The AdventurePilot.com Greeting Card is definitely worth a visit. Be prepared to do a little preparatory reading beforehand, though, including: Welcome to the politically-correct greetings page from Adventure Pilot. We’d like to give you a warm fuzzy, but we realize in these politically charged times that isn’t an easy thing to do. In fact, you […]

This is the 50th year that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. Learn more, and participate in the tracking (via radar, satelite, Santa cam, and fighter jet) at the official NORAD Santa Tracking web site.

Finally, as published in The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs, is a depiction of how intelligent design really happened: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything […]

Ever seen 25,000 Christmas lights in action?  I just stumbled across videos of the most amazing Christmas light displays that I have ever seen. One is set to Wizard of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the other sounds like a Barbra Streisand piece. (Both are WMV files so you may need the Windows Media […]

If you are one of those people always trying to get a little more gut thumpinig bass out of your audio system, you might consider the Model 17 from Eminent Technology. This beast does not even have an enclosure. It just uses your house. Want to hear what 5Hz sounds like? A new woofer technology […]

Ever wonder what your computer does at night while you are sleeping? This movie will show you. Oh… and turn up the volume on your speakers before you click on that link.

As a home office worker, I about fell out of my chair when I read this list from TopFive.com Unlike your co-workers, your kids are smart enough not to buy your cover story of “naughty copier elves” when they find your butt-scans. Every office has at least one total a-hole, and you’re the only one […]

You have access to pure magic in the computer screen you are looking at right now. Through the prestidigitations of the British Library, you can actually examine books hundreds of years old. BL has picked 15 fascinating examples including One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks Mercator’s first European atlas from the 1570s The original Alice […]

[Ed: Just to be clear, I did not write this. I received it in an email message without attribution to the original author. Snopes.com says that it has been around since early 2004. Be careful. If you enjoy it as much as I did, you are likely to laugh to hard that you will fall […]

Be careful what you ask for: MacKay [winner of the Miss Thailand crown] said she had been persuaded to enter by relatives in Thailand when she came for a visit and hadn’t realized that the title required her to stay in the country for the coming year. Reuters.com has the full story.

Last month, Candy, Kevin, David and I took our trailer and headed north for two weeks blissful escape from the St. Louis heat and humidity. Your’s truly set a schedule that assured we arrived home exhausted and needing a vacation to recuperate from our vacation. We briefly stopped in Dubuque, La Crosse and Sault Ste. […]

Says Joe McCarthy: They pleaded with me to let them continue, and suggested that they tape their mouths shut to ensure that they didn’t keep shouting while they played. Now why didn’t I get a chance to do that when my sons were shorter than I am? I don’t think I could get away with […]

From the “check your sources” department: Kudos to two Register readers who discovered that Microsoft’s new Virtual Earth shows an empty field where Apple headquarters should be. Here is the article: Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ and here are two aerial views so you can see what is really there and what Microsoft wants you […]