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A particularly good photoessay by Time's photojournalist James Nachtwey is online at Time.com here. An amateur photographer's gallery can be found here,

SPOT infrared satellite image of Manhattan, acquired on September 11 at 11:55 AM ET. (Copyright CNES/SPOT Image 2001)

We were riveted to our televisions, radios and computers today as the drama in the United States of America unfolded in ways we have seen only in our various entertainments. It was the stuff of Tom Clancy novels, of Jerry Bruckheimer films, of that nation's collective mythology of disaster. The Towering Inferno. Independence Day, Fight Club, Under Siege, Escape From New York City. Die Hard... Terrorism and huge bodycounts are par for the course in our imaginations- when the fruit of our imagination becomes reality we can scarcely believe - it seems too much like the dream it was only moments before. It is unlikely that many of us will escape being touched by this sequence of events in some way. Certainly in New York City, and to a lesser degree Washington D.C., it will be near impossible for that city's inhabitants to not have known someone directly involved in the calamity. I have assembled a couple of pages of images here that have been culled from many sources around the net - I'll improve the selection as time passes. Also, I have video of the following: close up of the damage, close up of the plane crash, the plane hitting from a distance, first tower collapses, second tower collapses. (all are mpg video). I'm focussing on the New York damage as, if you might have noticed, it is the more graphically interesting part of this well-organized attack on our neighbour to the South - the attack on the Pentagon was not as photogenic, nor has it been easy for television reporters to cover due in part to the high-security nature of the target. The plane crashes in Pittsburgh and elsewhere are also not so interesting as, well, everyone's seen a plane crash on the ground, right? Seeing two, not one, hit the two tallest buildings in New York City, and succeed in bringing them to the ground, is to say the least impressive. It goes without saying that respect must be shown for the victims of this tragedy and their families. It will be a trying time for all involved. Sifting through the massive amount of wreckage will take months. Given the amount of debris, it could be months before the downtown core of Manhatten is cleared, and the risk of biological hazards will grow with every passing day due to decomposition of the many hundreds of undiscovered corpses. The recovery operation will be tedious and unpleasant. A mass grave will need to be dug to house the dead. The effect of this disaster on the productivity of New York City's business district in coming weeks and months will be palpable. Immediately following the bombing, the price of gold dropped sharply. Interesting that only scant months before, the U.S. was telegraphing hints that terrorism was on the horizon. I have been reading back through press releases and stories on the net relating to warnings of terrorist activity affecting Americans, and some of it is quite chilling. Look here for the articles I found. Also: the UK Independant newspaper is a terrific source for non-US Bias reporting. Check their page here.

We moved in on the 21st, and spent the next week on 'vacation' painting and organizing... Damn what a lot of work it is changing addresses, registering for things, getting a parking permit... etc. etc. Hey, I know I haven't made a lot of updates here recently but I've been busy in a crazy way! I'll add more later once things settle down. Lots of fun stuff to put online, too - just you wait! Cheers, folks!

Christine and I are moving in to our house next week! Ahh.... Finally four walls and a roof I can call 'mine' - well, mine and my creditors'. But NO MORE PAYIN' THE MAN!
Sorry there haven't been any updates for a while - what with packing and all, it's been a busy month. Not only that, May-June-July are heavy birthday months! Lots of things to do and see and make and such.
I've been watching Big Brother 2 lately - the new version of the terrible gameshow from last summer - they've revamped the game to be more american-audience friendly and, I think, more entertaining in that context. In the first 11 days, there's been oral sex, knife-threatening, pissing on the basketball courts... all kinds of backstabbing! And this is just the beginning! The show runs for three months. Unfortunatly they still have Julie Chen as an interviewer - she is both Maury Povich's wife and a complete and utter buffoon of a journalist. Ah well. It can't be all good, can it?

June 07, 2001: 23rd Floor - Snippers, clippers, bedroom slippers, socks, clocks, bagels & lox, watch yer step...

30. Woo-hoo! Interesting. Well, that's enough of that. Moving right along... So I took a bunch of pictures on Tuesday - it was a nice day - in fact the whole week has been bonzo-fine on the weather front... I went out with my Oly and took a whack of pictures (see here) - tried something new - I set the camera at F/11, the shutter speed to 1/30th and shot from the hip - no forthought more than a couple of seconds. I think some of the results were quite good!

