State of the Air 2004
Wondering how clean the air is you breath? Check out the American Lung Association's 2004 report to discover the air quality in your county.
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Baseball Hall of Fame
It's baseball time again. If you haven't been there, you can still check out the Baseball Hall of Fame online. There's lots of cool stuff including interviews with the class of '04 and various exhibits.
You break it, we write it off as a loss
With Bob Woodward spreading about all this talk of Colin Powell and the Pottery Barn, isn't it about time that the people at Pottery Barn had their say? Absolutely. Pottery Barn's head of PR would like you to know that In the rare instance that something is broken in the store, it's written off as a loss.
(via The Morning News)
You obviously take your cheese-cutting very seriously
McSweeney's has higlights from the over 600 comments left by readers of a story about laser cheese-cutting (blogged here).
Sproings
If you're running Mac OS X and you're looking for an amusing way to kill some time, check out Sproings. You can make your own springy things out of nodes and lines and then throw them around and watch them bounce. This software doesn't do anything at all useful but it's vastly more interesting than, for instance, attending to any classwork this blogger might have due in the next few days. Here's a video of Sproings in action.
(Link via macosxhints)
Linux and Open Source Usability
John Gruber over at daringfireball has posted an interesting rant in response to a prominent open source advocate and his troubles configuring a printer on a linux system. Gruber proposes that an inherent problem in linux/open-source development is that usability is treated as a tertiary feature rather than an integral piece of functionality. Usability, he argues, won't be getting any better until it becomes a top priority.
Annenberg Political Fact Check
Confused about what to believe in political ads? Find out the truth at this Annenburg Public Policy Center web site.
Man Alone Atop the World
We reported on this site a while back, but many readers may have glassed past it. In case you haven't heard, Ben Saunders is currently --at this very second-- in the midst of crossing the Arctic. Solo. On skis. This site has daily dispatches from Ben with updates regarding his whereabouts and adventures. There's even a satellite map that tracks his progress.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Born a country girl in southern Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe blew the doors off of painting by making small, simple things bigger. In keeping with her progression in life from Wisconsin to New York and New Mexico, the O'Keeffe museum in Santa Fe serves as a great portal to the public -- as does this exceptional website. Check it out.
Fonts in Cyberspace
Ever needed to download a font - for that funky brochure or a text translation? This website gives a databas to search over 400 sources for 123 languages.