Welcome to my Weekly Stumble Report! Below are about thirty links from the past week all of which were interesting enough in one way or another to earn recommendation. This week I cover music and discography, CMS and OS, food and agriculture, disabilities, health and environment, politics and rights, and arts and science.
Entries Tagged as 'History'
Weekly Stumble Report April 23, 2008
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: History · Linux · Travel · Uncategorized · Web development · video
he liked to shoplift cans of tuna
July 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’ve often pondered the nature of time and space. Is it as my senses indicate? That the object is there and the time is now. Or is there a hidden topology masked by our patterns of interpretation?
Old Family Perambulator
July 18th, 2007 · No Comments
This image was among my Grandma’s effects. Taken somewhere in Manitoba, Canada in the late forties or early fifties.
Tags: History
Monticello
February 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Thomas Jefferson was one of my boyhood heroes. I admired his stand for freedom of religion and I’ve always wanted to go to Monticello to get to know him better… however, every time I’ve been near to Charlottesville I’ve been distracted.
Image my delight then, when I found this small packet of twenty pictures at the [...]
Tags: History
The Perambulator
February 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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A perambulator is best known as a baby buggy or pram. It is also a wheeled instrument used to measure distances while walking. Other usage includes “one who makes a tour of inspection on foot” and the odd definition seen in Alan Dean Foster’s Paths of the Perambulator, “an inter-dimensional creature that wanders through different [...]