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Trivializing Racism
The Democratic Daily Blog | May 13th 2008
You’ll have to excuse me if I’m unmoved by the keyboard jockeys claiming racism for those who are not supporting Obama. I don’t have to justify my race relations credibility to anyone. You just have to ask those who know me, about t read more
Renault 1906
car-a-day | May 3rd 2008 by Rob Ijbema
400winners of the first Grand Prix,Szisz and Renault,1906oil on panel 16x24" sold read more
Imagination and Looky-Loo'ing
Thoughtprints | April 26th 2008 by Leigh
Do you like to take drives? I love it. I find it to be so relaxing. We (Hubs, daughter, daughter's best friend and I) took a loooong drive this afternoon. It was SO nice. It always amazes me that even though this is a small town, I always find s read more
Music Tech History Day: Inventor Don Buchla, Interviewed
Create Digital Motion | April 25th 2008
Don Buchla is another special pioneer whose impact on music technology has been far-reaching. (He turned 71 last week. Happy Birthday, Don!) He’s best known as the Chevy to Moog’s Ford — that is, the other rival US modular synth sys read more
Season of Sacrifice by Tristi Pinkston--book review
The Book Connection | April 24th 2008 by Cheryl C. Malandrinos
Season of Sacrifice by Tristi Pinkston is a powerful story of faith rising up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Ben Perkins wants more out of life than working in the coal mines of Wales, so when The Church begins organizing shiploads of Saints read more
Tristram Cary, Tape Music Pioneer, VCS3 Designer, Composer, Dies
Create Digital Music | April 24th 2008
It’s been a rough week for electronic music — having lost Bebe Barron, we’ve now lost one of the other great early pioneers of electronic music, South Australian Tristram Cary. Tristram is credited by some as the father of tape musi read more
Obituary: Bebe Barron, Pioneering Electronic Composer
Create Digital Motion | April 21st 2008
There are pioneers and artists — and then there are people whose impact is great enough that they become inseparable with the history of a medium. Bebe Barron, along with husband Louis Barron, was far enough ahead of her time that her ideas rem read more
Huge Artist Lineup Pays Tribute to Late Elektron Founder Daniel H…
Create Digital Music | April 14th 2008
Daniel Hansson (center), photographed by Roger Linn. (Thanks to Roger for donating the photo.) Few names inspire love from digital musicians quite like Elektron, makers of the Monomachine, Machinedrum, and SIDstation drum machines. So when Elektron& read more
A Brief Entry Into The Daunting World of Extra Curricular Activit…
Positive Boredom From a Gap Year | April 11th 2008 by B
As you know, I tend to be pretty lazy when it comes to things that may be useful. That's not to say I'm super lazy, when it's been needed, I've put great effort into ensuring that I won't have to work(eg. I would run for miles to avoid doing one hour read more
New article added!
Carpcast - Carp Fishing Blog | April 10th 2008
I have uploaded the first installment of a four piece article documenting my trip to Bin el Ouidane in Morocco. Check it out by clicking the link below: Moroccan Carping: Real Pioneers Part I As ever, your feedback is appreciated. Part two is written read more
Why Did They Let That Goat Into the Arena?
Sports in Colorado | April 4th 2008 by colin
This post is a little after the fact, but I just got started with this.Last Friday (3/28/08), Colorado College completed its 51st year without a National Championship. Since 1993, the Tigers have won 389 games. In that time period only Michigan (441) read more
Off-grid: Meet the pioneers who are living without mains power or…
An Inconvenient Blog | April 2nd 2008 by Wayne Roden
You won’t find the phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary, yet, but “living off-grid”, outside or in between, the criss-crossing lines of power, water, gas and phone that delineate the civilised world, is a skill that everyone may read more
Pioneer LX01 Home Cinema
Gentleman's Gadgets | The Inspirationsource for Men | March 31st 2008 by frank
Mary Tyler Moore: An Updated Look
Tressed Out Celebs | March 23rd 2008 by Linduh
Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper are seen at the Pacific Pioneers Broadcasting Luncheon held at the Sportsman’s Lodge in Studio City. Both ladies are looking good. They both have updated hairstyles that help to give them a more youthful l read more
Losin’ Your Mind Over Crowdsourcing?
