Photo timeline: "On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by."
California's Central Valley: "Most Americans, and the rest of the world, would describe California by its popular tourist destinations and economic touchstones: Hollywood, Disneyland, the Golden Gate Bridge, Big Sur, Venice Beach, Silicon Valley. But there is another California, and it's home to the greatest garden in the world. The 450-mile-long Central Valley supplies fully one-quarter of the food America eats. It's a long, mostly flat and incredibly fertile pocket of land nestled between the coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevada range."
Common Errors in English: "abject, about, absorbtion, accede/exceed, accent marks, access, accessory, accept/except, accidently, acronyms and apostrophes, actual fact/actually, adapt/adopt, adultry, advance/advanced, adverse/averse, advice/advise, adviser/advisor, affect/effect, agreeance/agreement, ahold/hold, ain't, altogether/ all together, all, all goes well/augurs well, alliterate/illiterate, alls, allude/elude, allude/refer, allusion/illusion, alot, almost, alright, altar/alter, alterior, alternate/alternative, alumnus/alumni, amature, ambiguous/ambivalent, ambivalent/indifferent, American, amoral/immoral, amount/number, an historic..."
Albanian and Russian observers sent to monitor American elections: "The joke, during the endless presidential election recounts in Florida two years ago, was that Russia and Albania would send poll monitors to help the United States with its unexpected bump on the road to democracy. Now, the joke has become reality. A high-level delegation of European and North American election observers including members from Russia and Albania arrived yesterday for a week-long mission to watch Florida's mid-term elections, which take place on Tuesday."
Microsoft's Weblog Software: "Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from any 4.0 or higher web browser and doesn't require Windows on the client. It leverages their strengths by integrating with Office, and there's no per-user client access fee. Then imagine if this weblogging tool were deployed to millions of users, all before anyone in the weblog community took notice. That scenario is real."
Halloween CSS: "Those who read dive into mark entirely in your news aggregator should be sure to visit diveintomark.org today to see the festive holiday theme."
October 2002 Google update has started! Happy Halloween!
How to get a domain removed from Google: "Yah, just do an I'm feeling lucky search for "url removal" and read away. Webmasters can remove their own pages or entire sites automatically. Spread the good word!"
Tests show no chronic wasting disease in Nevada: "Samples taken from deer and elk harvested in Nevada show no signs of chronic wasting disease, state wildlife officials said Wednesday. About 200 animals harvested in the early fall hunting season were tested."