In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

kait’s roommate in providence was already pissed that the animal house next door was throwing a party on a tuesday night before a big exam, but it was the shitty pop-rock that really pushed her over the edge. and like so many other college-aged females, “over the edge” means…...

RTFA: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c7_1232290490 This footage was prepared recently by a citizen-journalist / advocate in Vancouver. Contrary to what one might think, it’s a pretty good PSA for crack addicts wanting to manage their addiction … and it’s apparently legal, too. Whe...

It’s not a good sign when an oil-rich emirate questions the economic viability of a massive offshore wind farm that’s already lost an investor. Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-backed cleantech group, told Reuters today that it’s reviewing the feasability of the 1,000-megawatt London Array, t...

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824939.stm The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world’s most dangerous coding mistakes. The 25 entry list contains errors that can lead to security holes or vulnerable areas that can be targeted by cyber criminals. E...

Transportation, Maglev, energy Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: In meeting room G of San Diego’s Manchester Grand Hyatt, Neil Cummings was preaching yesterday to the choir—which in this case is the 20th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives. “I call it...

There's been a big uproar in the blogosphere lately about one presidential candidate's claim that he's refusing to release small donor information because it's so hard to do - and because when I asked several people how they would do it, i got some startlingly wrong answers, I though I'd......

given the highly intellectual discussions this site’s commenters have become known for, it seems safe to assume that the question “how are we to judge poetry?” is one that you, dear reader, have no doubt pondered on many an occasion, along with other more academic concerns such as ...

Makoto916 writes "In five years with my current llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web share this: as the IT administrator, I've amassed a sizable cabinet of discarded hard drives; just shy of 100, in fact. All of the drives range in size from 20GB up ...

In 2006 I purchased an Infrant ReadyNAS network storage device. Soon after, Infrant was bought by NetGear and ReadyNAS devices are now being sold under the NetGear name. I did a review of my ReadyNAS device on Meandering Passage in August ‘06 as well as an article concerning a memory upgrade o...