A rather complete guide to rolling your own Oxygen Having problems finding Aviator's Breathing Oxygen to refill your bottle? Upset about the rip-off prices some FBOs charge for an O2 fill? Don't put up with it! more inside

Hourly Weather Hourly Point Weather forecast is a site I use almost everyday. I can't stand running in cold weather, so I try to plan my afternoon runs for the warmest part of the day. This site lets you factor in wind-chill and cloud cover, which makes a big difference when you're out in the elements. gmap-pedometer.com is another useful site that will let you map a route for distance and elevation. more inside

Ray Raphael , people’s historian. Real people, not paper heroes, make history. That’s why people’s history is so important — but myths we accept as truth have kept common people from assuming center stage. Ray Raphael, author of twelve books, has been a “people’s historian” for the past thirty years. more inside

Homosexuality is shameful in Asia This news got me searching on the ubiquity of the phrase "Homosexuality is shameful", which lead me to this. Not being Asian (geographically and culturally speaking), I found it interesting reading. Perhaps you will to.

Musicfilter: The follow-up to Queensrÿche's magnum opus, 18 years later. Due out April 4th. more inside

zillow.com Free, Instant Valuations and Data for 60,000,000+ Homes more inside

Craigslist sued over housing ad bias A Chicago fair housing group has sued ... Craigslist for ... publishing discriminatory advertisements. more inside

Baitcar WARNING: Some bait car videos contain very coarse language and are not suitable for children. more inside

Waterfall 2006 Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project. more inside

IVR Cheat Sheet Paul English created the IVR Cheat Sheet to help you quickly get to a human when you are trying to call a company for service. (The term IVR stands for "Interactive Voice Response", the fancy name for annoying computers who answer most phones these days.) more inside

Russian Reality Ruse A new reality TV show is aiming to pull off the biggest hoax in TV history - by persuading a group of Britons that they have been blasted into space.

FOX cancels Arrested Development Arguably one of the best comedy shows on broadcast TV, FOX has decided to cancel Arrested Development after only 13 episodes of season 3. What a shame. I don't think any amount of petitioning can save this one. I'm really trying curtail my newsfilter posting...

Yale Music NEWSFILTER: Yale School of Music Receives $100 Million Gift - The Yale School of Music has received a gift of $100 million that will allow the school to subsidize fully the tuition for all students, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.

PeltierBeer While drinking certain dark beers in the sun, I came to think about how to keep the beer cold until I finished it. Normally this isn't a big problem as I usually finish them before they get warm, but on really hot days this can be a problem. Having some hardware lying around in my apartment, I decided to build something that could keep the beer cool. Read on to see how I made my own PeltierBeer. more inside

Spam Stock Tracker records how stocks touted via spam have performed. more inside

Spacefilter: Astronomers have found the first evidence of cracks in a neutron star's crust. The star cracked when it was rocked by the strongest "starquake" ever recorded, researchers said last week. more inside

If you missed the last night's interview, here is a transcript and realplayer video of Q-and-A's interview with Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. more inside

A Gallery of Demons This page is a study in world perceptions of 'evil.' Thoughout these pages, you'll find descriptions of different 'demons.' I realize that some of these 'demons' can be considered gods or mythological beings, but I've chosen those I found to demonstrate the trickster archetype or have been described as possessing "evil" traits in a predominent belief system. more inside

Elena Filatova update You probably know Elena Filatova from her purported motorcycle trip, "Ghost Town", in the area around Chernobyl, Ukraine. You may know of her revisit and her follow up to that story, "Chernobyl - Land of the Wolves". But, she also has newer* entries online. *It's hard to determine the chronology since most of the journaling is done sans date stamps. more inside

Inaugural edition of our new time, effort and money-saving exposé on DVDs! "[I]f you bought a movie upon its initial release only to discover that another tricked-out version was scheduled for distribution, we're going to save you the time, trouble and most importantly expense of finding out the hard way which set is better." from ign.com