I’m gonna try to have a few of these each month, so here’s the first installment. Here are a few blogs, I’ve been reading and enjoying.
Inhabitathttp://www.inhabitat.com/
Tony Bourdain’s Travel Channel Bloghttp://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/
Open - Open Source at NYThttp://open.nytimes.com/
Backstage BBChttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
The BBC and NYT...
Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond: By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in Computers.
So that will mean Apple will have 8% of the market? Sidenote, will...
A lot of news has escaped without receiving the TennesseeTicket touch™ but I am sure you're aware that Ralph Nader appears to be planning another run for the presidency. A question in front of many (besides "why?") is whether he will...
LOST IN THE DARNDEST PLACES An elderly Floridian called 911 on her cell phone to report that her car has been broken into. She is hysterical as she explains her situation to the dispatcher: 'They've stolen the stereo, the steering wheel, the...
I’ve been into Caedmon’s lately, as well as Derek Webb, who sorta sings with them, and does his own stuff, including Indelible Grace stuff. he also sings with his wife Sandra McCracken, who has her own albums and IG tracks...
I was fixing some broken images in the archives of my blog recently and ran across this old post. The links don't work anymore, but you can watch the video of the speech here and the text of the article...
In a couple hours my little boy turns four. Any of the hints of toddler have been replaced with full-fledged little boy energy and curiosity. It is hard to fathom how much this little boy has changed my world. The...
Will I Be Wrong? 18 months or 8 days?: While the Microsoft deal is juicy, I still think that News Corp. would be more lucrative. If the deal falls through, I wonder what that means for Yahoo?...
Pretty good speech given before he decided to run for the Presidency.
I wish he could get the nomination. I would love to be able to see and hear more about who he is, how he feels and what he thinks.
It...
The use of DIN sans leading in the new New York City Ballet logo is a tad uninspired. That said, if anything could get me into a seat at the ballet, it would probably be DIN. #...
The fact that WDEF's Allen Fairbanks won an Emmy. If you've never seen his work, you need to. Interviewing people who haven't missed a single day of work in 56 years. This film. I heard it was awesome. Mesh told me the...
...No time to say "Hello" "Good-bye"! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!
Hear the frenzy? That's kinda how I feel (not in a bad way, in the rushed way).
Out of town company is on the way even as I type (wahooo! ...
UPDATE: Check out this awesome endorsement of Obama by Chattanooga's preeminent politics blogger (and a very stubborn independent)!The Transport Workers Union and California's Service Employees International Union (with 650,000 members) have both endorsed Barack Obama now that John Edwards has...
I've even, as they say, bought the T-shirt. I am solidly endorsing U.S. Senator Barack Obama, not just in his quest for the Democratic nomination, but in hopes that he will be the next President of the United States. As...
Caroline has recently found her fist and is chewing non stop on it and every once in a while she gets just her thumb and goes to town. I've never had a thumb sucker before (not that she is one...
It seems the swords were finally put down in the Clinton/Obama duel.
With the harsh rhetoric diminishing I begin to wonder if the two will let Super Tuesday determine who the front-runner will be, with the winner becoming the head of...
The posters are up all over town for The unCANventional Ball, an AIA event at The Hunter. Ladies in Aiding's Casino Night will be February 9th benefiting the Children's Home / Chambliss Center. You can now do an online search of the...
AEC previewed their Spring lineup for the Independent Film Series at the Bijou Cinema yesterday. I was really excited to see 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days on the list. The film opens April 18, and follows the story...
Earlier this week Fuller and I took some time to make a batch of cookies. Fuller loves counting the scoops and dumping ingredients. He didn’t really help with the actual dropping of the cookie batter onto the cookie sheet, but...
The P22 Music-Text Generator was proposed to the John Cage Trust in 1997. The site allows you to type in a sentence or words. The text is converted into a musical composition based on the frequency of phonetic sounds in...
One sunny day in 2009, an old soldier approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and...
In Southern Germany the crazy Fasnet time has started and in my hometown in Ostrach they liberated the witches on Wednesday evening. The witches showed that they are ready for multiple days of partying by dancing around and jumping through...
Not much going on in East Lake recently. But I've been too busy working extra hours and jobs to successfully stave off foreclosure (Sometimes I think I'm an idiot for building a new house in East Lake: the property...
Nearly 3,500 blacks were lynched in America between 1860 and 1960. I would add James Byrd to that number in 1998. Why did lynching decrease over time? Because lynchings worked. Lynchings created a culture of fear (it's still there among...
At the outset, both candidates did well in the debate last night, both produced what they needed to produce, and, I think, Hillary won it by a narrow margin.
Barack did something that will help him with a lot of...
If it's Friday, there must be a creature! Here is a real tangle of reptiles, with an american alligator in the foreground. DP (dear puppy) goes back in for more follow up testing today. She's had her ups and downs in...
This guy is really making me look like a wuss in bike short and a short-sleeve bike jersey. Overall, it hasn't been very bad this winter except for early last week when it dipped into the low teens. This weekend...
Michael Alexander, a sophomore business major (political science minor) at the University of Missouri, offer this perspective on Obama in his quest post here at the Institute. Mike's blog is here. Here are Michael's thoughts on Obama: It’s difficult to sit...
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