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The second generation of JAR saw its musicianship evolve, perhaps mature, and the instrumentation change slightly. We’ve unearthed a representative track, which was performed live on Bay TV Morning in San Francisco. You can find the MP3 on the JAR page.

In a previous life, I performed and recorded with a progressive rock band called JAR. The band’s debut CD is now available for free download in MP3 format.

As reported in Grok (Education - 10/00), the Industry Standard’s “special reports” magazine, the Center for Disease Control has come up with a novel way to teach kids about health risks: Infectious Diseases Trading Cards

According to the article, the CDC pulled the cards off its site last year to “tweak the design” — but we note that five months have gone by and the CDC’s site says the cards are unavailable at this time.

But wait — there is a light (albeit sickly and, if we had to guess, contagious) at the end of this tunnel. The CDC merely commented out its directory of PDF files, making the retrieval of the trading cards a trivial matter.

CDC Infectious Diseases Trading Cards:
Anthrax, Antibiotic Resistance, Avian Flu, Cryptosporidiosis, Cyclospora, Dengue, Ebola, E. Coli, Hantavirus, Hepatitis B, HIV, Lyme Disease, Meningitis, Mumps, Pinkeye, Plague, Salmonella, Rabies, Smallpox, Strep A

This item is of little interest to Bill Gates’ minions (who comprise, I regret to say, about 90% of the web’s population), but Apple aficionados may be saddened to learn that Apple has removed Clarus the Dogcow from OS X.

The dogcow has an only-at-Apple sort of creation myth and has since been documented in an Apple technote, A Nest of Dogcattle.

And now that you are overcome with sadness, you can do your part to save the dogcow! Sign a petition to reinstate Clarus to her (?) rightful place in the MacOS.

Women.com has a special Valentine’s Day contest, where visitors can vote for the “hottest, most exciting” man on the Internet.

I dug around but couldn’t find a comparable contest to elect the hottest women. Well, why not? Oh, right — because that would be sexist!