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Thursday, July 3, 2008

On the Family

"The family is the building block of society. It is a nursery, a school, a hospital, a leisure centre, a place of refuge. It encompasses the whole of the society. It fashions our beliefs; it is the preparation for the rest of our lives."

Margaret Thatcher
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Great Article

"Telegram From a Parallel Universe"
Daniel Walker Howe
<i>Newsweek</i>, June 30, 2008
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Great Article

"Telegram From a Parallel Universe"
Daniel Walker Howe
<i>Newsweek</i>, June 30, 2008
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

thanks to a sister's phone call ...

i learned something new today

Frequency Tables, complete with Relative and Cumulative frequency. Must have been programming games on my calculator or reading a spy novel during that part of Math class... ;-)

The wonders of Google Maps and a lot of time...



Amid general praise for Steve McQueen's famed car chase in the 1968 movie Bullitt, there are jeers about the recurring green VW Beetle and the geographic hash it makes of San Francisco. You might be amused to see this side-by-side view of the Bullitt chase and a Google map that shows just how much they jump from one patch of the city to another. (Via Google Maps Mania.)

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