This green tree project is wicked cool. Thanks, benchun. Thanks, NEC.
Archive for July, 2003
Ectonoha
Sunday, July 27th, 2003Collectivist Anthologies
Sunday, July 27th, 2003Organic life is hard
Sunday, July 20th, 2003Recent Siamese Deaths: Intentional miscommunication?
Saturday, July 12th, 2003I almost cried when I read the paper on Wed, and saw that the Iranian siamese twins had died in surgery. Some thoughts on their tragedy.
Vermont environmentalists for Dean
Friday, July 11th, 2003A good Dean quote from a Vermont environmentalist:
I actually have worked with and against Howard Dean as an environmental advocate and lobbyist when he was governor of Vermont, and I have to say that he is both likeable and very ‘tightly wound’. But he is able to make both work to his advantage, because what he really is is a very skillful, extremely bright retail politician who can anticipate how the chips will fall amongst different political interests and weave his way to victory by managing to hew to the middle between the warring factions. And that’s how he gets things done, without sucking up to one side or another – a remarkable ability.
And after a while (perhaps we Vermonters are just as strange as the media/political establishment likes to paint us) his combative style is, well, likeable. He’s not going to bullshit you [and] you come to enjoy that. – Sarah, from RogerSimon.com
A bright retail politician, eh?
RAND: Ten Overlooked Int’l Security Issues
Friday, July 11th, 2003This article by RAND analysts describes ten of the critical issues around the world which, despite their vast importance, we hardly hear about. Think how many equally critical issues they can’t even discuss in the Atlantic Monthly…
Omniglot
Thursday, July 10th, 2003A collector’s site, for those who can never learn too many languages.
ADUni-Course Study Groups
Tuesday, July 8th, 2003There’s a Yahoo! group (the “aduni” group, in fact) that was recently set up (in June) for people who plan to work through a few of the aduni courses together. Its members are mainly readers of the lambda weblog… I wish them much success, and wonder how the many owners of aduni-course-drives [a hard drive with all of the course materials on it, available from aduni.org] have made use of them.
Third 5th Dean Houseparty
Tuesday, July 8th, 2003On the 5th I was convinced to drive down to a NH houseparty for Dean – his third that day – where he spoke for 20 min, then took questions on the podium, outside from reporters, and milling about from individuals, for 20-30 minutes each. He seemed totally collected, competent, and (from the reactions of the crowd) inspirational. Tracy Marks headed out to the previous party ( I thought I would see her at this one, part of why I went ), and says she’ll post some of her notes and reactions soon; I’ll link to that here when she does.
Human Genome Browser
Saturday, July 5th, 2003You might want to be sitting down when you visit this site.