[donspatch] 2005-05-15

Don's Patch Issue #2005-05-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com

Married life is wonderful.  Thanks to everyone who sent comments
and congratulations from the feedback form.  My wife has been
helping me with the ezine for some time now; she likes to get
"into" a topic and explore it in depth where I tend to flit from one
subject to another with energetic, if not wild, abandon.  Up until
now I've done the write up for the links she gathered but in this
issue, for the first time, she's writing her own mini-features on the
topics of "wildflowers" and "feet".  Her mini-features will be closed
(at my insistence) with her initials,  "lsm" .  She'll be helping me
elsewhere in the ezine too but doesn't see the need to credit
herself for it.  Lisa has had an impact on the ezine for quite some
time now.  She's forever making notes about topics that come up
in conversations and those notes are later used for web research.
That has made her my defacto co-author for several months.  I'm
just encouraging her to do some of the typing now.  *grin*.
Let's get started.

Remember, your input is always welcome.  I value your suggestions
and comments, and I'm always willing to help you find answers to
your computer and Internet questions.

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American Sign Language dictionary.   http://www.handspeak.com/

online 3-D text generator.   http://www.3dtextmaker.com/

The 4-H Afterschool initiative.   http://www.4hafterschool.org/

101 Cookbooks.   http://101cookbooks.com/

It's a time thing.   http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html

A good source for web development/design information.
http://www.alistapart.com/

The online lives of a couple named Erick and Lisa.
http://www.day26.com/

An abstracted, refereed journal published by the Jagellonian University,
Cracow, Poland, in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Institute of Physics of the Jagellonian University and the
Polish Physical Society.    http://th-www.if.uj.edu.pl/acta/

Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism.   http://www.adl.org/

The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds
of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and
discuss their works.    http://eserver.org/

The AGOR cyclotron home page.
http://www.kvi.nl/~agorcalc/agorhome.htm

A portal to the extensive online presence of the U.S. Air Force.
http://www.af.mil/

This database catalogs the documentary work of international folk
performance traditions by folklorist and musical anthropologist,
Alan Lomax.    http://www.lomaxarchive.com/index.html

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain
documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy.    http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
A few more "odds-n-ends" from the same site are located here.
http://www.infomotions.com/

Dr. Goodword's alpha dictionary.   http://www.alphadictionary.com/

The American Presidency.   http://ap.grolier.com/

Life Portraits of American presidents.  http://www.americanpresidents.org/

For the artistically inclined.   http://altpick.com/

The AMA wants to help you select a physician.
http://dbapps.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm

American writers.
http://www.americanwriters.org/index_short_list.asp
http://www.americanwriters.org/

Ancient scripts are Lawrence K Lo's hobby.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/

What is writing, really? Here's a place to start.
http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm

I believe that the web should be fully accessible to us regardless of
what browser we choose to use.  I've mentioned this one before and
will probably mention it again.   http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

California's Monterey Bay aquarium.  http://www.mbayaq.org/

Arlo Guthrie's website.   http://www.arlo.net/

Ask Jeeves for kids.   http://www.ajkids.com/

This site is devoted to "B" (budget) Monster movies.
http://www.bmonster.com/

Here's another one I've mentioned before.  A great site for Fantasy
and Science Fiction readers.  The Baen Free Library.
http://www.baen.com/library/

Two more interesting sites for F & SF fans.
https://www.sff.net/
http://www.sfsite.com/

I'm listing this one because I think it's cool, but there's also a lot
of information on the site.  The Bank of England.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/home/main.htm

Hip Hop culture.   http://www.b-boys.com/

How to become a hacker.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies.
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/

The NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML.   http://snipurl.com/espo

See the world through the eyes of a honey bee.
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html

A journal of applied topics in business and economics.
http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/year.html

A media intense artist's site with lots of content.    http://www.b-man.dk/

A wealth of tutorials for Photoshop, PSP, or Gimp users.
http://www.fotofects.com/v2/

