.13.2002/09:05
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
buglesacrossamerica.org

News
11.13.2002/08:50
More Krispy Kreme fanatics.

Sites
11.12.2002/21:53
A site about The Florida Skunk Ape. And, a news story as well!

Sites
11.12.2002/08:50
Classic Bus Pictures.

Sites
11.12.2002/08:42
Sites That Are What Their URL's Say They Are Dept.:
chiasmus.com

News
11.12.2002/08:37
Whooping cranes in the news.

News
11.12.2002/08:20
"Youths have park but prefer downtown..."

News
11.11.2002/17:07
Future triumphs over present.

Sites
11.11.2002/10:11
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
missingmoney.com

Sites
11.11.2002/10:08
A few galleries of nostalgia-evoking roadside scenes.

News
11.11.2002/10:02
Ice wine in the news.

News
11.10.2002/22:21
Who you gonna call?

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