Frankwatching | February 27th 2008
Okee, voor Wikipedia werkt het, maar eigenlijk zijn er nog weinig commerciële voorbeelden van crowdsourcen. Natuurlijk is het een prima idee om zoveel mogelijk mensen via het web te betrekken bij de ontwikkeling van software, logo’s, bedrijfsn read more
Puma - West Philly First Round x The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
KicksOnFire.com | February 24th 2008 by Admin
Here is a preview of the Puma - West Philly First Round x The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This collaboration with the hit TV series the Fresh Prince of Bel Air is done on the Puma First Round, featuring an extravagant and over the top upper, with vibran read more
Under My Nubrella
Internetakias - The internet guy | February 23rd 2008 by Ano
The Nubrella hopes to become the umbrella of the 21st century. You get total freedom in both hands, total protection and durability,. It costs only $59.99 and it has definitely made an impression. I am not sure thought who will be those daring pionee read more
Phoebe Ann [Evans] & Edward Dunsha Steele Family
Homestead Origins | February 18th 2008 by Donlyn Arbuthnot
Edward Dunsha Steele b. 1829, New York, d. November, 1865, buried Valmont, Colorado Territory. m. 1854 Phoebe Ann Evans, b. 1835 New York, d. 15 September 1908, Boulder County. Matina May Steele b. 1855, Lodi Wisconsin; d. m. Smith Nida Smith m read more
A Retrospective: Motorola to exit Mobile Phone Industry?
CutEdge | January 30th 2008 by Herbert
Motorola, one of the pioneers of the entire mobile phone industry, is rumoured to be making an exit out of the sector. Although this is quite a sad piece of news, I can’t say that I haven’t been expecting it to happen eventually. As I l read more
Women in Science: The view from 1957
Women in Science | January 24th 2008 by Peggy
One of the things I love about this internet age of ours is that venerable periodicals are opening their archives to the public. The latest is the Atlantic Monthly, which includes articles from 1995 to the present, plus a sampling of other articles f read more
pioneer sketches
car-a-day | January 18th 2008 by Rob Ijbema
341a few sketches,to practice drivers and their co-drivers... read more
Women With Power Tools
Women in Science | January 16th 2008 by Peggy
The Library of Congress has started a Flickr account with freely available images from it's collection. To date there are only two categories, "1930s-1940s in color" and "News in the 1910s". The collection includes some great photos of women working read more
Renault 1908
car-a-day | January 15th 2008 by Rob Ijbema
338 Dimitri Renault 1908acrylic on paper 5x6" read more
Kelsey Group: local business will interact with local customers i…
Marketing Conversation | January 13th 2008 by Chris Abraham
I disagree. I don’t see this trend happening this soon. Most local businesses have yet to become web conscientious. They may or may not have a web site. They haven’t even begun to think of a ‘web strategy’. If they did, I&# read more
New US Postage Stamp Honoring Scientist Gerty Cori
Women in Science | January 10th 2008 by Peggy
In April the U.S. Postal Service will release a new series of stamps honoring 20th Century American scientists. One of the first four stamps to be released depicts Gerty Cori. In 1947 she became the first woman in America to receive the Nobel Prize read more
Invisible Computers
Women in Science | January 9th 2008 by Peggy
I'm a computer user, not a programmer, and I'm rather fuzzy on the history of computers. However, I have heard of ENIAC, which, as Wikipedia puts it, was "the first purely electronic, Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to read more
Avant-Garde Sound Poet Henri Chopin Has Died, But Give Him a List…
Create Digital Music | January 9th 2008
Musician, composer, and musique concrete artist Henri Chopin has died, writes Seth: he has been and remains a figure whose sound work is very important to me, so i thought i’d share it with you all. he was a sound poet who used reel-to-reel tap read more
Louis Wagner
car-a-day | December 14th 2007 by Rob Ijbema
303 runner up in the French Grand Prix of 1912,Louis Wagner on his FIAT S-47acrylic on paper 9x12" read more
NYT: “Roosevelt Island” – The First Thanksgiving
Roosevelt Island 360 | November 23rd 2007 by Eric
Roosevelt Island residents call them “pioneers” but this 1975 New York Times article refers to these first residents of the newly renamed Roosevelt Island as “pilgrims” on their first Thanksgiving on the Island. To view on the entire article read more
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