A portal site to the Ukraine.   http://www.brama.com/

Brandon Bird's art is odd and interesting if a little "pricey".
http://www.brandonbird.com/

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Bullying is one of the most underrated and enduring problems in
schools today.    http://www.bullybeware.com/

Online Burma/Myanmar Library.   http://www.burmalibrary.org/

A C++ programmer's resource.   http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/

For Canadian consumers.   http://consumerinformation.ca/

Eventually I'll get the banner for this one added to my site.
http://www.cauce.org/

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions.
http://www.ccre.org/

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation.   U.S. Congressional
documents and debates, 1774-1873.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

A psychology resource devoted to C.G. Jung.
http://www.cgjungpage.org/

A news site for young people.   http://channelone.com/

The American Chemical Society.   http://www.chemistry.org/

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
http://www.christophereeve.com/

The Center for International Trade and Security.
http://www.uga.edu/cits/home/index.htm

The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict.
http://www.civicworldwide.org/index.html

A clip art site and portal.   http://www.clipartinc.com/

Computer technology is affecting everything, even concrete.
http://www.concretepalette.com/

World Indoor Rowing Championships.   http://www.crash-b.org/

Crystallography Journals Online.   http://journals.iucr.org/

An interesting way to create music.   http://www.csounds.com/

A mailing list devoted to talking about CSS and practical ways to
use it in the real world.    http://www.css-discuss.org/

An international peer-reviewed journal of theory, technology,
and culture.   http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx

Online currency conversion.   http://www.xe.com/ucc/

XENON is a next-generation Dark Matter Direct Detection
experiment.   http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~lxe/XENON/

The Internet Art Database.   http://dart.fine-art.com/

Reviews of foods that are light, reduced fat, fat free, sugar free,
low carb and anything else being marketed towards people
aiming to live a more healthy lifestyle.   http://www.iateapie.net/

A narrowly defined (Defense/Aerospace) news resource.
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/

An eclectic media resource.   http://www.disinfo.com/site/

Everyone's heard of dmoz but have you really checked it out?
This is the largest human edited directory of the web.  You
can even become an editor if you like.   http://dmoz.org/

Doc G's astronomical information site.
http://www.mailbag.com/users/ragreiner/index.html

Lisa's had a terrific time reading Heather B. Armstrong's blog.
http://www.dooce.com/

A sort of "pop" health resource.   http://www.drkoop.com/

Here's a way your club, school, organization or business can
archive data for the web.   http://www.dspace.org/

Columnist, author, editor John C. Dvorak's blog.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/

The Dwight D. Eisenhower library and museum.
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/

The DØ Experiment consists of a worldwide collaboration of
scientists conducting research on the fundamental nature of
matter.    http://www-d0.fnal.gov/

A site devoted to the work of radio pioneer and inventor
Edwin H. Armstrong.   http://users.erols.com/oldradio/

International Internet consumer fraud complaints.
http://www.econsumer.gov/

A science portal.   http://www.edpsciences.org/

Albert Einstein, image and impact.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
There are additional history of physics resources on the
site as well.   http://www.aip.org/history/

A portal to the world's electronic journals.
http://www.e-journals.org/

A European educational portal.   http://www.elearningeuropa.info/

Electronic Journals from the Institute of Physics Publishing.
http://journals.iop.org/

An electronic zoo.   http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

An email provider's directory (ad supported).
http://www.emailaddresses.com/

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This issue's collection of news/magazine/informational sites
(these are chosen for maximum diversity regardless of "spin" ).

http://www.b92.net/english/
http://www.bellona.no/en/index.html
http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~bygeorge/020403/cover.html
http://www.ciaonet.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.concretemonthly.com/
http://www.cordis.lu/en/home.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/index.shtml
http://www.eonline.com/
http://www.e-thepeople.org/
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp
http://www.emagazine.com/
http://www.eschoolnews.com/
http://www.eweek.com/
http://www.gmagazine.com/
http://www.iht.com/indexes/articleindexes/friday.php
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home
http://www.kyivpost.com/
http://www.strategypage.com/default.asp
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/
http://www.rdmag.com/
http://www.tbrnews.org/index.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/
http://foreignpolicy.org.ua/eng/
http://usinfo.state.gov/

