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I found this thru the Library of Congress web site

:: library of congress 2004 national book festival ::

Great interviews from the 2004 Nation Book Festival.

Spanish Exercises, Quizzes, Tests

E. L. Easton - Languages - Spanish Exercises, Quizzes, Tests

This site has links to ton of other sites for learning Spanish. Very very slick. For example in the first one I tried - All Spanish -

Test your Spanish level

There is a paragraph with some words missing - in the spot of the missing words you get a list of four words and you pick the correct word. At the end they show you how you did - and this is the neat part - all the corrections are All Spanish.

Wow.

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

Mark saw these in a gallery in LA - they look like the are Photosope magic but they are photo's of staged performance. Interesting.

African Oil

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/01/12_400.html

This article about big oil in small african country could have been written 80 years ago with the abuses of colonial powers controlling african natural resources. This is how it is done and few see the wrong. To me a lot like - King Leopold's Ghost - where the King of Belgium himself owend Belgium and wanted riches - natives who failed to bring back enough raw rubber had there hands chopped off. Millions died and only a British shipping clerk in Belgium noticed - the ships going to Congo only carrried guns and ammunition - no rich trade. Where was the wealth of the Congo going if it did improve the lot of the Congolese? This essay is a modern version of the same tale with different wrongs and different "kings" - the oil companies and a dictator of a small country - Equitorial Guina(sp?)

Cigarette butt litter -

"Each year more than 1 billion pieces of litter will accumulate on Texas highways. Of those, 13 percent are cigarette butts. That means 130 million butts will be tossed out in Texas alone this year."
--Texas Department of Transportation

Cigarette Litter

Not only are cigarettes harming smoker and non smoker health but they make a mess of our cities and country - every single roadside trashed with butts!

Again my son nudges me on - "Why haven't you posted about it?" He remembers an incident when he was much younger and we were about to exit our car in a shopping center and the woman in the next car tossed her cigarette out at my feet. Phoom! I picked it up and held it over her lap. "Excuse me. Please tell me you will put this out in an ashtray or I will drop it in your lap." - Her reply was "Are you kidding!" The cigarette was still lit. "Your choice lady." She took it and put it out.

This was cigarette butt tossing rage and I guess it does not happen often enough to change smokers bad habits. And I was very upset.

I notice this horrible littering habit all the time.

I saw a couple enter a COMPUSA the other day - she tossed her lit cigarette and he put his out - and fluffed the tobacco - put the filter in the trash. I was surprised at such a split of behavior. I complimented him on his good behavior and told him he should teach his girlfriend the same method and habit. His reply was interesting - "I was in the Navy!"

Why is that interesting?

The Navy does not tolerate tossing lit cigarettes and cigarrette litter.

Neither should the rest of us!

How can we can make things better? Do we think this is an important matter of discipline as the services (I was taught the same filed stripping procedure in the US Army.)?

Adobe Reader versus Microsoft Reader - Which is better

Kit.blog :: Adobe vs. Microsoft?: "Adobe vs. Microsoft?


Iwas looking for a site or page to compare the two kinds of readers. I wonder how this fellow is able to have his archives onhis blogs access so long after creation?

Sometimes it helps to be low?

My son Mark is working on an art project using an IBook - Adobe and a Lexmark X85 Ink Jet Multi Purpose printer. All was going good and he got the look he wanted on the output but was running out of in ink - streaks - replacing the cartridges seemed like it would put things back on track - however with the new cartridges in the output did not look the same. Being low on ink was for the look that made them "artisticly" right on for his use!

That intrigued me as he sits with a new dilemma.

My father - a wonderful oil painter - had a saying "Color is an old man's business." Which I took to mean in oil painting it takes a long time to learn to control and understand color - when you do understand and have done your "work" you are old.

That said I want to learn more about color to see if I can help Mark control color even when he is not low on ink.

I have seen and heard about Pantone - so I first wanted to learn what that Pantone meant: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/Pantone_Matching_System_PMS.html

Then the Pantone site itself: http://www.pantone.com/pantone_v1.asp

Which has some links to learn about color.

Some printers are Pantone Matching System compatible(sp?). Like Epson's

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/WideFormat/pgindex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

So?

I am surfing with my son's i-book - a pleasure on many levels

A sweet link trip I took was to -----

www.infrangible.com

very very very slick and wonderful visual and sound experience

great photo of a road that could be anywhere with music i had heard

The link is not clickable as i am not on my pc and so can't click the sweet blog-it icon.

sorry

Is this neat? or am I too Trekkie?

I was here

http://digilander.libero.it/zeddrocker/

And i clicked on the zedrocker at the top and got:

http://digilander.libero.it/zeddrocker/zeddstudio2.jpg

From italy? I wonder if there is more art out there?

Mike's Broken Links

I wanted to have a link to Mike Mayo's syndicated radio program at Liberty broadcasting.

I found this one in a short introduction about the show on WTDY 1670AM Madison, WIOn-Air Personalities web page at http://wtdy.com/beta/profiles/MovieShow.html

http://libertybroadcasting.com/movieshow/index.htm

The link did not work - I thought it would take me directly to Mike's radio show at Liberty and the archives - nope.

this one one works !!:

http://libertybroadcasting.com/hosts/movie_show.shtml

Sweet - a very interesting show - it moves fast and is very eclectic(?) - covereing a lot of ground and a lot of movies - Please listen to it "Mr. & Mrs America" - (Is he from a red state?) It is great fun to listen to it and you can do it anytime from the website for the last three shows I think.

In Depth Interview with Brian Williams - New NBC Nightly News Anchor

Q & A

My son Mark had a link to Brian Lamb's C-Span interview and raved about how interesting it is. I watched and agree it is a fast hour - no commercials! - Both Brian's are interested in american history -made for good dynamic - I wonder if there are any shows that haveas much emphasison world history - How many American's know about the Great Leap Forward in China - Do you know anything about it? I will link in an hour or two.

Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy