Daily Archives: Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

Changes in the Land

Humans have always changed their environment, some groups more than others. The Geological Survey‘s Temporal Urban Mapping program shows changes in the urban footprint over time [via urban cartography]. The title of this post comes from a book, Changes in … Continue reading

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No Video on Demand

Because HBO has nothing we want to watch while we wait for The Sopranos, because we’re not that desperate, and because DirecTV makes changing packages simplicity itself, we’ve cancelled our subscription, thereby reducing our monthly costs from $67 to $48, … Continue reading

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Book Links

I was off-line yesterday because of a Very Important Thing: the Big Sister played a lamb in the St. John’s Playgroup’s Christmas pageant. In the intervening space, Google’s doing some things with books [via Jon Udell and Jenny Levine]. Jon … Continue reading

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Name Calling

A footnote in By the Sword remarks, By 1680 members of the Green Ribbon Club — who defended Parliament and Protestantism — were called Whigs, a shortened form of “Whiggamore” (literally, “horse thief”), the name of a Scots band active … Continue reading

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