Pete, a good one for your website.  This is really, really neat!

 

Sue
 

 

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very
interesting web site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy
viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms into
towards Earth in powers of ten.  Going from 10 million, to one million,
to 100,000 light years and so on and then when it finally reaches
a large oak tree leaf.
But that's not all; it zooms into the leaf until it reaches to the
level of the quarks viewed at 100 attometers.
This is a fantastic representation of how magnificent the Universe
is and how vastly infinite it is both in the macroscopic and the microscopic level.

Click on link:
 http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index

Adjust speed with Increase/Decrease buttons.

 

 

Female vs. Male


1. NAMES

If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call
each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.

If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will affectionately refer to
each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

2. EATING OUT

When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom! will each throw in $20,
even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything
smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.

When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3. MONEY

A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.

A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS

A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream,
razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott.

The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.
A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

5. ARGUMENTS

A woman has the last word in any argument.

Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

6. CATS

Women love cats.

Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

7. FUTURE

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

8. SUCCESS

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

9. MARRIAGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.

A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.

10. DRESSING UP

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the
garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.

A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

11. NATURAL

Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.

Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

12. OFFSPRING

Ah, children.

A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist
appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears
and hopes and dreams.

A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

13. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Any married man should forget his mistakes!  There's no use in two people
remembering the same thing.

AND FINALLY...

A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.
An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted
to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, jack
asses, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically,
"Relatives of yours?"!
"Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws."
 

 

 

If you went to AskJeeves.com or Ask.com

you would quickly see that from last week's trivia question,

Blondie's maiden name was Boopadoop.

 

 

 

 

This photo of Jane Fonda has been circulating the internet this week,

probably because of John Kerry in the news.

A long story accompanies it. Here's one part:
 

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hilton"- the first three of which he was "missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day.

 

Speaking of 1963, here's a controversial cartoon editorial:

In my 6th grade religion class, I tolerate a little liveliness, but I had to miss last week to do perc tests.

The substitute teacher sent our "class clown wanna be" to the office where he was dismissed from the program.

The director called me to tell me he was out.  Maybe I'm too lenient from the way I was taught.

 

Back to Hanoi Jane, and continued controversy, here is a web site addressing Iraq right this minute

http://costofwar.com/

But in my opinion, this is money well spent.

 

This is money not well spent:

Here's a proposal being circulated:

GAS PRICES   Join the resistance!!!! ....Now that the oil companies and the OPEC have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.  The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!   And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.   Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.  .......

 

That's enough controversy for one week, eh?

Here's our house with the shutters on.

 

 

Pete