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Part 2 of Kuro5hin’s acoustics series is now up.

A radio scanner enthusiast in the UK posted the frequencies for police and security forces on the web. Now he’s “imperiling national security” and there’s a drive to prohibit all scanners. Never mind the fact that the police could just have easily encrypted their communications.

On the anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, Pravda looks back.

As featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day (your #1 source for cool-looking desktop pictures).

Craig “Peter Gunn” Stevens shows you how to fly a B-26 in this 1943 instructional movie. (RealPlayer format only, *sigh*)

Way cool web site devoted to the Moon. Tons of maps, pictures, trivia, etc. etc.

A strange low-frequency hum in Kokomo, Ind., that some hear and some do not, has moved city officials to commission a study on its source. Shades of the Taos, New Mexico hum that’s been plaguing folks for years.

Ridiculously complete database of tall buildings worldwide… Search by any parameter and get a comparison chart back.

Anyone remember Steve Kilbey’s book for Earthed that had the poem generator in it? Ever wanted to try it but didn’t because you didn’t want to cut the book up? Now you can….

hunger... celebrate... chipped evening...
however... love discontented... diamond...
eventually... because... drug... kill...
mistress... if... perfume... celebrate...
really... go... woman... The Dawn Trader...
red... infiltrate... Mme. Love...
you... give... druid... if...
ghost...

Nifty map which shows all the major “divides” in the continental U.S. There’s the main Pacific/Atlantic divide, but there’s also a north/south divide for water flow to the Arctic or the Gulf Of Mexico and secondary ones for Columbia/Colorado flow into the Pacific, etc.

Lots of fun geographic and road geek ephemera on that site. Photos and info on the endpoints of U.S. Highways, geographic features of the high plains, and a look at “Parting Of The Waters” a creek that flows into two oceans.