Electric Josh

Navel gazing
[Navel gazing alert!] Why bother with this site? Phil G. answers the question nicely:

Personal Web sites are interesting because they support 20- or 30-page essays beautifully, with search engines directing interested readers to those essays right at the moment that they're curious about that topic.

Blogs are interesting because they support the 2-paragraph idea.  It is sort of ridiculous to create a separate .html file for every little aphorism or fleeting thought and it would be a shame to clog search engines with pages that have such a high machinery-to-content ratio.  ... Everyone can write like Nietzsche or a Marcus Aurelius, even if few people ever come up with enough clever small ideas to fill a 200-page book.

Iceland
A year's worth of views from a Reykjavik balcony. Sadly, the pictures are small. But wow.
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ACME
Some kind soul has enumerated what I assume to be all of the ACME products ever shown in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Have fun harkening back to the salad days of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, two hours every Saturday morning on CBS. (Holy crap, I was four and I remember that it was CBS.) This site has 'em all,

• the ACME Adding Machine,
• the ACME Airdrop,  
• the ACME All-Purpose Farm Implement,  
• the ACME Animal Delivery Service,  
• the ACME Anti-Nightmare Machine,  
• the ACME Anvils,  
• the ACME Artificial Rock,
• ...

Bush and Kennedy
I had to read this twice. It's not a typo, and constitutes my moment of Zen for the afternoon:

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy will receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service. ... Former President Bush has sole discretion on who receives the award, said Penrod Thornton of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation.

''Knowing President Bush, it was more about ... contributions of the individuals and it didn't have anything to do with politics,'' Thornton told the Bryan-College Station Eagle for its Saturday editions.