For anyone starting to feel the initial pangs of withdrawl, here's a site
with some incredibly cool, cold art:
http://www.rtoddking.com/chinawin2003_hb_if.htm

Amateur digital photographer R. Todd King has posted a set of startlingly
gorgeous photos of the snow and ice festival in Harbin, China. It's nothing
short of spectacular. From the caption for the first photo on the site:

"The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and
centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year.  The city is
actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300
miles away. So what does one do here every winter?  Hold an outdoor
festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin
celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and
competitions. The festival officially runs from January 5 through February
15, but often opens a week early and runs into March, since it's usually
still cold enough. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting
visitors to the snow festival in 2003."

-marc
"No child has ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived." --Sideshow Bob

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