that may be a counter, or it may be a random five digit number. you decide. then again, because of the inadequacies of the machine this site is running on, it might only be a one or two digit number, the counter recently being reset. that said, this is something of a miscellaneous use page: a jump point for topics that do not fit neatly into the categories at the top - things like philosophy and science. to start out, we'll point you at a few sites that we enjoy, such as sito (operative term is stimulate), the deoxyribonucleic hyperdimension (see for yrself), rewired (journal of a strained net), veggies unite (hundreds of vegetarian recipes), and the first millennial foundation (together we will reach the stars).