Bicycle Maps
Minnesota State Bike Maps, Wisconsin State Bike Maps, Wisconsin County Bike Maps, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, Elroy-Sparta Trail.
RECENT CONCERNS
Bicycle
Classic Rendezvous: "lightweight vintage bicycles." Work bikes: Workcycles.com, Xtracycle (and Xtracycle weblog, The Pleasant Revolution). Mail-order bicycle: Bicycle Classics, Bicycle Revolution, Bikemania.biz, Sportsbay, Global Bikes, BikePartsUSA. Amazon's Cycling and Wheel Sports category. Nycewheels: electronic bicycles. Schizoblog: Italian bike weblog. Roma Pedala: "Ovvero un punto di incontro virtuale per i ciclisti della capitale per promuovere l'uso della bicicletta sia come salutare pratica sportiva sia come efficace strumento per una diversa mobilità urbana, svincolata dalle automobili inquinanti e rumorose." Ciclystica.it. The New England Musclebike Museum. Enigmatic small-wheeled bicycles. Martino's Bike Lane Diary. Re-Cycle.org: Collects unused bicycles in Britain and donates them to people who need them in Africa. Recycle-a-Bicycle collects unused bikes and helps kids fix them up for themselves. Velorution. Pedaling.com collects North American ride descriptions and turn sheets. Moulton bicycles.
Gopher
Good Office Patterns. Lovely Pictures of Norway. Stephen Hawking lectures. Kill More Trees. Computer Underground Digest. Information on Plastic Kayak and Canoe Hull Materials. Diet Soap #5: "The Unemployment Issue, or the Tragic Emancipation of the Wage Slave."
Stink Watch
Patrick Fitzgerald's webpage. Aeiou, le blog de flu. 1,358 bad things about the American president. Dead Metaphor. Bostonpunk.org shows page. Sounds to play over phone conversations at sorrygottago.com. Ascii image generation at toogle.com. Energy beam trouble. History: Fiction or Science?
Future Generations
The Future Generations Forum at the World Future Society. "Future Generations: They Are Our Conscience" -- Tae-Chang Kim and Jim Dator. The Long Now Foundation. The Vertical Farm.
Texts
Yummy PDF Library. David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative. Enigmatic Michael Palin statement.
Chord
Princess Sparkle Pony's Photo Blog. Harriet Miers's Weblog. The Potted Meat Museum. Association of International Glaucoma Societies. "In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institution and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down." -- John Stuart Mill. Classic Hawaiian music. September 10, 2005 was World Naked Gardening Day. RogerART.com. Franz's website. INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY WEBSITE. One Global Communty. The Tax History Museum. Improv Everywhere. The Official Flat Stanley Project.
Photography
Fifty Crows: "social change photography." The Digital Journalist. The Documentary Photography Project at the Open Society Institute. Camera/Iraq: "the war of images in the Middle East." Lens Culture. The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery. Quarlo.com. How the snail cross the 'bridge'. Dust houses. Raysoda. Pinhole photography website links at Pinhole Visions. Digital pinhole photography by Keith Cooper. "Camera fished from pond now takes surrealistic photos." The Wandering Eye. Slower.net. Exuberance.com.
Explanation
I think it's important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say. But I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life . . . I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy. And part of my being is to be outside exercising. So I'm mindful of what goes on around me. On the other hand, I'm also mindful that I've got a life to live and will do so.
Webcams
Light pollution in a public square. A place to lock bicycles. A place to park buses. A pond in Botswana.
Grottoes
Grotto of the Redemption. The Dickeyville Grotto. The Nek Chand Foundation. Lourdes Grotto, The Bronx. Scared Heart Gotto, Alanthalai. Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, Alabama. The Garden of Eden in Lucas, KS. The Casselton Can Pile. Wickham Stone Park near Palmyra, Tennessee. The Deriugin House in Tacoma, Washington. Salvation Mountain near Niland, California.
Opportunity
Ted is LOOKING for PROVEN GENIUSES in ALL areas and these are them that Ted will be more than willing to get Stock Options that Vest over 7 years too and Stock Bonuses also too and this Pre Public.
Weblogs
Neatorama. Cardhouse. GMTPlus9. THIS IS FUN TO MAKE A BLOG ON THE COMPUTER WEBSITE. The Jaf Project. Tien Mao's Little Read Book. NYCBloggers.com. Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. Mr. Pants. Field of Schemes: "Casting a critical eye on the roughly $2 billion a year in public subsidies that go toward building new pro sports facilities." Visual Resistance. "Planetary scrutiny" at Sprol. The J-Walk Blog. Information Junk. Pretty images at Jaf Project. The Cheese Forum. Acephalous. Terry Teachout. Jimwich. Doug Ireland's Weblog. LAVoice.org. Idle Words. Pinataland. Eyeteeth. Coincidences: Discussions on the art and craft of photography. Gallery Hopper. Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes. James Wagner. The Man Who Couldn't Blog. Le Blog Anti-Voitures. Bldg Blog.
Social Security
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. -- Dwight Eisenhower, 11/8/1954.
Images
"Nice photos of a rotten holiday in Bulgaria" at I Like. One-Man Safari. Google Sightseeing. Composite suspect drawings from the Michigan State Police. The MonkeyView Photo Server. Tina Magazine. American Flag Burning Archive. The last forty images posted to LiveJournal pages. Images from toy cameras. LiveJournal Photographers. Japanese Ant Image Library. The Snowsuit Effort. Messy Pics. Chromasia. Daily Dose of Imagery. Photojunkie. A Walk through Durham Township, Pennsylvania. Myredself.org. NYCLondon black and white photography weblog.
Hunger
Puerto Rican recipes, including plantain balls for soups or stews. Savory Twinkies. Slice: America's Favorite Pizza Weblog. Fruitcake recipes courtesy of Uncle Phaedrus, Finder of Lost Recipes. Chicken with walnuts. Lunch photos at Happy Cafe. Food Porn Watch. Cooking Diva (Panama). Noodle Pie (Vietnam). Delicious Days (Germany). Nordljus. Simply Recipes.
Bamboo
The American Bamboo Society: includes a page of suggested bamboo literature. Tripple Brook Farm in Massachusetts sells hardy bamboos for the northeast and has a great catalog of other plants, too. Bamboo flooring and bamboo plywood. On bamboo musical instruments, including the anklung ("Meals can be without meat, but living cannot be without bamboo"). 1,000 Things Made of Bamboo.
Movies
Thirty-seven short Fluxus films by Nam June Paik, Paul Sharits, Yoko Ono, and others. There are more artists' films at UbuWeb. British video artists at Luxonline. The Open Video Archive: "241 hours of contributed material."
Mexican Sweets
Candy recipes by region. How they are made at Dultimex. Calaveras de azucar: picture and recipe. Mexgrocer.com will mail you candy. There are real fun sounds army tank pinatas at pinatas.com. Skwinkles and other choices at Dandyboy. A recipe for caramels. A page of Mexican candy cigarettes. More pictures. Finally, George W. Bush pinatas at georgewbushpinata.com, evilpinatas.com, and other places. Delicias mejicanas.
Lilies of the Valley
A slow but aggressive spreader. Some facts: "In recent years it has been largely employed in experiments relating to the forcing of plants by means of anaesthetics such as chloroform and ether. It has been found that the winter buds, placed in the vapour of chloroform for a few hours and then planted, break into leaf and flower considerably before others not tested in this manner, the resulting plants being, moreover, exceptionally fine." A poisonous plant that may strengthen the brain and renovate a weak memory. Flowers are associated with May Day in France. Also a book by Balzac.