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My Newest Hobby: Orchid Collecting
Just finished reading Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief." Just before Valentine's Day my wife and I watched "Adaptation." The movie resembles Felinni's film, "8 1/2." Last week Marg and I attended the Nashville Lawn and Garden Show, and I purchased my first Moth Orchid. Spent an afternoon at the Main Nashville Public Library researching the orchid book collection. This weekend, Marg and I will be attending the Orchid Society Show at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. Last night I located photos of the Ghost Orchid, the main character in Orlean's book, on the web. The best photo is a black and white photo by Ansel Adams located on the Sierra Club web site: http://www.sierraclub.org/ansel_adams/awardwinners/butcher.asp. Since then I have been looking at orchid web sites all over the world. There is a rating system for orchid awards, so looking at the highest quality orchids offers some of the best digital photgraphs on the web.
Visiting botanical gardens, rain forests, orchid green houses, orchid shows, and private orchid collections will become a regular excursion on all MOUStech.NET cruise seminars. Whenever a cruise seminar is scheduled out of Florida, MOUStech.NET will add a day before or after for a planned group tour related to orchid culture. In the Caribbean islands and in Mexico MOUStech.NET will plan shore excursions on every cruise seminar that will visit exotic orchid locations and collections.
Below are just a few of the orchid web sites I have been researching this past week:
http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/index.asp : Royal Horticulture News Page.
http://www.osrbg.ca/: Orchid Society of Royal Botanical Gardens
http://www.eoc2003.org.uk/NewRegis.htm: European Orchid Council, British Orchid Council
http://www.orchid.org.uk/neos/index.htm: North of England Orchid Society
http://www.sborchidshow.com/: Santa Barbara International Orchid Show
http://orchidweb.org/: American Orchid Society
http://www.gnyos.com/: Greater New York Orchid Society
http://www.orchid.or.jp/: Orchid Japan
http://los.lon.imag.net/: London Orchid Society
http://www.orchidsocietyofcalifornia.com/: Orchid Society of California
http://www.mediav.com.sg/ossea/: Orchid Society of South East Asia
3:59:16 PM 
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Don't Look for this to be Included on Expedia
Collaborative disinformation. Disinfopedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of disinformation.
* case studies of deceptive PR campaigns
* industry-friendly experts
* industry-funded organizations
* list of lists
* public relations firms
* think tanks
* war propaganda Link Discuss (Thanks, Alex!) [Boing Boing Blog]
3:24:45 PM
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There is a Great Deal of Irony in WIFI
T-Mobile to provide CTIA Wi-Fi coverage: Alan Reiter reports that T-Mobile and Sprint contended with the organizers and conference center to have the right to offer service. They'll charge $10 per day or $20 for three days. Alan's not sure if his tutorial will have service, which is ironic. [80211b News]
3:22:00 PM
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HM5 Status Report: Adding Opera. This is the first installment of HM_InProgress, a new area of HierMenusCentral.com. Here, you can read about the ongoing development of HierMenus, status updates, maintenance releases, tips and tutorials, etc., allowing you to make the best use of HierMenus on your site. 0312 [WebReference News]
3:16:52 PM
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Google Everflux. In a previous story regarding the Google Dance, I briefly mentioned something called everflux. As promised (or implied), here is a closer look at the process wherein Google constantly scours the web looking for minty fresh content, changing their index accordingly. Basically, everflux refers to the constant change in Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Even if you don't run your own website, it's interesting to see how as the web grows, new ways to tame all the information are put into place. If you are a webmaster and run your own site, Cre8asite forums suggests, "don't go hacking your pages to bits on account of Google's everflux." In other words, it's not something to freak out about, but it's still something a well rounded webmaster should understand. [kuro5hin.org]
3:15:32 PM
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The Dalai Lama Would Just Reincarnate Again
Anti-war activists beseech Pope to become "ultimate human shield". Noah Shachtman writes in Defense Tech:
Anti-war movements usually attract quite a number of, shall we say, eccentric ideas. But this has to be one of the strangest pleas for peace ever: activists are begging the Pope to go to Baghdad and become "the ultimate human shield." Dr. Helen Caldicott, a former Harvard professor, is urging people from around the globe to e-mail, fax, call, and snail mail the Vatican, and ask the Pope to "travel to Baghdad and to remain there until a peaceful solution to this crisis has been implemented." The idea, Caldicott writes, is that the Bush Administration wouldn't risk a bombing campaign in Iraq if the Pope's life were in danger. There's been no official word from Rome in reaction to Caldicott's entreaty. But new-age guru Deepak Chopra said late last month that he'd join John Paul II and the Dalai Lama in Baghdad, if the two spiritual leaders were willing to place themselves in harm's way. Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
7:28:42 AM
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Telephony Magazine on "Live from the Blogosphere". There's an article in the current issue of Primedia's Telephony Magazine about the "Live from the Blogosphere" event I co-produced with Reverse Cowgirl and Rhizome LA, at which BoingBoing founding father Mark Frauenfelder spoke and the Blogger-Google hoo-ha broke.
"There's a big gap in what people are currently doing and the exciting, dynamic thing that blogging could be..." said Breslin, whose racy Reverse Cowgirl blog receives several thousand hits each day. "The potential for blogging is fantastic, but the reality falls short right now. If you can say whatever you want to say, why in God's name would you say the same things as everyone else?" Link that one's down now, try this alternate link to story, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
7:27:06 AM
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First impression of XML in Office 2003.
Today at Q42 Laurens looked into Microsoft Office 2003 beta 2. After reading John Udell's article about InfoPath we thought Microsoft migth have caught up with Xopus. Thankfully this does not seem to be the case:
- Infopath 2003 uses its own templating language. It can only export to XSLT.
- In Word 2003 you can edit a raw XML file and save it. You can also apply an XSLT transformation and edit the styled result, but you can no longer save the XML data separately after that.
Office 2003 is actually a good developer tool to use with Xopus. Infopath is a nice editor for data schemas and data views. The schemas and views can then be used with Xopus to edit XML online in the browser. [Sjoerd Visscher's weblog]
7:20:14 AM
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Motorola and Frog Design have released a whack of concept designs for a Bluetooth-linked personal device array. 
