Through the Hoop
Tyler Cowan says that this is the way the French play basketball.
Yearly Archives: 2005
Wear Yellow
Recommended viewing: Lance Armstrong on the Oprah Winfrey show today!
Disclaimer: The Modulator staff are supporters of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and fans of Lance and cycling. We do wear yellow! You should as well.
Friday Ark
Cats, Dogs, Spiders and ? every Friday.
I’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals as I see them (no photoshops and no humans).
Leave a comment or trackback to this post or email me and I’ll add yours to the list. Check back regularly for updates throughout the day on Fridays and somewhat less frequently over the weekend.
Do remember The Carnival of the Cats every Sunday and hosted this week at The Conservative Cat.
Archive editions of the Friday Ark.
Cats
- enrevanche: Mr. Gato
- Crooked Timber: Aoife
- Blog d’Elisson: Miss Matata, Hakuna, and Hakuna again
- This Blog is Full of Crap: Edloe
- Bibi’s box: Piecat, Noi and more cute stuff
- Smijer: Snuggle-doggie and non-snuggly doggie
- Poetic Leanings: Boo
- Running Scared: One Happy Cat
- No Fancy Name: Toby
- Lab Kat: The ties that bind
- Music and Cats: How many?
- This Blog is Full of Crap: Frisky
- Miss O’Hara: Remington
- Mind of Mog: Yesterday and Today
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Cotton
- Stone Court: The Demo-Cat
- Watermark: Surprise Packages
- The Oubliette: Leaper, Rex Noah, and McCullough
- feministe: Pablo and Millstone
- Ded Space: Velma, Roxie and Velma
- nycbabylon: Valentine’s Day for the Single Cat
- Pesky Apostrophe: Sassy
- Onanism Today: Milhous
- Niches: Munch
- An American Kat in London: Muppet and Madam
- Prophet or Madman: Milo and Otis
- Silent Running: The real Kiwi energy crisis
- Shakespeare’s Sister: Jim, Tildy and Livy
- Rhetoric and Democracy: Boomer
- Ripe Bananas: Omni
- bloggg: Feak
- Uffish Thoughts: Neely
- Worshipping at the Alter of Mediocrity: Friday Cat Blogging
- Why Now?: Trixie
- Your Moosey Fate: Kitties
- Upper Left: Audrey Hepcat
- Trish Wilson: Lucky and Beowulf
- The Culture Ghost: Louis
- The People’s Republic of Seabrook: Einar needs some suggestions
- Brilliant at Breakfast: Jenny
- Blogging Cat: Muddy
- Ali Thinks: Java and kittens
- Arcane Gazebo: Omen
- Broadsheet: The Donald
- 12th Harmonic Blog: Chico
- Cat Trapper’s Journal: angry tabby, torbi, and orange yearling
- Fiat Lux: Gimli
- Dohiyi Mir: Sam
- Sisu: Babe and paws that refresh added 2/12
- Aptenobytes: Lola-mania added 2/12
- Inside Allan’s Mind: Blogging can be so addictive added 2/12
- Yowling From the Fencepost: Off to liberate the kibble added 2/12
- The Conservative Cat: Carnival of the Cats #47 added 2/13
- 12th Harmonic Blog: Chico demonstrates cat yoga added 2/14
- Sisu: You make me smile with my heart added 2/14
- Tbogg: Callooh and Callay
- Running Scared: Kenya
- Athenamama: Angel’s budget raincoat
- Modern Pooch: Rufus, toy poodle
- Maggie’s Meanderings: Queen
- DotyBlog: Ridgeback pup, Nelson, Tess, Indy, and Sallah
- Knowledge is Power: Rumsfeld
- Basic Juice: Mssr. Reggie
- Bad Example: Bandit
- Blue Witch and Edward: Edward added 2/12
- Mickey’s Musings: Carnival of the Dogs added 2/14
- Publius & Co.: Geese, Ducks, Swan, and Seagulls
- Inside Allan’s Mind: Just hanging out
- Watermark: New family member
- Meditation Matters: Duck
- 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Crow
- South Knox Bubba: Friday Bird Blogging
- Dope on the Slope: seagulls, swan, and ducks
- Inside Allan’s Mind: Woody added 2/12
- The Presurfer: Cotton-top Tamarin Monkeys
- The Loom: Star-nosed Mole
- Publius & Co.: Misopholes, Mr. Ratburn, Rabskuttle, and Arthur
- Bibi’s box: Ferret
- The Laughing Wolf: Wolves
- Bob Harris: Key Deer
- Fake Handbags v3.0: Baby Panda
- First Draft: Fox, the ferret
- Pharyngula: Drosophilia wing pattern evolution
- Pharyngula: Cephalopod dinner etiquette
Didn’t Make It
My New Map and Directions Site
It took just 30 seconds to make up my mind. Google’s new map, driving direction, yellow page site is good! I have used Yahoo Maps for years but neither it nor Mapquest hold a candle to this. Julie puts it succinctly:
DHTML-driven (IE/Firefox only right now, I believe, but YMMV) maps service. Driving directions, yellow pages, etc. Drag-the-map with your mouse, DHTML controls, no more of that click-wait, click-wait, click-wait, click-wait never-quite-right map manipulation.
Try it out. Change now!
Update: Barry provides some usage tips and suggests that this might be a good front end for Keyhole, another Google product.
Update II (2/9): Via Zomboyboy here is a more technical look at this tool.
Comments on a Young Author
John Scalzi has written a fine annotation of a young author’s illustrated children’s tale:
What the author is saying is that while we need to integrate the lessons of nature, we are also more than what is given to us in our natural state. When nature fails or flags — as it inevitably must — our other talents must engage until such time as our natural states are refreshed again. A telling message for young women: Know who you are and be in touch with your nature, but be ready to use all the resources available to you, in all aspects of your life.
Read the original story and the rest of Scalzi’s commentary.
You might also enjoy Scalzi’s recent novel: Old Man’s War.
Via Sara’s Spot.