Fighting to Live as the Towers Died: "From their last words, a haunting chronicle of the final 102 minutes at the World Trade Center has emerged, built on scores of phone conversations and e-mail and voice messages. These accounts, along with the testimony of the handful of people who escaped, provide the first sweeping views from the floors directly hit by the airplanes and above."

HUGE ice reserviors have been found on Mars: "Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface across great swathes of the planet Mars. If melted, would create planet-wide ocean [1500 feet] deep."

Drought solution in the bag: "In one of the more bizarre ideas for solving Southern California's never-ending water problems, an Alaskan businessman is proposing to tow giant plastic bags full of Northern California water down the coast from Gualala to San Diego."

No sequel in store to state energy crisis: "Although the state's energy market is still flawed, and prices remain high for consumers and businesses, the lights should stay on in California this summer."

Young Chandra recalls family outing: "Chandra Levy participated in The [Modesto] Bee's Teens in the Newsroom program when she was a senior at Davis High School in 1994. During that time, her writing included the following article about her family's trip to South America.

Yellowjacket control around homes: "Yellowjackets are heavy-bodied wasps, black with yellow or white markings. They live in grey, papery, nests located either below ground, or suspended above ground. Hunting "workers" search for other insects, carrion or rotting fruit. Workers are attracted to any meat-based or sugary item. Food is carried back to the nest where it is fed to nestmates. Stings usually occur through accidental contact with the nest or nest entrance. Workers vigorously defend the nest and queen against intruders."

Found the nest this morning, where the wasps that have been terrorizing my cat are coming from. Looks like I'm going to have to take it out this evening.

An idiot's guide to the World Cup: "Bigger than the Olympics, even if you combined the winter and summer games. Slightly bigger than the ostrich races in Virginia City and, amazingly, bigger than the world's largest lizard races in Doyle, Calif."

I also figured out how to edit my #hometemplate from inside Radio.

I've installed Bloglet (way down on the right site) now that I figured out the url of my XML-RPC server. For those of you running Radio, its http://hostname:5335/RPC2.