Odds 'n Sods:

Reader Rod B. wrote to mention that Popular Science magazine has greatly expanded their free archives to include the entire 137 year collection!

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Just in case there's wholesale panic on the scale depicted in the movie Miracle Mile, reader H.N. in San Diego suggested researching maps of your city's storm drain system. For example, he mentioned that he found this map of San Diego's storm drain system, with just a quick web search. (Of course all the usual safety provisos apply.)

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Tamara over at the View From the Porch blog mentioned that SurvivalBlog readers, on average, are twice as likely to use Microsoft Explorer than her visitors that arrive from other sites. For those that have an interest, here are the most recent browser statistics on the web browsers that are used by SurvivalBlog readers:

Internet Explorer (4,352,882 visits) 60.5 %
Firefox (1,917,463 visits) 26.6 %
Safari (649,604 visits) 9 %

In my opinion, such heavy reliance on the Bill Gates Brain Trust is pretty pitiful. Haven't you read the warnings about using Microsoft's browser? Please, please please switch to Firefox or Safari, folks. Both of those browsers are available free, and you can easily migrate your existing bookmarks (also called "favorites") to a new browser. You won't lose a thing except some susceptibility.