The E. F. Schumacher Society • Buddhist Economics
interesting ideas, although I will give this line a hearty f*** you: "Women, on the whole, do not need an "outside" job, and the large-scale employment of women in offices or factories would be considered a sign of serious economic failure." (granted, the essay was originally written in [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
links for 2009-06-30
6/30/2009 – June 30, 2009
links for 2009-06-29
6/29/2009 – June 29, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
"“close enough to free” multiplied by seventy-five billion is still a very large number" indeed.
(tags: finance web_dev society)
CSSquirrel : Comic Update: The Dangers of Intentional Vulnerability (AKA Password Unmasking): Kyle Weems
This says pretty much everything I wanted to say.
(tags: creditunion finance security web_dev funny)
Photojojo » [...]
links for 2009-06-25
6/25/2009 – June 25, 2009
Why Your Laptop's Batteries Die So Fast | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com
"Imagine if automakers got together and started measuring the gas mileage of new cars with a cool test of their own making—one in which the cars were rolling downhill with their engines idling." yipes. not surprising, tho.
(tags: misc_tech)
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links for 2009-06-24
6/24/2009 – June 24, 2009
50 Pasta Salads…just in time for summer | Frantic Home Cook - Home cooking, Recipes, Healthy, Frugal
these look good!
(tags: recipes pasta veggies)
Washington State Digital Archives - Digital Archives Home
whoa! (among other things, I found the record of filing our marriage license.)
(tags: local history reference)
The Printable CEO VIII: Day Grid Balancer
going to give this a try. it's a [...]
links for 2009-06-23
6/23/2009 – June 23, 2009
Mt. Graham International Observatory
Someday I would like to go. (Went to Mt Graham b4 it was built, one of the 1st times I ever saw snow on the ground.) Grandpa, who loved astronomy, never got to see the telescope(s) in operation.
(tags: science personal)
Parents Magazine and the fuss about parenthood: Books: The New Yorker
"An ordinary life [...]
links for 2009-06-22
6/22/2009 – June 22, 2009
APTA Best Transit System Award 2009
"The American Public Transportation Association has named Intercity Transit the best transit system in the nation for its size." very cool.
(tags: local transit eco urban_studies olympia)
cheese straws | smitten kitchen
homemade cheesy-poofs?! awesome.
(tags: recipes baking bread cheese)
Fed to mass transit: Drop dead | Salon News
our local transit is really only just [...]