This is sort of in preparation for the new camera Christine gave me for my birthday. A Lomo Supersampler Pearl - see the lomo website here for more information - an idiot-proof (rather, idiot-encouraging!) panoramic sequence camera - takes 4 pano pics in sequence, either 4/2 secs or 4/.2 secs. it's marvelous what you can do with it! I intend to use it as an adjunct to 'normal' shots - use both cameras at the same time. Look for produce in the next few weeks!

Some new links added, as well as a couple'a new silly stuff items. Also, a few new digipics added recently from various outings and innings with friends.

My friend Adam has his Canadian Beer website up - no, it's not actually about beer - more about pictures taken at electronic music appreciation events (bunny-marks "raves")... go cheque it out! Also! Geoffrey is looking for work. Check it out here.

So my birthday is tomorrow and I'm turning 30. Woo! Anyway, I'm taking the week off from work to enjoy myself. It's Monday and so far the most productive thing I've done is win a few races in Tokyo Extreme Racer 2 on my Dreamcast... Life is rough. As I have a fair amount of time this week I will make a lot of updates to hame.ca - I've got a pile of silly stuff to add as well as some recent digipics I've taken.

May is Masturbation Month. Did you know that? I think I sorta remembered it but I forgot to say something until now. Whoops. Guess I was too ...err... busy. Anyway, here's a site that'll give you all the information you'll ever need about Masturbation Month: here.

Also... Life proceeds nicely. I bought a house! What the hell? Two years ago: single. Now, married, invested, moving into a house and planning a family. My goodness how things change. Some of my friends and acquaintences have difficulty keeping up with the course of events in my life - with the speed the changes are happening it's not surprising. Anyway, from where I sit it's a fun ride. Exciting and just a bit overwhelming from moment to moment but otherwise an all-round good feeling. Oh, and I turn 30 on June 5. Damn!

Completely apropos of nothing, there's a website devoted to the real-time study of a live Coelacanth! A personal favourite of mine, this 400 million year-old fish - check it out. Donate $10 and you can watch the scientists study this oddity of nature for up to a week.

A buncha new pics added to the silly stuff section, and a few new links added to the links section.. Enjoy!

This weekend Quebec City is besieged by protesters trying to disrput the FTAA conference being held there. Professional activists, their bellies full and their egos unquenched, once again prove that humans will always stop to watch their fellow humans either cause or be subject to violence. Their hope is to attract attention to the unhappy reality that business always seeks to improve efficiency and lower costs - even if that means setting up shop in countries where the minimum wage is counted in pennies, not dollars. However, the result of their protests is that the public and in particular the media are now more interested in the protest than the summit itself, which is what they should be paying attention to. The media now come in droves to attend what used to be fairly solumn, anonymous affairs that were real ratings killers in the past - not because the issues being discussed are important to the world (which they are) but because the media wants to record people jumping barricades and being sprayed with pepper or water or whatever. The activists, having long lost their focus, are only too happy to oblige by putting on as big a show as they can muster. Little pockets of people who have legitimate beefs with their governments get lost in the shuffle and are reduced to chatting amongst themselves in cafes far removed from the site of the talks, while the clowns jump up and down at the barricades and attract attention to themselves. Anyway. Enough of that. I did some research and discovered that the Internet is filled with protests more worthy than what the anti-economic summit trendies have made their obsession...

1) in Australia, the government's raised the tax on beer and these people are NOT PLEASED!
2) the powers that be have decided to reduce the amount of fresh air on passenger planes. Speak Out here!
3) there aren't enough (i.e. none) gay or lesbian characters in the Star Trek shows! (I couldn't agree more...:-) )
4) a Dutch site protesting the proliferation of folding bikes on commuter trains!
5) Always nice to hear a protest success story - these folks got a banned episode of Xena:Warrior Princess back on the air. (and here)
6) Americans for Fair Sports Journalism protest the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue!

New digital pictures added to the Photography section - from this past Easter weekend up North with my family at our cottage, and in Port Hope with Christine's family.

For all the information you'll ever need on The Fifth Element (a movie in my top-10 personal favourites list), go here. Fans of the incredible HBO series The Sopranos should definitely check out sopranoland.com.. For users of the MAME system (Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator), check out mameplay.net - it has an almost complete searchable collection of available ROMs for use with MAME.

