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A nice summary of fire lookout towers that dot Pacific Northwest peaks.
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Nice, quick guide to setting ColdFusion error-handlers for public applications.
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A new study finds that fitness/obesity, sadness/happiness might be some "contagious" states that pass from person to person like a virus. The study suggests that we clue into subconscious behaviors of people around us and modify our behavior to "normal" accordingly. [via Rebecca Blood]
Flowers
Jet!
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Cortex is go! Josh is using the All You Can Jet promotion from Jetblue to meet MetaFilter members across the country. This is where he'll be posting about his month-long adventure.
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This is where you can adjust your Flash security settings, including managing Flash cookies that you can't control via the browser.
Accepted Themes
Kenneth Rexroth listing accepted themes in early Japanese poetry:
...autumn leaves, falling snow, plum and cherry blossoms, the moon in its phases and season, the rustle of leaves, the songs of cicadas, crickets, frogs, cuckoos, and the uguisu (called by some translators a nightingale), assignations with clandestine lovers, famous beauty spots, court ceremonies, the quiet of the monk's hermitage, the death of rulers, patrons and mistresses, and the poem written by the poet on the eve of his own death...— From the introduction to One Hundred Poems from the Japanese.
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Looks like a nice stand for a MacBook or MacBook Air.
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Saving this handy list of SQL Server shortcuts for reference. Needed to look up how to indent a block of highlighted code: [Tab]!
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The horrors of stop words.
Old Mill
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Aerial Photographs of the California Coastline
Rosea
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"On May 21st, 2009 the City of Vancouver passed a motion that directed City Staff to begin sharing the data and information the city collects, to share this data in open standards and to place open source on an equal footing with proprietary software." [via cshirky]
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Lakoff is brilliant. A move from calling health care reform the "public option" to "The American Plan" would help build support. We've been comparing our options with what Canada, UK, France, and other countries have, but we like things invented here.