Entries from May 2002

Welcome to my living room.

Date May 31, 2002

Robyn’s recent post encourages me again to write something about blogging. First, let me say that I like Robyn’s web log and read it frequently. I respect her as a designer and like her writing. But recently she’s brought out that old line about web logs being “private.”
She says:
‘Tis ok. This is what happens when [...]

Trespassers

Date May 31, 2002

Please, please folks. Don’t walk on train tracks. Don’t ride bikes on train tracks. Don’t walk through train tunnels. First of all, you’re tresspassing. Secondly, you could get killed. Two years ago the train I was on killed someone riding a motorbike on the tracks. This morning a train ahead of me struck a tresspasser [...]

Ice on Mars

Date May 31, 2002

As you may have read, they found lots and lots of underground ice on Mars. Well, the paper has been published in AAAS’s journal Science. Normally, you have to be a AAAS member. But for four weeks you can get these articles (and others) free! Here’s how.
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Put another nickel in…

Date May 30, 2002

Aww. Clear Channel is losing money. How sad. I particularly like this ‘graph from the article:
You’re also likely to hear a lot of commercials. During peak periods, Clear Channel’s stations carry anywhere from 16 to 20 minutes of ads per hour. One rival station has seized on this as a marketing opportunity; Z104-FM, [...]

Ring around…

Date May 29, 2002

The collar? The rosies? No.
I’d like to draw your attention to the web ring links in the lower left of the sidebar. You’ll see I’ve joined a few. I think they are worth mentioning at this time.
Liberal Blogs is pretty self-explanitory. When I’m off looking for people to agree with, I never look here. Liberals [...]