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Die Spinne #119Die Spinne #119

Nelles Maps are the best foldable maps for travelers I’ve seen. I favor them for six reasons: 1) They come at a good practical scale for traveling, fine enough to show most small rural towns. 2) Each map displays shaded physical relief of mountains, highway numbers and even “places of interest” – which are often …

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Online Package Tracking

“Last Sunday I casually wrote a post about the most common pitfalls in photography. I had written the post a long time ago, but I never put it on this site. The story ended up on the front page of Digg, stayed there for nearly 12 hours and was picked up by a bunch of …

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Sadly the Dutch are turning back: In cities across the Netherlands, mayors and town councils are closing down shops where marijuana is sold, rolled and smoked.  Municipalities are shuttering the brothels where prostitutes have been allowed to ply their trade legally.  Parliament is considering a ban on the sale of hallucinogenic “magic mushrooms."  Orthodox Christian …

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I usually forget to sign the back of my credit cards.  Or with one of my cards – the one I use most frequently – the signature rubs off quickly.  Every now and then the card will be rejected because it doesn’t have my signature on it.  Or they will require ID. I then offer …

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  See you at MOCCA.Blah Blah Blah

This is a book about authority, order, information and knowledge – the evolution of the latter and the limitations imposed by the former. This hyper-intelligent journey through the history of classification (ex; library card catalogues) and the current climate (ex; tagging) makes an engaging case for the virtues of seemingly counterintuitive “messiness.” The anecdotes are …

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