Admit One / mental gymnasium
(like sit-ups for your brain)

A project by students at the University of Nebraska-
Omaha to raise awareness of the homeless by living
homeless for a week has been postponed because
of rain, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Here is an interesting read concerning weblogs. What they
are vs. what they are not. Is blogging protected free speech
or should it be subject to FCC scrutiny and guidlines?

2005lesblogs | 1.25

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This is so friggin dumb it’s kinda cool.
At least the beat is pretty good. Check
it out.

Bore Me – your daily fix for entertainment

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No downloading a fractal program. Just kick back
and zoom in on the web. Nice Fractal zoom progy.

Fract: A Web-based Fractal Zoomer

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Ever wonder what the value of Pi might look
like when calculated out to one million places?
No longer do you have to wonder.

Pi to 1,000,000 places

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Many of you have had someone track you down just to
chastise you for sending them a humongus attachment
in their e-mail, maxing out their e-mail allocation. May be
you are the inconsiderate sender. Whatever the case,
now there is yousendit.com. Never piss off someone
like that again! If you do now, you deserve a fat lip.

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

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Pirated-Sites.com showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites
that are suspected of borrowing, copying or stealing copyright-
protected content, design or code without permission.

Pirated Sites!! Aaarrgghh…

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They are everywhere: around us, beside us, beneath us,
busy in their small, secret world. Tiny, alien, comic and
fierce, stalk legs and compound eyes, extravagantly built
for plain purposes: they fly, they mate, they hunt and feed.

An Insect’s View – Portraits of a Hidden World

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A very nice hi-res star chart for you that is totally
free. Thank you cloudynights.com.

Free Mag 7 Star Charts

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As a survivalist, one must be able to do one thing,
survive. One achieves this in any way one can. In
this case a can is essential. See and read how to
create fire using only a soda can, chocolate and
some tinder.

Tracker Trail – Fire – Can of Coke and a chocolate bar

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Here is a site with dozens and dozens of photos of
airplane mishaps, screwups and blunders. Ooops!

The aviation oops list

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If we have bothered forming opinions at all about
Canadians, they’ve tended toward easy pickings:
that they are a docile, Zamboni-driving people who
subsist on seal casserole and Molson. Their hobbies
include wearing flannel, obsessing over American
hegemony, exporting deadly Mad Cow disease and
even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums.
You can tell a lot about a nation’s mediocrity index
by learning that they invented synchronized swimming.
Even more, by the fact that they’re proud of it.

Sound a bit harsh? Read on.

Welcome to Canada – As printed in the Weekly Standard

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Have you seen this dude? Freakin’ freaky.
The Lizardman does incredibly strange
shows that are in a league of their own.
Also read about his tongue splitting
experience.

The Lizardman – Live Shows

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Simply the finest toy soldiers available anywhere
in the world today. Handcrafted by Russian
masters and hand painted by artisans in Russia.
There are none others that are their equal. Take
a look at these fine works of art. Mind you, these
amazing figures are on average only 3 inches
tall. Figures on horses and other animals are 4
to 6 inches tall.

The St Petersburg Collection

Recommended for detail viewing:

Marshall Davout

Saracen Warrior

Marshal Herman Goering

Mounted Saracen

Here is another St Petersburg Collection gallery.

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