I share with you some of your doubts about Lincoln. (Maybe it's just because i'm a Southerner. :-)) Of course, Lincoln is a fascinating person and was also...
There have been talks of a firmware update that will support more formats, but I don't think anything like that has come along yet. But really, I don't see the...
As I recall, Shelby Foote is himself a southerner jim...
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Dec 4, 2006 2:28 pm
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HELSINGIN SANOMAT INTERNATIONAL EDITION - FOREIGN Finland is again one of world's least corrupt nations Transparency International report indicates little or...
Two articles in a Finnish newspaper report that it's pretty warm this winter in Finland. They are golfing again in Helsinki, and they are making artificial...
cool ... what about that ice-hotel ? the lack of snow must be hard on the reindeer, btw. only four months ago I wrote a ten-minute screenplay in which the...
Dear jim, We've collected 18,447 letters telling the FCC not to relax media ownership rules, but you still haven't taken action! Our deadline is in two weeks...
jim stasheff
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Dec 7, 2006 7:02 pm
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Their tenacity for mischief is unbelievable!! I'm sending you this message because I just urged Congress to block the unauthorized construction of a "legal...
jim stasheff
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Dec 7, 2006 7:14 pm
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http://johnsonpark.org/blogs/index.php/2006/12/08/ how_a_wahkiakum_county_commissioner_race How a Wahkiakum County Commissioner race was decided The flip took...
I've blogged for years now. And . . . done it all from scratch, scripting the pages myself. But now I've caved in. Witness: http://wirkman.net/ The software...
I set up a b2evolution blog, at the place I worked between USTL and moving back to Portland... It was indeed pretty easy to set up and use. Looking at your new...
COUNTDOWN 334 Days Until Election 2007! A regular update from the Arab American Institute | Vol. 7, 42 ... http://www.aaiusa.org/countdown Accuracy in...
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Dec 11, 2006 2:20 am
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Neat stuff. Incidentally, he certainly looks Irish to me. jim stasheff <jds@...> wrote: COUNTDOWN 334 Days Until Election 2007! A regular update...
Some of you will be amused ? by Paper (*cross-listing*): gr-qc/0612045 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:53:08 GMT (10kb) Title: World-making with extended gravity...
jim stasheff
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Dec 11, 2006 2:08 pm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12turt.html? ex=1323579600&en=2bf77a3245365fbd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss December 12, 2006 All but Ageless,...
nice collection of turtle stuff. I'm a turtle fan, myself, and have been since I was a little kid. I looked at all the pics of turtles in the Reptile Guide...
Mises dot org now has William Graham Sumner's classic essay online: http://www.mises.org/story/2398 Among the many good lines? This one: "The most important...
On my blog today I lurched into libertarian theory, which many of you many not care one whit about. But the issue at hand is a crucial issue for me, and has...
t. virkkala (virkkala@...) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) ... Personal message: Crowbars and fire extinguishers!...
Reason magazine, in protest to Time's "You. Yes, You." pick for "Person of the Year," invited its contributors to pick one. Editor Nick G. came up with my...
I didn't see this in the after-the-election re-hash: http://www.examiner.com/a -397530~Brian_Doherty__Third_parties_play_spoilers_for_Dems__GOP.html Brian...
Recently on wirkman.net I've posted, for your delectation, articles on The Defense of the State (offering what may be a novel formulation), the Defense of...
Tim, I just went to your site and see no sign of you in a goofy hat. Also, I regret to say that the white on black is very difficult to read, and your...
I had never been to his blog. Hadn't been to his site since he started a blog! ... The racism discussion annoys me in part because Gladwell confuses categories...
Thinking Matters contributor Byron Marshall has had some health issues -- I think major surgery -- and I take a moment to wish him a speedy recovery. Rest up,...
I yammer about the limits of prediction in social science, primarily economics, on my blog today: http://wirkman.net/izens/index.php/izen/2007/01/26/ ...
Because of lack of participation, I'm thinking of closing two of my email discussion groups: Thinking Matters and Reading Matters. Any objections? FilmFlam...
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