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Environment Political

Johnson Shut-Ins and the political gaming

There was a story in St. Louis Today about the Johnson’s Shut-Ins and possible criminal charges that State Attorney General Nixon might be filing because of the dam break. Ameren is dragging its feet on restoration because, the company says, while this is hanging over the corporate head, it’s not sure what is or is not covered […]

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Web

When Web 2.0 breaks Web 1.0

Jeff Bezos of Amazon is running around to Web 2.0 conferences, hyping the companies new Web 2.0 offerings, such as S3. In the meantime, the company’s order system is failing. This is the Web 1.0 portion of the company–the one that puts bread and butter on the company’s table. I ordered a PC audio switch […]

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Weblogging

But I don’t see that it’s only men

Philipp Lenssen has closed down the thread on the list of bloggers post. As he wrote: Projecting whatever evil you see in the world (racism, sexism, homophobia, wars) on me/ this post is certainly an easier option than facing real issues. I’m only afraid it won’t help anyone. I think everyone made their point by now, repeatedly, […]

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Writing

A critic’s value

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I enjoy writing; other times, I hate being a writer. For those of you who think it would be just wonderful to publish a book: think again. There’s few things that can make you more vulnerable than to work your butt off on something and then have it trivialized, […]

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Stuff

A binding demonstration

Steve points to this post, which provides an exceptionally well documented demonstration of creating a homemade book using fairly traditional book binding techniques. It’s probably the most photographed and meticulously detailed example of this technique I’ve seen. A single page version of the demonstration is available at the author’s journal.