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If you only see one Star Wars movie this year, make it Store Wars.

"You're a little tall, for an egg."

For Fans of Large Construction Projects

And that means you, Red!

The University of Las Vegas Libraries have put together a digital collection of photos relating to water and Las Vegas. And what does that mean? Lots of pictures of Hoover Dam! If you click on Browse Images you will see the whole collection of pictures in no particular order. If you pick Hoover Dam from the "Please select a collection" drop down menu at the top of the photo gallery, however, you get pictures from the area before the dam was built, as well as the video "Conquering the Colorado" produced by the Bureau of Reclamation. The narration is of the gung-ho newsreel style, but the footage is totally worth it!

Hoover Dam trivia: Phyllis Wattis, noted SF philanthropist (she was responsible for the SF Youth Symphony, and all those amazing Rauschenbergs at SFMOMA, among other things) apparently spent her honeymoon there, as her husband was one of the construction honchos. As much as I love construction projects, I really think that was going above and beyond the call of duty.

Who needs cell phones when you can whistle?

This was the headline used by the SF Chronic when it published an AP wire story back in Nov. 2003 all about Silbo Gomero, the amazing whistled language of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands. I've been thinking a lot about whistling lately, and remembered clipping this article. Unfortunately, the Chronic doesn't archive wire stories online, but through the wonders of the web I found it on the Indymedia Scotland site, which has the added appeal of being bilingual in Gaelic, another fading language. Anyway, wherever you read it, I think Sarah Andrews's article is fascinating, and worth a read. If you want to skip right to a short conversation in Silbo, click here.

ScrapHouse

Created for World Environment Day in San Francisco, the ScrapHouse was, just as it sounds, a house made out of scraps. But what scraps! Exterior walls shingled in street signs. Interior walls made of phonebooks, fire hoses, computer keyboards. A chandelier made from traffic signal discs. This is a really nice web site, and very inspiring, especially to those of us without a lot of money.

More Duct Tape Follies

I know, I know, I'm on a roll... [CAUTION: Contains Circus/Carnival Music]

Rain Rain Go Away

Can't believe it is raining today. In June. Dammit!

May the Forks Be With You

Non-geeks, pun-haters, and the potatophobic need not apply. All the rest should take a moment to view Mr. Miller's class's Darth Tater Puns.

La vida es un carnival

Hearing Celia Cruz sing at the Civic with Oscar de Leon was one of the aural highlights of my life. The Smithsonian has put together a nice little site about the life, music, and crazy outfits of Celia Cruz. Definitely worth checking out are the Her Music (Quizas, quizas, quizas) and Her Dressing Room (holy cow, the shoes!) sections. Azucar!