Greetings... some new email pics added today. Go check 'em out. Also, some new digital pics I took over the past two weeks! Damn I love my new camera.

New Links: Check this out. Sometimes humour doesn't need words. Don't worry about all the weird text - it's a Japanese website. Just click on stuff and see what you get. For those who are following the Survivor II series, yay! Jerri's been booted. Never liked her one bit. But, she says she'll pose for Playboy so I'll be checking that out - she's a bitch but she's still fun to look at. Check out survivornews.net for the latest skinny and these guys for spoilers... Ever get 404 Page Not Found errors while surfing? Usually means the webmaster's deleted the page or it's moved elsewhere - this site is a gallery of some of the best 404 pages on the Net (very geeky I know but k00l!). Ever had a psycho girlfriend or boyfriend? I think we may all have had them at one time or another... Shudder. Anyway here's a site where someone's decided to record his (now) ex's lunacy and share it with the world. Very scary.

I'm not a big fan of the network teen soap opera "Dawson's Creek" for one reason : Dawson - or at the very least that James Van Der Beek actor who plays him. Totally, unremittingly boring and unimpressive. I save my appreciation for Katie Holmes, who plays Joey. Her character is no less stupifyingly dull but she has the advantage of possessing a prodigious rack, runway model height and a curled lip that would do Billy Idol proud. Plus she talks like a cartoon character. All of these equal fun in the male mind. Anyway, she's got a nude scene in the movie "The Gift".. to save people some time I provide the following for review: (click here for a small version, click here to view the full-size pic). - warning - nudity, send the kids out of the room, duh.

Ok. If you clicked, so are those real or what? I dunno. I think they look better than Kimmi's. By the way the other participants on Survivor II aren't nearly so well endowed (go here and here to assess Amber and Jerri's various 'abilities').

I don't know why but I woke up this morning singing XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" in my head... It's been with me all day long. Returning home from work the first thing I did was download the song off Napster (it's been what, a week and a half since the court order and I'm not seeing much difference in what I can search for. I'm not sure if my Napster client is even connected to Napster's servers directly any more - I might be using one of the hundreds of other, non-Napster servers out there... Never know. Anyway, I downloaded the Nigel song and I must be happy, I must be happy in my world, right? All your base belong to us! Nigel! Do you hear me! Anyway I'm only partly satiated. There must be dozens of songs from my youth that haunt the corners of my addled mind, lying in wait to jump out at me when I least expect it and force me on a quest to find them and pay homage. My wife, bless her, is beset with one song that drives her around the bend whenever she hears mention of it - "Downtown" - I'm not even going to go there. It's scary. Another song that bugs me now and again is "They Don't Know" - Tracy Ullmann's version - did you know it was originally written by Kirsty MacColl (who died in December, 2000 in a wierd boating accident)...

Oh! And a happy birthday to my friend Craig, who turned 31 this past week. There was a shindig at Fez Batik in Toronto, and there are pictures here.

I had a letter to the editor published in the Globe and Mail Newspaper today! Link to it here. I got incensed yesterday by a naive editorial in the Globe, so I, Abe Simpson that I am, emailed letters@globeandmail.ca about. Totally forgot about it today until my dad emailed me about it.

My friend Jason alerted me to the fact that there are more than a few websites devoted to the work of a new generation of 3D graphic artists... the artform has progressed by leaps and bounds even in the last two or three years with the advent of new hardware and software technology. Alias|Wavefront's Maya is a particular standout in the field. Some terrific examples of what you can do with Maya can be found at soanala.com. The links page there is a good starting point for seeing more artists' work.

I have added a number of new pics as well as three or four videoclips - check 'em via the menu to your left! Oh, and fans of Dark Angel should definitely click here.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: that Zero Wing video game quote seems to be spreading like a virus around the Internet... check this retrospective... (see archives for my original entry) - go here to check the places and ways AYBABTU has made its way around the world. If you want a quick summary (must be able to view Flash) go here.

Updates: I'm testing a guestbook - try it! It seems a little slow on the uptake - slow to load on the page, slow to take you there - see what happens on your end and let me know. Entries before Feb 19th have been added to the archives. (see left menu).

