To get started and see a geourl in action click this link: http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://www.spring.net

Do you want to get a geourl for your website. Step one is to find out your exact latitude and longitude. If you go to http://www.geourl.org/ you'll find a cool world map of geourl sites, and directions on how to get your latitude and longitude. Of course, if you have a gps device, you can just look it up. This address is called your "ICBM Address", whoa, sounds like INtercontinental Ballistic Missile doesn't it! The explanation: ICBM address n. (Also `missile address') The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project, back before the day of pervasive Internet, included a blank for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This was actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it became traditional to refer to this as one's `ICBM address' or `missile address', and some people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target elevation.)

Ahhhh yes! I'll check it out right away. It sounds fascinating. Thanks for finding it. I did notice one place citing resources on the internet for things earthly and such included GEO. I was amazed and delighted.

Hmmmmmmm I wonder if I should put the Hilo stats or Louisville *;)

Both!

YES!!! I still have to take photos of St James Court for you, but it will be some months before I get back there - if not longer. There is a lot of unfinished business both ends need to finish and get out of their lives before it becomes possible. Hilo is really boring. It ranges from 68-80 F degrees every day 24/7/365.

Interesting home page http://www.unixpapa.com/ Even better links.

Glad you liked it.

You found nothing phallic at my Alma Mater? Penn State surely has one. In fact it is a obelisk. No bells or clock. Just pure phallic. There were lots of comments (all rude) made by students, of course! Aloha and Welcome to Geo, Jan! You honor us with your presence.

LOL. Some tour.

Look at his webiste and scroll down to the most provacative title. Jan will not be happy with this publicity, but I think it is interesting. Pitt has it's tower, too. I guess they all do! Penn State's was supposed to be made of a combination of all the rock found in Pennsylvania. It is built out of ashlars rather than a monolith as most obelisks are. Of course, the legend attached to it was when and if a virgin walked by, it would crumble. Needless to say, it is still upright.

If I was embarrassed by the Campus Phallic Symbols page, it probably wouldn't be on my web page, so publicity is no problem. I haven't really been aiming for completeness, and don't update it often. As you say, nearly every university seems to have one. They always struck me as weird. I once exchanged email with the president of a carillon player's organization. He'd wanted to create a more serious web page showing all the world's carillons, and wanted to know if he could use some of my pictures. Well, he can't. I got them all by swiping them from university web sites. This would be a violate of copyright, except for the fair use exemption for satirical works. So it's much easier to have a guide to campus phallic symbols than a guide to carillons. The law is weird sometimes. The World Tour was one of my first experiments with web technology. Had a digital camera, and it cried out to be played around with. It seemed like the natural thing to do, but other people's minds don't seem to work like mine - I don't see many people playing with doctored images on the web, even though digital cameras are so common now.

Digital cameras are the only cameras to have as far as I am concerned. I can do field documentation, download it in the field for the archaeologist I am working with, and he can be sure we got the photos he needs to document his finds or lack thereof. It is fun to do campus tours. I have lived in academia my entire life and it is fun to see the campuses again. They are almost magical places and almost always beautifully done both architecture and landscape. Thanks for keeping the embarrassment available. It sounds like a master's thesis subject - for a psychology major, perhaps?!

Yeah, college campuses are in some strange way, all one place. It's funny how the unique traditions of the University of X appear again at the University of Y with only the names changed. But it's not really surprising. The students and professors and administrators at all the universities are drawn from the same pool. They are pursuing the same goals, teaching and learning the same things. It's good. Universities aren't supposed to be insular

Tome, college campuses are the ultimate in ivory towers. Good conversation`, Great company, and bull sessions that go on all night about the most innovative subjects. I cannot imagine better company in a lovlier setting. I was privileged to go to college. I have never forgotten that, Then I married a professor. It does not get any better than that even though it ultimately did not work out. I am still an "academia nut."

An "academia nut"? Which is not to be confused with a macadamia nut, I suppose. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Ah yes, as I intended you to surmise about the "'academia Nut."

I can't imagine living in a town without a big university. Though these days my life seems to mostly revolve around babies and toddlers rather than libraries and cafes, still most of the parents ot the preschoolers I associate with turn out to be University folk of one flavor or another.

I agree with you. I was married for 25 years to a PhD professsor and ALL the people I knew were with the University. Big can be worse, though. Politics going on in small ones are easier to sniff out than the maneuvering going on at places like Penn State. I've been involved in both. Give me the small one any day. However, I will soon (I pray) be a few blocks from The University of Louisville, which is lovely though rambling!

Never really made it over to UL that much when I lived in Louisville, did you read my piece on Molly Bingham?

I read your piece on Molly Bingham but need to refresh my memory. A lot has me preoccupied lately... U of L has two campuses and both are BIG and strung out. Your most likely one contains the Speed Art Museum and the Brandeis College of Law. That is the closest to me.

Molly is a voice of dispassionate understanding in a time of great passion.

Ah, good lady to know. I will look her up in the morning!

I'm following her exploits in http://news.google.com

*HUGS* geophiles---you guys got me laughing with the phallic symbols, and i thought Disney was the only one with those problems (think Little Mermaid). course, me being the wolfie that i am, didn't notice anything weird until someone outlined it for me *LAUGH*

If you want more phallic symbols, look through the old files of Drool when Nan was posting and we were all squidgy about Colin Firth. It seems like centuries ago...