Month: January 2010
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Does peak oil mean a return to Little House on the Prairie?
I just finished reading an excellent post-collapse novel called World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler. (Here is my review.) I like to read novels in a vacuum, not knowing much about the book or the author, if I can help it, so my opinion of the work won’t be tainted. So I didn’t…
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Get a real job…
Whether you’re a corner boy in West Baltimore, or a cop who knows his beat, or an Eastern European brought here for sex, your life is worth less. It’s the triumph of capitalism over human value. This country has embraced the idea that this is a viable domestic policy. It is. It’s viable for the few.…
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Twitter vs. RSS: How Twitter has freed me from hours of blog reading
Note: This post is in the Archive, which means the information may be out-of-date or links may be dead. Just so you know. I used to subscribe to all my favorite blogs and read them in Google Reader. But no matter how much I tried to stay on top of them, I always ended up…
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Practical uses for blogs: Journals and research notebooks
The blog has become so popular because it is a format that has a wide variety of uses. Generally, web surfers are used to seeing blogs used in one of the following ways: to present information and news on a narrow subject in small, manageable chunks, generally supported by advertising to communicate news about a…
Shannon Turlington 