Hey-ho! A display company that sells to regular folks! Acrylic stands! Slatwall accessories! But best of all: Riker mounts! I’m going to mount all sorts of stuff now! (Insert your own filthy joke here.)

Yep, it’s Monday again, and the mind turns to chucking it all and wandering the globe. Check out the legal requirements at the State Department’s Travel Advisory page. Or pretend you’re already an ex-pat by listening to radio in other languages while you work and browse the Foreign Groceries Museum.

Ooh, take a look at the new Prius– it’s got back seats and covered storage in back. The storage demonstration reminds me of a Flash game. It also has a DVD based mapping gizmo, but you have to pay extra for updates.

In the name of equal time, here’s the Insight.

Cornell’s archive of Home Economics information gives you a peek into the practical courses students could take, including Practice Apartments, complete with Apartment Babies.

A startling discovery in Target: Fertilmarq brand male fertility tests. And I always thought that sort of situation was your best excuse to buy a microscope.

My actual Target purchase: edible notepaper.

The theme of this year’s ACM SIGGRAPH conference gallery is synaesthesia.

From “Norovirus strain strikes long-term care, cruises: a novel, highly transmissible strain emerges.” from Hospital Infection Control, March 2003 v30 i3 p34(2), one finds several alarming features of norovirus, the virus formerly known as Norwalk-like virus:
While most of the data on gastrointestinal disease outbreaks is gathered assuming that the pathogen is spread by food, other information indicates that norovirus may be more easily spread from person to person, as indicated by how common it is in closed settings like cruise ships and nursing homes. This means that information gathered so far may not be terribly useful in controlling the disease.
The virus has a low infectious dose, multiple modes of transmission, and persists in the environment. Experimental research has indicated that immunity to the virus does not persist very long.
A fact sheet from the CDC indicates that the disease is contagious from the first indication of illness to anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks from recovery.
The virus can survive freezing, temperatures of up to 60 degrees C. and levels of chlorine in water that are higher than most municipal water system levels.
And in an interesting twist, people with type O blood may be most suceptible to infection.

Oooooh! Gawker looks just about my speed for gossip, despite the fact that I neither live in NYC nor know anything about anybody current. But I can use the Internet in my cave, ya know.

John Wiley and CPSC are jointly recalling a Dummies book on soapmaking, just because of a small matter of boiling lye!

I don’t usually come across books in the three figures with much general interest, but here’s a big ole book of every dang Far Side cartoon, ever.