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June 26, 2005
think tanks working
Some survey of bloggers is being run by MIT, check it out…
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June 22, 2005
these are a few of my favorite things....
This sweet website was pointed out to me just a few days after the Baltimore housing search ended. We found a damn cute little rowhouse within biking distance from the Hopkins Medical campus (where the School of Public Health is located).
Maybe it’s better that I didn’t know about it sooner, as it appears that b.more is one of the few U.S. cities on craigslist that is not integrated into this system. But at this point I can marvel at it’s simple design (note how the frames fit nicely into the window no matter how you resize) and slick integration.
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June 13, 2005
The Singing Life
The father of a close friend was featured on NPR this morning (listen to the 8 minute clip here) to promote his book about birdsong, The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birds. It was an interesting piece to hear, complete with a plug for my favored mode of transportation (“there is no better way to hear birdsong than by bicycle”—he’s biked across the country with his microphone over his handlebars) and a more philosophical riff about birdsong “dialects” and how they are similar to human dialects. He interviews drawling birdwatchers in Kentucky and Colorado and compares the differences in their voices to the regional differences in particular birds’ songs. There’s also some commentary from these country lifers whom the author meets along his way about how birdsong is one of those reasons that they live in the country. It makes me feel a little like the city pigeon, cooing artlessly and digitally about the reasons I move from one city to another.
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