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- "When you buy America 24/7 with custom cover, you make your own contribution to the epic documentary photography project by choosing your own photo to appear on the glossy bookjacket. It's an "only in the digital age" holiday gift! About America 24/7: This beautiful book documents a week of American life through the lenses of thousands of professional and amateur photographers. From May 12-18, 2003, nearly 4,000 professional photographers and tens of thousands of amateurs participated in America ... |
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- TAI Utters the A-WordIn 1965 a couple of Yale law professors set up a couple of doctors to be fined for administering advice on contraceptives to patients. Connecticut at the time had on its books a never-enforced statute forbidding the use of contraceptives. The professors got their way, and the case (Griswold v Connecticut) made it to the Supreme Court, then under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren. In the majority opinion striking down Connecticut's ban, Justice Douglas inserted t ... |
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- In Tariff Debate, Up is Down, Black is White, and High is Low."Yes, we confess it; our adversaries in the discussion have a signal advantage over us. [The protectionists] can, in a few words, present an incomplete truth; which, for us to show that it is incomplete, renders necessary long and uninteresting dissertatioins. |
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- Fiona Watt: That's not my truck...A favourite of Joel's - he loves the different textures, and can even point to the mouse on lots of the pages now! |
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Mouse Mess (Nov 13 2003 12:39 GMT) - Linnea Riley: Mouse MessAnother library hit - Evan appreciates the humour of the mouse who makes a huge mess while helping himself to a feast and then looks around the kitchen in horror and declares: "These people need to clean their house!" He also likes speculating about how the people are going to react when they see their kitchen. The illustrations are FABULOUS. |
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- Charlotte Voake: Here Comes the TrainEvan's favourite from his latest library batch. A lovely tale about a Dad who takes his two kids on a bike ride to watch trains 'whoosh' under a footbridge. Irresistible subject matter for our eldest son! |
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- Don Watson: Recollections of a Bleeding HeartOur latest bookclub selection - it was my turn to nominate this time, and I've been wanting to read this for ages. Just hope I can make it through the 700-odd pages before our meeting on 1 December! |
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- Anne Rockwell: Growing Like MeOur third hit from Campsie Library. A lovely tale about things growing - which finishes with the young protagonist asking what his baby brother will grow into, and concluding that the answer is: "A big boy - just like me!". |
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- The Day Dixie Died is a powerful reading experience. It conveys the feeling of occupation by the North more vividly than most battle books convey their battles, and its effects are cumulative, a chapter-by-chapter buildup of gloom and horror. I have put it down more than once thinking, "This is the darkest thing I have ever read." Not a direct polemic against the occupation, it registers its points one awful anecdote at a time. A chapter title could have served as a better book title: |
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- If you're looking for historical Civil War content in the forthcoming movie The Last Samurai, I'm not sure you'll find any. If this is the shooting script, the Civil War dies out after page 11.There is actually a book called The Last Samurai about the fellow who would have been the boss of Tom Cruise's character. It has nothing to do with the film and I myself don't know of any ex-ACW veterans who went to Japan to become "The Last Samurai" or to work for the "last samurai."The best known expatr ... |
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- The Polar Express, a favorite book is now coming to a theater near you and the trailer is up. Release date: November 2004 |
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- Not content to just knit my way to, through, and back from Ohio, I ran out and bought a quick read that had been on my list for a few weeks, Confessions of a Deathmaiden, which had a cool title and a great front-flap review: a midwife to the dying who helps people cross-over is set-up in the murder of a child and has to discover who the real killers are to exonerate herself and her sister-hood. The story was certainly that, but it was generally lacking in much of anything interesting, despite t ... |
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- Further reading: Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson. |
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Ty's Tricks (Nov 13 2003 12:39 GMT) - Amazon.com: Books: Ty's TricksI ran across this book in the grocery store the other day. Not nearly enough photos of Ty, with or without any clothes on. |
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- Bruce Bartlett predicts that Howard Dean will run as a fiscal conservative on the Robert Rubin model. He quotes from Rubin's new book |
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- Picked this up at Half-Price Books a short while ago and am looking forward to reading it. (And NOT just because 'Embracing Defeat' could be the title of my own autobiography. Not at all.) |
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- Well darn it... I want one too. And I got one. |
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- Attribution: Irish; traditional folk song; before 1831; from A Celtic Miscellany. |
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- Finns det några svenska motsvarigheter till PetitionOnline.com och liknande? Om inte, så borde det göra det. Och en FaxYourMP.com-variant - MailaEnRiksdagsledamot. |
