Archive for July, 2004

Some links

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

I really need to start a separate link blog, but for now, here are some sites I have found in the last few days:
Veerle’s Designing a CSS based Template
The Vagabonding Travelogue and Gallery
Transitions Abroad - Finding work overseas
Planeta - ecotourism website
Via the Atlantic Blog (very worthy weblog, btw), two new weblogs: Division of Labor (economics […]

BootsnAll.com

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

If you consider yourself an independent traveler (meaning you prefer sharing a crowded room with your new best friends from New Zealand in Vietnam over room service at the Hotel Meurice in Paris), you may already know about BootsnAll.com. If not - check it out. I’ve registered as an insider for Japan. Seasoned trekkers (not […]

Update

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I finally got around to updating my “about” section - why are those always so hard to write?

Anarchy

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I don’t know why, but I love subversive websites. I guess it’s a sign to me that liberty is still alive and well, even if the websites themselves are frantically warning that liberty is anything but well and barely alive.
Via Mack White, I found Prison Planet, through which I found Propaganda Matrix (which is […]

Magic Numbers

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

Robert Paterson, as always, brings fascinating ideas to everyday problems. He has been writing about “Magic Numbers” - the optimal size of a group of humans. This number can be predicted from measuring the size of the neocortex.
In today’s entry he writes about the problem of education on Prince Edward Island. It’s the same […]