From NOAA, Hurricane Isidore Pounding Cuba:

Maximum sustained winds are near 105 mph with higher gusts, making Isidore a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

Better batten down Matanzas.

It's a Rabbit-osaur!

While doing research on Mitchell BC-splines for image processing, I came across Erik Meijering's Chronology of Interpolation. The paper is here as a PDF document. Exotic stuff!

This morning Tom was reading good old c4k, and he came across this article about robotic archaeology.

Now this little mechanical mouse is cool and all, but the "Pyramid Rover" costs a quarter million dollars...

Compare that to the absurd profits gleaned from the Lara Croft franchise, and you'll see how they got their economics all wrong when they decided how these tombs should be raided.

Then again, Lara isn't your typical archaeologist anymore than Renée O'Connor.

According to Daily News from Iceland, it turns out that the Oregon Coast Aquarium wants Keiko back.

I recently visited the aquarium in Newport, Oregon, and it's clear that attendance is down without the international cetacean star to draw the crowds.

Whatever your opinions about Keiko's future, it's hard not to view this as a retrograde move for the animal.

I had no idea there were cute little asteroids orbiting Earth beyond the moon.
Apparently the orbit is pretty wild.

The correct pronunciation for 'Cruithne' is 'croo-een-ya' with emphasis on the middle syllable, and it refers to Celtic or Pictish peoples.
Here are the Cruithne Kings of Scotland...

Thanks to a hard-working angel, vacation photos are surfacing.
You'll probably be able to find many more pictures on her site in the future, but I have one below that I'd like to share.

This awesome bridge is on the Wonderland Trail, which circles Mount Rainier in Washington. While we only hiked a short part of the the trail, I'd love to take the time to do the whole route. Someday...

Be sure to check out other people's logs of their hikes, like Doug Edmundson and Aaron Fuegi or Aaron and Jason Doss or Judy Runge. Great sites!

Is there nothing that Bruce Dickenson can't do?

Since returning to the internet world after spending a couple weeks at national parks, I still feel the need to keep up to date with park happenings, and I can with Morning Report.

This is your best source for news concerning animal attacks, wilderness rescue, and wild fires.

In weather news, Tropical Storm Fay is churning in Gulf, 100 miles from Galveston.
If this storm follows the meteorological models, it could be a category 1 hurricane before it comes ashore.

I'm back from a wonderful vacation in Washington and Wyoming.
Big thanks to Laura and Sue for being the hostesses with the mostestes.

From our Madison, Wisconsin affiliate, Show Your Packer Pride In Your Eyeballs.
Sick!

This totally reminds me of the designer Zeiss eyeballs that were such a fixture in that William Gibson story, The Winter Market, from the Burning Chrome anthology.