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By JULES ALLEN
© St. Petersburg Times
published August 4, 2003
One man's opinion
www.kk.org/recomendo/
Kevin Kelly likes his stuff. This fun, well-written area of his site wanders all over the map with reviews of goodies such as the XM Satellite Radio receiver, a baby sling and books on the theater. It's sort of like Gizmodo.com but with a focus on real-world, nonelectronic goodies to boot.
History rocks
friendsoflafayette.org/data/genlaff.html
pasta.e-rcps.com/gripes/
Eddie Izzard, best known in his native Britain, is a wonderfully funny comedian and works a lot of history into his act. Seriously. And it's still funny. He once made passing mention to Gen. Lafayette and the Revolutionary War "debt of honor" to France. Intrigued, because my American history isn't what it could be, I found this informative page. But the real fun was searching and stumbling on a book that's a bestseller in France. It's something that was issued to U.S. troops in 1945 and loaded with faux pas.
Flexible travel
AmericanBamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BambooBicycle.html
Bamboo: It's not just for tiki huts anymore. I've got floors made out of the stuff. If I were a fairly serious bike riding type, I'd give this sweet-looking bike a second glance because the bulk of it is made from bamboo. It's obviously very light and quite strong. The tree hugger in you will like it because aluminum, apparently, is quite demanding to produce. The downside is each one is custom made, which isn't going to make it cheap.
Slippery fun
xGenStudios.com/fishy/
This Flash-based game is small enough to be modem friendly and is worth the wait for the page's contents to download. It's a simple yet strangely addictive game that requires you, a fish, to eat other fish and grow bigger. If you can master the four arrow keys on your keyboard, you've got all you need to waste away countless hours instead of doing useful things such as, say, writing your column. It's a slacker's delight and very kid friendly.
Half full?
Merl.com/projects/iGlassware/
news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html
Oh, the wicked inconvenience of it all. You're sitting at your table in a restaurant and your glass is empty. Do you stop at a convenience store later for a huge soda, or do you wave your arms in the air like you just don't care and attract your server's attention? In the world that this research lab sees, neither would be necessary. Your glass would be fitted with one of those evil RFID (radio frequency identification) devices and your server would always know the state of your beverage consumption.
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