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Awesome Clock

Today is July 31st, 2007 and right at this instant there are 6,611,567,299 people in the world. It's way past that now - like thousands more just in a very short time. It's growing so fast you almost can't see it change.

The clock is counting the number of births and deaths, counting the rise in global temperature. Species extinct, acres of forest lost, divorces, abortions, HIV infections, oil produced, prison growth - How about those statistics?

The game is played in a series of ten timed stages, on the same layout of suburban streets. Use your UFO to abduct all the required people and objects before the time runs out and drop them into the mothership. This seemed like an excellent online game for the viewers of taosplaza.com. However, for the game to be fully Southwestern, it should have at least a few cattle to beam up. If you click More Games you will be taken to the miniclip site where they have hundreds of Flash games. You'll need the Flash Player from Adobe to play this game.

Tech Note: Shockwave has not been ported to Intel based Apple Macs. If you're using one of those you must run Shockwave with the browser in Rosetta Emulation mode to view any site with Shockwave Flash files. See: Adobe Tech Note.

Taos Cuisine Scene

If you select your restaurant wisely, you will love dining in Taos. There are a lot of restaurants in the Taos area considering the size of Taos. At last count the number was about 150 places to eat. From a romantic meal in an old building to a burrito by the side of the road, there is good food to eat in Taos. Vegan or veal..., there's so much here.

The Taos area has, arguably, the most per capita number of restaurants in the USA. New restaurants are starting all the time. In the last few years, such excellent restaurants as El Meze, Graham's Grille, Shadows Lounge, Ronnie Lee's, the new Joseph's Table and De La Tierra at El Monte Sagrado have opened to serve so many diners. Established popular dining spots such as Doc Martin's, Ogelvies. Lamberts, The Stakeout, Orlando's, Bravo!, and Downtown Bistro have continued their traditions of fine food and wine coupled with excellent service.

Painters and photographers often visit the back field of El Torreon Hacienda to capture the marvelous unique view of Taos Mountain. And you can enjoy this wonderful view at lunch or dinner sitting in the romantic, relaxed atmosphere of the mountain view patio at El Torreon Hacienda.

There are interesting things that can sometimes be seen in these photographs. There are almost always horses grazing in the field. Many animals including domestic animals such as horses, cattle, sheep, goats are in these fields. This area also sees bear, coyote, wild cats, eagles, hawks, nighthawks, and oh so many more species. Also in these photographs might be a person painting or walking, a car, or maybe something else. One of the workers mowing the back field actually "mooned" the camera a few years ago.