An Old Tale … Or Is It?
The Wolf and the Lamb, by Aesop Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning … Read more
Riverside Cafe is Back Online
My linux server, an AMD Duron 1200 at the end of a consumer DSL line, hosting riverside-cafe.com, was off the air most of the weekend. I had occasion to reboot and the system … Read more
Windows, Southern Edition
Windows XP Southern edition may be recognized by the unique opening screen. It reads: WINDERS XP, with a background picture of General Robert E. Lee superimposed on a Confederate flag. It is shipped … Read more
Where in the World?
There are some flash applications that are truly cool, and the geoblog site hosts one such example. Displaying a cool world map (it shows the current daylight area), the application monitors a list … Read more
Take Another Look
Just the thing for Monday: an exploration of The Principles of Artistic Illusions. This site, enriched with many illustrative examples, reviews a few classic Escher works as well as exploring the general topic … Read more
Chocolate Crackle Cookies
From Gastronome, a cool foodies web site, (self described as the gossip of a gaggle of gourmands), comes an excellent recipe for chocolate cookies (the dough is chilling as I write): Chocolate Crackle … Read more
Priorities
The sheer magnitude of the loss of the cultural artifacts and antiquities during the looting of museums in Iraq is close to incomprehensible. The fact that more attention was paid to saving oil … Read more