First, their distribution across North America and a groundhog cake. Second, sculptures of groundhogs in Farquier, Ontario and Wiarton, Ontario, and a groundhog crossing the street. Third, drawings of groundhogs as Pennsylvania animals and as actors in their classic drama, as well as with parts labeled.
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Meals
Gerto Katzer’s spice pages. An attempt to get Leonard Nimoy to eat some salsa. Recipe archive at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. All about ham, here or here. Emily Dickenson’s black cake. Inspiring photos of British food.
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Booking Travel
Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity. Priceline. Mobissimo.com searches airfares across online quote providers, including airline ticket consolidators. Consolidator links. Tips on using frequent flier programs at frequentflier.com and howstuffworks.com. Ticket upgrade tips at upgradebuddy.com. Much advice at Edward Hasbrouck’s The Practical Nomad. A guide to sleeping in airports. A Monkeyfilter discussion about cheap plane tickets.
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The Current State of Things
The current time and date. The current phase of the moon. The current financial cost of the Iraq invasion. The current US national debt. How things look in Moose Lake, Minnesota, Mt. St. Helens, Washington, Davis Station, Antarctica,
Nuuk, Greenland, New York, New York, the Falkland Islands An estimate of the number of people in U.S. prisons right now. The International Space Station: where is it now? Baby names (to 1900, too). -
Flash
Bug-irritated man. Chocolate Niblet Beans. Economists. Badgers. Qrime. Bruce Lee. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Recursive. A man. A shuffling man. J’ai 10 ans. Welcome to zombo.com. Strindberg and Helium. A facemaker. Drum Machine. Kiddysinth. Krišs Salmanis’s Un ar reizi nāks tas brīdis. Philip Glofcheskie’s bitkraft.com. Poisonous Legacy: Political Flash on US use of depleted uranium weapons. Bushflash.com. Last Requests. Paul Meier’s International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation charts. Various collections of Flash at Milk and Cookies, B3ta, Flying Puppet, Kontraband, eBaum, and Guerrilla News Network. New York Defender. Not Flash: Estonian TV commercials from the 1980s. Search Google for video that’s ready to play. Rubber Johnny. Tourism information.
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Collections and Exhibits
MoCA: Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Bad Beijing architecture. Drawings by second graders of the human body. A huge collection of Photoshop tutorials. The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings. Stephen Downes’s Index of Logical Fallacies. Kevin Sherry’s Sweater Project. Jason Patient’s cycling images. Edward Tufte’s argument against PowerPoint presented as a PowerPoint presentation.
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Images
A catalog of old postcards that you can buy. Jason Salavon’s 100 Special Moments. Paul Smith’s typewriter art. Goodbye, Romania: “Due to server problems when reaching 9% of pixel loss we have to pause this project for a short while.” Mayumi Lake photos. Eye of Science.
