The What’s Evansville Missing post is by far the most popular on the site, and one of the most mentioned things the town is missing is bike paths. While the Evansville roadways may not be the best for taking a bike to-and-fro, there are several paths and trails you can travel just for fun.

Southern Indiana Trails is a Web site that has information on all the trails around the area. If that’s your sort of thing, check it out.

photo courtesy of jrthoms

While this has absolutely nothing to do with Evansville, I thought I’d share it with you as something silly I found while scooting around the Internet this evening. If you are getting ready to potty train your child, you might want to look into acquiring these two adorable Swedish imports: Poop & Pee.

Besides selling stuffed animals of Poop and Pee, you can also outfit your little tyke in a shirt that prominently features a piece of excrement. They also have underpants and keychains for various stages of your little ones life. The product line was designed by Emma Megit of Stockholm as a result of her masters degree in graphic design.

If you’d like to pick up some a stuffed Poop doll, you can order it online. The closest US store looks to be in Chicago. I’m half tempted to get one and make it the It’s Evansville mascot. It’d describe 90% of the drivel I post around here. :)

We recently learned about a charitable cause that combines two of our favorite pastimes: the Internet and school children.

DonorsChoose is an entirely web-based nonprofit organization that provides an easy way to help students in need get the resources that public schools often lack. On the website, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become a classroom reality when you choose to fund them.

The projects are searchable by subject matter, school district, project cost, school poverty level, and lots of other variables. You can give a lot
or a little—you’ll receive an email thank-you note from the teacher you helped. And if you donate more than $100 to a project, you’ll also receive a
feedback package from the teacher and students you helped that includes tons of pictures and thank-you notes from the kids

Several Evansville-Vanderburgh and Warrick County School Distrct proposals are on the website right now, including these:

• Celebrate Reading At Home - Evansville
• Teaching With Technology - Newburgh

Or you can browse projects from all over the country.

If you’re one of those people who’s called to action only by celebrity endorsements (heaven knows we had no interest in wearing Sketchers until Ashlee Simpson jumped on that bandwagon), try this one: Oprah Winfrey called DonorsChoose a “revolutionary charity.”

And Oprah knows philanthropy.