May 2008
23 posts
April 2008
39 posts
Streetcar forum draws mixed feelings from the... →
“When you’re alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go -...”
– “Downtown”
“We know by now that a natural ecosystem survives by the same sort of formal...”
– Wendell Berry, “Faustian Economics,” Harper’s, May 2008
“[A]n art does not propose to enlarge itself by limitless extension but rather to...”
– Wendell Berry, “Faustian Economics,” Harper’s, May 2008
The Columbus Dispatch : Old meters to stay →
Hmmmm
DispatchPolitics : Council brakes on streetcar,... →
A Speech About Nothing - New York Times →
“Barack Obama delivered a speech in Pittsburgh on Monday on the economic stresses facing American workers. In the speech, he devoted one clause in one sentence to the single biggest factor affecting the workplace: technological change. He then devoted 45 sentences to one of the least important: trade deals.”
Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing -... →
“a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, with political leaders from poor countries contending that these fuels are driving up food prices and starving poor people”
Google mapping spec now an industry standard |... →
“The billable hour is fundamentally about quantity over quality, repetition over...”
– 2002 American Bar Association study on the effect of the billable hour
2 Outcomes When Foreigners Buy Factories - New... →
“Already, the information acceleration syndrome means that more data is coursing...”
– The Great Forgetting - New York Times
U.S. Trade Deficit Grows Unexpectedly - New York... →
“The increase came as a surprise to economists who had expected the economic downturn to suppress domestic demand for foreign goods. Instead, import sales jumped 3.1 percent, the biggest gain in almost a year, to $213.7 billion from a revised $207.3 billion in January.”
Tight Inventories Send Oil Prices Higher - New... →
The Columbus Dispatch : Historic building's fate... →
Competing goals, non-conformities, mistaking life for art
ThisWeek Community Newspapers - Clintonville -... →
37signals Product Blog: New Basecamp Features:... →
Yes!
Congregation →
So why do we look and act so much like each other on Sunday mornings?
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People in my church are discussing these issues, talking with the minority members in our midst, trying to understand…
1968 →
Brian posted a nice entry on Martin Luther King, Jr.–a nice parallel between some of his last words and a section of Isaiah 58.
I found it darkly funny that he stopped at verse 11. The next verse…
Columbus housing price slide comparatively mild,... →
Sprawling neighborhoods not linked to obesity,... →
“Earlier studies had suggested a link between rising rates of obesity and sprawling neighborhoods. Some researchers have proposed using city planning as a way to combat the battle of the bulge.
But an international team of researchers said they found no evidence that neighborhood characteristics have a causal effect on weight.”
Self selection, eh?
To Have and to Hold →
[Mark Twain was] the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.”
~William Faulkner
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn……
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by...”
– From William Faulkner’s Nobel Banquet Speech
The Columbus Dispatch : Jump start for Ohio →
“Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and Republican legislative leaders shook hands yesterday on an agreement to spend $1.57 billion during the next five years to create thousands of jobs in Ohio.”
Fancy computers spell trouble for 2010 census -... →