As Rich Matthews reports, a strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a flu epidemic. (April 24)

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By:  Gina                        Source

Search Engine Land had a piece this week on a new feature at Cuil - time lines on some search results.

Cuil is a search engine founded by two former Google employees. It "organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results," according to Wikipedia.

You can see an example of the time line function by looking at these Cuil search results for the Great Depression. Notice the time line window on the right of the screen. It stays there, even as you progress to more pages of the search. That particular search time line has entries covering a period ranging from 1929 to 1939. Mousing over the entries gets you more details.

I suspect the time line feature will add to Cuil's popularity.

© gadl

By:  Greg Cruey                        Source

If you're not an F1 race fan please accept my apologies for this post. But as one who's been watching F1 for decades and sometimes commenting on said races for radio and TV, I can't resist suggesting that the new season is off to a terrific start. Controversies aside (there's been plenty of that) it's an absolute delight to see new teams and drivers up front. Brawn F1 has trounced the Ferrari and MacLaren teams and Jenson Button (not Hamilton nor Raikonnen) is the man to watch for the 2009 championship.

If that seems odd, consider that the young Brit, a decade ago, was a youth sensation predicted to be a future star. As sometimes happens in F1, Button was never with the right team at the right time.

The season opener in Australia was entertaining enough but the Malaysia GP topped it with a thunder and rain display that put an end to the fun far too soon. The Singapore race, next and F1's second event under the night lights, will possibly determine the championship. That's if it doesn't rain, if Ferrari gets its game right, and if MacLaren survives the latest Liargate accusations.

Racing in the Rain? My first experience was in a "Touring Car" race in Ontario's Harewood Acres circuit. I wasn't concerned about traction as I was pretty good at oversteering my much-modified VW on ice and snow but the sudden lack of vision due to spray from other cars as we headed into turn eight was unexpected. I survived with a first-in-class but in spite of the difference in speeds I can relate to the F1 drivers. Whether they can relate to me is doubtful unless someone remembers his amateur days. Regardless, I suggest that the 2009 F1 season is racing world's one to watch.

By:  Philip Powell                        Source

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DVD of the week? New York theatrical release of the week? Eesh, sorry folks. How do these overextended journalists do it? (Ms. Longworth, do tell.) On the road earlier this week at AFI Dallas, and now here at the Sarasota Film Festival, it”s been a chore just trying to find both the internet access and the time to write in between screenings and panels, meals and parties-and for those of us who aren”t 22 anymore, get in a few hours of sleep a night. Is it worth it? Does coverage of these smaller festivals that aren”t on the Croisette, whose suns don”t dance, hold interest for the out-of-town cineastes? If the film schedule”s solid, hell yes (or so says me). It takes word of mouth and whatever buzz can be mustered in this distracted world to raise the indies and smaller foreign films up, and the Sarasota Film Festival emerges as one of the better programmed regional U.S. fests out there (see also: IFF Boston, Cucalorus, Sidewalk, Nashville, and obviously SXSW). Not that I wouldn”t still be having a smashing time on booze cruises and singing karaoke (the ever-present film scenester”s late-night hobby of choice) and attending fancy luncheons with Jon Voight and festival honoree Bill Paxton. Hey, the festival treats their visitors like royalty; I couldn”t complain if I tried.

By:  ahillis                        Source

You may remember me talking about a somewhat spontaneous trip to Roundrock that Libby and I took a few weeks ago. Because of said spontaneity, we hadn’t supplied ourselves with our usual bag of peanuts (unsalted, of course) to spread on the fallen snag for the crows.

Fortunately, we happened to be carrying around a big bag of feed corn in the bed of the truck. (Doesn’t everyone?) It had been there for weeks, originally intended as bait for one of the game cameras that we (I) failed to set up on a prior visit. So we pressed our thumbs into service, rubbing the hard kernels from the dry cobs and spreading them artfully on the fallen snag.

In recent months, I’ve noticed that whenever we park the truck near the snag and then get out to do whatever it is we do at Roundrock, I always hear the crows cawing in the near distance. I’ve told myself that they have come to understand that the appearance of the red truck in this part of the woods means peanuts will be served, so they’re spreading the word. That’s what I’ve told myself anyway.

The problem with this theory is that I have no control, nothing to compare it with. Since I’m not there when I’m not there, I don’t know if this cawing goes on all the time. It may have nothing to do with my arrival being tied in their clever corvid minds to lunch.

I’m not sure if the crows find hard kernel corn appealing. I expect it was gobbled up by some raccoons. We did use the remainder of the corn at our usual game camera spot near the pond. Perhaps I’ll get some shots from there of just who favors corn.

Missouri calendar:

Bobwhite quail begin calling.

By:  Roundrockjournal                        Source