Month: May 2008
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Camping Gadgets for the Geekdad
Spring has sprung for most of the country, and here in North Carolina, that means it’s time for camping. Time to pull the tents and backpacks out of the attic, dust them off and air them out. And since Father’s Day is only a month away, it means dropping hints so that you can weigh…
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Must-Install Mac Software
This is mainly a list for myself, so I know what to download the next time I need to reformat. I’ll be adding to this, I’m sure. Perian: Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
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Disposable Plates and Cups Do Not a Good Parent Make
Gag me with a (disposable) spoon.
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Authors@Google: Michael Pollan
Fantastic talk by Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Direct link to YouTube
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Rare Children’s Books
Children’s literature is big business these days. Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids. It’s fantastic that there are so many options for young readers, but the popularity of children’s literature is hardly a new phenomenon. The bookn3rd blog, which focuses on book history, has some…
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Resources for Reading Out Loud
My wife just finished listening to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on audiobook. She’s been gushing all month about how fantastic of a reader Mr. Gaiman is–he narrated the book himself–and how he gets all the accents just right. This is something very important to the two of us, as we both love stories read aloud, but…