Araneae is a freeware HTML editor for Windows (via BrainLog. )
In Going Bridal, a bride documents her wedding preparations. This site includes the Bridezilla Confession Booth, where you confess your bridal sins.

My trainer called last night and told me that I had to take a photo of the sunset. I am sure she was looking at the sunset over Pike's Peak, but our local version was impressive as well.
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A study in Science Daily about why drivers using cell phones are at an increased risk for accidents.
eWeek has a very favorible review of Opera, the browser that I used before I started using Mozilla.
Toybox Rubber Stamps extensively employs images from fine arts.

I love the view on winter mornings like today when the mist hid the valley below us. This winter has been very dry so the sight has been unusual.
The Ageless project lists websites, weblogs and online journals by the age of the builder.
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The Peanut Institute has information on the Peanut Butter Diet.
The Way of the Horse: a website by Kim Walnes, an instructor who gives clinics in Colorado.
SendTo integrates with the Windows shell to improve file moving and copying.
If you had trouble reaching anything on the WWW yesterday, it may have been this denial of service attack.
Horse-Sense: Jessica Jahiel's Newsletter of Holistic Horsemanship.
An explanation of the half pass, a lateral movement that I have just started training with Hap.
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Fran, The Frantic Stamper has rubber stamp images and a variety of stamping accessories.
NY Times article about economic change in the mountain states, including Colorado. (NY Times - registration required.)
LATimes article about the effect of emotions on health. (LATimes - registration required.)
A repository of freeware programs called Wounded Moon.
Anita's LoL reminded me that I used to read Liralin's Adventures Through Life, an online journal by a Colorado woman who updates every few weeks.

Jack and I went to Lost Creek Wilderness area on Martin Luther King Day. It was unseasonably warm, and gorgeous despite the drought. We passed several areas that were burned during the Hayman fire, but the Lost Creek area seemed unaffected. I found it difficult to choose photos for my small photo essay: Lost Creek Photos. I discovered something new yesterday. All these years I thought photography was about taking pictures of things. I finally realized that it is about taking pictures of light.And yes, the sky really was that blue.
Volumes of Creativity: an article about altered books in The Arizona Republic.

Jack and I took the dogs for a walk along the Santa Fe trail this morning. This photo of Pike's Peak was taken from the borders of the Air Force Academy.
The Passionate Ailurophile cooks, and has lots of cat pictures on her site.
Paula Best Rubber Stamps: I used one of these images for some cards that I made for my stash yesterday.

Mt Herman seen through twisted pines on my walk Monday.
Katy Widger's Elemental designs for Rubber Poet, a rubber stamp company. Rubber Poet is one of my favorites. Other designs by the same artist.

Last fall, a friend gave me this pot of shamrocks from her extraordinary collection of house plants. So far, I have been remembering to water it. The shamrock is very useful because it will get droopy before my other house plant, a small ficus tree, so both plants are getting enough water now. A history of the shamrock from Taunton's Fine Gardening. Unfortunately, I really don't have enough windows with sunlight to be able to have many houseplants.
Wired reports that three bills have been introduced to curb the Information Awareness Office.
Scientific explanation for how stone circles form in the Arctic. I see a lot of places with frost heave when I walk on the plateau north of our house.
Soul Collage: card decks for personal exploration. I have been participating in various online card exchanges for several years.
Typographica: a weblog about typography, design, and book arts.
RubberStampInfo has a lot of stamping related graphics, including a Card of the Day.
Impression Obsession, a company with mounted and unmounted images.
Gene therapy trials suspended. (NY Times - registration required.)

Smoke, enjoing the late afternoon winter sunshine on the unseasonably warm day we had yesterday.

I haven't been stamping much recently, but made an effort to sit at my stamping table this morning and create this scene of a wolf using stamps from Obsession Impression, Stampcapes and a Stamp in the Hand.
Naomi Burke, a member of the rubber stamp club to which I belong, participated in Gingerwood Full Sheet Gallery this month.
Notes from Pure Land Mountain is a weblog by an American living in countryside Japan.
Articles written by a man about his wife's hobby of quilting.

It was cold today, with occasional snow showers. I took this photo as I drove home in late afternoon.
Country Roots Farm is a Colorado farm participating in Community Supported Agriculture.
Health Finder: a US government web guide to finding reliable information.
Bear Rubber Stamps has a variety of images, including scenic and animal, in both mounted and unmounted formats.
Purportal website allows search for information about various online hoaxes. That story that your brother-in-law just sent to you and forty other people sounds true... Put it to the test here. Take a couple key words from the message, paste or type them into one of the boxes below, and press the Enter key on your keyboard.
Wordsworth rubber stamp website. Calligraphy in rubber.
The diary of Samuel Pepys: The 17th Century journal put into weblog form with annotations.
Figlets is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text. The Signature Museum has a variety of ascii art for signatures.
A list of Windows applications that are run at startup. Good for using a startup manager to decrease the number of programs that autoload at startup.
William Gibson, the science fiction author, has started a weblog.
Hardin Meta Directory: the medical information hub.

In the mornings, Speckles lies in the sunlight coming through the slider in the bedroom. On those mornings when there is no sun, which is rare in Colorado, Speckles complains loudly to the sunshine committee.

Last night, we were supposed to get one to two inches of snow. Instead, we got a light dusting, which burned off before I took this photo around noon. This is our place as seen from the road that runs along the ridge to the west.
Dimension 4 is a Windows program that updates your PC based on a Internet time server.
Plates of images with interesting quotes from Lennalines.
I know about Arthur because my trainer likes to watch it in the mornings.
A portal page for kids by John Dvorak. I've used his portal for adults for years.
One person's list of the best speculative fiction in 2002 in Bookslut.
An article about how eye color is determined in human beings.
Mary Jo McGraw has written several good books on rubber stamping.
The origin of the phrase "Elvis has left the building" at The Straight Dope.