News
06.11.2006/08:30
Help me, please, stop me, please
"BlackBerry addicts have a crack at freedom when they check into one Chicago hotel: the manager will put the communications devices and others like them under lock and key for guests who want a break."

Sites
06.9.2006/14:55
Where can you eat?
Taste of the New York Subway organizes restaurants by NYC subway line stops.

News
06.9.2006/14:45
I'll call you
I should get one of these, right?

News
06.9.2006/13:39
Up in the sky!
"I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke."

News
06.9.2006/06:35
Spot legislation
No Pet Left Behind.

Sites
06.8.2006/14:50
That's my Bush
A Republican friend sends this. Note that you can use your cursor to pick poor George up, but once you release him, he's on his way down again.

Sites
06.7.2006/09:01
News bites
Hmmm, looks like Mormons and Waspy suburbanites keep their teeth in their heads longer than hillbillies.

Sites
06.6.2006/14:45
Windy City
My friend Jackie alerted me to this Chicago-centric news and info blog.

Photos
06.5.2006/16:41
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Saturday Ball Game
Riverside Park, Manhattan.

News
06.4.2006/20:50
Your number is up
"Many people avoid the number; they're afraid of it almost and there's absolutely no reason to be afraid of it."

News
06.4.2006/14:21
Yummy!
"The U.S. is looking forward to eating Indian mangoes." (via Simon)

News
06.3.2006/10:18
Energy stars
"The cost of powering and cooling a server over a four-year lifetime will soon exceed the cost of the server hardware."

Photos
06.2.2006/08:49
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Feathered hair
Runway model at The Hair Ball, an event produced by The Independent and benefitting Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA), June 1, 2006, Lafayette, LA.

Photos
06.2.2006/08:47
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Hair Ball
A prize-winning coiffure at The Hair Ball, an event produced by The Independent and benefitting Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA), June 1, 2006, Lafayette, LA.

Sites
06.1.2006/14:51
Hello kitty
Mind-numbingly cute. Although, this section is a bit amusing in an edgier way.

Sites
06.1.2006/14:49
Four!
Oh no, it's back!

News
06.1.2006/14:32
Heckuva job
Oh, well.

News
05.30.2006/07:36
Stop the clocks
"In the face of horrifying destruction, Dr. van Heerden, the deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, knew that small things helped tell the big story."

News
05.29.2006/19:46
Balanced view
"Although the electric, self-balancing Segway scooter never quite caught on with commuters the way its backers had predicted five years ago, the gizmo has found a growing market among law-enforcement agencies, with more than 100 departments around the world now signed on as customers and many others testing the device."

Sites
05.29.2006/09:35
Little one
My friend Jackie sent a link to this amazing record of newborns in the hummingbird nest.

News
05.28.2006/22:47
Dig this!
Giant earthworms in the news. (via the absolutely indispensable Fark)

Sites
05.28.2006/16:24
What's the buzz?
Great bug story from NPR Morning Edition, and one which definitely benefits from being heard rather than just read.

News
05.28.2006/15:41
Yet one more good thing about JetBlue
"Mr. Rockwell's job at the JetBlue terminal - which is being built next to the Saarinen building, now empty - required him to think both inside the box (Gensler & Associates was responsible for most of the architecture) and outside it, given JetBlue's reputation for stylish practicality."

News
05.27.2006/21:34
Ride the rides
"Coney Island seemed like it was in a time warp, and would never change."

Sites
05.27.2006/21:20
RTFM
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
usersmanualguide.com
(via DontForward.com)

Sites
05.27.2006/16:06
May lightning strike me...
Great storm pix.

News
05.26.2006/23:16
Pot muffins for the teachers
"A joint terrorism task force found that terrorism was not involved, but determined the muffins contained marijuana and turned up a surveillance video of the delivery."

News
05.26.2006/14:11
Five ways
Our friend Randy Fertel has written a piece for the Summer 2006 issue of Kenyon Review which, when I asked him if I could post it here, I commented was just the kind of personalized memoir/assessment that it is going to take to get people to engage the fuller texture of what has happened in, and to, New Orleans. Here it is.

News
05.23.2006/21:20
Dear Sir / Madam
Who could possibly fall for one of those Nigerian help-me-get-the-money-out emails? Well, you might be surprised.

