On occasion I send out interesting or extremely funny urls to friends. I collect them here ... Send me a note if you would like to be on (or removed from) my rarely-used email list which I use to announce the funniest of these.

• 2007 Jun 08. Seminar Bingo
• 2007 May 17. The first help desk (google search for The first help desk)
• 2007 May 17. Animal School
• 2006 May 25. an inconvenient truth. Do you know someone who doesn't know that we are heading for disaster? Tell them about this film!
• 2006 May 24. Gregory Colbert. Stunning images.
• 2006 April 5. This is the disaster that happens when you google for 'tugboat' - the TeX User Group ... TUGBOAT
• 2006 April 4. If you like to write dates in logical (i.e. entirely descending) order, on 2006 May 4 at 3 am, 2 minutes and one second the date and time will be:

  06/05/04 03:02:01

  That will never happen again!
  • This trivia originated from Gail Christie, who said: "On Wednesday of this week, at exactly two minutes and three seconds past 1 am, the time & date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06."
  • Janice Ebert immediatedly pointed out: "Ah, but 2,3,4 on 5/6/07 is just a yr away!"
  • Janet Kinzer pointed out: "Tom - I'm seriously number-impaired....but a Digitally Gifted friend says it *will* happen again in 2106...."
• 2006 Mar 18. www.phdcomics.com
  • Addressing Reviewer Comments
  • Forgetfulness
  • Desk Entropy
• 2006 Feb 7. sand
• 2006 Jan 25. Household Fluids by Lou and Peter Berryman
• 2006 Jan 19. Million Dollar Homepage (CNN story)
• 2005 Dec 5. Tom's pet green cat
• 2005 Dec 4. Amazing Christmas Lights Show google: amazing christmas lights.
• 2005 Nov 30. At Daniel M. Wegner's page, click on the bears ... ! Oh yea, check his useless links too.
• 2005 Nov 25. $100 Laptop for educating the children of the world.
  • laptop.media.mit.edu
• 2005 Nov 23. Naturemill composter!
• 2005 Nov 21. How To Write Unmaintainable Code by Roedy Green.
• 2005 Nov 19. Micromanagement, Lesson Number 1.
• 2005 Nov 1. Mice sing mating song CNN. You can hear the songs from the bottom of the paper: Timothy E. Holy and Zhongsheng Guo, Ultrasonic Songs of Male Mice, PLoS Biol 3(12): e386, 2005.
• 2005 Oct 31. senseable.mit.edu cool city and advanced tech concepts from MIT.
• 2005 Oct 27. www.craigslist.com - free classifieds except for job postings. Amazing.
• 2005 Oct 27. Somewhat silly but addictive games:
  • sobics school Game 1
  • sobics school Game 2
• 2005 Sep 20. four-leaf clover
• 2005 Sep 13. AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Engine demo
• 2005 Aug 15. Surgeon General Carmona's Five Day Plan to Quit Smoking (yellow box). You Can Quit Smoking Now!!
• 2005 Aug 14. Automatic opening door! (movie, original posting)
• 2005 Jul 20. Flying Snakes!
• 2005 Jul 20. Welcome to Google Moon. Be sure to fly in to inspect the sites!
• 2005 Jul 12. Now here's a vacation to relax with: www.nogravity.com/
• 2005 Jul 8. postsecret.blogspot.com
  • NPR article
  • USA Today 2006 Mar 14.
• 2005 Jul 5. Very bouncy tune! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/numanuma.html http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/206373 The original can be found at iTunes: "Dragostea Din Tei", 3:33, by O-Zone, DiscO-Zone.
  • google: Dragostea Din Tei (Original Romanian Version)
  • Dragostea Din Tei Wikipedia
  • Lyrics and translation to English
• 2005 Jul 5. Cool Pavement Drawings! http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm
• 2005 Jun 23. http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html Would you like to knit a "cute, cuddly uterus doll"? The web is a weird place!!
• 2005 Jun 10. www.turnyourhead.com buy an optical illusion of yourself ...
• 2005 May 25. http://baker.mit.edu/piano/ More MIT play ... Baker House Piano Drop ... "Relive the gravitational occurrence in photos in the April 22 issue of The Tech", page 1 and 13. http://www-tech.mit.edu/ (pdf)
• 2005 May 24. http://web.mit.edu/qmahoney/ec/ Recent East Campus Projects ... us MIT folks are playful!
• 2005 May 24. http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/111700main_tetwalker_animation_V_1.mpg The NASA Tetrabot is a pretty amazing new kind of robot. Check out how it crawls, climbs and oozes around!
• 2005 Feb 25. http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/

