Recently the Reptile Gardens has come under fire from a group called United Poultry Concerns for training chickens to do various tricks (playing basketball, tic-tac-toe...). The local paper has even given them a little press. A spokesman for the Reptile Gardens had this to say. Disclosure: Reptile Gardens was started by my Grandpa

Information Week has published an article about IE7 Beta 2 claiming the final release of IE7 may take back market share from Firefox, while giving credit for most of the 'new' features in IE7 as getting their inspiration from Firefox. They even pose the question "Are Web Standards Still and Issue". The bottom line? Firefox will always be better because more people are willing to develop it into a useful product rather than merely "Leveraging the Browser Market to ..(Insert quip about M$ being evil here).."

My uncle brought this to my attention. It is pretty intesting. Here is the text of his email. Hello everyone, Today is a sad anniversary. (And I don't mean because it's the day I officially turn 51-and-a-half.) No, you see today is the day the the Iraq War officially becomes the 5th longest war in American history, surpassing the Korean War which lasted 3 years, 8 months and 12 days. The only four wars which lasted longer are, in order, the Viet Nam War, Revolutionary War, Civil War and World War Two. I just figured this out myself using data from the World Almanac supplied by the Dept. of Defense. And unfortunately, the way things are going, the current mayhem should have no trouble passing World War Two for the number four spot. This will happen on November 21 of this year. It's hard to believe this madness has gone on so long. Anyway, maybe if you have the time, you could pass this info along and generate some buzz. As I implied, I haven't heard any of the media talk about this, and it's probably something more people should be aware of. Jeff B.