Things added in August, 2006
Pluto is a Planet Protest – cruftbox’s blog
They came for the small, icy planets, and I said nothing, because I was not a small, icy planet... Pluto is a Planet Protest
Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind Katrina
"If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn't blame the building's manager, or its maintenance crew, or the rescue squad... We would blame the architects." Army Corps of ...
Hot Recorder.
Recording phone interviews is relatively simple: Get an $18 mini recorder control from Radio Shack and plug one end into your phone, the other end into your tape recorder. But ...
Six Apart – News and Events
I loved Gopher so much I included a map of gopherspace in my 1994 book, The Traveler's Guide to the Information Highway (long since out of print). Nice to see this retrospective: ...
WSJ.com – Enterprise
The WSJ discovers that the library is a great place for business info. (Especially true of the gorgeous brand-new library we have in San Mateo.) WSJ.com - Big help for ...
You can’t teach a human.
“You can’t teach a human,” said Bill in our last lesson. “... You can tell them, you can show them, you can warn them, but in the end all you’re doing is ...
The Haiku Apprentice.
The Haiku Apprentice, by Abigail Friedman (Stone Bridge Press, $15), is both a gentle introduction to the art of haiku and a charming travelogue. The author was a diplomat ...
Be like Al.
Learn to give anti-global-warming presentations just like Al Gore does in An Inconvenient Truth. You could actually make a difference this way: The Climate Project
2 weeks of immersion.
Two weeks into her Spanish-language immersion kindergarten class, Clara already knows at least three songs, ten separate color words, how to say she needs to go to the bathroom, how to count ...