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- MARION -- Bond was set at $500,000 Wednesday for a Herrin man charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a 12-year-old Herrin girl. |
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- BENTON -- The death of Benton Mayor Paul Rogers has left a young and relatively inexperienced city council with difficult decisions to make. |
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- NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up a truck packed with explosives at an Italian paramilitary base Wednesday, killing at least 26 people. The United States struck at the Iraqi insurgency hours later, destroying a warehouse in Baghdad and chasing attackers who were seen firing mortars. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Administration officials acknowledged Wednesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plans to spur the Illinois economy entail as much as $1.5 billion in new bond indebtedness over the next three years. |
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- CARBONDALE --Gov. Rod Blagojevich's speech tallied more than a dozen rounds of applause from the packed auditorium Wednesday in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Student Center ballroom. |
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- CARBONDALE -- As a change of pace, Southern Illinois University Carbondale received good news from a state official Wednesday. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday introduced a bevy of projects paid for with loans, grants and borrowing for Southern Illinois. Here are some of his plans and how much they cost: |
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- CARBONDALE -- About two dozen teachers gathered outside the middle school in a show of support for the negotiating team inside representing elementary school teachers. |
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- BENTON -- The city of Benton was in mourning Wednesday, awakening to the news that Mayor Paul Rogers had died at 6:45 a.m., two days after suffering a heart attack. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Research ideas should be lined up for potential commercial development. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Tuition won't be on the agenda at today's Southern Illinois University board of trustees meeting in Edwardsville. |
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- When Logan Belt was assassinated on June 6, 1887, on his way by horse and wagon from Cave in Rock to his farm a few miles away in Hardin County, he was 46 years old, had served time for killing one man, had recently been acquitted of the killing of another, and was suspected of numerous other crimes as well. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Several area athletes were among those who made their intentions to attend Southern Illinois University official Wednesday when the fall signing period opened for most sports. |
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- CHICAGO (AP) -- Rookie Matthew Lombardi had his first three-goal game and Dean McAmmond added two more scores to lead the Calgary Flames to a 6-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Two Harrisburg foreign exchange students hope their Bulldog athletic careers begin Friday at the Saline County Courthouse. |
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- The phone has been ringing off the hook in Southern Illinois University sports information director Tom Weber's office. |
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- CARBONDALE -- The Shawnee College volleyball team has always had a tough time making it out of the Region 24 Division II Tournament. |
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- BENTON -- The Trico Class A Super-sectional was tied at one in a best-of-three match. |
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- SPARTA -- Sparta's Ashley Robison is admittedly a bit antsy to put her name on the dotted line. |
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- CARBONDALE -- Nine All-South players return to the area's boys teams that opened practice Monday, but you won't find any of them at Benton. |
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- 13/11/2003 -- S U M A R I 1.- El Fòrum de les Cultures 2004 Relació de les empreses que financien el Fòrum 2004. Bona part d'elles són contràries als principis de "Pau, sostenibilitat i interculturalitat" 2.- L'escalada de la despesa en defensa i el desvareig de l' I+D militar a l'Estat espanyol S'ha aprovat la despesa militar de l'Estat espanyol per a l'any 2004, la qual dobla en quantitat el pressupost del Ministeri de Defensa, ja que s'amaga repartit entre altres ministeris. L'I+D militar, com cada any, representa un terç del total d'Investigació i Desenvolupament. |
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- 13/11/2003 -- INDICE LA JORNADA Miércoles 12 de noviembre de 2003 1- Junto al TLCAN, ejemplo del fundamentalismo del libre mercado: Global Exchange ALCA, carrera al precipicio que amenaza sociedades y economías 2- Amagan a manifestantes: "griten lo que quieran, pero no toquen a los policías" Esperan "algo nuevo" de altermundistas contra la reunión del ALCA en Miami 3- Robert Fisk Ecos antisemitas en Beirut |
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- "I'm seeeecure... by deeeefault!" AFAIK OpenBSD is the only OS - besides being arguably the most secure - that includes custom made (and surprisingly good) music in its distros _singing_ about the OS, its mascot, and recent events involving the ongoing development of the OS. |
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- How distractable are you? Five challenges to test your powers of concentration. |
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- A small plumbing problem meant a call to British Gas which resulted in a larger plumbing problem. |
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- No, this is not the Texas Gulf Coast. We actually tied the record yesterday with a high of 85 degrees. Yes, kids, it IS November, and I was wearing shorts. Of course, the high today is supposed to be about 60, but it's still not snowdrift weather. Hmm... |
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