July 2008
7 posts
Moving plates in the Golden State: is it great...
About a month ago, Twitter emailed me to let me know I was being followed by EQAlert, a k a the Earthquake Alert Guy. I followed him back, knowing that with the next major earthquake, he would be in the mix and I’d get to see if he lived up to his claim: he has apparently “had accurate EQ Alerts out before all major earthquakes for practically ten years now!!!” There is no way...
Jul 30th
“Before the comment wall and discussion board were taken offline, more than a few...”
– from a New York Times blog post about BarackBook, a RNC-funded Facebook parody site that caused immediate controversy when it went live today. I was surprised at Mr. Vietor’s funny and frank commentary about it.
Jul 29th
Jul 25th
“My review is too long to be posted here. Go to: Yelp and search: “Apple...”
– from a “review” of my local Apple store on Citysearch.
Jul 25th
“…[W]hile we must accept blogging into the historical archives, we must...”
– from a comment I wrote on a recent Blurring Borders post about the shift in what historians will use as primary sources. Read the post and the other comments here. UPDATE: 6 Oct 2008: Chris over at Cynical-C posted recently about one of his grandfather’s letters. Certainly is interesting to...
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