Wizards Of Winter Video on Metacafe

Metacafe has a video of this amazing Christmas light display in Mason, OH. It is synchronized to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizard in Winter".

Snopes.com says "This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months hooking up."

Click here to view.

BostonHerald.com - Local / Regional News: Reading mom charged with hosting underage beer bash

"A Reading mother, apparently trying to help her son make friends, is accused of throwing a rowdy keg party where she sold teens beer.
Police say Kim Caufield, 39, now faces charges of distributing alcohol to a minor and delinquency of a minor.
Caufield and her family reportedly moved to Reading about two months ago from Florida. Students speculate she threw the beer bash — complete with a keg — to help her 14-year-old son make friends. "

Brightridge - panoramic photography by Edward Huff

Skating Rink at Kennedy Plaza, Providence RI

Brightridge: "Brightridge is the site of the panoramic photography of Edward Huff. The images are presented using QuickTimeVR. This allows you to navigate the image by dragging your mouse left and right and up and down."

Borders Gifts - Best of 2005

"The Borders Best of 2005 spans a variety of categories, from fiction and history to romance and cooking, from pop music to jazz, from one-disc movie DVDs to TV series box sets. We invite you to sample our selections, revel in them, even disagree with them. After all, a significant portion of the pleasure that comes from books, music, and movies can be found in the act of talking about them, arguing about them, and sharing them"

Pictures With Funny Captions

I once caught a fish this big


Everbody put your hands in the air and say yeah!


Man, that burrito was good!

LibraryLookup

"Jon Udell, Lead Analyst at InfoWorld's test center, didn't set out to rock the world of library technology. He just wanted to check his local library's catalog while simultaneously browsing through Amazon.com. He soon developed LibraryLookup, a bookmarklet that can be installed on a browser's tool bar.

LibraryLookup is a bookmarklet written in JavaScript code that extracts the ISBN from the URL on a bookseller's page, then goes to a library catalogue and searches by ISBN. If the library owns the book, the record pops up. It works with any site that uses an ISBN in its URL, including booksellers such as Barnes & Noble and Powell's, and any library vendor that allows searching by ISBN. Not all integrated library systems (ILS) use the ISBN, but many do. Udell's weblog includes lists of hundreds of bookmarklets already created for libraries that use Innovative Interfaces, Endeavor's Voyager, epixtech's iPac, DRA, and Talis. Users just need to drag the bookmarklet to their toolbar."

Here is the bookmarklet for public libraries in Rhode Island:
RI LibraryLookup
Jon Udell: LibraryLookup homepage

Reading, Watching, Listening, March 16 2005

Reading The Big Year A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik
Reading Time magazine, March 21, 2005
Reading Blender Magazine, April 2005
Reading Men's Journal magazine, April 2005

Watching The Amazing Race, CBS
Watching Survivor Palau, CBS
Watching The Grudge (DVD)
Watching Showtime (DVD)

Listening to Buffalo Nickel-Longplay 33 1/3
Listening to John Hiatt-The Tikki Bar Is Open