While in Portland with portland, Casco and Miss Foo-foo-foolonsie, I found what I hoped would be a set of local Down East essays complementary to the excellent and previously reviewed Living North Country on the life of upstate New York. I found The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience from 1614 …

I picked up a copy of Wired yesterday - the May issue I think - and I got angry with it as I usually do before I was very far into it. I think what I don't like is the dishonesty of the analysis, the pretend futurism masking the product hucksterism and the bland thought under the bright pretty …

Before there was the interweb, there was Atlantic News on the corner of Queen and...what?...in Halifax. On Tuesday morning you could get the Sunday papers from the UK for about five bucks a pop - as well as about 300 other papers and a thousand magazines - and catch up on the snippets of news you …

Via Craig, to your right, comes a link to a Salon article by a retired US lieutenant colonel entitled "The New Pentagon Papers" about the lead up within the US government to the Iraq War which includes this passage:  •  “War is generally crafted and pursued for political reasons, but the reasons …

The Yachtsman's Week-end Book, by Irving et al., 1963 2nd edition  •  One of my favorite things to do when struck by a seized back is to lay still and discover innovations in over the counter back medicines. Next to that is to read a few stand-by books, an this one that always give delight and up …

Lawrence Martin of The Globe and Mail says some  •  interesting things about Paul Martin and the unsheathing of the long knives:  •  “Canadians wanted Mr. Chrétien to leave, and Mr.  •  Martin to succeed him. It is a statistically incontrovertible fact that Mr.  •  Chrétien left office with his …

Addictive Game Alert! Addictive Game Alert!  •  And it all about Spidey - via Master Flea Boom Baster.

figure that if I spend about 12 hours I will be able to find a full set of uppercase, lower case and numerals from the Gutenburg Bible and revert this into a 15th century blog. Any uncertainties can be resolved though alt tags.  •  Two, Three, Six and Seven  •  How does that look?  •  , I'd say.

I started nosing around the web site for the British Library, which I have mistakenly referred to as part of the British Museum in a recent post. I was going there looking for information about an idea I have dealing with blogs as being similar to a digital form of early pamphlets which floated …