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Climate of Man
The New Yorker
by Elizabeth Kolbert

In three parts 25 April, 2 May and 9 May 2005

• Part I Disappearing islands
• Part II The curse of Akkad.
• Part III What can be done?

Required reading on climate change for anyone who might think that nothing is really going on or that somehow the science might still fuzzy.

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)

How will BRAC affect you? Follow the money. The most interesting trail is provided by contractors, for example, GMH Communities Trust is a publicly-traded Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT). Today almost every on base service from garbage pickup to weapons repair including housing, police protection - but oddly not yet fire proctection - and a host of other services that until about 1980 were provided by civilian employees and military personnel are now provided by contractors. And, from GMH's press releases there seems to be enough money to keep the investors interested.

Additional current BRAC information can be found at:

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), from Global Security, a private information machine.

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), a USGovt DOD site.

U.S. Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) FAQ, another USGovt DOD site.

The usual suspects from Google "BRAC site:dod.gov"

And, even more of the usual suspects from Google "BRAC"

Enjoy!

Metacritic

Metacritic, very nice within its limited scope which is essentially current marketing. A searchable collection of links to critical reviews for film, books, music, etc. taken from most major national newpapers and periodicals.

Sort of like a Manufacturer's New Products Section from a trade rag with collected reviews. An intersting idea. I wonder how they market on the other end to the film, book, and other consumer media producers?

A nice place to go when the children ask, 'Can we go see Kicking and Screaming?' It's not likely to retrieve the 1995 movie of the same name, and neither Eraser Head nor Pink Flamingos show up on Metacritic.

For the real reviews the best site is still The New Yorker Film File which collects nearly two thousand short reviews of films released from 1990 to the present.

Attention ETF Aficionados

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Super Bowl of Indexing

December 4-7, 2005 * Scottsdale, AZ

Who am I, Moveable Type?

A friend writes in Anonymity "I daresay that anonymous bloggers have other reasons for keeping their identities to themselves."

Now, if only I can figure out how to post pictures to my blog, perhaps I'll identify myself to the blogosphere, but for now we'll hide behind the email address, which is explicit enough, and the blogspot veil. Putting out a decent post each day, much less creating an attractive setting to post in, is just a bit more work than most people might realize. The technical burden alone for novices is fairly tall, especially for the geek types like myself who want to focus on the HTML instead of the content.

I've become fond of opening links in new windows, a nice touch I think since it keeps the original page in place. However, I notice when I write a comment with "target=" inside an "href=" on a Moveable Type blog the "target=" phrase is striped out by Moveable Type. When you look at the Moveable Type preview source code the "href=" phrases don't have the "target=", it's just gone. Anybody have a clue how to overcome this? The eBlog engine here swallows my "target=" phrases just fine and they work putting up a new window with the link.

Beard to beard

Reading along in Miss Gostery's Guide under Links and Permalinks I found rebarbative used to characterize Permalinks and realized someone had learned entirely too much French. I shouldn't complain though rebarbative led me to the AskOxford site and a wonderful compliation of dicitonaries, OneLook.

Fwd: All that's fit to Fwd:

Well, almost all that's fit to forward. The burden is large, the connection is slow, and time is short. But, we include here what we can, and we encourage you to do the same.

Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:, that's the site where we have moved all the Fwd: material. You'll find the same link at the top of the right hand side bar under Features.

Post away.

Enjoy!

And, so we begin.

And, so we begin. The quality of the light that's what really counts. How it changes, that's something to watch too. Subtle changes are the nature of all good things and life.

Watch how the colors slowly appear and change in actual hue as the intesity of the light increases.

Watch the the hues fade to monochrome as the intensity decreases.

Watch a sunrise, watch a sunset, stay outside, watch a moonrise and a moonset.

Watch! Watch quietly.

Who is this guy? George M. Henderson, that's who.

Where is this he? Tuckassee, that's where for the moment.

What is he doing? God only knows, really. For now, selling enough product to pay the rent and filling the page with words.

In the footer below you will see a copyright notice, it contains the link to the email address, put the mouse on Albedo Press.

Ok, that's all you really need to know now.

Read, think, hit the comment button and write, please.

Enjoy!