Poor Clio is a new weblog begun by James Edmunds in New Iberia, Louisiana. He sent me an interesting email after reading an entry here a while back, so he’s already got a big plus from me. So far, he’s off to a good start. “I’d like to post daily, and hope I don’t post weakly. "

The long-promised virtual tour of my house is complete. It features both a first-person walkthrough and a clickable floorplan. If this interests you, begin your tour here. Coming up next: a highly referenced annotated HTMLization of my garden. Why? Um… well… some people say information wants to be free. The information about my garden wants to be free and on the web. And if that’s what it wants, I’m happy to oblige. Plus, it’s a great way to teach myself a few web authoring tricks.

I waxed my cheese yesterday. No, that’s not a euphemism for some unspeakable act. I literally waxed the homemade gouda cheese that’s been drying in my pantry for the last three weeks. I also bought a black plastic compost bin for cheap from my county recycling department. So, on top of making bread and cheese and so-on, I’m also making dirt. My tomatoes will love me.

TLCNet is the Transportation for Livable Communities Network. Their site has some nice community-oriented resources, including the full text of publications available for download or online reading.

Project Censored has released it’s annual list of the top 25 news stories that didn’t get picked up by the mainstream press in the last year. It turns out I’d read most all of these before now, and nearly all because I’d seen pointers in various weblogs (most notably Robot Wisdom). One more sign (in my mind, anyway) that weblogs are a powerful force, even if every other link is about making cheese.

If my previous posts weren’t offensive enough to the hard-core religious right, this’ll do it. Kestrel’s Nest – Jesusified! Thanks to Zannah at usr/bin/girl for posting this.

Quick! Call the travel agent – Legoland got a liquor license!

Though the Japanese volcano has been in the news the last few days, Mt. Etna in Sicily has been photographed blowing beautiful smoke rings.

Continung to test the bleeding edge of web technology, the hampster dance now features drag-and-drop hamsters and variable speed controls, all to a block rockin’ beat.

Last year, Scott Christensen quit his well-paying computer job in New York City, left his apartment, gave away all of his posessions, and set off on a trek across the United States with “nothing but a car, a bicycle, a portable computer, a cellphone, some clothes, and a toy dog.” All of it is documented here for us in bite-sized pieces. Much of it was written here in Athens, where everything started to come together for him (“Written in Watkinsville, Georgia on May 28, 1999 in the basement of the old Baptist church after so damn much coffee at Jittery Joe’s I’m too jittery to sleep”). His trek took him to many of the same places I’ve been. His bits from New Mexico (“There are nipples everywhere in New Mexico. New Mexico might very well be the teat of the world…”) and Athens (“The Athens area was the first place I liked. Friendly people, pretty lands, warm weather and free ice tea refills…”) were of special interest to me. The whole site is very well done, and if I wasn’t in the middle of something at work I’d be spending a lot of time here. I found it all by accident while doing a google search for one of our local coffee houses.