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A peer-to-peer file sharing client.   http://www.emule-project.net/

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.   http://www.iep.utm.edu/

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.
http://www.ieer.org/index.html

A directory of biomedical articles.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Four interdisciplinary, international, refereed journals on
environment and planning.  http://www.envplan.com/ephome.html

Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the
profane, from the political to the personal.    http://www.etext.org/

John Labovitz's ezine list.    http://www.e-zine-list.com/

Because of the potential diversity of subject matter this one may not
be entirely family friendly.  Reader discretion is recommended.
http://www.everything2.com/

The F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary site.   http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/

Disney's Family Fun site.    http://familyfun.go.com/

An online fantasy novel by R.L.Salisbury.
http://www.freeonlinereading.com/index.htm

The Federation of American Scientists.   http://www.fas.org/

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.   http://www.fnal.gov/

 d'ART is an Internet Art Network. It's an effort of 5,817 websites to
help people find and research art.   http://www.fine-art.com/

A peer reviewed journal on the internet.   http://www.firstmonday.org/

A view from the extreme fringe.   http://flag.blackened.net/

A photo sharing resource.   http://flickr.com/

A design and production group for the development of photographic,
interactive, digital and democratic journalism on the World Wide
Web.    http://www.f8.com/

A non-profit association, registered in several European countries,
dedicated to data processing literacy.   http://www.ffii.org/

A great Linux/Unix resource.   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Home

Photos and related fine art from the 19th, 20th and 21st Century.
http://www.ggibsongallery.com/

A commercial site from the fringe (presented for it's value as interesting
and/or amusing information).   http://www.frugalsquirrels.com/

G. Gordon Liddy's official website (are we still on the fringe here?).
http://www.liddyshow.us/

An in-depth informational resource on the Global Positioning System.
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html

An online guide to grammar and writing.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/

Gravity Probe B, testing Einstein's universe.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/

Another interesting site that appears to be flirting with the fringe.
http://www.greenparty.org/

Exploring ionized gas in our galaxy.   http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham/

Hands-on-CERN lets you explore the smallest components of matter at the
scientific frontier of physics.    http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/

Lisa likes this annoying game.  Scroll down a bit to get rid of the
offensive
ad.    http://www.addictinggames.com/helicopter.html

From the intellectual fringe, HERA-B is a large-aperture high-rate
spectrometer.   http://www-hera-b.desy.de/

A few links on an interesting fellow who's name was Herb Simon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20010210simon2.asp
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0401/simon.html
http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/DSS/10SIMON.html
http://www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/hsimon/hsimon.html

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A brief special feature on feet.

For those whose feet are different sizes.
http://www.oddshoe.org/index.shtml
http://www.bioped.com/solemates.html

A PDF document on finding the right shoes.
http://snipurl.com/et6t

How to make moccasins.
http://snipurl.com/et73

How to make a serviceable pair of shoes out of a rubber tire.
http://snipurl.com/et78

The political history of shoes.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309433.html

How to get the right sized footwear.
http://snipurl.com/et7f

Choosing the right trail shoe.
http://snipurl.com/et7j

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Special feature on wildflowers.

Collecting wildflower and prairie seed.
http://www.sustland.umn.edu/implement/wildflower.htm

Seed harvesting for prairie restorations.
http://www.seedballs.com/seedcol.html

A good site, full of links and info, but a bit slow-loading
on a dial-up connection.
http://www.debbysgardenlinks.co.uk/index.htm

Commercial site with much to recommend it.
http://www.backyardgardener.com/article/green/1006.htm

Great info and inspiration for young people.
http://www.kidsgardening.com/Dig/DigDetail.taf?ID=1082&Type=Art
Main site is ostensibly for kids but I enjoyed it.
http://www.kidsgardening.com/index.asp