  The Time Traveler Convention
  May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
  (event starts at 8:00pm)
  East Campus Courtyard, MIT
  42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
  (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
  

  Be sure to be there. If you can't make it now, you can always go later. NPR story All Things Considered, May 2, 2005.
• 2005 Mar 6. The sad but true story of Bubba the Lobster:
  • 'Bubba', 22-pound lobster, to be saved
  • Hold the butter: Giant lobster gets reprieve
  • Bubba the lobster dies after being moved to zoo
  • Bubba to live on as shell of former self
  (Sorry, CNN broke all the links.)
• 2005 Feb 25. http://ontariotrees.com/humour provides a copy of the famous Detection of Large Woody Debris Accumulations in Old-Growth Forests Using Sonic Wave Collection Transactions of the Important Tree Scientists 120(2): 201-209 by INDIANA R. JONES AND ETHAN ALLEN along with a Generic Thank You useful to all scientists. (Actual author: Marty Melchior mmelchior@interfluve.com)
• 2005 Jan 27. view from a kitchen window - startling!
• 2005 Jan 23. google: Andrew Fischer head ... Ebay: "ADVERTISE YOUR LOGO OR WEBSITE DOMAIN ON MY FOREHEAD!*" ... www.humanadspace.com
• 2005 Jan 21. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
• 2005 Jan 16. How to fold a shirt!
  • the movie
  • overkill instructions
  • google: "Shirt Folding"
  • I found this originally at www.stupidvideos.com.
• 2004 Dec 18. Do you remember this? You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike... Start here
  • google: xyzzy
  • xyzzy.com
  • plaque
  • adventure
  • The connection between 'Adventure' and The real 'Colossal Cave'
• 2004 Dec 18. I was actually looking for stuff about OpenOffice.org when I stumbled into this gem ... http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/misc/cats_video.mpg
  • www.eds.com
  • search eds for cats
  • About the movie
  • www.fallon.com has the original. Check out the other stuff they have! The other case studies are cool too ... beautiful: The PBS series Aura ...
• 2004 Dec 9. Kornberg's Ten Commandments: Lessons from the Enzymology of DNA Replication
• 2004 Dec 1. Dragon Optical Illusion SPECTACULAR!!!
• 2004 Sep 17. Kryptonite bike locks can be picked with a Bic pen!
• 2004 Sep 13. Winter's on the way, so it's time for ... snowcrystals.com check out the Photo Collections!
• 2004 Aug 26. www.subservientchicken.com sit. roll over. skip. sit on couch. eat. sing. go away. read book. pushup. fly. Almost every command I give this thing WORKED!! An overinterpreted, somewhat obnoxious review of the site is at www.wired.com. (spoiler!)
• 2004 Aug 16. we come in peace Thanks to Ilya for this monsterous gem!
• 2003 Aug 12: Our patent on molecular computers was finally granted in the USA! US patent 6,774,222, Molecular computing elements, gates and flip-flops, Thomas Schneider and Paul Hengen, issued on August 10, 2004. I would especially like to thank John Fahner-Vihtelic who convinced NCI that it was worth filing on and then had it filed, Jean Lockyer for her careful writing and persistance, and Cristina Thalhammer-Reyero and Charmaine Richman for their guidance.
• 2004 July 29. www.nearingzero.net: Rather funny science cartoons, and they are open source!
• 2004 July 27. I got a spam for some stupid fake university and googled for the number 1-203-286-2187 ... and this incredible web site popped up: www.scamorama.com. It's all about those Nigerian scams, but the guy is a total expert at getting the scammers to think he is about to pay them. The latest one is an incredibly story about Christopher Tennant. My stomach hurts from laughing ... If only one out of 1000 people who gets spam were to do this to the spammers the spammers would have to just give up!
• 2004 July 20: It's Moon Landing Day!!! On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm (CNN)
• 2004 July 17: What is Zorbing???? (www.zorb.com) Note added 2004 July 31: In an independent investigation, I learned on July 29 (see above) that zorbing may have been invented in 8000 B.C (www.nearingzero.net).
• 2004 July 12:
  • How To Become A Hacker by Eric Steven Raymond
  • Rootless Root, The Unix Koans of Master Foo by Eric Steven Raymond
• YOUR VOTE MIGHT NOT BE COUNTED by electronic voting machines! www.blackboxvoting.com (Technology Woman crusades to expose e-voting 'flaws', CNN 2004 July 5)
• 2004 Jun 29.
  • Fun and Harmonic Oscillator Science: Kate Ryan Go to discography and click on the second movie clip for Désenchantée, my current favorite!
  • Science of Regular Patterns: DNA moved to specific cellular locations! It's simple. The DNA inside of each bacterial cell lines up in exactly the same way along the bacterium.
• 2004 Jun 28. Air Guitar Championships
• 2004 Jun 24. A unix fortune:

