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Okay, I will admit it... I fell prey to a billboard suggesting that I visit a particular website. In fact the billboard said little more than "nomorepu.com". I found it somewhat ironic that it was situated along the interstate near the landfill on the south side of town; it has been known to get quite stinky in the area at times.
I had no idea what the campaign was about but discovered after visiting the website that it was regarding Tidy Cat brand kitty litter. They have put together a clever website featuring the theme "Life Stinks? We Can Help."
Anyway...
They have a series of video shorts which are actually quite humerous and at the end of each they play a short outtake/blooper type scene from the shoot. The second in the series is called "The Lobby" and at the end of it there is a security guard that asks a lady to lower her voice. After I heard this I had to stop everything and extract the sound-bite. Watch the video now and download the sound-bite below.
I like the spell check feature of Firefox (and other browsers) but I have learned the hard way that composing lengthy prose in a web browser is a very foolhardy thing to do. Instead, I choose to compose in an offline text editor that - since it is a free evaluation version - does not do spell check . I am placing this blank "text area" here as a convenient spot to paste text for a quick spell check.
In this age of broadband internet and universal connectivity it is somewhat difficult to recall life prior to the World Wide Web. However, one need not venture all that far back through history to arrive at a time when most folks who possessed personal computers never imagined the potential those devices had for reshaping global society.
My early personal computing involved chiefly small business type word-processing chores. The discovery that - with the addition of a "modem" device - the PC could be pulled into service as a fax machine was - for me - a watershed event. My eyes were opened to the added versatility that a connection to the telephone line would bring to even my lowly home computer system.
Suddenly that list of public computer bulletin board systems in the back pages of my dog-eared Pocket PCRef took on a whole new significance. I was happy to discover there was a system in my calling area and wasted little time in making the connection. Little did I realize that with that phone call I was to open a portal from my home to the world...
After returning from a walk in the woods I was anxious to identify a couple of wildflowers I spotted and of course turned to the internet to discover the answer. In addition to identifying the flowers in question I discovered a great "launch-pad" for future wildflower identification needs.
I am posting the following tool from uswildflowers.com in the hopes you too will rapidly find the answer to any wildflower question you may have. Enjoy!
Looking for Wildflowers for a specific state? Check here:
About the State Reference List:
The State Reference page include three things:
A list of websites that may help in identifying wildflowers for the selected state. I've looked at each of the sites listed and they appear to be useful. I use some of the sites regularly for wildflower identification. If you know of a site that should be added to this list, send me an email at identification@uswildflowers.com - no promises of inclusion, but I will give it consideration.
A thumbnail photograph and web page link for each color of species of wildflowers for each color of species of wildflowers in this site's database that, according to the USDA Plants Database or my personal observation are found in the selected state, even though the photograph is probably from Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Idaho, or North Carolina. From there you can list all of the state's wildflowers that we have represented, or only those for a color range. Most photographs are by me, although some are contributed by others. The identification is by me, and while I have done my best to be accurate, I am not a professional botanist, and there is a high likelihood that some identifications are incorrect. Please let me know at identification@uswildflowers.com if you find errors.
A list of some wildflower identification books available at Amazon.com that cover the selected state. I have noted the books that I own and use myself. In the other cases I have read the description and reviews of the book to determine if they seem appropriate. I get a very small referral fee if you purchase through these links. My wildflower hobby is certainly not a profit-making venture, so if you can help offset my costs by making your Amazon purchases through these links, that would be very much appreciated.
"Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.”
(Brian Greene)
Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the "multiverse." Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.
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