"A single soccer match achieves what five years of combat and negotiations could not: an apparent end to Ivory Coast’s civil war."
Archive for July, 2007
The "Missing" 13th Amendment, an odd Constitution story
"If the evidence is correct and no logical errors have been made, a 13th Amendment restricting lawyers from serving in government was ratified in 1819 and removed from our Constitution during the tumult of the Civil War."
17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
The free buses on campus around here are great, but I’m not sure about how well that would scale.
A simple and free uninstaller for Mac OSX: just drag apps to the trash, and it prompts you to do the rest.
Ok, so I changed things again, moved the recent links out of the sidebar, back into the main flow of things here but without the “Ariadne’s thread” container each time (the allusion being that, like Ariadne’s thread, my list of links would show where I had been in this labyrinth that is the web. Unlike with Theseus, however, no Minotaurs were ever harmed in the process.)
Do Bottled Water Drinkers Consume Oil?
We stopped getting bottled water a few weeks ago: it’s greener and cheaper!
Just made a few site updates, the most important being the fact that those daily links of mine are now posted in the sidebar along with any other smaller posts in the “Asides” section. Might not keep it that way, just thought I’d try it out… feedback welcome, as always…
