Radio Astronomy & CloudSat.

A group of Lebanese kids watching yesterday's partial solar eclipse.

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How to measure your foot for a cowboy boot.

Pony Express statues.

Review of comedian Dave Chapelle's 3.5 (!) hour show Monday night in San Francisco.

Many, many reasons to keep all your eggs in one basket.

Bean bag chair refill.

Neat gallery of all sorts of railroad snowfighting equipment. More.

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Some kind of German rocket drink rucksack. I likie.

Chocolate State University.

Our trip to Lake Tahoe was perfect: I caught a bad cold the day before leaving and then proceeded to break nearly every bone in my body catching big air while sledding. Also, our son got very car sick on the way home. :)

No updates until Thursday as we're off to Lake Tahoe to sled and build snowpeople.

Marmaduke can vote.

Official dodgeball rules.

Dwindling Arctic Ice, from NASA.

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NARTH - National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Ugh.

Very large collection of Bertrand Russell photographs.

The political contributions of various sports stars. [via g i t m]

Neurological eye simulator.

The interactive patient.

A few old Easter cards from the Finnish National Museum.

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Good preview of the upcoming Spring classic cycling races in Northern Europe.

It hurts! It hurts! Oh my god! God help me! God please help! -From the script to the movie Jaws.

Made in New Jersey.

Let Nana show you how to make a fruit cake. Let her!

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Why is the ocean salty?

Multinationals - Pepsi, Cadbury, Nestle, Danone and Coca-Cola - supply most of the bottled water in Mexico, now the world's second-largest consumer. Sales of bottled water in China jumped by more than 250 percent between 1999 and 2004. They tripled in India and almost doubled in Indonesia. Worldwide, the industry is now worth about $100 billion per year. -Water is the new oil.

Lazer Vaudeville.

The submerged paintings of Morgan - Chinese Artist.

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The Meow Mix Café in New York City.

How to train a cat to stop doing almost anything. I thought they already did that.

Military definitions.

Full text to Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49'. [via robotwisdom]

The American rural folk art of Constantine Kermes.

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A system comprised of two MMB-3 oven cavities and three Microdry Model IV-75, 75kW microwave transmitters would produce eleven hundred pounds of fully cooked bacon per hour. -Better news I've not heard. [via askmefi]

Eating like an Egyptian.

Sorry Gotta Go dot com.

Guy Zummo, from a huge collection of found headshots and promos from the 1970's. Sweet.

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A Korean website with many, many Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits videos.

Frequently asked questions about Bulgaria.

The African Internet cable.

There's little or no effort to hide it, and the method is simplicity itself: just find the nearest overhead power cable, sling a metal hook over it, then run a wire from the hook to the home. The result: an illegal supply of free electricity that lasts until inspectors from the local power utility stage one of their periodic raids. -Stealing 'lectricity big in India.

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Database of the best motorcycling roads in Europe.

Design your own bathroom!

International Migratory Bird Day.

My wife's favorite pro cyclist, Pippo Pozzato (she joined his fan club last year and got a free pair of socks!), won the Milan-San Remo race on Saturday. Good stuff.

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Good interview with pro cyclist Bobby Julich.

A lego aircraft carrier. [via thingsmag]

Interactive parts of an aeroplane.

Build your own rainstick.

Make your own visible woman. Finally!

Make your own lightbulb. Requires power supply and small stick welder.

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Plastic surgery statistics. [via robotwisdom]

Tutorial on tracking migratory birds via radar.

Birds of Nova Scotia.

Birds and window collisions.

Pet cats that are allowed to roam free account for some 4 MILLION bird deaths EACH DAY in North America, or over 1 BILLION songbirds each year. -From a list of modern threats to bird populations. Also, Cats Indoors!

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Catnip - Fun or Dangerous?

Got mercury?

The history and Irish tradition of corned beef.

Make your own seismogram!

Build your own metal detector.

How to eat lobster and other items to discuss over lobster.

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Lobster boats - Icons of the Maine Coast. Also, a lobster quiz.

Hermit crabs and their crab-like allies.

In the question-and-answer period that followed their talk, a man asked, "I don't know how else to put this but, does it ever occur to you to go outside and play?" Lewis gave him a quizzical look. "And do what?" she said. "Go outside and talk on our cell phones?" -A report from SXSW.

Jeanette, of Jeanette's Taxidermy, shows off some of her kills. Also, Maggie's first antelope.

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The Olive Garden cheese chicken game. [via metafilter]

Dream interpretation services and rates.

Watch the alien dance. Watch!

Full text of HG Wells' The Time Machine. Excellent.

What the heck is "leetspeek?"

	Most surgeons recommend that parents stay alert to their child's feelings about protruding ears; don't insist on the surgery until your child wants the change. -Otoplasty, ear plastic surgery. You monster!
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Ears and altitude.

Lyrics to 'Row Row, Row your Boat'. In case.

What would happen if a shark and a whale got in a fight?

Colossal dictionary of whale words.

Unicycling through Laos. The perfect holiday. [via metafilter]

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How to moonwalk.