Signs that The Simpsons is actually a reality-based television show: Springfield is actually a reference to Salt Lake City. Check out this recent story, where a crowd of students in SLC protesting pornography couldn't agree on what pornography was - ranging from 'whatever I wouldn't want to see with my parents' to 'Michaelangelo's David'.
(see also Simpsons episode 7F09 12/20/90 "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge").

This, coupled with this little anecdote about cops 'updating' themselves to use 'B' to denote a black person instead of 'N' for negro, when writing speeding tickets, tells me that we in Canada are now living above Walt Dubya World. It might be because I'm an ignorant Canadian but since when was it necessary to racially profile a traffic violation? Oh, if you want to have fun screwing with Bush & Gore's faces online, go here. Fun with Java.

On a Simpsons related note, a long time ago I was a regular reader at alt.tv.simpsons on the UseNet newsgroups. It would appear they're still around - for the true Simpsons fan, this is the place to go to get all the reference material you need to keep up to date with the show. Go here for their official website.

Updates: The links page has been updated with a number of my favourite places to stop around the 'net... check 'em out! Links will be updated frequently as I make new discoveries. You can get to the links page by clicking in the menu above or to your left in the news:weblinks menu.

A small shout to my friend Michael Prime (Primer) who celebrated his 30th birthday last night in style at a surprise party thrown for him by his friends - DJs, good food, drink and atmosphere were all represented in fine form. Happy 30th, Primer and I'll see ya on June 5th when I make the transition myself.

A new entry in the SUV (Silly Unclean Vehicle) market has been announced - truth be told this one's been around for years in about 150 countries around the world - but finally someone at the head office of DaimlerChrysler (a board of directors not known for their market savvy) figured that there might be a market for an obscenely large personal truck in, of all places, the United States. What clued them in on that one? The Lincoln Navigator? The Ford Excursion? The Hummer? Well, not to be outdone DC's come out with the UNIMOG! Get a .pdf file from Freightliner's UniMog website here(>700k). See the UniMog.net website for cool pictures! And check this sh!t out:

The first is a picture of one of the more utilitarian modes of the UniMog platform - it's used all over the world for many and various applications - from firetruck to (see second pic) James Bond™'s new Mercedes! For a slightly cheaper way to get big thrills from smaller trucks, go here. Oh, and for information about sex with dolphins, go here. :-)

So I went to a Toronto Raptors' basketball game last Thursday. They were playing the Miami 'Heat' and lost in an overtime decision. Every time I go to the Air Canada Centre (the Raptors' and Maple Leafs' home arena) I am taken aback not by the quality of sportsmanship and ability being presented to me but by the overwhelming and acute sensation of having every orifice on my body filled with advertising media. Let me see how deep the penetration was last night:

Bell, Air Canada, IBM, The Toronto Star, raptors.com, Sprite, Molson Canadian.

Well, not bad. I figure there must have been at least 30-40 advertisers with a significant presence in the ACC last night, however only 7 of them made it far enough into my memory to come to mind this morning at 10:30 as I write this. One of them, raptors.com, is an amusing one as I caught it while watching the 'net-cam' - a camera positioned on the backstop of the net - the logo for raptors.com is emblazoned upon the top bar of the backstop and therefore perfectly positioned to run across the bottom of the screen/jumbotron whenever a net-cam shot is displayed. Because of the oddness of its positioning I remembered it.

Oh, I just remembered another one. Ford. They tried to give away a Ford Escape 4x4 last night - some schlub couldn't make a basket from the three-point line in order to win it.

My group were sitting in the "Sprite Zone" - a non-alcoholic area in the ACC where loads of school groups seem to amass themselves. The 'Zone is goaded into pandamonium by a pair of 16-year-old girls wearing SpriteWear™, doling out prizes and cheering the crowd with a bullhorn. So that's more advertising. I had a Molson Canadian, served from a logo-emblazoned food service counter, I was sitting in the Air Canada Centre, the Area is ringed with Bell Canada Media boxes...

What I'm noticing is that the ACC is an experience more or less exactly like watching the game on television - except without the colour commentary. So in that sense it's still better than television. But only barely. It used to be that sitting in an arena watching sports was an experience that amplified the _sport_ before you, not the marketing - you could concentrate on the game without much distraction aside from the kid next to you who just spilled his drink on your new shoes. Televised professional sports is all about marketing and always has been.

