Anyway, there I went again. I worry that my attention span, what
little there is of it, puts me at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, it
takes me longer to do just about anything because I'm likely to wind up doing
just about everything.
You, dear reader, I know, are much more focused.
If you've read this far, surely, you're focused. (And probably a bit bored.)
So, in the interest of trying to regain my competitive position, I want to be contagious. Yep, below you'll see the internet sites that
beckon and taunt me. They, not my genetic make-up—I wonder if my Dad was
attention-span challenged too?—are the problem. I share them with you in the hopes that you, too, will have as much difficulty as I do in
staying on task.
By the way, if an asteroid hit us, how much warning would we have?
Enjoy.
www.m-w.com/home.htm
Merriam-Webster dictionary and
thesaurus. I actually use this a lot. It has a really cool oral pronunciation symbol so you can actually HEAR arcane words.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_warning_040322.html
A
space.com article on asteroids pummeling our small, defenseless planet. I suggest
you read it in your basement, under a table.
www.takara-usa.com/bowlingual.html
A collar that translates dog's barks. Honestly, I am not making this up. Check it out yourself.
Every time I go hear and it barks, my dogs run to the door. This site is so
wild, I expect it will be fodder for a future column. Arf!
www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post.
www.collectibles.listings.ebay.com/Kitchenware_Salt-Pepper-Shakers_W0
QQsacategoryZ4049QQsocmdZListingItemList
Ebay salt & pepper shakers (of
which there were 13,156 - or is that really 26,312?). I specialize in steamship salt & pepper
shakers, those in which the smokestacks hold the
condiments. Do you have any for sale?
www.kwmu.org
In the morning, I like to
listen to Mike Sampson's "St. Louis On the Air" while I write.
www.triumphpc.com/psst!/mar04/future-education.shtml
An article in psst! magazine by one of my favorite writers.
www.edge.org
A panoply of scientific and
historic interviews. You can easily get lost here.
www.newyorktimes.com
It doesn't get any
better than this, and reading it means you don't have to go outside if it's raining to get the paper
www.universetoday.com/am/publish/puzzle_mars_spiral_icecaps.html?
2532004
An article about Mars' spiral icecaps.
www.matahuiroad.school.nz/index.htm
This is on a New Zealand
Multiple Intelligences School.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues04/apr04/photos.html
An ad for a Smithsonian photo appointment book. Cool stuff!
www.albertpujols.com
You can read about Albert Pujol's age.
www.cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/w_cyberatlas/w_intelligent_life/w_disin
tell.html
A cool site that I don't fully understand (so what's new?) that links the notion of "distributed intelligence"
(using the resources outside one's skin to solve problems) and the Guggenheim Museum. It's
wonderfully bizarre.
www.cartoonbank.com
Need a smile? Check out cartoons from
The New Yorker.
www.weather.com
Just what is
the weather outside at this nanosecond?
www.quotationspage.com
The quotations page. Who said what? I
spent a lot of time here.
www.drucker.cgu.edu/DruckerArchives/data
The archives of Peter
Drucker, my favorite management theorist. This lets me know what I should be doing.
Happy surfing! I wonder what it would take to teach a monkey to surf. And I wonder what monkeys think when they watch people watching them
at the Zoo. Were there zoos in ancient China, I wonder? I wonder what I'll
find if I go to www.zoo.com...
And of course there's always www.moveon.org...
and...
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