David Weinberger said it best: "The National Geographic photographer who took the 1984 cover photo of the young Afghan woman with the beautiful green eyes has finally located her again"

Yahoo's something big turns out to be "The Biggest Sale in Internet History", just the smart guys at Webmaster World predicted.

Googlewhacking finally gets Slashdotted. Lately, I begun to realize how far behind Slashdot really is...

Chewing improves the ability to recall remembered words by 35%: "When you chew the body releases insulin, which is probably a conditioned response that occurs in anticipation of a meal. The same thing happens when you smell food cooking. Insulin mops up glucose and helps you feel hungry. We know that the brain contains receptors for insulin, molecular docking points that bind onto the insulin molecule. Although their function isn't well-known, we know they are fairly densely packed in the hippocampus which is crucial for memory."

Mummy Power: "The railroad from Cairo to Alexandria, imposed on the Abbas Pasha by the English in the early 1850s, runs through several bustling necropolises; Egypt had no indigenous coal and very little wood. ... During a ten-year period the locomotives of Egypt made use of no other fuel than that furnished by the well-wrapped, compact mummies."

Animated Engines: "I have loved mechanical things since I was a kid. Engines in particular have always intrigued me. All my life I've pored over books, studying cutaway diagrams, hungry to understand how things worked. These pages are an attempt to share that magic."

John Robb has a great take on the BBC article on Google-bombing. He says, "The subtext of this concept is that individuals with personal websites shouldn't have the ability to show up on Google for any combination of keywords. Why? This thinking assumes that individuals don't and can't publish anything of value. It assumes that their motives are corrupt and focused on petty personal gain. Further, it's implied that only journalists and corporate run sites have the integrity to publish anything of value, and that they alone should show up on Google."

Now online for free, the complete 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "It fills 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words. The articles are written by more than 1500 authors within their various fields of expertise. As a research tool, this 1911 encyclopedia edition is unparalleled-- even today."

Dumb idea of the week: "Spring Clean the Internet Week. Alert the media, point everyone you know to our Information Activism web page and then get ready to clean up your web site (if you haven't already). Throw out the old junk, get rid of those files you haven't updated, store them on a disk instead of on the Web!"

Something "big" is coming from Yahoo at 12:01:00 AM PST, March 13, 2002. What could it be?