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This "Resource of the Week" on ResourceShelf discusses so-called daylight saving time. I rise early in order to locate my commut...

Interesting day yesterday. Late morning started off on some errands: fuel for Spit, a stop at the puplic library, a lengthy visit to a ware...

* Eurozine is a good source on European culture. A current issue has a feature on a Romanian photographer, Mircea Stanescu. Here's a ...

Pip Wilson has this quote in his Book of Days . I can't find independent confirmation of it, so maybe it's apocryphal. It's no...

Go to Nick's blog, GobberGo , and read his post, Prufrock Line . You'll be glad you did.

Put a birth date into birthday calculator and you'll find out a whole bunch of things about that day, including: what day of week that ...

Nice web page from Canada's national library about geology and geologists. Life of a Rock Star In 1841 the Province of Canada (what is n...

This showed up in a contribution to a library tech discussion list: Web4Lib. Why? Don't know. Worth passing along? I think so. ...

Julia is doing very well in her first women's studies class. I thought of this fact on seeing a link to the review in Mother Jones note...

Julia was costume and wardrobe mistress for a play we attended this weekend. The play was Salmon Pursuits , an original play, written and d...

It's not for lack of material that I've not posted for the past few days, but lack of time. B and I spent the past couple of evenin...

Lots of praise for Pinter's Nobel. But John Simons trashes the man and his work: Ignoble Nobel: Let Us Pause Nobel winner Harold Pinter...

Today's Guardian has an interview with Cecilia Bartoli to plug her new album. The author makes a point about her fondness for 18th ce...