U.S. Surname Distribution: "Enter a surname into the form and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States."

"Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is being held on April 28, 2002. Information about how to participate is at the site. Maybe it's time for me to eat some oatmeal, build my own pinhole camera, and take some photographs." from subterranean notes.

Check out 10 things Google has found to be true. "A terrific set of operating principles." from JD.

I get everything fixed and then I get busy... Oh, what a life.

I am so happy I got my weblog working again!

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd."

Is Radio working now?

I'm having a strange problem with Radio. My event log shows that my files are updating, but nothing is changing on my FTP server. When Radio says that its updating files, my modem lights blink like crazy, but nothing new is showing up. No new folders, no new files, no new posts AND no errors in the log. Does anyone have any ideas? Email me, please.

What the heck is wrong?!

Something weird is happening...