In case you didn’t have enough of the "local people, waiting in line, buy an iPhone" stories, here they are from the Union-Leader, Nashua Telegraph, Portsmouth Herald, Foster’s Daily Democrat, and Concord Monitor.

That’s the traditional saying to indicate a corn crop is doing well, and it looks like a lot of farmers will be saying it: Between biofuel and high-fructose syrup, the market for corn is so huge that American farmers planted 92.9 million acres of corn this year (New Hampshire is roughly 6 million acres [...]

As somebody with four cats in his household (all rescued cats, I hasten to add), I found the Web heading for this Washington Post story staggeringly obvious:
Findings suggest ancestors of domestic cats went into settlements looking for food, not friendship.
No kidding!
It always cracks me up to hear people burble about how their cats love [...]

The site evaluation committee says 12 wind towers, a total 24 MW proposal, are OK in the tiny town of Lempster, between Keene and Lake Sunapee. I’ve written frequently about the Lempster Mountain Wind Farm proposal, which now looks like it could be in operation next year. It will be the first commercial wind farm [...]

This is pretty business-ish for a sci/tech site, but I assume that anybody with any geekiness is interested at least mildly in the proposed FairPoint purchase of Verizon’s land lines in Northern New England. So here’s the latest statement from the company about debt and jobs (quick summary: They claim the first isn’t too big, [...]

What tech breakthrough of the past half-century has made daily life easier without making it more complex? There are lots of possibilities, but I might vote for the Automated Teller Machine, which turned 40 this past week, as the New York Times notes. Remember when you had to scramble to the bank before it closed [...]

That sounds like a sitcom title - adult cartoon hijinks involving talking raptors in suburbia, right after ‘Family Guy’ - but it’s actually a PSNH webcam of a raptor nest at the Ayers Island Hydro Plant in New Hampton. The service is so popular that they limit viewing to 10 minutes per connection.
I noticed [...]

Or in all of Vermont and most of northern Maine, for that matter. I‘ve mentioned this before, but figured I would bring up the iPhone again to boost traffic - I mean, to inform readers.
Places that don’t have the former Cingular service (North Country and parts of the Connecticut River Vally) can’t use the [...]

Its Merrimack facility makes equipment that other companies use to make photovoltaic cells, so the expansion is a sign of the solar-power boom.

This Saturday’s full moon will provide the best example of the optical illusion that makes the moon look bigger at the horizon, says NASA in a terrific press release that discusses the various possible reasons for this incredibly persuasive - things I’ve never heard of, like the Ponzo illusion and the flattened sky model. It [...]

Biodegradable plastic utensils lets events aim for "zero waste" designation - nothing sent to the landfill. Except coffee cup lids and potato chip bags, says the Burlington Free-Press.
From the article: "The utensils are made of polylactic acid (PLA), derived from cornstarch or sugar cane. These can disintegrate in an industrial-scalecomposting operation … where temperatureinside the [...]

Not that there’s any connection to New Hampshire - except for all you Anglophiles - but the British government has made it clear that "Intelligent Design, the idea that life is too complex to have arisenwithout the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion,along with creationism."
What’s really interesting is that this statement came [...]

The Bay State is in competition with Texas, it seems. The money will be used to study turbine-blade designs at a new facility in Charleston (the site that the Globe erroneously reported was going to be a massive windmill).

OK, so the sci/tech-ish online pickings are slim today, but I still like it.
But the joke about a Fibonacci sequence phone number gives me a chance to revisit an old Numbers Guy column about the likelihood of having a phone number with all prime-number digits.

Chart by Center for Biological Diversity
New Hampshire has 12 known breeding pairs of bald eagles within its borders - the highest number in recent times, although many fewer than a lot of other states it’s not so hot, as this map shows. (Maine has 414 pairs; Massachusetts has 25; poor Vermont has just 1, [...]