If you’re really into Victorian things, AbsolutelyVictorian can show you the way. Recipes, clothes, etiquette, what-have-you. They’ve got it.

I’ll be making a Victorian Christmas dinner on Wednesday featuring roast goose.

If you really, really don’t like SUVs, perhaps you might want to give them a bumpersticker. Or, if you’d rather not risk damaging one of those humongous bumpers, you can just write them a ticket.

Kathy Miller seems to have created the most complete homemade soap resource collection on the internet. It is a vast, vast collection indeed.

While researching beekeeping, I found this collection of pages on Top-Bar Hives, a more natural alternative to the familiar white box method of beekeeping. This set of pages is kept by a retired biologist in North Georgia, so hopefully I can visit him and his bees. He’s got other pages as well, such as the one on chicken tractors (and other duck and chicken experiences) and his mother’s hand crocheted lace.

I’ve mentioned Free Will Astrology here before. Whether you’re a believer or not, these horoscopes are just fun to read. This week’s horoscopes suggest gifts appropriate for each sign. Mine is eerily accurate: Rodin’s “The Thinker” seated on a tractor.

The goverment has posted the full text of the new organic food rules it announced yesterday.

Fans of The Critic , that wonderful cartoon that was briefly on ABC and FOX, now in late night reruns on Comedy Central, will rejoice to learn that Jay Sherman is back in all new episodes on-line at shockwave.com.

High on Gas and Out of Hope is a disturbing but important news story on gas-sniffing native kids in northeast Canada. When you read this, don’t think that this problem is confined to the arctic or the third world – while it’s gasoline in Labrador, in northwest New Mexico it’s hairspray. Cans of hairspray in stores around Gallup, New Mexio are locked behind the counters with cigarettes to combat this same problem.

Urban sprawl is the scourge of modern cities. It seems the ancient Maya had the same problems, complete with strip malls.