Roundup:

[jrittenhouse]

• There's now a map online at KELO to show the amount of flooding that would take place in Sioux Falls if the 100-year-flood hit. One version shows the flood area if the new levees are built, the other without the new levees.
• "We have a Dark Chocolate Govinda Giri Krishna, a Milk Chocolate Govinda Giri Krishna, and a White Chocolate Govinda Giri Krishna." Are any of the Krishnas blue? No?
• "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books That Never Quite Made It.
• The weird-food blog of an expat in Hanoi, complete with dog soup, posters to warn you on how to cook your chicken to avoid bird flu, and so on.
• The guy who wrote TRAFFIC is now behind a soon-out (April 10) miniseries on THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, with Dougray Scott as Moses, Naveen Andrews (Lost) as Menerith, Omar Sharif as Jethro, and a BIG finger as God. No, I made the last one up, and who is Menerith?
• new schedule for 2006: three shuttle launches, with the first in May. Uh-huh.
• Fort Stevens, where Abe Lincoln nearly got his butt shot off by a Confederate sniper (and was saved from his own dorkdom by Oliver Wendell Holmes, later a great judge) and other forts protecting Washington during the US Civil War are falling apart...
• from hakeber, the Housewives' Tarot. I'm a traditionalist, myself; Rider-Waite for me.
• Etymology department: shortcuts that need to be translated so you know what they mean. Handy.
• Quote of the day: In four years we marched from Pearl Harbor to the heart of what was left of Tokyo and Berlin. In three years we can't yet take a cab from Baghdad to its airport without an armed guard. - William F. Buckley.