  In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he?

  (from the web)
• 2004 Jun 24. A label from a laptop bag that is made by a small American company for overseas customers: http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/CTGY/NEWS Laptop bags:

  The inside label carries instructions on washing and caring for the bags. Because the bags are sold in Canada, the instructions are also printed in French. The French version, however, contains an additional phrase: "NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N'AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI."

• 2004 June 8: The Transit of Venus, details about it are at: www.skyviewcafe.com "The last time Venus passed across the face of the Sun was in 1882. There's one more chance to witness this rare event in 2012, but then not again until 2117!" Because of Maryland fog I did not get to see it, though I had a huge pin hole camera made out of my entire bedroom, a digital camera and image stabilizing binoculars that project a 10 cm circle on the ground. One friend said: 'The Science and Technology Reading Room of the Library of Congress passed out viewing glasses yesterday. I saw Venus from a school playing field on my way to the Metro this morning. "Transit of Venus", even the name is ripe with meaning.'

• 2004 May 13. I learned of the early independent coining of the word plurk.

• 2004 May 10. Have A Kitten Break, www.kittenbreak.com

• 2004 May 8. As you may know, there is another computer worm running around: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/08/sasser.arrest.ap/ It occured to me that the 18 year old responsible for making the worm is not responsible for the problem. That's because the Windows series of operating systems are continuously (it would seem, hopelessly) vulnerable. Because it's written into the software use agreement, people who buy that OS can't sue the people responsible. However people who get the flak (email bounces from virus attacks) might be able to.
  
  All of my machines (Sun, Mac OS X and Linux) are immune, but you may be fighting this. I watch the storm go by, you struggle and lose data and time.
  
  So I did a search for 'linux virus' and found that there are essentially none. This is NOT because there are more Windows users, it's because Unix is BUILT to be immune to these things.
  
  One excellent article explains clearly why Unix (Linux, Mac OS X and others) is reasonably immune:
  
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/

• 2004 May 5. Thanks to Pete for this gem! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343 No wonder he devorced her! Look at those tatoos! ;-)
• 2004 March 22: Unannounced Bonus: Windows Source Code http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/source.php
• 2004 Jan 27: Unannounced Bonus: Dilbert on Investing http://www.bylo.org/dilbert.html
• 2004 Jan 17: http://www.fifth-essence.com/archive/bestpix2003/
• 2004 Jan 13:

  Dear Dr. deLespinasse:
  A friend just pointed out your nice article,
  http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/01/08/news/opinion/3see8.txt
  in which you calculate the answer to an important question, "How many windmills would $87 billion buy?"
  Building windmills is indeed important, but we need an economy that supports them. If they were to appear tomorrow, there might not be enough demand. However, it is *trivial* for everyone to create such a demand! To do this, you sign up yourself. Details of how I did it, and a pointer to your article are at:
  http://www.fred.net/tds/windenergy/
  Regards,
  Tom

