Goose Poop and What to Do About it

"One Canada goose produces about 2 pounds of dung a day. That's nearly 600 pounds a week from a flock of just 40 birds."

That's a lot of guano.

"'It's difficult to putt a ball through 100 geese on the green,' said Larry Gillette, wildlife manager for the suburban Three Rivers Park District."

The Testing Grounds

I found a new host for free web space: Deluxe Host. They give you 100 Mb of storage to start, and even more later if you request it.

So what will I do with all of this space? I've started a new section of my website called "On the Horizon." Now everyone will be able to see what I'm experimenting with for the future. At the moment I have a page regarding Google's Map API and another with a forum I'm testing out. I also want to host a podcast on this space and start a homepage for my new band, The Sprinklers (more about them later).

The moral of this post - keep an eye on my website, because there's new content and an exciting future in store!

Google Maps API

I really want to do something cool with this - here are my ideas so far:

1) Map the incidents reported in the Daily Evergreen's Police Blotter, with links to the story.

2) Use the Polylines feature to map out forest fires. The problem here is that I need a source of lat/lng coordinates to work with... probably in an XML format.

Wikipedia

Man! I like the idea here. An open source encyclopedia. I wonder... is this an acceptable source to cite in a paper?