Learn to yodel. Eh?

Bode Miller jokes.

Nudes in arts on stamps. From a huge collection of art history on stamps.

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Interesting look at faith-based investing.

10 steps to finding the right bus for your church.

Lacemakers and lacemaking in fiction.

How much toilet paper a kid should use. A lot. [via presurfer]

Cave related statistics. Also, a glossary of speleological terms.

Harvesting water from fog. Neat.

The peloton passes through foggy Beaujolais during this week's Paris-Nice cycling race.

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An awesome 1963 bicycle safety film. Wow. [tnx ss]

Many misconceptions exist about electronic organs. After seeing the inside of an electronic organ, many people have exclaimed something like " how can all those little parts make musical sounds?!" -Electronic organ maintenance.

Living in Hawaii.

How to build a campfire for cooking.

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Supermarkets also have "traffic" - large numbers of shoppers popping in for their weekly shop. And having everything under one roof also means shoppers can be lured into impulse-buying of CDs, DVDs or toasters. -Grocery stores no longer just for groceries.

French islands St. Pierre and Miquelon in fight for oil.

A Southwest Airlines pilot spotted Mechniek standing between two runways and alerted the control tower. -Drunk man trespasses onto Chicago airport runway.

A listing of North Carolina pulled pork barbecue joints.

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Cooking with sunshine.

Scientologists buying up San Francisco.

Clog sounds.

Salman Rushdie and his wife at an Oscars party on Sunday. Appears having received a death threat from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini has been very, very good for Sal.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro they're no more. [via robotwisdom]

Ride Me bicycle panties. Yes.

Flickr photo sets of some of the hardcore bike porn seen at last weekend's Handmade Bike Show in San Jose.

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Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler are touring in Europe. My fingers are crossed that they'll consider a few US dates, perhaps in the SF Bay Area.

¡Feliz Cumpleaños Mama!

Bird Topography. Just 'cause.

We believe that as a society we can no longer waste time promoting a dualistic reality of polarities where one polarity is more dominate over another. We are neither "left" nor "right". We see ourselves as human beings who have sincerely out grown the need or belief in the dichotomy of polarities of positive and negatives. -Exactly or something.

How to eat octopus. Also, how to smoke octopus.

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Review of this past Friday's Van Morrison show just up the hill from us.

The history of flight recorders.

Water aids in the digestion process and prevents constipation. -Water, she's good.

How safe is your kitchen? Also, health insurance for your cat.

Richie Rich No. 1. More. Also, draw Casper!

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Comic books and juvenile delinquency.

Cracking safes with thermal imaging. Also, large safes.

The cycling 'Race for the Sun', Paris-Nice, rides through some snow yesterday afternoon.

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The effect of the Scottish Enlightenment on water filter technology. Duh.

How to make fried Oreo cookies.

A gallery of eclipse drawings. Also, Sun-Earth Day!

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Because people aren’t going to stop dying without Christ and spending an eternity in Hell, just because the cost of TV airtime has gone up. -Why you should donate to the World Prophetic Ministry, Inc.

Solar folklore.

Twelve photos of the homeless in Caracas, Venezuela.

From this week's Vuelta a Murcia cycling race in Spain.

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"My gosh, folks,'' he said. "Relax. I'm a practicing Irish Catholic. I'm not a Scientologist, and I couldn't tell you two things about it." -San Francisco mayor dating scientologist/actress.

The ten thumbs guide to snow sculpting.

From a decent gallery of Spring Training photos.

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A scavenger hunt on bicycles in Los Angeles.

Jesus has risen near the interstate north of Cincinnati. A 62-ft. high sculpture of Christ appears to explode from the dirt behind the amphitheater at Monroe's Solid Rock Church. -Giant Jesus statue in Ohio.

An awful lot of leprechaun images.

Surely this has been linked to a gazillion times but still worthy - Car crashes into bonsai trees.

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Talking appliances? The future will apparently be very noisy.

Tex's French Grammar. Excellent.

AP: First Patch to Treat Depression Approved.

Trees add to our enjoyment of outdoor experiences whether in forests, parks, or urban landscapes. Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees, which can cause personal injury and property damage. -How to recognize hazardous defects in trees. Also, the hazard tree web page.

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AM/FM radio signal strength as according to Zip code. Cool. [via robotwisdom]

Bicycle mobile hams of America.

To the man or woman who rides the wheel for pleasure or exercise, there is no sport comparable to cycling. He or she does not feel it necessary to acquire, or give the impression of having acquired, curvature of the spine, and is oblivious to the charms of racing, or “scorching” , as fast riding on the road is called. -A doctor's view of bicycling, an 1895 article. [via velorution]

What a broken $8,000 pro bicycle looks like.

A day in the life of a British miner, circa 1939.

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The most mind-boggling cell-phone behavior you've ever witnessed?

"I think Jerry would be very pleased by this," said Dennis McNally, Garcia's longtime friend and Grateful Dead biographer. -J. Garcia tea. Spinning in his grave he is. [via gdnews]

Barry Bonds in drag. Excellent.