Spring in Savannah means that the heat will be back sooner than we might like. the girls are wearing a lot less and the pollen is so thick it covers everything in a yellow film... oh yeah, and thunderstorms and tornadoes. 
Mike Hollingshead has a great job. He's a storm chaser and and his website, Extreme Instability, is loaded with stunning photos, chronicling his dangerous journeys throughout the American Heartland.
I'm one of those people that gets high on thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes, all of which, I've experienced a number. Some like porn, some drool over pictures of kind-bud in High Times, I get off on extreme weather, real or recorded.
via A Moment of Awesome
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From The Lives They Left Behind:
When Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995, staff members Beverly Courtwright and Lisa Hoffman, along with Craig Williams, a New York State Museum curator, worked to save historical artifacts there. Beverly found a door tucked under the pigeon-infested rafters of an attic. Prying it open, they found rows of wooden racks, packed with almost 400 suitcases of all shapes and types – men’s on the left, women’s on the right, alphabetized, labeled, and covered by bird droppings, seemingly untouched for years. Realizing they had stumbled across unique and valuable artifacts, Craig had the suitcases moved to the Museum’s warehouse near Albany.
This is where Darby Penney and Peter Stastny encountered the luggage in 1999, wrapped in dusty plastic sheets. Working with a list of names and hospital identification numbers, they went through the suitcases to choose a smaller number of individuals and identify their belongings for closer study.
This online exhibit preserves the forgotten memories of these people, long since passed away. The site also has a great deal of information about the hospital itself, audio recordings of memories of the institution and more information about the book and touring exhibition.
via Mind Hacks
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There were a number of remarkable stories this past week. Here's a small sampling:
This kind of thing usually only happens in movies: A Victim Treats His Mugger Right.
Bra-freaking-vo. I wish I had the balls (and the heart) to do that when I was mugged. Granted, his guy had a knife and my guy had a .38, but still.
via kottke.org
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People move like predators.
News Flash: We are predators. Sorry, George.
via Complexity Digest
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Threat Level goes off on gate-rape and its apologists in TSA Defends Nipple Ring Removal Order, Should Apologize.
I loved this bit:
Two suggestions:
1) apologize publicly to Hamlin today, saying the officers were not following common sense procedures and
2) stop referring to the United States as the Homeland.
Every time you say that word in reference to the United States, you sound like a buffoonish bureaucrat from the Soviet Union. Your underlings won't tell you so, but that's what THREAT LEVEL is here for.
No, really you do. Stop it. And apologize to Hamlin already.
Expletive deleted-ay!
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I saw this story floating about last week. Bruce Schneier brought it back to my attention.
Red light cameras are working so well that cities are shutting them down. Revenues generated by fines are disappearing. Seems that crime does pay...
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Mac Tonnies added a new installment on the Seti.com blog. In fact, read them all.
In my book, Mac is right up there with Richard Dolan and Timothy Good in providing a balanced and rational look into the world of Ufology.
If you try to tell me that there's no evidence, I'll know that you really haven't looked.
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Now to wrap up with a few odd nugs:
Send emails into the future with Time Machinervia Vitamin Briefcase
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Bootstrapper's 100 Best DIY Sites on the Web
Should keep you DIYing for a while.
via linkfilter.net
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The Presurfer dropped this oddity: Thriving Office.
Instant credibility for home businesses... or, if you business is tanking, it doesn't have to sound like it.
Do people actually use this?
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In memory and honor of the great Arthur C. Clarke, this page of HAL9000 .wavs.
via Contrary Brin
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Have a Sunday Excursion and a great week ahead.
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