I'm a little disappointed by all of this because I went to see a basketball game, and what I remember most from the experience, what I want to talk about the most, is not the game but the advertising I was subjected to. Something's wrong here!

Go to McSweeney's now! Wicked, literate site - has one of the better parodies of Survivor I've seen in a long time - of course it will help if you've seen the show recently to appreciate some of the barbs.

Need to update your supply of wicked music? Check out homebass.ca. - It's a Canadian operation, run by a former softimage employee (Peter Barszczewski) who is living the dream. He's got terrific taste in music, the site is cool to use and his service is quick. Prices are in line with the better independant retailers around Toronto (he is based in Montreal).

Did you ever play video games when you were younger? Wish you could play them now? Check this from 1989: (for more info on Zero Wing - click here). If you haven't checked it out already there's a terrific way to relive your video game memories - the MAME project - Multi Arcade Machine Emulator - you can check it out here (PC) or here (Mac). All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

Check the poll at the right - suggestions are welcome for questions you want the answers to! One poll a week, we'll tabulate the results and keep a record of people's responses.

Okay. So I've been watching Survivor II: The Outback and I've decided that Kimmi is one of the most annoying vegetarian/vegans/no mammals please/are chickens mammals?/what the f... I've ever witnessed. She's so confused! Anyway, this has nothing to do with that but there's a 'nude pic' of her circulating around the 'net. Check it:

Ok. So the image on the right is a current shot of her from the show. Typically, she is bitching about something. It's a pity that ammo case she's holding is empty 'cuz she could have used it to kill herself and spare us her 'charms'... Anyway. Notice anything different about her in picture a and b? '...One of these chests is not like the other...' My vote is not that she's had breast enlargement but that the 'nude' pic is fake. I would swear I've seen that picture with the smiley-face stickers in a collection of New Orleans Mardi Gras show-your-tits-for-a-necklace shots. Plus, look at the skin tone, look at the width of the ribcage... Ah, it's a FAKE, people! The freaks in the survivorsucks.com message board (which has been hacked a couple of times now [who do they think they are, CNN?], by the way - go here for the real one) are going apeshit over who's got the pic, who's got one with actual nudity, they need it for their desktop wallpaper.. bla bla bla. Christ she's just a bartender from New York... or was it New Jersey. Who cares? Anyway. I'm hoping The Fake Detective will pick this one up and settle the issue once and for all.

One of my favourite content-heavy websites is 'heavy.com' - a site that specializes in edgy, hip-hop style material, ranging from shockwave movies and games to a streaming audio radio station, to 'the American Suck Countdown' (highlighting the music that sucked over the past week - not surprisingly Britney Spears features regularly)...

A note of caution, though - heavy is going through a transition at the moment. One of their regular segments, d.life, hosted by three 20-somethings with videocams and 'tudes, has recently been sold to Warner Bros. for a one-year test run on the WB cable channel. This is a good thing for the people involved, and good for heavy.com as the site has had _very_ little advertising on the site since its inception two years ago. If you look at d.life's first 12 episodes, you realize that selling out to Warner Bros may kill the heart and soul of the show, which was its honest and keepingitrealissoise style. Nudity, drugs, swearing, etc... All of these will go out the window when it breaks on national teevee. But they insist they'll still be on the hip hop tip. Bull! Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. For the time being not much content is being added but there's a few days' worth of movie-watching and content-grabbing to be had while we wait for the site to get back in gear.

I found out about d.life when I discovered Natascha Merritt - a self-proclaimed 'digital girly' (her URL is http://www.digitalgirly.com) who specializes in photographing her sexual exploits with a digicam and publishing them online or in print. Her book, digital diaries, is a terrific work of 2000-style post-feminist porn - it reminds me of the work of Roy Stuart, my favourite porn photographer. Not surprisingly both of their books are published by Taschen. Ms. Merritt is a bit painful to watch in person on video as she's a little thick in person - but as a digital photographer and subject she's terrific.

Those who are in the slightest bit concerned about where they're going to get free music from now that Napster's future is in real jeopardy (at the hands of the United States' system of ju$tice) would do well to look around the 'net and notice just how many viable options there are to Napster. Getting rid of Napster is in my opinion one of the better ideas if only from the viewpoint that it will encourage the development of the various P2P (person-to-person) protocols around and about. Not only that it'll clear out the commoners for a while -- Bandwidth should go way up for at least six months during the transition from Napster to: -- Gnutella, OpenNap, Hotline, and one of the cornerstones of the old, pre-AOL/Yahoo! Internet, the UseNet newsgroups, all more efficient means of transmitting files - and not just mp3's either.

