Mercantilism. Just what the British did with the 13 colonies. I believe it incited a war. They got our cotton, we got their finished materials. We get Chinese products, we fill the containers with our recyclable materials. They send the materials back in the form of consumer items.
What I find amazing that, after having bookmarked a site which has an "https" address, all I have to do is type "h" in the awesomebar and it *knows* my destination. That's as wonderful a shortcut as any macro key I could program somewhere.
I scrub my entries on the public computer shared with colleagues at work when I close FF3, so I don't retain those benefits. On my private computer at work where FF3's personal settings are only accessible by logging into XP (I know, huge security comfort, right?), I keep the bookmarks in place.
Three cheers for awesomebar; Mozilla developers, please don't take away from functionality.
If anybody wants a small sample of Bucky's genius, museum stores often sell die-cut sheets of paper which, when assembled, form a dodecahedral globe. This model is the "Fuller Projection", a more accurate representation of the world where landmasses more closely resemble their actual sizes (that is, Greenland is not as large as South America).
I think what's more interesting about the globe is how the continents are laid out on the die-cut paper. Real relationships between continents are "duh" obvious to viewers because it's clear how people would travel from one part of the world to another (or not). It all comes together when you assemble the globe. They're cheap, so buy two.
I had the great privilege to drive his Honda Accord (he was a spokesperson for Honda in the 70s, I think) with a relative of his across the country in 1979 or 1980 and had a chance to meet him and talk with him. The experience was transformative and motivational for me, and gave me more direction in life.
The above paragraph may sound mushy and corny, but apparently the curators of the Whitney seem to agree with some of my sentiments. And they're harder sells than a 23-year-old.
We are so dependent on corn that if we had some kind of corn blight - and the crops are so heavily bioengineered they have no hardiness remaining to them - we'd be facing actual famine in the US. Much less making surplus grain for ethanol manufacture so we could become "energy independent". Here's where it seems very reasonable to start learning gardening skills early and planting root vegetables. And learn to can.
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Mercantilism. Just what the British did with the 13 colonies. I believe it incited a war. They got our cotton, we got their finished materials. We get Chinese products, we fill the containers with our recyclable materials. They send the materials back in the form of consumer items.
What I find amazing that, after having bookmarked a site which has an "https" address, all I have to do is type "h" in the awesomebar and it *knows* my destination. That's as wonderful a shortcut as any macro key I could program somewhere.
I scrub my entries on the public computer shared with colleagues at work when I close FF3, so I don't retain those benefits. On my private computer at work where FF3's personal settings are only accessible by logging into XP (I know, huge security comfort, right?), I keep the bookmarks in place.
Three cheers for awesomebar; Mozilla developers, please don't take away from functionality.
If anybody wants a small sample of Bucky's genius, museum stores often sell die-cut sheets of paper which, when assembled, form a dodecahedral globe. This model is the "Fuller Projection", a more accurate representation of the world where landmasses more closely resemble their actual sizes (that is, Greenland is not as large as South America).
I think what's more interesting about the globe is how the continents are laid out on the die-cut paper. Real relationships between continents are "duh" obvious to viewers because it's clear how people would travel from one part of the world to another (or not). It all comes together when you assemble the globe. They're cheap, so buy two.
I had the great privilege to drive his Honda Accord (he was a spokesperson for Honda in the 70s, I think) with a relative of his across the country in 1979 or 1980 and had a chance to meet him and talk with him. The experience was transformative and motivational for me, and gave me more direction in life.
The above paragraph may sound mushy and corny, but apparently the curators of the Whitney seem to agree with some of my sentiments. And they're harder sells than a 23-year-old.
We are so dependent on corn that if we had some kind of corn blight - and the crops are so heavily bioengineered they have no hardiness remaining to them - we'd be facing actual famine in the US. Much less making surplus grain for ethanol manufacture so we could become "energy independent". Here's where it seems very reasonable to start learning gardening skills early and planting root vegetables. And learn to can.