A friend of mine, Dube, from Asbury Park, sent this recently, lamenting the development happening up there.
ExpertCity:
well, it’s a perfect, crisp and sunny Memorial Weekend Saturday morning.
No threat of rain and the Jersey Shore is humming with all sorts of music. Just last weekend in Asbury Park, where Friday night [...]
May 30th, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments
I’m not a flag waver. But I love my country and I’m am glad that I live in the United States. I hate war. I am glad that there are those who fight the necessary (and unnecessary) wars – selfishly, to keep me free. I wish noone would have to die for freedom. [...]
May 29th, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments
I remember reading about the difference in the amount of information about current events that individuals have now vs the 18th century – the info contained in one daily NY Times was equivalent to a lifetime of knowledge from that century. Well, it’s probably gotten worse:
From the Benton.org newsletter:STUDY: MEDIA OVERLOAD ON THE RISEInvestment banker [...]
May 18th, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments
This is one cool site and service. At their site Manhattan User’s Guide, there is a lot of great information about NYC. I guess you gotta lovea Gotham, but if you have any feelings for it, you will like this site. They also have an email newsletter delivered free just about every day. I have [...]
May 11th, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments
Worldwatch Institute has an article of how the cocoa tree is grown next to rainforests at
http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/goodstuff/chocolate/
“Saving the Rainforest, One Morsel at a Time
The next time you bite into a bar of chocolate, consider that taste as a link to some of the world’s most endangered forests—and to the millions of farmers who live near them. [...]
May 10th, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments
These vacations are described at http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html as: “One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.”
These amazing collections are just one part of the Quiet American blog. So, strap on your headphones, prepare to lose most of a day, and let yourself go. Here is [...]
May 1st, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: bob . Comments: No Comments