Sites
05.23.2006/19:41
True beauty
Today for the first time I tumbled onto graphpaper.com, one of the most visually appealing blogs I have ever seen. Of course, I am a bit partial to the graph paper background. But really, what a beautiful site, and with truly engaging content. I'll be back to this one!

News
05.23.2006/16:19
Sad tree news
"The tree, thought to be hundreds of years old, came down in Charfield Drive during Sunday night's storms, crushing a nearby lamp post and a bus stop."

Sites
05.23.2006/16:17
Zzzzzzz
Segmented sleep.

Sites
05.23.2006/08:08
Narrow bridge
Plans to widen the fearsomely narrow Huey P. Long Bridge.

Sites
05.23.2006/00:20
Gotta go
National Public Toilet Map. Unfortunately, not for my nation.

Sites
05.21.2006/14:58
Alumni of what?
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
celebrityprepschools.com

Sites
05.20.2006/00:46
Rocco's
A hungry cabbie waxes about one of our favorite foods/spots, the cannoli at Rocco's.

News
05.19.2006/17:07
Don't drop the baby
We may not have as much coverage of African AIDS as we should, but by golly ours news machine is on the Britney-as-a-mom issue!

News
05.18.2006/09:50
The New Orleans Katrina floods
My friend Randy sends a link to an amazing animated graphic from the New Orleans Times-Picayune showing the progress of flooding in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.

Sites
05.18.2006/09:12
Roomba Hack
For people who want to hack their robot vacuum cleaners.

Sites
05.16.2006/11:51
Quick bites
Google Map of fast food locations. (via the invariably rewarding kottke)

Sites
05.16.2006/11:45
Mop Tops
Old Beatles pix.

News
05.16.2006/11:42
Faster in Texas
"Speed limits would increase to 80 mph on two West Texas interstate highways under a proposal by the Texas Department of Transportation."

News
05.16.2006/11:39
Hybrid in the fast lane
"The New Jersey Turnpike Authority voted yesterday to allow fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles to use the turnpike's high-occupancy lanes."

Drivel
05.13.2006/10:13
Tall guy
Watching a baseball game on TV last night, I was really struck by the thought that this is a game in which it would be a real advantage to be, say, 70 or 80 feet tall, so that you could just fall over from first base to steal second. And, because it would be unlikely that the pitcher could consistently get the ball over the plate at the height of your knees (and the umpire be able to see it), you would get lots of chances, since you would walk a lot. Walk to get on first, steal second, steal third, steal home. It would be an almost sure run every time you got to the plate. Finding a comfortable place in the dugout would be kind of rough, though, and you would pretty much need the whole grounds crew to help you take a shower. But what fielding position best suits an 80 foot-tall guy?

Sites
05.13.2006/10:08
Pysanky on display
There is a nice exhibit of pysanky at the Uknranian Musem on 6th St. in Manhattan through mid-summer. Wikipedia on pysanky here and a Poor Clio visit to the world's largest pysanka here.

News
05.12.2006/22:10
Books along Jersey
I strolled tiny Jersey St. for the first time the other day, and now I see that it is in the news.

Sites
05.12.2006/17:04
Bite my neck
Vampire stuff.

News
05.12.2006/16:57
Breaking up in space
"Watching a comet break up is not something the public gets to do that often."

News
05.7.2006/19:32
No Exit to Brooklyn
Looks like our friend Kenny may not be moving his restaurant to Brooklyn after all.

Sites
05.6.2006/09:50
Maria Rita
Maria Rita at the Irving Plaza! I'm so excited! We're going!
UPDATE:We went and it was fabulous! We did not know until she announced it from the stage that this was her New York debut (interesting in that she attended NYU).

Photos
05.5.2006/21:18
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End
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

Photos
05.5.2006/21:17
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Water Towers and Bricked In Window
26th St., Chelsea, NY.

Photos
05.5.2006/21:16
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Shipping Burial Cremation
Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

Photos
05.5.2006/21:14
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One Way Chicken
Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

Photos
05.5.2006/21:13
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Polished English
Manhattan Ave., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

Photos
05.5.2006/21:12
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L.I.R.R. Tracks
Just east of the East River in Queens, NY.

