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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-08
Rain Barrel Information and Sources, King County, Washington King County's resource page on rain barrels (tags: rainbarrel green homeimprovement) Homegrown Evolution: Make a Rain Barrel Hat tip Eliacin. I'd like to set up rain catch barrels this year, partly because it would help me to not have to re-dig the…
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Continue reading →: ★ What have you learned from the debates?
I’m curious: for those of you who have watched, listened to or read transcripts of the presidential and vice-presidential debates, what have you learned about the party that you’re not intending to vote for? In which areas has your mind been changed? Where have your expectations been surprised? I believe…
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Continue reading →: ★ Wordle for October 7, 2008 Presidential Debate: Obama vs. McCain
October 7, 2008 Presidential Debate: Obama vs. McCain Originally uploaded by EricaJoy Flickr member EricaJoy did the heavy lifting for a Wordle for last night’s presidential debate between Obama and McCain. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: ★ Rule of St. Benedict Wordle
I’m a big fan of Wordles, as you may be able to tell recently 🙂 Any way to flip perspectives a bit and give us a way to see reality in a different way gets a thumbs-up in my book. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text…
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Continue reading →: ★ VP Debate Wordle
I think this is an interesting image of the keywords that our two VP candidates used in last week’s debate. Soon to come, the Wordle (word cloud) of tonight’s presidential debates.
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-07
Congress opens hearings on financial meltdown – BusinessWeek Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday. As well, executives who feared for their bonuses in the company's last months were told…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-06
Convictions – common root We are called "Common Root" because, together, we are rooted in the life of Christ. The word "radical" comes from the Latin word "radix" which means "root." A radical movement is one that seeks to challenge the status quo by seeking change by getting to the…
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Continue reading →: ★ Differences in Eastern and Western spirituality
After slogging through two books I’m happy to not have to read again, I just started a good history of the byzantines. It seems balanced and insightful, at least in the first part of the book. It’s very interesting to get insight into a stream of the Christian faith that…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-04
ESPN – Manny Being Manipulated – E-ticket Bill Simmons writes one of his best stories in a long, long time – about how Manny Ramirez left Boston for the Dodgers, but Scott Boras was the villain behind the scenes. I just hope Bill's wrong about Manny being a Yankee next…
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Continue reading →: ★ Happy Feast of St. Francis Day
Go scratch an animal’s head today, in memory of St. Francis (whom the Celtic Christians widely assume was trained in a Celtic (or at least Celtic influenced) monastery.) Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where…
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