Discovered while paring down browser bookmarks:
- Wireless tower locator - enter your city/state and get maps & info on all of the FCC registered towers in the area. Not sure why you'd want to do this but here it is all the same.
- New Hampshire's new Coho Trail - ultimately it will be a 159 mile long trail and so far 140 miles of trail are open. My favorite listed feature is "a natural, bubbling jacuzzi" although I haven't discovered the location yet.
- My sister's family - the Normal Normans three years ago.
- USGS GNIS datasets - control your excitement...
- http://www.directionsmag.com/ - lots of geographic data, interesting maps, as well as some useful articles.
- Shuttle-bike kit - turn your bike into a waterbike.
- Dr. P's dog training - THE Dog Library
- Model Stirling Engines - including the rather curious seesaw stirling.
- LedLight.com - between these and the new compact flourescents rebates you shouldn't ever buy another incandesant bulb.
- Onset data loggers - uh, because, uh, well, you want more data
- Radiantec - article on hybrid solar heating feeding a radiant heat system
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Lifting news from Satire Wire this morning: SURPRISE SETTLEMENT EVENLY SPLITS MICROSOFT; ONE FIRM TO MAKE SOFTWARE, OTHER TO MAKE PATCHES
Pogo goes on sale in the UK: mobile phone, web browsing, game playing, e-mail, a diary, music player and an online contacts book. Hey, if you run Radio 8 you could publish to your weblog wirelessly using email or the browser. Not so sure about that stylus...looks like an anti-gravitational rotation device for astronauts.
The life of a crossword puzzle artist. [coudal]
Samizdat bawdiness, so to speak, did find its way into crosswords during this era of purity. One constructor famously snuck PENIS into a New York Times puzzle by cluing it "The ___ mightier than the sword."