Beautiful highways?
peterknight @ July 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Somebody in this region tried this some years back: design a garden, with trees, flowerbeds, shrubbery and all, alongside a highway - it’s not too hard to do, as long as there’s some way of providing a water supply and some people willing to undertake a bit of regular maintenance (here, along Provincial Route 5 in Cordoba, Argentina, had the fire brigade of a town nearby provide irrigation services but it went to weed when enthusiasm from the volunteer gardeners ran out).
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Been warned: “Mostly” is mostly … boring!
admin @ July 24, 2008 # One Comment
Johnathan Morrow, on the Copyblogger blog (founded in 2006 by Brian Clark and which is a very interesting and useful place to get stuff on this arcane thing of an Internet Presence has a very thought provoking post:
“How to be Interesting” - Copyblogger
All the sins of being a bore: I have committed most of them! [...]
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“Getting into print”: A brief tale of books (1)
peterknight @ June 1, 2008 # One Comment
Stories are as old as humans, and publishing not far behind. These paintings record something significant, to some people (most certainly hunters) about 16,000 years ago near what is now called Lascaux, in France. We can don’t know why they chose to publish these pictures on the rock walls of a cave but can [...]
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Kindle and co.: A threat to books and publishers?
admin @ May 18, 2008 # One Comment
The Amazon Kindle is very expensive but selling well, apparently.
I was shown one recently and despite my love for books I couldn’t help liking the lil’ thing. It’s a cute gadget, smaller than I expected and the “electronic paper” is agreeable; not at all like a computer screen. It works like paper anyway; [...]
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