This information about the winter solstice is presented with lovely pictures, some scientific as well as sociological info, and (maybe most importantly) is a soothing antidote to the overwhelming consumer insanity that is the holiday season.
Have you ever heard the howl of a wolf? This archived Wild Wolves website from PBS-Nova contains brief audio clips of the following distinctive wolf howls: Lonesome Howl, Pup Howl, Confrontational Howl, and my favorite--the Chorus Howl.
Want to reduce waste? Do you have unwanted things that others might find appealing? At this web site, one persons trash can truly be anothers treasure. Freecycling is a worldwide movement to recycle unwanted items. The web site provides a forum for local individuals to give and receive free items.
Are you tired of searching endlessly through web sites in order to find relevant academic writings? This Google web site may provide an answer. The search engine enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Listen to what's bugging two real-life New York gangsters in these secret FBI wiretaps brought to you by WMOB, an audio website that bills itself as the wiretap network and its premiere series as Seinfeld meets The Sopranos.
Performance-capture data appears to be creating a revolution in the movie business. This MSNBC web site discusses the innovations in computer-generated animation used to create the new movie, Polar Express, which is the first full-length Imax 3 - D feature that began as a 2 D film.
Well, it's official...David Beckham will play himself in an upcoming soccer trilogy tentatively tield Goal! Interestingly enough, in the film he will be playing for Newcastle United, which may annoy the folks back in Manchester!
Now that the elections are over, various maps of the results are floating all around the internet. One of the best sources for these maps may be this ESRI web site. Visitors can find great animated and 3D maps of U.S. demographics and the county results of the Presidential elections.
Tired of office meetings that seem to go nowhere? Check out the Conference Bike, a tricycle built for seven that, according to the designer Eric Staller's website, is not just a bike, it's a party on wheels! Note that while everyone pedals, only one person steers. Some things never change.
The famous diary of Samuel Pepys, the noted 17th century London diarist, is being placed in this weblog (with a new entry each day)...definitely worth a look, and some good background on Pepys and the project as well is also made available here