News
11.9.2002/08:03
Iraq? Afghanistan? Piddling. Get ready for a real threat.

Sites
11.9.2002/02:48
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
monstrous.com

News
11.9.2002/02:45
That terrorizing squirrel gunned down. R.I.P.

News
11.8.2002/17:24
"Now, you take my wife..."

News
11.8.2002/09:20
Be on the lookout for this vehicle.

News
11.8.2002/09:17
The grass is always greener on the other side of the roof.

Sites
11.7.2002/20:33
Cemetery iconography.

News
11.7.2002/20:13
They saved the polar bears.

News
11.7.2002/09:07
Vicious squirrel in the news.

Sites
11.6.2002/08:23
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
reptileadvice.com

News
11.6.2002/08:17
A victory for the rats.

Sites
11.5.2002/15:50
Pretty nice little web site for a town of 2200 people.

Drivel
11.5.2002/13:20
We've thought of a new word to describe our eternally hungry and continually soliciting cat, Eggplant: she's a beggarnaut.

Drivel
11.5.2002/11:02
I find ironing clothes oddly satisfying, although the fact that I don't have to do it for a living, often, or even because I'm a bit too strapped to afford the laundry makes me merely a dilettante presser.

Sites
11.5.2002/09:36
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
nursinghomealert.com

Sites
11.5.2002/09:32
What can the Mozilla browser do that Internet Explorer can't?

News
11.5.2002/09:26
I suspect we will see a lot more of this: hundreds of computers temporarily linked together to create a virtual supercomputer.

News
11.5.2002/09:17
Here's an exit poll where it would be tempting to try to seem to have voted for both candidates.

News
11.5.2002/09:14
Back to the future: after decades of having its downtown streets all as one-ways, Louisville is considering making some of them two-way again.

News
11.5.2002/09:05
Dog eat dog, that's not news. But dog eat man, now that's news!

Drivel
11.4.2002/08:34
There are some around these parts who say you can tell what kind of weather lies ahead for the next few months by watching how busy the squirrels are in their autumnal preparations; and how fat they are getting by eating, say, the birdseed we leave out for the feathered creatures. If there is any truth to this as a climatological index, then I would say that south Louisiana has in store for it a winter more bitter, dark, crushing, and frigid than any that has ever chilled the north slope of Alaska.

Drivel
11.4.2002/08:33
Susan and I rented the DVD of the first four episodes of The Sopranos, and now we're hooked.

Sites
11.4.2002/08:30
Here's a little something different to keep your guests entertained at a party: thematic scratch cards, a sort of homebrew lottery for laughs.

News
11.4.2002/08:23
I hate it when this happens.

News
11.4.2002/08:15
Plane-spotters: They're not spies, they just have a goofy hobby.

News
11.4.2002/08:13
If you put your leftover luncheon meat in your refrigerator and then your refrigerator sends you an email, is it spam?

Sites
11.2.2002/23:00
Historical sites that promote distortions of history.

Drivel
11.2.2002/18:22
Click here for photo
Goodbye, Tree
This week, Susan and I had to bid goodbye to our old water oak, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Lili and in any case had some tired old branches threatening our and our neighbor's houses. A crew came in and cut most of what was left, but there is still an about 15-foot tall stump, which our arborist calls a "wildlife tree." We hope we get some owls. Susan took this nice picture of branch acrobatics.

News
11.2.2002/08:19
How do you think you would vote if you lived in Seattle and had to decide about the proposed monorail for downtown?

News
11.2.2002/07:55
You should get your flu shot.

Sites
11.2.2002/07:53
A periodic table of elements that's really a table.

Sites
11.1.2002/21:34
Lost Liners, an elaborate site "honoring the golden age of ocean travel."

Sites
11.1.2002/09:37
Slang City: low on the amount of slang, high on the amusing nature of the presentation.

News
11.1.2002/09:29
Hundreds of thousands of plant species face extinction.

Sites
11.1.2002/09:27
Tonya Harding in the news.

News
10.31.2002/07:48
Cool Halloween prop! Except, not really...

Sites
10.31.2002/07:45
A site that purports to have current gasoline prices from all over the U.S.

Drivel
10.30.2002/09:05
I have decided to skip today. That means everything I'm doing in the next several hours is a great, early start on tomorrow. I feel so productive!

Sites
10.30.2002/08:42
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
outofbody.org

News
10.30.2002/08:35
"He said it was a Twinkie."

News
10.30.2002/08:30
What a great new word to associate with bloated documents: typosuction.

News
10.30.2002/08:27
Woolly rhinos in the news.

News
10.30.2002/08:02
"People will shop at Wal-Mart and walk 300 feet, but won't come downtown and walk 300 feet."

Sites
10.29.2002/22:36
Your newest reverse-lookup telephone directory: go to Google and type in a ten-digit listed phone number, say, yours.

Sites
10.29.2002/09:32
Why?

Sites
10.29.2002/09:28
Vitual Pet Cemetery.

News
10.29.2002/09:27
Bird species in decline due to habitat loss.

News
10.29.2002/09:22
Anger and controversy over plan to sell an old lighthouse in Maine.

News
10.29.2002/09:19
Is it possible that all this spam in my mailbox is also the work of pro-Islam extremists?

Sites
10.28.2002/11:16
Warning about the Gullibility virus.

News
10.28.2002/10:39
We take so much in the way of over-the-counter pain relievers and other patent medicines, it's not surprising that there is a concern that too much use of these palliatives may bring on problems.

