This is a fun geography tool for determining distances and flight paths between any two locations on the globe.
Great Circle Mapper 
 

Are you wishing you had $650 for your very own copy of Photoshop? $600 for Illustrator? or $1800 for the entire Adobe Creativity Suite? Are you tempted to turn to pirating? Don’t do it! Here are some tools that will do the job very well, free.
For image editing a la Photoshop try GIMP, a […]

Yakko’s World - The most amazing videos are a click away

This video is a big hit with my 8th grader but I don’t know how I could possibly learn this song. It gets a ‘LOL’ from him and his friends and it is a great improvement over this intellectual perspective:

Schmap.com, a site that mashes Yahoo Maps and Flickr images, recently added one of our daughter’s photos to its collection of images of Town Square Municipal Park in downtown Anchorage. The photo is scanned from a B&W print she developed herself showing ice skaters in front of the Center for the Performing Arts. Higher resolution […]

Do your kids have an artistic bent? Google is looking for more Doodles for its homepage like the pictures below. There are some great prizes including scholarships and school grants. Details here.
These are Google Doodles for St. Patrick’s Day and Einstein’s birthday.
    

Many of my younger friends are enthusiastic Hannah Montana fans. If she ever comes to Anchorage here are some tips on getting scarce tickets from the economists at Freakonomics.

Forbes.com article, "The Most and Least Profitable Businesses to Start," gives potential entrepreneurs some direction to profit potential. If you’re a parent and want prosperous kids to care for you in your old age here’s the direction to steer them.
The Most Profitable Businesses to Start:

Accounting Services-return a whopping 25% pretax margin
Legal Services,+21.6%
Dental Services,
Specialized Design […]

I’ve never seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off but I’ve been an admirer of Ben Stein for many years. “Ben Stein’s Diary” is published regularly in The American Spectator. His overriding theme is one of gratefulness to God for liberty and family.
Now, Ben is kicking the beehive with his movie which will be in theaters this […]

WebCams are pretty cool. Not just the kind I use for Skype but the kind that is always on and broadcasting images over the web. FOXNews has a fun list of webcams around the world. Here’s what’s happening right now…
It’s nighttime in Paris.

There’s a big, big boat in the Panama Canal.

Haze in Egypt looking at […]

It’s esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Whew, 26 letters. I’ve even had one of these. It doesn’t hurt. Anybody have any long words?