Monthly Archives: May 2004

If you use Live­Jour­nal and you’ve been think­ing about pub­lish­ing it as a book, you need to try LJBook, which will turn your entries into a PDF book for you. It’s free but dona­tions are accepted. I tried it but … Read More →

Here’s some­thing to con­sider. A new study con­cludes that the dinosaurs fried within hours of an aster­oid col­li­sion 65 mil­lion years ago. The aster­oid in ques­tion is the one that cre­ated Chicx­u­lub crater in Mex­ico. There’s an ele­ment of spec­u­la­tion … Read More →

PBS’s Front­line will be show­ing the way the music died on Sat­ur­day. It dis­cusses what has gone wrong with the music indus­try and includes inter­views with musi­cians like David Crosby. The link includes text of the inter­views and will have … Read More →

The ded­i­ca­tion of the National World War II Memo­r­ial in Wash­ing­ton this week­end makes this a very spe­cial Memo­r­ial Day. Read more about my feel­ings in my journal.

It turns out that the sink­hole on the express­way was in an area that had already sagged and crews were plan­ning to fix it any­way. It explains why there were warn­ings on the radio and the DOT was on hand. … Read More →

The Guide to Spring­field USA includes a com­plete map of that town that’s not actu­ally anywhere.