London: New National Gallery Website
News release: The re-launched www.nationalgallery.org.uk is the first major gallery website to offer a full-screen zoom facility for its entire collection. Users can now examine every National Gallery masterpiece in outstanding detail, effortlessly sweep across digital canvases and zoom into minute details of their choosing. Also for the first time, users can now check the up-to-date locations of their favorite works of art prior to visiting. Using the Gallery’s own collection database, the new website updates the layout of the collection twice daily. Users can explore the paintings room-by-room using an interactive floorplan, allowing them to follow the narrative of the hang, as well as access new research material for specific works of art. Visitors can now access over 12,000 images, 18 hours of audio and at least 200 videos.

USDA Study Finds Rural Communities Benefit From Greater Broadband Internet Access
News release: "A new USDA economic analysis has found that rural communities with greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth than areas with less access. The study, Broadband Internet's Value for Rural America by economists at USDA's Economic Research Service, compared counties that had broadband access relatively early-by 2000-with similarly situated counties that had little or no broadband access. Employment growth was higher and non-farm private earnings greater in counties with a longer history of broadband availability."

Iowa Great Lakes region, a chain of eight natural lakes
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/lakesidelab/greatLakes.html

Story of the big bugs http://www.big-bugs.com/
Big bugs at 100th anniversary of Lakeside Lab
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/lakesidelab/News.html

Micropsia, often associated with migraines, means seeing objects smaller than their actual size. It's also known as micropia. The opposite, where objects appear larger than their actual size, is called macropsia (also known as macropia, megalopsia, and megalopia). These distortions in perception are also called Alice in Wonderland syndrome after the little girl in Lewis Carroll's books who enters a hallucinogenic world. Diplopia means double vision. Agnosia is the loss of ability to recognize objects, people, sounds, and is usually caused by brain injury. A.Word.A.Day

Q. What autonomous archipelago within the Kingdom of Denmark lies between Norway and Iceland?
A. The Faroe Islands, settled by Vikings in the 9th century.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fo.html

The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Italian arcipelago, derived ultimately from Greek arkhon (arkhi-) ("leader") and pelagos ("sea"). Find various definitions at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:archipelago&ei=uLOFStCrIonE-Qackfm6CQ&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Quotes
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German playwright
Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) German philosopher

Music of the eye usually refers to architecture (see book below) but some people apply the phrase to dance or paintings.
The music of the eye: or, Essays on the principles of the beauty and perfection of architecture by Peter Legh - 1831 - 262 pages
Printed by Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy-Street, Strand.
books.google.com/books?id=oaAaAAAAYAAJ...

Drawings of cats
Rembrandt, Picasso and Da Vinci drew cats. English artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) drew anthropomorphic cats. http://www.cat-lovers-gifts-guide.com/cat-drawing.html
B. Kliban (1935-1990), was arguably the first to put now outrageously popular cat cartooning in the fore, the artist who opened up doors for the likes of Gary Larsen, Jim Davis, and others of feline-connected fame. Kliban studied painting and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and later at Cooper Union in New York City. B. Kliban loved cats and usually had several living with him. His first book (called simply, Cat) was published in 1975 and Kliban became an overnight cartoon sensation. This book was followed by seven other cartoon books--in which Cat's appearance was minimal--over the next several years. Colorful Cats followed, decorating a range of merchandise from calendars and t-shirts to magnets, plush, and beach towels. http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/abbklib19.html

Silent letters
Knowledge, chord, tough, foreign

Put I before E except after C, or when sounded like A as in neighbor or weigh.
NOTE: What about weird? Caffeine? Foreign?

Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, adding insult to injury.
Hickory, dickory, dock, two mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, and their wedding was delayed.
Hickory, dickory, dock, three mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, and the other two escaped without serious injury.