• 2003 Dec 8: Unannounced Bonus: Check out the stunning images at: http://www.seds.org/~aschultz/ (Thanks to Glenn May.)
• http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2154
• 2003 Nov 11: New images
  • eclipse of the moon 2003 Nov 8
  • sky-scraper with nausia
  • Al Gore 2003 Nov 9 speech at moveon.org
  more of Tom's photgraphs
• 2003 Nov 7:
  Funny: http://www.fdisk.com/humor/ The first item in Stories is about a computer systems operator (to put it mildly) ... fortunately I don't know this guy! (A little knowledge of Unix helps ...)
  Serious: http://www.moveon.org/gore/webcast.html
• 2003 Oct 28: My new car, a 2004 Prius!
• 2003 Oct 27: A true Unix joke!! http://www.jimi.dk/freebsd/SpamAssasin.php says:

  chmod a+x /bin/laden
  

  (There are others, you may not get this one right away.)
• 2003 Oct 23: Tom Lehrer's The Elements, animated. I first heard this song sung (with guitar) by Bill Wood (University of Colorado, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) a molecular biologist of T4 assembly pathway fame. Thanks for Frank Schmidt for sending me this scientific gem! He said, "This was written up in today's Chemical and Engineering News." (I could not locate it on their web site.) http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
  
• 2003 Oct 22: google calculator: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
  Try:
  500 calories in joules
  20,000 leagues in light-years
• 2003 Oct 22: http://www.dct-net.co.jp/special/usb_hot.html Wwtton? (what will they think of next :-)
• 2003 Oct 21: http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#choices I feel sick. :-(
• 2003 Oct 17:
  • 3D color printing! Examples from Art Olson's lab.
  • 3D real time display! Photographs of the 3D display.
• 2003 Oct 15: http://www.chapelperilous.net/
• 2003 Sep 12: So here I am tracking down a new kind of spam (to see how best to set up my procmail filter), come across
  Marvin Glenn's page and find:
  US5443036: Method of exercising a cat
  or
  5,443,036: Method of exercising a cat
  This is a patent?!?! He also mentions:
  :-(
  to which I say :-P
  HOWEVER, the company www.despair.com is very funny, check out their stuff!
• 2003 Sep 3: Re: silly molecules
  Paul:
  Here are two for you -
  Dam Methylase
  the stuck gene
  :-)
  Tom
• 2003 September 1: Spectacular Optical Illusion On July 29 I mentioned a link that is now broken. It was too popular and so they had to take it down. Fortunately Julie sent me the image and it contained the ISBN for a book. I tracked it down. First, here are some related images from Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html. Google search for kanzen illusion. The illusion is the back of a book, by the same person: "Trick Eyes 2" (2003/6/20) (ISBN 4-901782-16-9). Here is the image: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/t2_03.jpg WARNING be prepared to really be creeped out! The author says: '"Uzumaki (Rabbit spirals)" in which circles appear to rotate.'
• 2003 Aug 31: How to avoid viruses
• 2003 Aug 31: National Do Not Call Registry "Most telemarketers cannot call your telephone number if it is in the National Do Not Call Registry."
• 2003 Aug 28: The Cape Wind Project. Thanks to Greg for alerting me about this cool project! I added a pointer from my page: http://www.fred.net/tds/windenergy/
• 2003 Aug 25: I was snooping around and got to: "Mess with the best ..."
• 2003 Aug 20: A google search for "Getting the look from one seriously upset cat" leads to http://www.mandm.ws/cat.html and http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh/images/03/catlinecut.htm
• 2003 July 29: Yikes!!!! This is a jpg, it CAN'T be moving!! http://www.starkitten.com/08/yay.jpg Sorry the link is broken. Maybe I can locate it again. 2003 Sep 1: located!
• 2003 July 29: Cats must be in the air ... http://www.ausmall.com.au/geek/cats.htm (This is quite a funny web site to explore!)
• 2003 July 29: If you have not done so already, go to google, enter "weapons of mass destruction" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky".
• 2003 July 27: Maukie the cat. If you like cats, this one is quite nice ... http://home.wanadoo.nl/annekebroenink/maukie2.swf
  explanation: http://home.wanadoo.nl/annekebroenink/
  