Sites
10.28.2002/09:31
A list of 50 top horror films, with detailed justification for the choices.

Drivel
10.28.2002/09:25
Congratulations to the California Angels, of course, on a thrilling never-say-die World Series triumph. Though not a great World Series (to be that, it would have had to have at least one or two of those low-score showdowns between dominating pitchers), it was a satisfying one, and there is much to like about the scrapiness and relative anonymity of the Angels. And now, we look forward to mid-February, when pitchers and catchers report to camp...

News
10.28.2002/09:23
A recreational trail becomes a business boost.

News
10.28.2002/09:19
A new issue for a new millenium: farm odors.

Sites
10.27.2002/23:18
Great collection of words with notable qualities.

News
10.27.2002/10:18
It's turning out to be an interesting World Series after all. Game Seven tonight!

Photos
10.27.2002/10:03
Click here for photo
A Real Page Turner
String quartet playing at a private party, Lafayette, LA.

Photos
10.27.2002/10:00
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L’Eglise
A dinner party at L'Eglise, a converted church building which now hosts events, in Vermilion Parish, LA.

News
10.27.2002/09:40
Gladiator school.

News
10.27.2002/09:39
Carved naked ladies.

Sites
10.27.2002/09:31
Smarter.com, a putatively superior search engine front end.

Sites
10.27.2002/09:27
Save the tigers.

News
10.26.2002/23:20
Big day for Notre Dame. Tyrone Willingham is sooo classy.

News
10.26.2002/23:14
What, a month isn't considered a long time to shop?

News
10.25.2002/23:00
Dog shoots man, now that's news!

News
10.25.2002/14:13
Another terrible hurricane, this one coming out of the Pacific to strike Mexico.

Sites
10.25.2002/14:11
Info about rocks and prospecting in the American desert.

Sites
10.24.2002/11:39
Buy my comic book.

News
10.24.2002/11:34
The daunting issues of our time.

News
10.24.2002/11:15
I will eagerly await this!

Drivel
10.24.2002/09:49
Here's my invention idea for this week: A radio that lets you enter the special code issued to you by your NPR station as soon as you pony up during pledge week. You enter the code, and from then on, you hear pleasant recorded music while the rest of the shmucks that haven't pledged have to endure the donation appeals.

Sites
10.24.2002/09:46
This is fascinating: an organization and website for the purpose of taking long term bets on philosphical and societal issues; for example, "At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150." The bet money goes to running the organization and to a charity endowment.

News
10.24.2002/09:13
Nice seasonal photo.

News
10.24.2002/09:09
A rather marvelous collection of auto license plates, mostly from Kansas.

News
10.23.2002/07:51
Recycling crimes.

News
10.23.2002/07:43
Save Historic Martinez... from what?

Sites
10.22.2002/22:10
Go to bid on the book, stay to read the lengthy essay on Ian Fleming's life.

Drivel
10.22.2002/12:59
Robot Monster
The other night, I watched my DVD of Robot Monster, one of my favorite bad sci-fi movies. I watch so much of this sort of thing that it has started to creep into my speech. "We will pay these bills within one orbit of your Earth's moon," I tell Susan as I sort the mail. Or, "We have enough milk left in the refrigerating device to supply our needs for two more of your Earth days."

Drivel
10.22.2002/10:02
It's now more than two weeks since Hurricane Lili struck south Louisiana, and we're more or less back to normal. Susan and I still face a big bill to cut down what is left of our huge backyard water oak after Lili finished stripping some of its biggest branches and littering them around the neighborhood. And though I don't think there are any more neighborhoods without power, there are still places with quite a bit of cleanup left to do. Unoccupied property tends to stick out a mile about now.
Change is constant, I suppose, but we tend to like to face it from some posture where there is at least the illusion of stability.

Sites
10.22.2002/09:49
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
buttcandle.com
historicalweapons.com

Sites
10.22.2002/09:44
GhostCam. (Warning: re-sizes your browser window... how ghoulish!)

News
10.22.2002/09:21
Nice Halloween photo.

News
10.22.2002/09:19
Model prisoner.

Sites
10.21.2002/22:15
Amazing collection of football helmet images from teams and leagues present and past.

Sites
10.21.2002/22:07
A Dracula site that is rich in well-prepared and well-presented content.

Sites
10.21.2002/09:46
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
flowers2thailand.com

News
10.21.2002/09:42
I can only imagine what this must be like.

News
10.21.2002/09:39
Nice short profile of the lone FBI agent for the empty stretches of northern Nevada.

Sites
10.19.2002/09:32
PETA, hip youth version.

News
10.19.2002/09:29
"You don't really win championship belts. You are given championship belts."

News
10.19.2002/09:21
Delightfully received surprise visitor.

News
10.19.2002/09:13
Although tree branches tear up south Louisiana power lines when there are hurricanes and lesser storms, moving lines underground could be prohibitively expensive.

Sites
10.18.2002/22:40
Can this be real? Or is it too good to be true? (via Camworld)

News
10.18.2002/11:33
In football, as in life, there's a lot of jerks out there.

Sites
10.18.2002/10:15
"iBrotha is the story of a young man so passionate about Apple Mac computers he turns into Malcolm X to get the machines the respect they deserve."

Sites
10.18.2002/10:11
Great moments in the history of the U.S. Congress: 1954 Senate Interim Report on comic books and juvenille delinquency.

Sites
10.18.2002/10:03
Same guy every day, same set-up, but surprisingly different photo each day for a year.

News
10.18.2002/09:55
In tough budget times, libraries consider assessing fees for services now offered for free.

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