Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Man oh man, it's a bad month to be a former progressive Senator from the upper Midwest. William Proxmire of Wisconsin, first elected in 1957 to fill the unexpired term of Joseph R. McCarthy, is no longer with us. (Thanks to The Flibbertigibbet, who has a pithy pull quote.) posted: 6:11:42 PM |
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Witold Rybczynski tours the monuments on the National Mall:
The other problem with [the Korean War Veterans Memorial], and many similar modern memorials, is that they assume an educational rather than merely a commemorative role. We are not only asked to remember, but we are also told what and how to remember.
Rybczynski wraps up the tour with an appreciation of that overlooked gem, the monument to D.C. residents who died in World War I. posted: 1:31:20 PM |
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Robin Young interviews cartoonist extraordinaire Chris Ware for the radio program "Here and Now". (Thanks to Boing Boing.) posted: 1:02:26 PM |
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Tom Lee delaminates his SmarTrip, the RFID/stored value card that a lot of us use for Metro, and puts it back together.
As mentioned, the rest of the card acts as an antenna—the card needs a pretty big one in order to gather enough charge for its return transmission. We estimated the antenna's length at around 40 inches. Say, forty inches of wire sounds like something we might have lying around the house...
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Nature peer-reviews online reference sources Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica, specifically in the area of science articles.
The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three.
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