• 2003 June 21: Here is a cool site for the kids:
  http://papertoys.com/
  especially
  http://papertoys.com/shuttle.htm
  http://papertoys.com/formula1.htm
  http://papertoys.com/neuschwanstein-castle.htm
  http://papertoys.com/t-rex.htm
  
• 2003 June 4: From Jeff Willey: "This is just too cute & creative not to pass on (you need a fast internet connection to see the short clip): http://www.winisp.net/bogusboy/hondaad.htm :-)"
• 2003 June 4: truth and beauty
• 2003 June 4: Our patent on molecular computers was finally granted in Europe!
• 2003 May 15: NPR story about Larrys Face, www.larrysface.com

• 2003 May 6: Subject: Letter to the Editor (Brass Tacks)

  Stan Schmidt, Editor
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  475 Park Avenue South
  New York, NY 10016
  http://www.analogsf.com/
  analogSPAMBLOCK@dellmagazines.com
  
  2003 May 6
  
  Dear Stan:
  
  I immensely enjoyed the Analog serial "Shootout at the Nokai Corral" by Rajnar Vajra (Feb-May 2003). In this story an octopus cloak is used to make people invisible. The cloak worked by projecting what is behind one to the front. I was stunned yesterday to find out that a project which gives this same illusion is well under way in the Tachi Lab at the University of Tokyo in Japan. For spectacular details about their method of Optical Camouflage - including movies! - see http://www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html, especially the fellow with the rain coat, with people and cars visibly moving behind him. Science fiction is always ahead, but in this case by only a few months!
  Tom Schneider
  
  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/
  

  Published in Analog, Brass Tacks, November 2003, page 138.

• 2003 April 23: Two items today: Sign an important petition: Stop Global Warming.
  The spaceship you always dreamed of! http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/04/19/space.rocket.ap/ and www.scaled.com. Wow, I want one of those!!
• 2003 March 19: Subject: odd spams
  My friends, you are too smart. A number of you recognized my previous spoof "Spam Used as a Terrorist Cover". But today I got a spam, on the eve of war, that really looks like such a thing. Details at: Very Odd Spam. This one does look like a terrorist cover!
  Tom
  ps: water? gas? food? flashlight? emergency kit?
  One of you pointed out that I missed duct tape. Of course I also forgot to say that the food should be spam.
• 2003 March 15: Some things you just stumble into ... http://members.tripod.com/~bevsan/Tall_Tales.htm
• 2003 March 14: http://users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes/
  Homeland Security has announced they will soon be implementing new software which will record every click of your mouse. It is their belief that it will operate completely transparently and that the average user will not notice any difference in perfor
• 2003 March 7: Spam Used as a Terrorist Cover
• 2003 Feb 20: Swami's 2003 State of the Universe Address By Swami Beyondananda
• 2003 Feb 10: www.savingsandclone.com. At first I thought that this was a joke, but apparently it's not!
• 2003 Feb 6: The details of Secretary Powell's address to the United Nations Security Council on 2003 February 5 "Inspectors are inspectors; they are not detectives." (2003 Feb 7: Sorry, they broke the previous link, this is the new one.)
• 2003 Jan 29: Dr. Matrix Award for Science Excellence!
• 2003 Jan 29: the current situation
• 2003 Jan 14: WHEN COMPASSION BECOMES DISSENT, DAVID JAMES DUNCAN
• 2003 Jan 12: I am now running my home on wind energy, and you can too! http://www.fred.net/tds/windenergy/
• 2003 Jan 4: Details of Micro$oft's illegal actions are given in the judgement against Micro$oft in favor of Sun: http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2003.03/8641/8641.html The judge stated: "Microsoft embraced Java for the purpose of destroying it". No wonder people call it the evil empire! Background on the situation: http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2003.03.all.w1.html#8641
• 2002 Dec 16: http://www.moveon.org/technicaldifficulties/
• 2002 Dec 10: Take the time on this one, and keep in mind the robes and wigs.
  http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=342639
• 2002 Dec 7: Despair, Inc. is still at it and going strong!
  • http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101021209-395353,00.html
  • http://despair.com/
• 2002 Nov 21: Good Grief! The Segway is now for sale!
  Alternatives:
  • www.voloci.com
  • www.xooter.com
• 2002 September 15: New attack on wordy! Forced updates by microsquish!
  • http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/09/13/microsoft.word.bug.ap/
    Using this exploit someone can get any file from your computer if you are using Word!
  • Would you agree to having forced updates on your computer? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html
  • Check this free (!) solution out:
    http://www.openoffice.org
• 2002 September 5: banthespam.com Ban The Spam. CNN story.
• 2002 August 4: http://www.fred.net/tds/emergencyform.html Emergency form.
• 2002 August 3: While looking up the word noumenon, I came across this odd scene: http://www.krasnow.gmu.edu/alexei/noumenon/n008.htm 8-)
• 2002 July 16: extremely funny movie http://hellsgate.online.ee/%7Emait/fahrschule.swf
• 2002 July 9: Birds stealing quarters??? http://www.utahbirds.org/BirdStory.htm. (Read the additional story at http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/carwash.asp!) See also PBS special on the whacko Bower birds. Some comments I got back:

  From Janet Kinzler:

  I went to school in England for a year and met a budgie who's hobby was sorting the odd buttons in a dish. The owner would put a dish of stray buttons on the table and the budgie would spend the day sorting the buttons into little piles. If he was done he would whistle and the owner would come and give him a treat and then scoop the buttons back into the dish and the bird would start (happily) all over again! It was very cute.

  Further details are available about Blue Peter.

  From Rebecca Merck:

  I heard a thing on NPR a few years ago (when I was crow-obsessed, which is an interesting story) about how clever they are. While I was listening, I noticed a crow in a tree with something in its mouth, and at the base of the tree was a squirrel. Why this drew my attention, I'm not sure -- but sure enough, the crow dropped the object, the squirrel darted out into traffic, was hit by a car, and as I passed, the crow was having a tasty fresh snack

  The location was in Virginia inside the DC beltway, on route 123, near the post office, just off 66 in Vienna/Oakton.

  From Rebecca Merck: In the area of human/bird relations, a friend of mine was visited by an albino crow -- somehow, it came to land on her arm, and spent most of the afternoon with her, in her house, riding along in the car. She returned it to a flock of crows, eventually, and kept an eye on it. Unfortunately, albino crows are also likely to be blind, our ornithologist friend tells us, so it didn't live long. She has some amazing pictures of this fabulous bird hanging out on her kitchen chair, though. And I love the idea of driving around with a big white bird in the passenger's seat.

  From Janet Brockett: http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2002-08-08-smart-crows_x.htm Crows exceed expected intelligence levels, by Tim Friend, USA TODAY, 08/09/2002. The original report is Science 2002 Aug 9;297(5583):981 Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Weir AA, Chappell J, Kacelnik A.

• 2002 July 9: Fahner-Vihtelic's incredible story: http://www.thrivenet.com/stories/stories96/stry9601.html

• click on a metro link
• cute (or sickening depending on your state of mind) cat
• clean up your web site
• Preparing for 9/11/2001 (ie, are we preparing for war?)
• Put this in your wallet
• !looc woh !srepeeG
• Where did The Knack come from?
• 2002 Feb 3: Lap Dance by Jim McNeill. Hilarious! Check it out!! (recovered 2003 Feb 5)

• 2002 Feb 10: This makes purrfect sense: Cheetahs go wild for Calvin Klein perfume
• 2002 Feb 11: Unexpected Evolution of a Fish Out of Water The New York Times, February 11, 2003, By Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
• 2002 Feb 11: www.themadnessofgeorgedubya.org
• 2004 Dec 1: boingboing.net. The Dragon Optical Illusion came from their archives.

Tom Schneider's Home Page