I have to think the RIAA are quite happy with themselves - they've pulled the rug out from under the average guy - but they haven't shifted even a hair on the shag of the more experienced Internaut. Why, I seem to recall that the very day the first injunction was made against Napster, which injunction was helped significantly by the oddly lizard-like poorhouse cries of Metallicaª Inc. That over on the UseNet, some wag posted the entirety of Metallica's 20 some-odd year history in music in alt.binaries.mp3s.complete-cd (sic). To heck with searching for their albums song by song on Napster! In one day anyone with a high-speed connection could have downloaded all of Metallica's albums in mp3 format.

Two things to type about today... First off Geoffrey alerted me to bonsaikitten.com - check a picture of their work here. There's an article about it at wirednews... It's a college prank brought to you by the graduate students of MIT - not in the best taste but then what college prank ever is? So they've got the boots on their necks now as everyone's up in arms about it - the ASPCA is on their tail, the FBI... Crazy. Second, I got an update from DJ John Acquaviva's side of the plus8 records 10 Year Anniversary Tour... he was talking about how people may have been wondering whether he's been recording his sets on to a laptop recently - turns out the laptop is playing half of his set! He's hooked up on the development end with a company called n2it.com who have designed a soft/hard solution to the journeyman DJ's biggest problem: how to bring your entire record collection with you on tour! It's called Final Scratch and it consists of a fake record that is placed on a turntable, and it can be manipulated (scratched, pitched, whatever) like normal vinyl except that the track being played through that fake record is actually on a laptop nearby - an mp3. So these guys have made a virtual vinyl LP... Apparently there are still glitches but wow, what a cool invention. If I ever find a picture of the disc I'll post it here. Too cool. I'm going to see Acquaviva play at Turbo Nightclub on March 3rd - I'll keep an eye out for the wicked hardware and maybe take a shot of it myself if I can bring a camera with me.

One of my favourite bands, if not the-favourite-of-all-time, is Frankie Goes To Hollywood. I discovered a site devoted to them here which has a detailed discography as well as up-to-date whereabouts of the band members and their activities. There's another site here. The former lead singer of the band, Holly Johnson, is still making records and has a record label, Pleasuredome. Brian "Nasher" Nash, one of the guitar players of the band, has a site here. It's so nice to see a quintessential 80's band whose members haven't disappeared completely into obscurity. Oh, and for a good laff in this vein, rent "Sugar Town" - a terrific movie that stars Rosanna Arquette, John Taylor from Duran Duran and a host of other eighties types (as well as some newcomers) - basically they're 'trying to get the band back together' while fighting their own personal demons brought on by middle age. Here's what John Taylor looks like in middle age.

Welcome to @hame.ca! Hopefully this is the beginning of something significant. The idea behind this site is twofold - perhaps three-fold. The first fold is for the site to become a repository for the amusing or disgusting emails people send around - dirty pictures, funny stories, jokes, freakshows, whatever. I'll collect as many of them as come my way, and keep them here or provide links to the source. The second fold is for this site to be a running journal of my activities as well as those of my friends - pictures, anecdotes, damning evidence, etc. All will be stored here for reference and argument-settling purposes. The possible third fold is that I have a big ego and I always need somewhere to spread my views upon the world. This is the place.

To the left you can see the orange side bar - each section of the website has its own side-menu. "news" is the area devoted to current events, topical information, and those noxious materials people send around via email. Within news, the archives will hold daily updates aged more than a month. Pictures, text, video, weblinks - these are the categories the material will be split into when referred to in my updates (you are reading an update - duh!). peergroup nostalgia is just that - a section devoted solely to the history of my friends and I. A little Pandora's box of memories. Take a look! Photography, web design and links are all different sections that have different categories for you to explore. Explore at will and let me know what you think.

This is a test entry. Pic of the day: here. Warning, it's not pleasant. [source: email]

A NOTE: SOME SECTIONS DON'T WORK YET 'CUZ I'M STILL PUTTING FINISHING TOUCHES ON THEM. SOON SOON!