Jon Carroll on “Our Mothers, Ourselves“:
She learned to scuba dive. She was active in the League of Women Voters. When I was 28, she and my stepfather moved to Ethiopia. She worked for the World Health Organization, preparing educational materials that said, in essence, “Please do not defecate in the river.”
Salvador Sotello, for example, recently paid F.H. Dailey Chevrolet in San Leandro $41,000 for a new Chevy Tahoe LT (yes, with leather) SUV that had a sticker price of $58,000. The sale was an anomaly in what is otherwise a pretty dismal selling season. “It’s been pretty quiet,” saleswoman Crystal Gonzalez said the other day. “Been pretty slow.”
WisPolitics is covering the Wisconsin State Republican convention via a handy blog. What’s missing? Video clips and a few mp3’s (they do have some photos!). Topics include, running against Herb Kohl, the 2006 Governor’s race and the many hospitality parties. Free thinking and linking, Bump links to others covering the event 🙂
Some sanity in the copyright wars a Federal appeals court has overturned the FCC’s rule requiring that consumer electronic makers help restrict the copying of digital TV broadcasts. Michael Grebb | Lessig | Dave Winer on things worth copying, or not | Stephen Labaton
Jerome & Simona Chazen gave $20M to the Elvehjem Museum of Art – now renamed the Chazen Museum of Art. The funds will be used for a major expansion. Aaron Nathans has more. Background: clusty search.
Col. David H. Hackworth, a legendary US Army Guerrilla Fighter & Champion of the Ordinary Soldier is dead. NY Times Obiturary. Hackworth.com.
Hackworth wrote several books, including About Face, which is a must.
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Firefighter Donald Herbert suddenly became lucid Saturday after living in an unresponsive state for 10 years.
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Interesting local cybersquatting:
The progressive biweekly newspaper The Madison Observer accused its conservative counterpart The Mendota Beacon Wednesday of “cybersquatting,” or anonymously buying two web domains similar to The Madison Observer’s and redirecting those sites to The Mendota Beacon’s website.
A high-tech Milwaukee high school, a sleek meeting center for local brewery employees, a playful aquatic center near Madison and a sculptor’s studio in Switzerland all won top honors Wednesday for architects practicing in Wisconsin from Wisconsin AIA, a society of the American Institute of Architects.
The awards were among 10 presented at the society’s 51st annual convention, held this year at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison.
“There are moments when a perfect storm happens and you are able to put together a terrific project,” the design awards jury said. “The award-winning projects have been pushed over the edge into extraordinary moments of architecture and design excellence.”
Walt Mossberg provides a useful overview of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a method to scan sites quickly. (I use a wonderful OS X RSS newsreader called NetNewsWire). Local sites that provide RSS feeds include:
Apple’s latest OS, 10.4 has a handy built in RSS subscription feature.