July Carnival Against Child Abuse
Dr. Kathleen Young is hosting, and has themed this month’s edition as the Independence edition. Looks to be packed full of good stuff. If you want to do some reading this weekend, check it out!
On Halloween night, naturally, we were watching a documentary about the Salem witch trials. It was very interesting, and as part of the show, they did interviews with some historians and had them discuss some of the background around why there was so much anger towards certain people and what role that played in them…
I wrote this about the day over on my tech site: “As most of you know from reading my sites, I very closely identify myself with my Irish heritage. I’ve spent a lot of time studying Irish history, as well as the history of Irish-Americans. I have a great respect for the people of Ireland…
[findthebest id=”hWhUMr4ReId” title=”Suicide Deaths in the United States” width=”500″ height=”422″ url=”//www.findthebest.com/w/hWhUMr4ReId” link=”http://time-series.findthedata.com/l/10834/Suicide-Deaths-in-the-United-States” link_text=”Suicide Deaths in the United States | FindTheData”] Reading a post by Gabe Howard today, that was what I took away. I think he’s actually on to something: Stop yelling at people. Stop trying to make people feel badly for not understanding our…
As the holiday season approached, one of my fellow Friends in Tech members, Douglas Welch had a great idea for a series of podcasts. Called the Wishbook the idea was to go take a look at on-line versions of old Wish Book catalogs from our child hood, and record some audio talking about a particular…
Pin I wrote about this video on my tech blog earlier this week because websites, social networks, and pretty much everything on the internet are in a constant battle for our attention. In the video, Tristan Harris talks about our intentions and how the web is designed to override that. Think about it: how many times have you…
Today is my second wedding anniversary. We aren’t going to be doing anything special today to celebrate, mostly because she’s got a 12 hour workday scheduled, but we will be celebrating in style by relaxing in Tennessee for most of the week! After my first marriage ended in utter failure due to my ongoing battles…
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