Everything you need to know about seeds and then some.
http://theseedsite.co.uk/  (I liked this one a lot)

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Polio Survivor Association.   http://www.polioassociation.org/

Post- Polio Health International.
http://www.post-polio.org/ipn/index.html

A search and research resource.   http://www.highbeam.com/

Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media has used digital
media and computer technology to democratize history.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html

Human Rights Watch.   http://hrw.org/

Icepick, the Europa Ocean Explorer project is an effort to generate
a design for a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.
http://www.klx.com/europa/

The International Gravitational Event Collaboration.
http://igec.lnl.infn.it/cgi-bin/browser.pl

Inkstain is dedicated to the proposition that information wants
to be free.   http://www.inkstain.net/

The MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
http://space.mit.edu/

Los Alamos National Laboratory.   http://www.lanl.gov/

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/front.shtml

A people finding resource (ad supported).   http://www.iaf.net/
Another which doesn't seem to be ad supported.
http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/

I often search out information on an old movie that's come up in
conversation. Again and again the best information I can find
comes from the Internet Movie Database.  If I ever put together
a list of my favorite sites on the web they'll be on it.
http://www.imdb.com/

A music portal from the Indiana University School of Music.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

Into the Wardrobe, a C. S. Lewis web site.
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/

I've listed several "geeky" sites in this issue and here's another
but I love these things even if I don't always understand them.
High-Accuracy Mass Determination of Unstable Nuclei with a
Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer at ISOLDE /CERN.
http://isoltrap.web.cern.ch/isoltrap/

Eclectic songs and videos by Joel Veitch.
http://www.rathergood.com/

Journals of Gerontology.   http://psychsoc.gerontologyjournals.org/

Journals of the American Physical Society.   http://publish.aps.org/

The JSTOR scholarly journal archive.   http://www.jstor.org/

Kaffe is a "java virtual machine" that isn't really java. Sound confusing?
It is, but if you have enough geek in you the site will explain it for you.
Otherwise you should probably skip this one.   http://www.kaffe.org/

A "kid friendly" search engine.   http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

A Korean war site that seems to focus on weapons.
http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/arms.htm

The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/

The La Brea Tar Pits.   http://www.tarpits.org/

Lakota Winter Counts.   http://wintercounts.si.edu/

Here's another "geek alert" site.   The Laser Electron Photon beamline
at SPring-8 (LEPS).   http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/np1-b/

LBJ Library and Museum.   http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

Learn Spanish.   http://www.studyspanish.com/

A guide to lock picking.   http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/mitguide/

If you listen to public radio you often hear mention of the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.   http://www.macfdn.org/


MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing
answers to your questions. For good measure they provide a variety of
oddities and other ends as well.    http://www.madsci.org/

How about a harpsichord made of Lego blocks or a DIY laptop?
http://www.makezine.com/blog/

Making one's own windchimes.
http://www.bc1.com/~ereiswig/chimes.htm

Encouraging the use of sound science in making public policy.
http://www.marshall.org/

Health info.   http://medlineplus.gov/

An Internet portal with content based on the research & development
of unordered systems.   http://membrane.com/

I've hit on the fringes a time or two in this issue but nothing I've listed
so far was quite as "out there" as this one.   Presented for it's value
in providing you with perspective.  http://www.michiganmilitia.com/

The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/

Modern Bride online.   http://www.modernbride.com/

Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/assistance/index.html

Geek alert.  The E821 Muon (g-2) home page.
http://www.g-2.bnl.gov/index.shtml

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix (Linux)
operating systems.   http://www.mutt.org/

NASA's Stennis Space Center.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis/home/index.html

Need to Know is a useful and interesting UK digest of things that
happened last week or might happen next week.   http://www.ntk.net/

Neuroscience for Kids.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html

This one shouldn't require a description.   http://nobelprize.org/

Information and analysis to combat the spread of weapons of mass
destruction.    http://cns.miis.edu/index.htm

