Lovely clouds. With luck we’ll have more rain. With luck the weather cleared up and stayed sunny in bucolic Kern County, CA, for first-cousin-once-removed Davy’s wedding this afternoon.
[view of the N bay from Pacific Heights]
* “Both Sides Now” – Joni Mitchell
Left this morning.
This is the time of year when the cruise ships move south for the winter, from Alaska routes to Mexican routes. Our ville is a stop off point and has been having heavy cruise ship activity (sometimes three berths in use) for the last month or so.
Homer, Alaska – 348.2-pound halibut reels in derby jackpot
Jeff Pardi of San Rafael, CA, caught the fish in July and was declared the winner of the $45K prize when the derby closed on the last day of September, Tuesday.
Picture of fish in the article.
That’s a big fish. I didn’t know halibut got that big!
Brilliant Web site.
Click on one of ten choices and you’ll get “three things” you should know about John McCain and, f’rex, “Rural Issues” with votes and references.
Followed by “John McCain: Out of Touch with Rural Issues. Fortunately there’s hope. See how Barack Obama and Joe Biden stand on these issues.”
Click that last sentence and you wing off to Barack Obama’s site and his positions on rural issues.
Brilliant.
Excellent vid — chock full o’ celebrities — for www.declareyourself.com and a plea to us’ns and thems to REGISTER TO VOTE.
Some voter registration deadlines are tomorrow! October 4th! and if you aren’t registered to vote by then, you can’t vote in the upcoming elections!
Some um. language makes this an only-on-the-Web phenom.
Well done.
Are you registered to vote? If not, and you are eligible and if you even just maybe kinda think that come next month you may be wanting to vote, register now! Watch the vid (or not), and hie over to www.declareyourself.com.
If you aren’t sure if you are already registered, check here. If you didn’t vote in the last presidential election or any election since, you are almost most certainly no longer registered to vote. That’s the way it works. Don’t vote in a presidential? Off the rolls. Haven’t re-registered and voted since? You’re still off the rolls. Have you moved since you registered? You need to re-register.
Register. Now.
(And all that bilge that the only resource used to call people for jury duty is the voter rolls so if you don’t want to be called for jury duty, you shouldn’t vote? Not so. California uses the drivers license registry and other resources. The bilge that you can’t register to vote where you are if you’re a student from somewhere else? That’s bilge as well. Register. Vote.)
“MapTube is a free resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online. Created by UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, users can select any number of maps to overlay and view.”
Love maps. This site’s brill.
Map of the Week this week is Big Mac Index, which graphs (in 2007 prices) the price of a Big Mac in various countries across the globe.
UK tilt because of the UCL connection.
Site reference came via links sent on to me from Dan Goodman’s delicious bookmarks. Thanks, Dan, for all of ‘em.
British Battles – analysing and documenting British Battles from the previous centuries
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Interesting site: from Hastings through the Boer Wars.
House of the Week: Built for Art
Have art? Have I got a place for you.
Holmby Hills. (Think crusty Bing Crosby neighborhood. Aaron Spelling, Tori’s über rich dad, bought the Crosby estate and scraped it to build a home for his oversized ego. 46K sq ft. 123 rooms. That kind of neighborhood.)
3BED 5BA (and a powder room!)
11K sq ft
$25mil
Check out pic 6/7. Designer designed an ugly bedroom, eh?
[WSJ via Curbed SF]
The Last Tour by Wm. Finnegan. A New Yorker essay on brothers Travis and Willard Twiggs. Their lives. Their deaths.
Sad, sad, sad.
“I just don’t get that. I’m having a real hard time with it. I can’t believe he would leave me, can’t believe he would leave us, leave our girls.”
She took more deep breaths. “But he really left us a long time ago. He tried to come back. But he couldn’t. That was not my husband out there.”
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