Hey everybody!
We just returned from a visit to our place in Colorado.
Here are some new pics!
Southwest Colorado, Spring 2002
A couple of ghosttowns, Indian ruins...and more!

A 24 part Flash Novel:
Broken Saints
Great graphics...great sounds...

Here's a collection of international road signs:
Bartolomeo Mecánico: road-signs, water mills, Opiliones, painted ads
Neat.

I thought it was getting warmer...
Global Warming and Climate Change: Mercury Rising at OneWorldJourneys.com
...I mean, wouldn't you think a stretch of over 100 daytime highs all in a row was a sign...
...and I thought it was just Arizona.

Soundsand photos of the world at your keystrokes:
Tuning The World

How do you spend your winter?
The Snowfort Zone
I'm in Southern Arizona, and have been for over twenty years.
This reminds me of my childhood back in Upstate New York...

Phew!
120seconds.com - Bite-sized Entertainment
This ought to keep you busy for a while!

The buildings on this list were selected because they cost so much and look so awful. While we are sure that we didn't include more than a few buildings that could easily qualify for this list, we think we've done a pretty fair job of picking some real howlers.
Forbes.com: The World's Ugliest Buildings

There are sooooo many reasons why you should keep track of a womans menstrual cycle!
This little program just needs the date of the first day of blood flow and the usual number of days in the cycle, and it does the rest.
Once running, it puts a little flag icon in the system tray (the bit by the clock).
When PMT week approaches, it changes from a green flag, to a yellow flag.
And when red flag week hits, you guessed it, it goes red.
Simple.
Described as "the handiest program in the universe", you should download it now!
CAELAN - It's not a toy

San Pedro River Campaign

We need help with this one folks. I Just got this in the mail:

URGENT: YOUR CALL NEEDED TODAY TO SAVE THE SAN PEDRO
RIVER!

Representative Jim Kolbe (R) has successfully attached
a rider to the House Emergency Appropriations bill
in the Senate that will exempt the Department of Defense
(DoD) and Ft. Huachuca from responsibility for water
conservation measures under U.S. environmental law.
The continued expansion of Fort Huachuca is the single
greatest contributor to the deadly overdraft of water
from the San Pedro river, and baseflows have declined
67% since the 1940's.

The DoD acknowledges responsibility for 34,500 employees
who are dependant on groundwater pumping, thus drying
up the river by intercepting water that ordinarily
would provide the river's stream flow.

Recently, a Federal Judge ruled that the massive expansion
of Fort Huachuca is dewatering the San Pedro River
and jeopardizing the existence of endangered species.
This hard-fought judicial victory will become meaningless
if the rider is approved. The 400-plus animal and bird
species that rely upon the river, including the Huachuca
water umbel, Southwestern willow flycatcher, and thousands
of migratory birds, beavers, and many other species
will be threatened. Local efforts for meaningful river
conservation solutions without court order have proven
futile.

IF THE SENATE APPROVES THIS RIDER, THE SAN PEDRO WILL
DRY UP
The San Pedro river in some areas already has base
flows that are close to zero. There will be no recourse
to save the river if the rider passes Senate approval
and this law becomes permanent.
This decision will be made soon, so *please* call both
Senator Kyl and Senator McCain today, and ask them
NOT to support Kolbe's San Pedro river-killing rider.
A personal phone call before the decision is made is
the most effective way to stop the rider.

(Calls to Washington DC offices are most effective)
Senator Kyl: *Washington DC:(202) 224-4521*; Phoenix:(602)840-1891;
Tucson:(520)575-8633.
Senator McCain: *Washington DC:(202) 224-2235*; Phoenix:(602)952-2410;
Tucson:(520)670-6334.

BACKGROUND:
The San Pedro River is truly one of our environmental
crown jewels. It is one of the last naturally functioning
desert river ecosystems in the United States, and among
the earth's most biologically diverse and important
ecosystems. It supports 400 species of birds (nearly
half of the U.S. total), 100 species of butterflies,
83 species of mammals and 47 species of amphibians
and reptiles.

It has the highest diversity of vertebrate species
in the inland U.S. and the second highest diversity
of land-mammals in the world. It was designated the
first "globally important bird area" by the American
Bird Conservancy and one of the northern hemisphere's
eight "last great places" by The Nature Conservancy.
In 1988 Congress recognized the unparalleled value
of the San Pedro, designating 45 miles of it as the
nation's first Riparian National Conservation Area.

For more information call Dr. Robin Silver at: (602)
246-4170 or rsilver@biologicaldiversity.org, or Daniel
Patterson at: (520) 623-5252, ext.306
San Pedro River website

Visit the web address below and tell your friends about
this important issue:

Spread the word!

Director Ridley Scott reveals the truth about
Deckard,
the replicant.

Just looking around I found this too:
Friends of Kartchner Caverns State Park
There's another good Flash presentation here too!

Any of you hear about the new cave we got down here?
StarNet - Kartchner Caverns
I haven't been there yet, but from what you see in the Virtual Tour at this site, anyone who has the chance has got to go...
myself included...
it's only about 35 mile East of here...

Remember?
Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Here's a great place to grab a few quotes for your E-mail signature:
Useless Knowledge

I wish I had a pocket version to use at work:
Lost in Translation

Check out the "Sneak Preview" section:
Techno-Impressionist Museum

I'd like to spend a week or two exploring this sometime before I die.
Travel The Bozeman Trail
Take a look at the "Map Of The Corridor".

Turn up your volume,
Close your windows and doors,
Stretch your fingers,
Ready to play?
le piano graphique

Well,
Virginia Cracks Down on Motorists Who Kill Motorcyclists!
look at this...

Worlds Largest Magnifying Glass Reported Missing!!!

How about that!
Dateline NBC did a story on two lane highways last night...
Dangerous two lane highways...
Deadly two lane highways...
Dateline Front Page 5:07 PM ET Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Check out the video, it's a 12 minuter segment of the TV show!

Hey, look at this...
I just came across these pics of some of the canyons up around Page, AZ:

Slot Canyons on the AZ/UT border

Yes, definately...cool...these colors are for real...

Here's the latest
"Fire Status"
map.

Here's a good one!
The Bad Movie Review Website
There's a mpg, jpeg's and wav's for each selection.

Wanna read some really old funnies,
LILEKS (James) :: the "Funnies"
This site deserves a plug.
Don't miss the Philip Morris section!

Fire southeast of Tucson burns 1,200 acres so far

Are you ready America,
Here's what's happening in Southern Arizona.

Huachuca wildfire grows to 400 acres - ICMA-RC/VantageLink

The West is going to burn this Summer like it's never burned before.

Crews work to keep wildfire from hummingbird preserve

Have any of you ever wondered about how you could surf without being constantly bombarded by all the different advertising?
Look, I know my entire site is hosted on nothing but "FREE" websites, and my pages literally toss the advertising out at you, but do you know that you can (as I do) get rid of a good 95% or more of ad banners and boxes?
I'm serious.
Wouldn't you like to watch television without commercials?
How about surfing the net without ads?
Okay, take a look at this:

SSW Knowledge Base

If you have any questions, drop me a note and I'll let you know how I set up my system.