Hello Kitty, a marketing sensation grows up.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4135154
There's much more to see, hear, and read on the NPR site.
http://www.npr.org/

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Easy Cleaner was, and is one of the most popular Windows Registry
tools on the web.  It was "costless", then it wasn't, and now, finally,
it is again (there's other cool stuff on Toni's site too).
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/

Periodic Table of the Elements. Click on the abbreviation to view the
element's name. Should work in most browsers.
http://periodic.lanl.gov/

In high school I knew a guy who was always asking me questions
just like this.
http://www.picktheworst.com/

Make educated decisions about the courses and professors you take.
http://www.pickaprof.com/

An eco-friendly resource for hikers and vacationers.
http://www.pickatrail.com/

An interesting educational portal.
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Ralph H. Baer, inventor of Pong.
http://www.pong-story.com/

Students applying for Federal Aid are now expected to have
a PIN. Apply for yours here.
http://www.pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/pinindex.jsp

Polio Survivor Association.
http://www.polioassociation.org/index.html

The website of a radio program we enjoy.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

Definitions and limitations of works in the Public Domain.
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

An online library.   http://www.questia.com/

An award-winning website on a yellow pad, very cool.
http://www.rtm86.com/

Roger Ebert's movie reviews online.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

This will excite you if you're "into" concrete.
http://www.bonsal.com/index.html

Basic primer on digital images in general, applicable to images
from digital cameras too.   http://www.scantips.com/

Costless internet resources from Semaphore Corp.
http://www.semaphorecorp.com/default.html

Silkscreen, a font family that's very tiny and precise.
http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/index.html
An interesting personal site by the designer, Jason Kottke.
http://www.kottke.org/
Check out Jason's cool stereo photos, too.
http://www.kottke.org/photos/stereo/index.html

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http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html

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Writer, musician and all-around handyman Dale Forsyth also
has an interesting website.   http://freeware.quantum.2ya.com/

A solar system simulator from NASA-JPL.  http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

The website of author, Tom Morgan.  http://starvingwriter.com/

How to build your own submarine.  http://www.submarineboat.com/

A sort of tongue-in-cheek dictionary.   http://www.urbandictionary.com/

A good internet security resource.   http://www.viruslist.com/

A celebration of women writers.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Learn how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/index.html

Agricultural information on Texas.
http://www.agr.state.tx.us/picktexas/

One can't study anything at all about women in America without
learning about Rosie the Riveter.   http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows claims to be the future of
Windows (while I'm still thinking of switching to Linux *grin*).
http://www.winsupersite.com/

The Denbigh was one of the most successful blockade runners of
the American Civil War.
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/PROJECTS/denbigh/denbigh.html

This Day in History, from infoplease.
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

Learning about the world through photography.
http://www.trekearth.com/

The U.S. Navy.   http://www.navy.mil/

The Victorian web.   http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html

TypeItIn is a little utility that lets you define buttons which will type
in whatever information you choose into any application.
http://www.wavget.com/typeitin.html

I can imagine Archie Bunker describing this site, and it's proponents
as a bunch of no-account do-gooders.
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

============== Humor =============

A few quotations:

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his
client to plant vines."     Frank Lloyd Wright

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses.  She
drinks right out of the bottle."     Henny Youngman

"I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they
don't require so much cooking."     Carrie

A "top 47" list of oxymorons.
http://www.usfca.edu/~trembath/joke/oxymoron.html

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Reader John Lepse sent a link to this cat cartoon site.
http://www.mows.com/

Thanks John.

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Ok, that's quite enough for this issue.  I think I found some
interesting things for this one.  Let me know if you agree.
I've also made a good start on the next issue already since
I found so many links this time.  Oh well, they'll just have
to wait for the next issue.

Here's an interesting question for you:

When, where, and why did American teenager start referring
to young ladies as "chicks"?   Any ideas?  Let me know.

See you next time,

Don Crowder - Sunday, May 15, 2005

2:04 AM CST - Tow, TX, USA

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