News
05.5.2006/09:02
Do you mine?
"On Thursday, teams of rescuers had to work their way through mazes made up of wood and metal walls built to simulate the tight quarters and turns sometimes found in mines."

News
05.2.2006/09:41
Balance the budget
"In this game each French person can pretend they are the budget minister." (Thanks to Robin for pointing this story out to me.)

Sites
05.1.2006/21:09
Elastic
This is both goofy and beautiful. Or maybe it is fairer to say playful and beautiful.

Sites
05.1.2006/20:54
This is this
"This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself."

Sites
05.1.2006/20:47
They said it
Actual quotations from great thinkers.

News
05.1.2006/20:23
Exciting finish
Kristy McPherson, one of the LPGA Futures tour golfers that we met when she stayed with our friends Jackie and Conrad when the tour was in Lafayette a few weeks back, won a tournament yesterday in an exciting stretch duel.

Photos
04.30.2006/19:57
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Make Levees Not War
Cowboy Mouth bassist Sonia Tetlow at New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2006.

Photos
04.29.2006/18:28
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Irvin Mayfield
New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2006.

Photos
04.29.2006/18:27
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Cowboy Mouth
Drummer / vocalist Fred Le Blanc of Cowboy Mouth. New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2006.

Photos
04.29.2006/18:26
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Charmine Neville
New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2006.

News
04.25.2006/17:45
At last we can breathe easily!
Gas-free beans!

Sites
04.25.2006/17:28
Diversity in the city
Class project from NYU creates great source of grass roots info on ethnic enclaves in New York City.

Sites
04.24.2006/20:22
Number Nine
Advanced Sudoku Strategies.

Photos
04.24.2006/12:27
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Congo Square
World premier of Wynton Marsalis's Congo Sqaure, New Orleans, LA, April 23, 2006.

Photos
04.24.2006/12:27
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Snow Plows Under the Pulaski Bridge
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

Sites
04.18.2006/09:03
New York, New York
Interesting to look at this and then this within a few clicks of each other...

News
04.17.2006/21:30
Heads up!
"The ice punched through the metal roof of a recreation center, leaving a hole up to 2 1/2 feet wide, then fragmented into opaque, brilliant white chunks, one as big as a bowling ball."

News
04.16.2006/10:12
The sound of harps
"He contacted the Rotary Club in Pancevo and by coincidence Ana had been performing at the club."

Sites
04.16.2006/10:08
Bunny
Speaking of monster rabbits, Happy Easter! (Thanx to my sister Laura...)

Photos
04.15.2006/15:56
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Happy New Year 2549
A happy offshoot of the cleansing ritual associated with the Lao New Year is the practice of dousing your companions with shaving cream. These young folks are enjoying the Lao New Year celebration at Lanexang Village in rural Iberia Parish, LA., for the year 2540 - or, 2006 if you follow the Western calendar. Photos from prior years here.

Photos
04.15.2006/15:54
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Brio
Shaving cream has happily emerged as an offshoot of the cleansing ritual that is part of the Lao New Year celebration in Lanexang Village in rural Iberia Parish, LA. It's mostly used to spray companions, but occasionally there is a bit of artistic outpouring like this one. Photos from prior years here.

Photos
04.15.2006/15:51
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Temple Mail
While there is a new, larger temple building now at Wat Thammarattanaram in Lanexang Village in rural Iberia Parish, LA, the older, smaller temple is still used on a day-to-day basis, as witnessed by the stacked mail and other items of daily living.

Photos
04.15.2006/15:49
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The New Temple
A new temple building has now been completed at Wat Thammarattanaram in Lanexang Village in rural Iberia Parish, LA. This photo was taken during the annual Lao New Year celebration. Photos from prior years here.

Drivel
04.12.2006/10:58
Don't call me...
I don't want to start anything, but I notice myself really reading the Caller ID display on my phone nowadays, and I'm wondering if anyone has started generating Caller ID spam.

Photos
04.12.2006/08:09
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On the bongos
Bongo player for Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, in student concert presented by Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (PASA) in Lafayette, LA, April 10, 2006.

Sites
04.10.2006/21:32
Guinea Pigs
"I am rather fond of guinea pigs."

