Posts from March 2002
Ketchup Bear
This guy made a huge bear statue out of ketchup packets, thinking it’d look like it was bleeding when he shot it. It didn’t quite work out. I guess the science of constructing ketchup-packet bears still has a ways to go. link via Pop Culture Junk Mail
Song
The Game (narration) – Harry Nilsson
Three Gorges Dam
A few weeks ago I finished reading The Best American Science Writing 2001. It’s a marvelous collection of all the “best” essays written on scientific topics from last year. One article, “Running Dry” by Jacques Leslie, really shocked me. It’s all about the depletion of the Earth’s freshwater and the (disastrous) effects damming has had
Discovery Channel Reminders
The Discovery Channel web site is really excellent. They are doing so many things right. If you join their ‘community’ you can have them eMail you reminders when certain episodes or specials are going to air. What a terrific idea! (They could make the site a smidge friendlier to the bandwidth-impaired; I’m only on a
Source Viewer
A quick source viewer bookmarklet
ASPModules.com
AspModules.com has some great tools for web developers. If you use Blogger as your content management system, you might be interested in the Adminimizer Toolbar. It lets you edit your blog WYSIWYG-style – right in your browser. Way cool.
How old were you when …
A web gizmo to place yourself in history
chased by spectres of abstraction
This was written for Dr. Ault on January 24, 1994…
Song
Me and My Arrow – Harry Nilsson
Non-Fiction Addiction
Good gravy! I’ve been suffering from a severe case of non-fiction addiction lately. I managed to grab three of the five Oscar movies over the weekend, but otherwise for the last month or so I’ve watched almost nothing that wasn’t on TLC, Discovery, or A&E. I’ve seen specials on mummies, temples, “the Iceman”, pyramids, tombs,