Sites
04.10.2006/21:26
Watch Saddam
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
iraqimostwantedsolitaire.com

News
04.9.2006/23:03
Terror in the fields
Monster rabbit.

Sites
04.9.2006/09:06
Isolated by choice
Old Believers in Canada.

Sites
04.8.2006/22:53
Theater of Blood
Blood you can buy by the gallon.

Sites
04.8.2006/22:50
Niagara Falls
Cool photo of Niagara Falls.

Sites
04.8.2006/10:03
Tell me a Fib
The Fib: a poetic form based upon the Fibonacci sequence.

News
04.5.2006/12:15
Cajun protectionism
"If that's not a tax, there's no tea in China."

Sites
04.3.2006/21:43
The Hunt for Zombies
I scoffed at this post about using Google Maps to hunt zombies... that is, until I tried it myself. Be careful out there!

Drivel
04.3.2006/17:16
Great time for all
Our friend Patrick Little passed on this tidbit from our New Orleans friend Bill Rau:

"At 2minutes and 3 seconds after 1am Wednesday of next week, the time and date will be:

01:02:03, 04/05/06."

Sites
04.3.2006/09:47
Streaming Eagle
My sister Laura sent me the link to this amazing eagle cam.

Drivel
04.2.2006/16:17
Happy Birthday to Clio
Poor Clio was six years old yesterday, on April 1. I was out of town (didn't even see email, the Internet, etc.) yesterday, so here I am today to say Happy Birthday to my blog.

Photos
03.31.2006/11:47
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Mystery Buckeye
I took this photo of the blossoms of our buckeye tree in the backyard to send on to our horticulturally informed friends, who on our first word of the yellow blossoms produced wondere whether this might be Aesculus sylvatica, normally found from around northern Alabama to southern Virginia, or possibly Aesculus flava, a more or less Ohio River valley species. Which to you think it is?

Drivel
03.30.2006/09:08
Tooth merry
I went to the offices of our family dentist, Donald Henagan, DDS, for a crown on Tuesday afternoon. Normally, one does not particularly look forward to a couple of hours in the dentist's chair, even at a well-run and friendly office like Dr. Henagan's, but I like the folks there so much that I figured it would be about as good as such a thing ever gets.

What I wasn't prepared for was how engaging it all turned out. Dr. Henagan, I learned, is one of the few dentists in our area to have employed CEREC CAD/CAM technology for producing crowns. After taking some photos with a little oral wand, he tap-tap-tapped on his keyboard for a while, and then when he had the tooth modeled on screen, sent the data downstream to the milling apparatus which produced the finished replacement tooth in less than 20 minutes.

I find that with many technological services, the real test of it is not when everything goes right, but how easy it is to recover from something that didn't go perfectly well. In this case, the machine worked right the first time, but when Dr. Henagan tapped the new crown into place to see the fit, he was a bit dissatisfied and changed his model a little to produce a new one - which itself emerged another 20 minutes later (try that with the dental lab).

The folks invited me to watch the machine at work and I was well captivated by its action, and as I wandered back to my dental chair, I had a brief conversation about the technology with Dr. Henagan. He has been using CEREC for about four or five years, and reports being really glad that he made the investment. He is now doing demos for other dentists.

The second crown fit like a charm (this new "tooth" is much better than the one it replaced), and even with that careful fitting and second round of manufacture, I was out of the office in less than two hours with an improved mouth. I chew better, look better, feel better and got to learn about something that was all new to me.

Here's a sentiment you might not see often expressed: I went to the dentist to get a crown this week, and I had a delightful time.

News
03.29.2006/16:51
Where he goes, we will follow
"Kenny Shopsin, the breakfast-and-lunch spot's Falstaffian owner, seems interested mostly in Brooklyn's cheaper rent, which would allow him to spend more time jawing with customers, rather than in the kitchen."

News
03.29.2006/16:47
Crazy Cat
"It was the first time such an action was taken against a cat in Fairfield."

News
03.29.2006/09:33
Not just for hippies any more
Bad news for organic farmers: Wal-Mart wants your produce.

Sites
03.28.2006/22:14
Demographics demo
Check out the demographics in your neighborhood - c. 2000.

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